Fenrir Art

So I think Blogger had a rollback last night... my last post and the comments on it were gone this morning along with some edits to my layout. Oh well. Start again!

After more than five months on the shelf I finally finished this one of a kind armoured maquette sculpture of Fenrir, you can read about the making process in this post. I learned a lot about barding in the process, and I'm now able to fur a maquette. Quite proud of myself on that one! Furring is one of those things you see some talented artists doing here and there but almost nobody mentions how it's done.


When the Norse Gods saw that Fenrir, the gigantic and ferocious wolf, was growing and growing in size and appetite and strength, they became concerned he would one day prove a great enemy... and so they tricked Fenrir into a contest of strength, that would have him chained in fetters to see if he could break them. They first bound him with Leyding, a strong fetter, which Fenrir broke with his might; then again with Dromi, which Fenrir struggled to break but still did. Finally, the gods sent for the rarest of items to be fashioned into the strongest fetter of all - a silken ribbon called Gleipnir, and asked Fenrir if he should like to test his strength against it. Sensing trickery, Fenrir accepted only if the God Tyr should place his hand in the wolf's mouth while he was bound with the ribbon as an act of good faith. So the Gods were at last able to bind Fenrir and hold him fast till Ragnarok, as he could not break the spellbound silken band, and the gods laughed as he struggled and snarled - all except Tyr, who lost his hand.

Fenrir is up for sale on Etsy here at the moment for those interested in owning this unique piece. I hope you all like him.