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Feb. 23rd, 2013 03:58 amSo as I mentioned yesterday, I've been hard at work on my birthday present project for my Da. Its really been a lot like (I keep telling people this, hehe) putting t'gether a puzzle when you know how its supposed to look but you don't have any of the pieces. Getting started was the hardest part, it wasn't until I read in the FAQs of Chloe Giordano's Tumblr account that she used newpaper to made a basic model of her ideas before she gets started with the pattern. I attempt a very crude bird myself, but it only got me half of the way! I would've liked to paper mache the model and try drawing out the pattern on top of it but I was short glue and paper to mache so there I was at another stump.
I figured that honestly the head was going to be the hardest part, I don't know why, but even when I'm drawing the faces are very important to me and if I mess them up then I usually lose the inspiration to finish the piece. So I sat for a long while and thought about how I could possibly get the head started. It came to me that if I could find something round, I could perhaps try and figure out how to cover it. Something round.. something round.. well a ball from the daycare downstairs was probably my best bet! So the plush started with me guesstimating and cutting out pieces of felt to cover this (very slippery, gah) ball. Eventually, and after a series of abrupt epiphanies I (kindof) got the idea about how to do the head but it was all so very rough and I could hardly tell you then if it was going to work out - so I dropped it for awhile.
Coming home from work really tired one day it got into my head that maybe I should try out the pattern I had in mind for the head, to heck if I didn't work out, I had to try!
Well, it panned out better than I thought - and so Ted, the very first attempt was born!
Full of pride I launched into the body which turned out to be a lot harder than I anticipated and in the end I had to do a lot of "sculpting" overall to get roughly the body shape I was looking for, but considering it was my first ever try I was pretty darn proud! And Ted's body gave me a lot of insight into just how I needed to change and modify the pattern to get better result.
"Hello!" Says Ted! There has since been an second attempt, Even, who's progress was sadly much less document then Ted's but here he is!
Between the both of them I feel really confident that the third is well on its way to being the pattern I'm looking for!
- Lynx
I figured that honestly the head was going to be the hardest part, I don't know why, but even when I'm drawing the faces are very important to me and if I mess them up then I usually lose the inspiration to finish the piece. So I sat for a long while and thought about how I could possibly get the head started. It came to me that if I could find something round, I could perhaps try and figure out how to cover it. Something round.. something round.. well a ball from the daycare downstairs was probably my best bet! So the plush started with me guesstimating and cutting out pieces of felt to cover this (very slippery, gah) ball. Eventually, and after a series of abrupt epiphanies I (kindof) got the idea about how to do the head but it was all so very rough and I could hardly tell you then if it was going to work out - so I dropped it for awhile.
Coming home from work really tired one day it got into my head that maybe I should try out the pattern I had in mind for the head, to heck if I didn't work out, I had to try!
Well, it panned out better than I thought - and so Ted, the very first attempt was born!
"Hello!" Says Ted! There has since been an second attempt, Even, who's progress was sadly much less document then Ted's but here he is!
Between the both of them I feel really confident that the third is well on its way to being the pattern I'm looking for!
- Lynx
