Second Monster

After some experimentation and a respectable amount of putting-off, early this morning I finished Grouphug (grau-FUG).

Grouphug was a scattershot of experiments. Methodical me was all like, "Let's only make one change at a time, and see how that's different." Cliff-diver me was just interested in trying new things. Ultimately, cliff diving took the gold, while "planning ahead" barely qualified.

New lessons:

• Stuff limbs better to keep them from having little creases.
• This furry fabric looks like it'd be cool, but it's actually a bitch.
  
• I thought attaching a band of satiny purple to orange fur would be a neat color and texture contrast. It is, but it's unraveling in a few places, and the stitching in the back is coming apart. It's just a suboptimal fabric.
  
• Also, I wanted it to be a random stripe, not a belt. Must consider monster anatomy more before beginning.
• Soft cotton will be the main event from here on in.
• Horns: I was trying for curved horns. I got cones. Must cut horns in the final shape first.
• Eyes: Can't tell if I like the googly eyes. Can't tell if it matters whether I like them.
  
• Mouth: I drew it on paper before I cut it out of cloth, and I like the drawing better. I was going for jagged fangs, from someone whose primary experience with expressions was reading the Wikipedia entry on "smiles." The smile is sufficiently hideous, but not endearingly inept as I was hoping for. I don't really know how to get what I'm going for here.
  
• Eyebrows: Hell if I know.
• Stitching facial features on was too hard with the fur. So I used super glue. WTF? I guess it worked, but the method is imprecise and my fingers all have glue warts now.

Next monster will be an offshoot of lessons learned from Grouphug, but I have invented all new dumbfounding challenges so the process can safely continue to be unpredictable.