[Artlings] EXO x PJO Theme Re-do

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         It's been a while since I posted an Artling blog

         and this post has been a while underway.

         I have had most of it done for a long while but

          getting myself to finish the blog has been quite

          tough :sweat_smile: This is because this will be my last

          Artlings post :'(

         It is so odd to be leaving this club that I have

         had so much fun with, but I think it's time. The

          club is still a really nice place and the people in

          the club are all wonderful. But I find myself

          getting less and less excited about doing the

          monthly themes.

         For a very long time in the club, I felt that the

          themes were a great catalyst for my creativity.

         It provided inspiration and got me really excited.

          But nowadays, I feel more restricted by it and I

          find that I would rather be able to create

         whatever I come up with. For a while I have

          also felt a bit silly because a lot of my crafts

         have been normal crafts with some kind of EXO

         logo slapped onto it. And while I do appreciate

         a good EXO logo, I still do find it a bit annoying

          that the EXO relation often came out to look

         a bit like an afterthought.

         Oh well, all of that was basically just to

          describe why I'm leaving the club. Hopefully I

         did an okay job at explaining my thoughts :wink:

         But at the end of the day, I still care a lot about

          this club. It's and amazing place and it has

          absolutely nothing to do with the club or

          anything in it that I'm leaving. It is purely my

         own creativity (or lack thereof 🤭) and

         motivation that has made me come to make

         this decision.

         But now, I want to pretend like none of this is

          true and write a regular old artling blog for the

         last time 🥺 So here it comes :two_hearts:

THEME RE-DO

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         As you might be able to gather from the title of

          this blog, this is the June theme which is

         "Theme re-do".

         When we decided on this theme, I immediately

          knew which theme I would be doing and it is

          the theme from this blog which is "Crossover".

         I recently re-read the Percy Jackson and the

          Olympians series(I'm so hyped for the TV

         series!), so I thought it would be fitting to re-do

          this particular theme.

         In this blog I made a camp half blood necklace

          with each bead representing a year for EXO.

         Here is a picture of it:

         And here is a picture of the new version I just

          made:

         There are a few key differences between the

         two. I used wooden beads instead of clay ones

          and a chain instead of a leather string. Both of

          these changes do make it further from the

         canon camp necklace but I thought it would

         look neater this way so that's what I'm doing 🤷‍♀

         Here is the step by step process:

         I found these wooden beads that I think are the

          perfect size. Small enough to not be too

          obnoxious but big enough to paint on :ok_hand:

         Since the beads are made of wood, I could

         simply colour them with markers. I actually

         prefer how this turned out compared to last

         time when I used acrylic paint. The acrylic gave

         it a weird almost sticky texture when it was

          done. So I avoided that by using markers.

         Then I got to work on the motives of the beads.

          Most of them feature the logo from their

          comeback that year, but some of them have

          motives from other significant events. Here are

          the motives listed by year:

         2012: MAMA

         2013: XOXO

         2014: EXO-L

         2015: Exodus

         2016: EXO-CBX Debut

         2017: Universe (Been Through)

         2018: Olympics Performance

         2019: EXO-SC Debut

         2020: Seeing SuperM in Concert

         2021: DFTF

         After painting all the logos on the beads, it was

          time to assemble the necklace. I did this by

         using these things (that I have no ideas what

         are called, but the ones in the picture) and

          creating small links out of the beads before

         then putting it all together.

         And now it's finished! I'm actually quite pleased

          with how it turned out. It might be further from

         the canon version of the necklace but overall, I

          think it's an improvement from the first version.

☆ THAT'S ALL ☆

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         And now comes the end of my last Artling

         blog 🥺 Thank you to all the wonderful Artlings

         I have gotten to spend time with over the years,

          you have made such a huge positive impact on

          my life! Thank you so so much and I hope to

         see you around :two_hearts: Lots of love from me :sparkling_heart:

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