South Park Crochet

Most people who know me will know that I have been addicted to knitting for quite a few years, and it's not unusual to see me carrying around yarn and needles while I was at uni, or on the bus, or pretty much anywhere I could sit for more than five minutes...

Last Christmas, I wanted to make a set of South Park characters as a gift for my partner, as it is his favourite show. I scoured the internet for a pattern, and couldn't find anything that really looked like them. The ONLY pattern I could find that didn't make the characters look all weird and out of proportion was an amigurumi pattern.

Amigurumi is basically Japanese for crochet dolls or toys.

So, I taught myself to crochet and made them!

Since I was learning as I went, and Kenny was the first thing I had ever crocheted, the poor things suffered in quality a bit.... But they look pretty happy to me!


I'm so glad to finally have them finished!!

Here's the website where I bought the pattern:

http://en.dawanda.com/product/40059106-AMIGURUMI-PATTERN-South-Park-Set

Game Elements

Some small images I created for a simple ipod/ iphone game

A Character (finally) And More Life Drawing

I think these life drawing classes are one of the best investments I've ever made. I find it hard to tell if I'm improving, but either way they're so much fun...

And I finished off this little guy who I created for a story idea I had once..

Medieval Dude..

These are my life drawing sketches from last Wednesday.
It's quite odd drawing a model clothed, but I let myself relax with this one and some of my sketches came out more 'cartoony' than usual, which was nice :)

Random Topic Drawings

These are some random drawing topics I did a while ago. I sometimes use the random topic generator at http://itscharacterdriven.blogspot.co.nz/  I've done a lot more which I'm hoping to clean up and use for colouring practice.

On a sweeter note...

So I know it isn't really relevant, I've recently become quite obsessed with baking cupcakes...

These ones were crushed pineapple with rainbow buttercream.

And these were vanilla with a pineapple curd centre and buttercream icing.

Needless to say my flatmates and work colleagues have been enjoying my latest creative endeavor :)

I just can't stop...

I've been taking life drawing classes each week, and I am absolutely loving them...

I got home last night from a two hour class and sat on the floor of my room and kept drawing! There's just something about drawing a live model that's so inspiring and motivating :)