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Roughly shaped needle felted body parts with visible wire armature joints. The legs are of a deer and the torso is humanoid
A very thin, alien-looking needle-felted body with thin deer legs, humanoid torso and arms
a needle-felted body with deer legs and humanoid upper body. The limbs and torso are very thin and only partially bulked out in musculature

Deer God
During a clear out, I found a lot of old pillows that, while clean, had gone rather lumpy. I don't like to throw anything out if I can possibly think of a use for it, so I hit on the idea of doing some experimental felting stuff for myself. I�...
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A needle felted sculpture of an anthropomorphic deer. It doesn't have a head. Two legs are covered in coloured wool.
Deer God: 42 hours
5 hours, and I managed to colour both legs and add a bit of shading
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A needle felted sculpture of an anthropomorphic deer. It doesn't have a head. The legs and belly have been covered in coloured wool.
Deer God: 47 hours
I blended some wool for the lighter fur on the insides of the legs and the belly.
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A needle felted sculpture of an anthropomorphic deer. It doesn't have a head. The legs, abdomen and arms have been covered in coloured wool.
Deer God: 55 hours
I remade the hands in a better colour and slightly better proportioned to the body and added coloured wool on the upper arms.
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A pair of resin eyes with gold irises, the pupils have not yet been painted in
Deer God: 60 hours
I made resin eyes using a resin casting kit. This actually turned out to be quite tricky. The white pigment used to colour resin is titanium dioxide, which is the same thing that's in sunscreen to reflect UV light. This becomes a problem with UV curi...
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A needle felted sculpture of an anthropomorphic deer. Its face is a skull, except for the nose.
Deer God: 64 hours
I decided that it would be easier to get the right shape for the head if I built up the shape of the skull first, so I felted a skull working from multiple deer skull references and attached it to the body. A couple more hours of work resulted in the...
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The face of a needle felted anthropomorphic deer, partially completed. It looks like a skull with eyes. The irises are gold.
Deer God: 66 hours 30 minutes
A bit more work on the colours up the back and around the neck, and the eyes are now in the skull. I call this his "Skeksis era" because of how strongly he resembles the monsters from The Dark Crystal film.Jokes aside, I'm really happy with how reali...
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The head and shoulders of a needle felted sculpture of an anthropomorphic deer. The face hasn't been coloured but it now has musculature and eyelids.
Deer God: 71 hours
I added some musculature to the face, and carefully felted the eyelids around the eyes.
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The head and shoulders of a needle felted sculpture of an anthropomorphic deer. The face has been filled out more and has some colour added, which is still loose and fluffy towards the back of the head.
Deer God: 76 hours
I added some colour to the face and started shaping the nose pad.
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A needle felted sculpture of an anthropomorphic deer sitting cross-legged. It's censored with a pink heart sticker. Its legs and lower abdomen have had longer, more realistic fur added
Deer God: 76 hours to 88 hours
Because our deer god is strongly associated with masculine energy and fertility, he's got stag-parts. I had to take a little break from streaming the progress so I could felt and add those parts and add more realistic leg fur, then make him a little ...
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The back of a needle felted sculpture of an anthropomorphic deer. He's wearing an improvised loincloth that's notched to show his tail, and his lower back has longer fur.
Deer God: 91 hours
After making him a little loincloth so he could go back on Twitch streams, I worked on the longer fur on his sides and back, building up a bit of a mane but leaving it long enough to blend with the fur below the belt of the loincloth and shape it bet...
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Finding The Right Offering Bowl

The plan was always to have the deer sculpture holding an offering dish or bowl of some kind, so after buying one bowl that didn't quite fit him, I took him shopping with me to find something that fit perfectly.


He was well liked by everyone who spotted me testing out different dishes.

A small bowl with an unglazed outside marked with shallow scrapes that are glazed turquoise inside. The inside of the bowl is also glazed turquoise.
The first bowl didn't fit his hands and tipped off his lap
A partially finished needle felted sculpture of an anthropomorphic deer, sitting cross-legged and holding a pewter pot with handles either side.
I quite liked this pewter pot, the handles were helpful for keeping it in position. It was a little too deep, though, and would obscure the contents.
A partially finished needle-felted sculpture of an anthropomorphic deer sitting cross-legged. It's holding a small stoneware bowl with handles.
I liked the spiral of this stoneware bowl, but it was a bit too yellow and the handles didn't quite fit.
A partially finished needle-felted sculpture of an anthropomorphic deer sitting cross-legged. It is holding a turned wooden bowl with a decorative carved rim
Then a lady who was selling at the flea market brought this wooden bowl over to me, it was a perfect fit.
A partially finished needle-felted sculpture of an anthropomorphic deer sitting cross-legged. It is holding a small black and white marbled ceramic dish.
I carried on to the next market anyway, just in case I found something we liked better. We found this little ceramic sample. I like how it looks like birch bark, and it fits in his hands perfectly.
A partially finished needle-felted sculpture of an anthropomorphic deer sitting cross-legged. It is holding a wooden bowl with a decorative carved rim.

Deer God: 95 hours
Today I added fur to the arms, from the wrists up to the shoulders. Because I can't use a reverse needle to pull fur from inside the sculpture, I had to attach wool in sections and then trim it to the correct length.
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Deer God: 98 hours
Added long fur to the belly with the intention of shaving it down using a hair trimmer. I'm hoping this results in a more consistent length than using scissors.
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Deer God: 103 hours
I shaved down the belly fur and some of the back fur, neatened up the belly fur by lightly reverse needling and filling in any obvious gaps, and started building up the fur on the chest and upper back.
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