Edward Cullen is OVER!

Stage 1 I got a bit obsessed and had to sew it all the way round and turn it inside out at stupid o'clock.

 

  Then last night i finished the stuffing - yay! Now just got to get it to the requester!

Decisions, decisions

With any of my plushies I have to make decisions. In that respect, Edward Cullen is a tough set of choices. Not physically but to make him characteristic.

OK so Edward is a vampire. But with no special vampire teeth, no special costume a la halloween. The clothes he wears are not distinctive, they are, well, quite dull.

The outfit I've chosen seems as iconic as I could make it but ultimately wouldn't look like anything if I didn't find ways to 'mark' the doll as Edward.

I suppose this image here of Edward up a tree is effectively the outfit the plushie is wearing.

Trying to get fine details to work can make things go weird too. Today I got to the eyes. So I was looking to work out the colour. This image of just Edward's eyes is what I went for. The trouble is that the plushie has just round circular eyes usually.

I started out with just yellow. That looked odd, so I added a circle of black. This still looked weird, so then I added a dot of black in the centre. This then looked creepy rather than intense and I had to think how to tone that down and came up with adding a brow shape across the top. He now looks kind of angry but his eye is at least not a dart board. Most of my adaptations are like this. I make them up as I go. I'm not a great maker, I just play with a very very simple design.

It's a lot easier when it's more iconic colour wise though. You can really see why comic books have such extreme colour outfits for their characters.

Edward eh?

So I've been delaying and delaying starting Edward, mainly because I didn't have any sparkly white stuff. But then I was promised some and would give it to me on Monday. So I started on the jacket, cut out the clothes and hair and started work on the hair.

It was so perfect that despite not getting back till about 10pm I started work at once.
I'm currently sewing down the hair. Then I'll be sewing on the hands and doing the face and then it'll be done!!
 
Clark Kent here I come!