I Challenged Myself To Make A Beanie Baby Inspired Plushie Of The Gobot's Command Center In One Day...

I challenged myself to make a Beanie Baby inspired plushie of the Gobot's Command Center in one day... and this is the result :]

Very happy with how this silly little loaf turned out! Especially considering the fact that I did most of the sewing by machine (I'd usually opt to hand-sew a lot of the trickier seams since the machine feels very easy to make a mistake on)

There isn't much to say in terms of features, this fella's basically just a funky bean bag with legs. I did add a little tag as well, I wanted to experiment a little bit with features I don't typically add

Small bonus:

A few little sketches I did while playing around with the Gobot Beanie Baby idea (BeanieBots, if you will)

So I left Fitor on the couch the other night. Then when my dad had to move him to a different spot, he posed him like this

(I also took a shot of the pose from a different angle)

I may have gotten a bit fixated on drawing these little "marshmallowified" versions of the Gobots today

It started when I was doodling at work and I decided to simplify and squish Cop-tur's proportions down for fun, and then naturally the concept caught on and I wanted to squish down every one of them!

[Initial scribbles under the cut, alongside a whole 'lotta close-ups and an additional unrelated doodle]

The originals, as promised

And now for the close-ups:

These li'l fellas give me so much serotonin, it's ridiculous :]

(Oh yeah! Bonus scribble of Turbo in vehicle mode)

(I was gonna draw some other guys in, but I quickly realised I wasn't that confident with ink so I improvised a background)

I've started making a plush of a certain splendid red engine ^v^

My brother's birthday is right around the corner! And after a considerable amount of deliberation, I've settled on making him a James plush (an especially difficult decision since he said he'd be happy with any of the engines)

[Also a small sidenote, the plush's face is going to look different from the coloured plans. I drew those sketches not really thinking they'd be the final product, then I just didn't feel like fussing around with trying to change the face]

Bonus chaos:

This is generally what the kitchen table looks like when I'm making the patterns (or templates, as I've grown used to calling them)

Hehehehe, I discovered Picmix the other day :]

I just wanted to create something silly and fun to get the hang of the site's image editing, and bedazzling the James Log was the first thing that came to mind

James plush update: He's starting to approach sausage territory

(actual serious update under cut)

Aside from a few more bits of hand-sewing still yet to be done, I've gotten most of the sewing sorted now!

This bottom picture is a little out of date since I procrastinated on sharing it for so long, but really the only things that've changed are that I finished the couplings and fitted the baseboard with its "skin"

Basically all I have left is the assembly, so the next James post will likely be a finished plush :]