Rainbow Puppets! Blue Pt 5 - Finishing Touches
Hey there readers!
When we last left our friend Blue, he was all sewn together and had some fancy new gold horns. What he was lacking was eyes and some other little finishing touches. It is kind of upsetting that the eyes are the last thing, because they are pretty much the best part and really gives the creature a life of its own.
I started with the mold I had made previously, to make some eyes for this little blue fellow. I had some leftover materials from that build and I don't think they held up as well as I was hoping. Some of the eyes I made came out great, while others never fully hardened. They had this strange gummy bear texture that I was certainly not tempted to eat. Detergent pods are not edible. I know this is only tangentially related, but why the heck are we still making detergent pods? So much money is being invested to make sure people know that the companies are doing everything they can to make the packaging safer. Why are they even a product in the first place? Pouring detergent is too much work?! If you are too busy to pour soap on your dirty clothing, perhaps you should do some editing with how much you have going on. No one should be so busy that the 15 seconds it takes to pour detergent is what really impacts your ability to be on time.
As usual, I vastly over estimated how much of the mix I would need for my eyes. I also didn't have any paper cups this time, so I used old jars from salsa. Salsa is delicious. I wish I had some right now. Focus.
I really should have waited until I had paper cups because the plastic quickly hardened into the salsa containers and my fake glassware was forever ruined.
I tried out a few different eyes and settled on the protruding round eyes I made from the ping pong balls. I gave him the same hair treatment I gave Sprocket, a mix of glue and water to make the fur lay the way I wanted. This time, I gave him a little faux hawk look that sets him apart from Sprocket's slick back style. They are both so fashion forward.
Next, I had to give the fur a little trim to make sure that there was a firm base to attach the eyes. The bald spots on his head are super creepy looking. Weirdly, he reminds me of the kids on Hypnosil in the Freddy vs. Jason.Ps. I love how the caption reads: "Creepy-ass patients," Wikia is just the most legit source of information.
With a sudden desire to watch Freddy vs. Jason and a puppet with eye-shaped bald spots ready to go, it was time to put the lids on my puppet's eyes. As we have talked about, I wasn't super excited that my dye job didn't work, so I wanted to make sure the blue was more obvious in his eyes. I decided he would get top and bottom lids to give my more opportunities to use the bright blue that I wanted the whole puppet to be.
Adam has a great tutorial to make sure that the eyelids are identical on both sides. I encourage people to use his tutorial, even though I pretty much always just eyeball it. I haven't had any major issues eyeballing it, so maybe once I do (which is inevitable) then I will want to use that technique. Until then, I am going to keep flying toward the sun on my wax wings.
The lower lid is a little more subtle than I was hoping for, but it still looks great. If I were doing it again, the top lid would go higher, allowing the bottom lid to take up more real estate on the eye.
Putting pupils is the last remaining step for the eyes. I always save that for last so I can give the puppet some focus. Now for a little mini-rant. Every single time I make a new puppet I consider doing two different sized pupils. I just have this idea in my head that it will give the puppet a zany look. In drawings it always looks cool, but it doesn't translate as well in the finished product. Take Blue as an example. I gave him two different pupil sizes and just couldn't get it to do what I wanted. It looks more accidental than an intentional stylistic choice.
See what I mean? He just doesn't look right at all. Maybe if he was perpetually just leaving an eye exam where they dilated one of his pupils, this would make sense, but otherwise he just looks way too silly even for a puppet.
At least I did realize that the bigger dots looked good on him. So I gave him the "freshly dilated" look on both eyes and set to the last bit of the project. I had originally wanted to make blue hair for the puppet using this chunky chenille yarn. When the fur idea came up, that was scrapped, but I already had purchased two skeins of blue yarn. I am sure I will find another use for it, but in the meantime, a few feet of it became braided bracelets for this little guy. It offered me an opportunity to use my yarn, and to bring in a little more blue to this puppet.
And there you have it! The first of the rainbow puppets is complete! Next up, Green!
Don't be afraid to try making stuff. Keep making cool stuff!
Until next time,
JoshPrime
When we last left our friend Blue, he was all sewn together and had some fancy new gold horns. What he was lacking was eyes and some other little finishing touches. It is kind of upsetting that the eyes are the last thing, because they are pretty much the best part and really gives the creature a life of its own.
I started with the mold I had made previously, to make some eyes for this little blue fellow. I had some leftover materials from that build and I don't think they held up as well as I was hoping. Some of the eyes I made came out great, while others never fully hardened. They had this strange gummy bear texture that I was certainly not tempted to eat. Detergent pods are not edible. I know this is only tangentially related, but why the heck are we still making detergent pods? So much money is being invested to make sure people know that the companies are doing everything they can to make the packaging safer. Why are they even a product in the first place? Pouring detergent is too much work?! If you are too busy to pour soap on your dirty clothing, perhaps you should do some editing with how much you have going on. No one should be so busy that the 15 seconds it takes to pour detergent is what really impacts your ability to be on time.
As usual, I vastly over estimated how much of the mix I would need for my eyes. I also didn't have any paper cups this time, so I used old jars from salsa. Salsa is delicious. I wish I had some right now. Focus.
I really should have waited until I had paper cups because the plastic quickly hardened into the salsa containers and my fake glassware was forever ruined.
I tried out a few different eyes and settled on the protruding round eyes I made from the ping pong balls. I gave him the same hair treatment I gave Sprocket, a mix of glue and water to make the fur lay the way I wanted. This time, I gave him a little faux hawk look that sets him apart from Sprocket's slick back style. They are both so fashion forward.
With a sudden desire to watch Freddy vs. Jason and a puppet with eye-shaped bald spots ready to go, it was time to put the lids on my puppet's eyes. As we have talked about, I wasn't super excited that my dye job didn't work, so I wanted to make sure the blue was more obvious in his eyes. I decided he would get top and bottom lids to give my more opportunities to use the bright blue that I wanted the whole puppet to be.
Adam has a great tutorial to make sure that the eyelids are identical on both sides. I encourage people to use his tutorial, even though I pretty much always just eyeball it. I haven't had any major issues eyeballing it, so maybe once I do (which is inevitable) then I will want to use that technique. Until then, I am going to keep flying toward the sun on my wax wings.
The lower lid is a little more subtle than I was hoping for, but it still looks great. If I were doing it again, the top lid would go higher, allowing the bottom lid to take up more real estate on the eye.
Putting pupils is the last remaining step for the eyes. I always save that for last so I can give the puppet some focus. Now for a little mini-rant. Every single time I make a new puppet I consider doing two different sized pupils. I just have this idea in my head that it will give the puppet a zany look. In drawings it always looks cool, but it doesn't translate as well in the finished product. Take Blue as an example. I gave him two different pupil sizes and just couldn't get it to do what I wanted. It looks more accidental than an intentional stylistic choice.
At least I did realize that the bigger dots looked good on him. So I gave him the "freshly dilated" look on both eyes and set to the last bit of the project. I had originally wanted to make blue hair for the puppet using this chunky chenille yarn. When the fur idea came up, that was scrapped, but I already had purchased two skeins of blue yarn. I am sure I will find another use for it, but in the meantime, a few feet of it became braided bracelets for this little guy. It offered me an opportunity to use my yarn, and to bring in a little more blue to this puppet.
Don't be afraid to try making stuff. Keep making cool stuff!
Until next time,
JoshPrime
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