#puppet characters

[elliotdraws-stuffandthings]

FINISHED MY BANNER :D

[astronomergrump]

Alalalala more puppets more puppets because I'm crazy

The two flowers/dandelions r their own species btw :3 Ik it's not unique but I'm still building them! So far, their looks/petals r sex based! With males being brighter and females being more monochrome

[shantimochi]

Here are some of the first fanarts I made for Dream Along With Me back in September! :)

Their designs are peak- I couldn’t resist drawing them all! I’m a sucker for the pastel aesthetic!

Dream Along With Me belongs to @dreammeiser

[divineyetinpain]

Silly thing because I became obsessed with Epic the musical and am currently reading the Odyssey! In between official works of Sunshine Avenue...

[fl0w3rfields]

Helloo! My name is Lyla and I like your concept of Dandy! I would like to ask, did anything inspire them? Also, which gender are they? (IMO, they look like a girl to me....😊 but if you think otherwise, that's fine❤)

OH HELLO!!! Thank you I'm so glad that people like Dandy so much, it makes me so so giddy!!! Um, Dandy is inspired by a lot of things! Lots of my personal interests soaked into Dandy when I was designing them.

If you don't mind me rambling a little about Dandy's process, Dandy took me 3 months to make! Give or take at least. And they went through three other revisions before I was happy with their look!

THESE WERE ALL THREE GOING TO BE DANDY! I was a little directionless when I made these three. I just knew "flowers" and that was...it. But otherwise I was kinda just throwing things at a wall and seeing what sticked. The last one is the closest to what Dandy ended up as but still wasn't quite right! Eventually I had to put these away and make a sort of inspo board, look at colors and clothes and puppets I liked. BUT YES there is one BIG MAIN INSPIRATION that really cemented Dandy's silly look. And it's THIS GUY!

Boober from Fraggle Rock! Like when I saw him I realized I remembered the show growing up and I just... AUGH it filled me with joy to remember so I picked him up, picked up some color palettes I liked, picked up some clothes images, and ran with it. Eventually they ended up as the little goober we all know today!

OH RIGHT! GENDER! yes yes um. Dandy is androgynous! On purpose! They're inspired by characters I grew up with, like Crona from Soul Eater, where no one could seem to agree what pronouns to give them. So Dandy is meant to be a character the writers couldn't seem to agree was masculine or feminine so the show and physical illustrations flip flopped between he and she. That is to say, all are correct! Dandy goes by any! I use they/them to try and be consistent but otherwise you may call them what you wish! So you may use she/her when addressing them if you so wish!

[thicctails]

Fun fact: I actually fucking love puppets/puppet media. Grew up on sesame street and lots of other shows I watched had puppets in them (all my Canadian homies lemme know if y'all remember Role Play), loved DHMIS, and I'm currently loving Welcome Home, so have some puppet horror oc stuff I'm working on

These are the only two I've drawn so far, Sam the Conductor and Socks the sock puppet snake.

They were part of a late 80's early 90's (not sure on the time rn, might make it older) show called Toybox Town. Basically the show focused on a pair of siblings who get left alone in their house each day when The Parents leave for work, and the magic of childhood or something brings items in their house to life, most of which are toys. The "main" toy is Conductor Sam, who runs The Bedroom Station and takes the kids around the house to the various stations on the magic toy train.

Sam acts as the "parent" of the kids, teaching them and looking after them. He, and most of the bipedal characters, would be like those fullbody suit puppets, while Socks is a hand puppet. Socks is the silly side character.

Kinda workshoping the actual story, but what I'm envisioning so far is the actors who played the kids come back to the place where the show was filmed for nostalgia purposes and end up getting trapped in there because there's actual occult magic that has gone unchecked for years. The puppets are very happy to see them again, Sam especially BC those are his kids, and are likely either going to try and make them into puppets or make themselves real.

[sideprojectillustration]

50 fantastic character icons! Flaticon.

[astronomergrump]

PUPPET OCS RAAAAHHHHHH

The first, colorful puppet is Detective squirt 😼

His real name is Fuzzlebun Hickles, one of the first few puppet detectives AND police officers in the country. He's a major nervous wreck but is extremely intelligent. He's also got an adopted daughter!

The second one is dally worm, a mute 12 year old caterpillar who's... Seemingly an orphan. Mysterious and lonely, all they can do is follow the people around them