New Puppet - thoughts, etc?

[blemker]

Hey all, I just did a puppet for a friend of mine and, although I'm happy with it, something just isn't right. It might just be my own degree of perfection with human-styled puppets, but I'd love your thoughts.

Doug

http://puppets.dougblemker.com/images/Adam.JPG

 

[Conor IX]

Hey Doug,
The puppet looks great, but the toungue is diagonal, could that be it?

 

[blemker]

Correct the tongue and redid eyebrows and eyelids.

Still, something is bugging me. Hmm.

 

[Teenager's]

It could just be "post-building antsyness"----sometimes I get that where I just want to keep building and tweaking things after I know I'm finished. Step away from it for a day or so, then go back & look at him.

Put him somewhere you wouldn't see him.

Nice Puppet though.

 

[TheCreatureWork]

I blogged the other day about that exact same thing...PERFECTIONISM! Ugh! I have yet to make a puppet I am completely happy with. I even started building my puppets using a video camera to make certain my eyes are exactly the way I want them LOL I guess that's a plague that artists just can't shake LOL I see nothing wrong with your puppet.

 

[MGov]

It's an ill-fitting shirt (and not a great color), the eyes aren't well focussed and there are no gaps in the teeth (which isn't a big deal but tossing it out there).

 

[TheCreatureWork]

after viewing it longer I think the puppets right eye is lower than the other and angled a little down- however, it could be the angle the puppet is in the photo...LOL ...again, it looks great though.

 

[blemker]

Thank you for honest (yet a bit brutal) critique MGov. To clarify, this is a puppet of a specific person that ALWAYS wears a green shirt like the puppets. I would agree of its ill fit, as it fits the actual person the same way.

You are correct that the eyes seem a bit off. I am trying to replicate a layer of bags this person has and it is causing me challenges because of the layer effect.

The teeth, I tend not to gap any of my puppets teeth. I've tried before and they just seem to look almost buck tooth or too gapped. Just my personal, subjective opinion.

I took out the fur from the eyebrows and made it felt and repositioned the nose a bit. It is starting to look a bit better, but still, something is not right.
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[blemker]

Updated again. Final this time, can't keep thinking about it.

http://puppets.dougblemker.com/images/Adam.JPG

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[TheCreatureWork]

Looks great!