Hey thanks Buck-Beaver, MGov, Phantom and Shtick for the positive words about the puppet.
shtick said:
Its not a ProjectPuppet.com puppet. Its YOUR puppet made with a projectpuppet.com pattern. (I know thats obvious but its just the way that sounded.)
Thanks Shtick, for being an advocate on my behalf. Yes, I do acknowledge that it is a puppet that I have created and that I used the basic pattern from ProjectPuppet.com (but I added a bunch of stuff to make it mine). In fact much of the changes I made are not noticable to the eye, but have to do with internal changes to the design and my personal comfort when making/wearing a puppet.
shtick said:
By the way. Your puppet it frickin awesome. I'm curious, how did you make the pupils? They're very precise. I've always had trouble with "The Magic Triangle".
The pupils are made from electrical tape (which comes in different colours). I couldn't find yellow, so I painted some white and used that. I just use a hole punch (could have traced a circle and cut it out with scissors also) and cut out the tape. You have to put the tape on to sticker backing first so that it will come off like...well...a sticker.
As for the eyes, I don't use "the magic triangle" formally. I just use my own judgement and play around with positioning before I commit to anything. If it doesn't look right, I pull it up and restick them.