LSCC secrets - what's coming?

Husband (Paul Clarke/ Kercal) will be at the LSCC this weekend with lots of his students from Guildford College and other really great people who always help him out at these events.

What's he doing this time I hear you ask?

Well, I'm not allowed to show the full and final results yet but I am allowed to show you some of the making stages. The final product will be there tomorrow for use and photo opportunity and I'll be posting the finished items here on Saturday.

So... superheroes of course!

The design sketches

 

 





So: Elektra, Invincible, Hellboy, Wonder Woman and Judge Dredd (the paper is slightly wrinkled as I used watercolour pencils).

Designs were simplified from photos on the internet so that they could be made in felt.


Interested?


Then the shape is reduced to a basic pattern for the template they will all be made to.

            

Paul decided the length of leg should be shortened, and he was quite right, so I did that by folding the paper pattern up before cutting the felt.


                          

  

These are at the pinned stage. We decided Hellboy looked more like a delivery bloke in a warehouse ('Delivery Man!!') so changed  his trousers to shorts, his coat to a darker brown and definitely pumped up the six pack.

I wondered whether the ladies would take to be shortened, seeing as their legs and cleavage are part of their crime fighting appeal (apparently), but they worked remarkably well!

But what is he going to do with them?