A special secret commission for a friend at the end of last year. A cookie monster for a wonderful kooky monster 😀
Made from bright blue faux fur he sits roughly 25cm (10in) tall holding a embroidered felt chocolate chip cookie. The mouth is black felt reinforced with card and the eyes are ping-pong balls.
I love his tufts of fur on his fingers and toes.
I have a few new toys made, like this Alien Xenomorph plush, that I will be selling at my upcoming events. This Saturday Feb 4th I will be selling a few of my handmade plush toys at All Star Comics Back Issue and Toy Fair including this cute/scary one, adorable Baby Groots and more!
The next event will be Supanova Melbourne  April 28-30 where I will be selling prints, plush toys and other goodies. Afterwards all remaining toys will be for sale in my Etsy Shop.
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Wishing everyone peace and prosperity in the Year of the Rooster. May it bring you strength and luck.
Good Bye Year of the Monkey
Happy Chinese New Year!
Happy Chinese New Year! Here is a little red Lion Dance plush I was commissioned to make last year that I never shared 🙂
The pattern was based on the previous Lions that I made only smaller. The plush is roughly 20cm long made from high quality fleece with felt details and embroidery.
The commissioner requested that the family name on the belly (not shown).
The name is machine cut from professional quality vinyl (vivid flex heat transfer vinyl) in black on white jersey material.
Other elements of the designs include:
– Silver faux leather Mirror on the forehead
– Pom pom nose details
– Plasticard re-enforced feet for balance and stability
– Black felt “fringe” on the body and legs.
And now the completed painting joins “Vampire” and “Siren”. I have two other monsters from my initial sketches that I hope will be realized soon.
Grumbacher watercolors, micron pen on 300gm fine grain cold pressed.
I wasn’t able to get this video posted before the end of Oct but I thought I would still share it. Learning from my first video – the camera is moved to my left side so the drawing isn’t covered by my hand and I’ve tried to have more light. Nearly all of my inktober drawing were done after I finished everything else for the day meaning they were done often late into the night.
The video has been sped up 16x to show a little over half and hour of inking. My tools for all of my inktober drawings-Castell XF 0.7 mechanical pencil, Mircon pens on toned paper and A3 LED light pad.
I hope to share more process videos in the future and perhaps some tutorials as well.
The plush is made from fleece and felt and stands at only 8 inch tall – roughly 12-13 inches tall including the wings and spikes.
He has glittery gold felt eyes and the claws are silvery grey. The wings are fully wired and pose-able and help the plush stand on its own. All the embroidery details have been done freehand by machine.
#inktober2016 Day 31 – Ghoul
Hungry, the creature feasts on the long dead found in a forgotten tomb.
Happy Halloween!
With a mixture of relief and sadness another Inktober comes to an end. It was a challenge to find time to do a drawing each day but I am really pleased that I could see it through. As rushed as some of these drawing are I am happy with all of them. It has been great practice and really good to draw on paper everyday.
#inktober2016 Day 30 – Cockatrice
The equally deadly brother to the Basilisk, the Cockatrice has the added advantage of flight.
#inktober2016 Day 29 – Basilisk
Basilisk, King of the Serpents, huge and deadly.
