Eirewolf

That is gorgeous! The shaping, the coloring, and the scale details are all amazing. Your other masks are beautiful too. Are you using dyes for the coloring, or something else?

This is amazing. Beautiful work! I love the ram's-horn style of stitching. You make me want to try something like this. :-)

I know this is an old topic, but I thought I'd add a resource for future reference in case others come looking. This year I learned (and am still learning) how to make masks out of 7 to 8-oz. leather (and thinner leather too). My main source of information, at least to start, was this tutorial video by Andrea Masse-Tognetti of Merimask Designs: http://youtu.be/obE333UphPg It was immensely helpful for me, and allowed me to realize that I could do this. So I jumped in with both feet and haven't looked back since! Anyway, I hope this is useful for someone.