Second Attempt At The ‘found Footage’ Art This Time With The Puffles ^^

After all, they’re soulmates

You may not like it but this is what peak scheming looks like.

Wool Gary and Wool Rookie (Wary and Wookie??) that I made to stare me down as I replay the PSA missions for the billionth time instead of sleeping, judging my life choices

Part 3 of a felted penguin tutorial

Once you have the flippers in your selected mold, use the needle to stuff it in there (note: I used a hard surface to take the picture, but do NOT do it on a hard surface. It won’t tighten it, at least not well, and it might break your needle. Use foam underneath, or any other soft surface you don’t mind getting holes in).

Switch back and forth from either side to make sure both sides of the flipper is tightening the same.

Make sure to keep a bit of loose felt at the ends of the flippers for attaching them in the next step.

Next merge the flippers with the sides of the penguin. This step is pretty simple! This is where I usually place the flippers, but you can place them anywhere you want really.

Here’s what we have now :3

Faceless, but looking pretty neat!

Let’s fix its facelessness. Take a bit of orange felt (I didn’t take a picture of how much I cut… whoopsies!) and place it just above the neckline. This is where you can choose your penguin’s expression. I’m giving her just a regular smile, but it can be anything you want!

I know it looks weird, but it’ll look better soon I promise.

Next take a bit more of your orange felt and wad it up in the middle of the expression you just made. I tighten it there, but if you find it easier you can create its oval shape before putting it on.

Shorten it as much as you can, and try to keep it between the line of orange felt you placed there before!

We’re almost done, should be able to finish in the next part!

This is definitely just the one rat!

Part 2 of a felted penguin tutorial

When you are done making the base shape, it should look a little like this. Make sure to focus on the upper half to make the neck more prominent.

Next up is the white belly. Keep in mind this step can be skipped if you’re sure that clothing will cover it up, but I do it anyway in case the clothing fits differently than I originally thought. This is also where I switched from my bigger needle to my medium needle.

Either way, make sure to cut/tear a small bit of white felt to set aside for the eyes.

Place a bit of the white felt on the front of the penguin (you can add more if some of the base still shows underneath), shaping it as you tighten it. Be sure to keep it below the neck to leave room for the beak, and to get it as flat as possible.

If you accidentally tighten it in the wrong spot, you should be able to nudge back into place with your needle, or pull that spot out with your fingernails to start over.

Now’s where we work on the flippers. You can always just add on the felt as is to the sides of the penguin, like I did with Rookie, but I’ll show how I make the flatter flippers anyway.

You can use anything as a mold, feel free to get creative with it! For my flippers, I use this spot of a paw print mold.

Another part coming… bear with me here!

My return to dreamland comic I did for my first illustration class in college is back up! Stills looks decent and also I'm posting this around the time RTDL came out so happy b-day Return to dreamland!

A small mock up I did a few days ago of what the starting area for my Steampunk Party would like like ^^ plus a few items that would be interactable(?) I can’t English