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the evolution of mr. grumpypants
Mr. Grumpypants! Someone on Tumblr asked me a question a long time ago about how I came up with characters, and I’ve long since accidentally deleted that question - but I was waiting for a time where I could actually show that process, rather than tell!
Anyway, here’s the evolution of Mr. Grumpypants(so far).
Mr. Grumpypants started in that stop motion experiment I posted a couple weeks ago, when he was a hastily sculpted lump of clay. That particular shape’s one I’ve been making for a long time, and largely based on starfish. Here’s Grumpypants from 2 weeks ago. 
Here’s one of the starfish critters I used to sculpt(this one’s from 2009 or 2010, I think).
After making that video, I experimented with making a puppet type critter for more stop motion stuff. It went sort of terribly.
Yeah, I haven’t sewn anything for a couple years, and it shows. Then I sketched a version of Grumpypants I thought I’d make(about a week ago).
The Grumpypants-in-a-dorky-outfit image stuck with me, and this weekend, I sculpted him for an art show I’m participating in(more on that soon).
I got distracted, before adding “sleeves” to him, but decided I liked the tentacley arms. So I drew him that way again.
Current state of Mr. Grumpypants McGee(he got a prefix and a last name in the process).
And he’s probably not done yet. I think I want him a bit pudgier. Anyway, I guess what I was trying to say is that my “process” is really all over the place! Haha.
