DragonBox.de dragon mascot plush

[LPSM]

This evening, I completed the most complicated plush that I've ever designed and made. It's a toy version of the cute little dragon mascot of DragonBox.de, which is an online retro-gaming gear shop run by a friend of mine from Germany - the dragon is a gift for him.

I had one image to work from...



... And the above is it.

Here's the dragon in plush form;











Due to how fiddly and completely machine-unfriendly his design turned out to be, he is 100% hand-sewn. I'm very pleased with how he's come out - especially the little touches like his felt claws (he even has tiny little dew-claws on his heels), and the fingers and toes which were separated with painstaking stitching.

The dragon will be accompanied on his journey to Germany by a lemming based on my usual design, which I'll begin working on tomorrow or thereabouts. Right now, though, I'm off to rest my very sore fingers and thumbs!

[stitchingmama]

First of all dew claws are the best claws, secondly this is amazing. Not just your craftsmenship but also your ability to capture the "feeling" of the sprite.

[acidMiasma]

Omg! How frikkin cute is that?! Lucky, lucky friend you have!! I'm so very jealous.

[no_need]

This is amazing! Your friend is super lucky!

[LPSM]

Thanks very much, guys!

The dragon's lemming buddy will be finished soon, too. Then I'll be able to work on a couple of non-Lemmings projects for a bit before getting back to more of those again, haha.

[Yurtle]

CUTE!!

[Ellentje]

That is amazing, he is so cute! How do you even begin to make a pattern for something like this? All I've ever done was a plush Kirby, which is basically just a ball with arms and legs, and even that I found very challenging.

[LPSM]

CUTE!!

That is amazing, he is so cute!

Thankyou very much.

How do you even begin to make a pattern for something like this? All I've ever done was a plush Kirby, which is basically just a ball with arms and legs, and even that I found very challenging.

I honestly couldn't describe it - I can just look at a drawing, imagine how it'll look in three dimensions, and then start sketching out the panels necessary to make it. It's good if I have access to multiple pieces of artwork for reference, but just one drawing and, if necessary, some additional written details will do (as was the case with this dragon).

Sometimes I have to tweak the patterns here and there, and other times I don't. I'm working on something at the moment that needed only one tweak, even - that one's now halfway finished already.

[Remy]

Aww so cute and very well done. Great job.