Silly and unnerving developments

I am pleased with my 3D printed creatures, but am creating some others, made entirely by hand. 

I have been musing on dolls so much these last few months, so it feels good to be bringing some to life with my hands. Like a well intentioned Frankenstein. I know I will return to this theme again, but it feels good to be capturing this while it's so fresh in my heart and mind.

It also deepens my counter point narrative to the AI brief, with some of the mixtape guardians being digital and some being analogue. 

Testing head shape and seams out or in. In I think.

Definitely the hat. Party? Clown? Dunce punishment? It's fun and weird.

And the beak/ snout/ nose. It's ambiguous and makes it more odd. But guves it more character. The neon green stitching is nice up close with the soft peach of the felt. And the pointy face thing echos the pointy feet.

This character is a resolved development from a small air dry clay experiment. It is charming, daft and disconcerting all at once. I am pleased with the paradoxical and layered nature of the thing.

I feel like I've taken inspiration from Erwin Wurm and Aunty Beast.

It's identity is ambiguous by design. Part chicken drum stick, part Sir mix alot reference, part echidna, part ant eater, part snipe, part bridge, part clown, part dunce.

The plump legs and ass feel tactile and inviting. The lack of torso gives a sense that the character is cerebral, not physical. This intentionally references the technology discussed in the brief I am relating to; and how it can generate sedentary habits, body wise. 

However, the creatures gangly legs, captured mid swing, imply the opposite. Is this, after all, a mobile and busy creature? 

The lacks eyes asks questions about sight. Are we, like the creature blind? Does this engance of impede our perception?

Whatever your interpretation, the absence of eyes creates a certain narrative about this creatures habits and abilities.

I need to create a jersey pattern for the other galf of it's body, and rhe head and hat are not quite right and need refinement.

But overall I am pleased.