my art wrist is giving me some trouble (big household cleaning jobs + disabled = boo) and i need to rest it for a few days, so in lieu of more new stuff, here is a doodle from last year of Digit, an unconventional Muppet from the short-lived Jim Henson Hour. we love handsomely corpsey New Wave boys in this house...
Hey guys, I'm bored so I dare you to tell me how many fandoms you are in and your favorite characters! The person who is in the most fandoms wins, I'll start 馃槰
For funsies, I decided to draw a puppet form for Yol, which I imagine to be more akin to a marionette or automaton than the other felt-based puppets on the cast.
Moving him was bizarrely complex, with many levers and dials controlling the largely internal string clusters for his multiple joints, and even the mechanisms for a full range of facial movements. It required many hours of training to get right, but the results were described as "mesmerizing", to the point where more than a few people questioned what a doll of this high quality and detail was doing on a simple kid's show. The studio itself refused to give a response.
As for material, he was made of something labeled/assumed to be wood, but which resembles no wood found on earth, and which those who handled him decribed as "strangely soft, and almost warm to the touch." It's also notable that his head contained a full set of real ivory teeth, despite such a feature not being present in any other character on the show. Further analysis is unfortunately impossible, as all 8 of the original Safety Space puppets mysteriously vanished during the summer of 1972 and have never been found since.
bonus pic of the swirl markings covering his body, which I later gaussian blurred and lowered the opacity to give that distinct velvet softness to his skin.
today, something a little out of the ordinary: puppets!
i'd posted these dudes to patreon ages ago, but i think it's time they see the light of day over here as well. i'm a big fan of puppets and i enjoy crochet, so when i finally realized i could combine these things it was a game changer. i've made a small handful of these fellows now, but unfortunately they're hard to display and harder to photograph, so they rarely see the light of day. however i often need something to keep my hands busy while i'm in meetings or class, so i keep on crocheting them. these two are a dragon and some kind of floppy-eared monster.
i work without a pattern and with absolutely horrendous form, so they're not the prettiest pieces of crochet work out there, but that adds character