Tanuki Trinket Tray v1 (Small) by amarand

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

Too many people said that the last Thing looked too much like Hello Kitty, or a cat, not a raccoon. Cute...but not a raccoon. Here's a link to that Thing:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2272760
That was also a remix of a cute little bowl.
Fun fact: Did you know that "tanuki" in Japan is another name for the Japanese raccoon dog? It's true!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_raccoon_dog
This Thing is based on a raccoon, a specific picture of a raccoon, which is shown in the pictures. I'm learning to improve my seeing and drawing skills - getting perspective, distances, whitespace, and lines correct. Part of the design process is "seeing" things correctly, so you can get the proportions correct.
There's a very good chance that I will be trying this bowl again, from a sketched drawing of a raccoon, to make sure the extra cute and unique features of a raccoon get into the mix.
Funny enough, I didn't do a very good job measuring what a bowl, even a small bowl, should be size-wise, so this is not a bowl - it's a dish. I will be making a new version that will be a larger, cat-food (or raccoon-food!) bowl. I'll also be making another version of the larger bowl with "wings" that will secure the bowl to my back porch railing, so the raccoons may eat the food, but not steal the bowl.
If you'd like to see a new, different, tweaked version, please let me know in the comments!