SMASH!: Hi folks! I’ll be appearing at SMASH! Convention this Saturday (16th July) as a panellist on several panels. The first one is an industry panel where I’ll probably get to discuss the demise of TOKYOPOP, and if I have time I’ll be going onto the next 2 panels about Character Design and Sequential Art. So here are the details:
When: Saturday, 16th July
Where: Sydney Convention Center
What: Art Room Stage
Industry Panel – 11:00am
Create-A-Cast – 12:00pm
Sequential Panel – 2:00pm (Maybe)
See you all there! Tickets are $25 if registered, $30 at the door.
Felt Sheep: Here’s one more felt charm I made a while back – that of a little lamb. Since I’m such a sucker for cute felt sheep toys, and the kit was only $3.50, here’s some photos of the sewing of the lamb.
- Step 1: Bought this kit on Chinatown for $3.50. It’s a Chinese kit.
- Step 2: Chinese kits rarely have pre-cut pieces, so here I get to cut out the paper cut-outs, trace them onto the felt, and cut them out on my own.
- Step 3: Here’s me doing the tracing and cutting out of the felt pieces for form the lamb.
- Step 4: This is what sometimes irk me about Chinese kits. What you get on the front cover may not be what you actually get inside the kit. Most of it’s there, but the photo on the packaging sure looks like a photoshop eye job. The real lamb has teeny tiny eyes. It happens, errgh.
- Step 5: Nevertheless, I glue the eyes and nose on, and sew the front part of the lamb together.
- Step 6: Sewing the front and back together. I sewed all the front pieces together first before I drew the outline for and cut out the back piece. Otherwise, the backpiece may not have fitted on.
And for the final felt sheep charm:
