Geez, upon opening the package I was expecting him to at least be half the size of Joey, but I didn’t expect to receive a brand new pillow! xD I was extremely surprised to see how huge he is once I pulled him out of the box. AP came out awesome and adorable, and Budsies has done a fantastic job as usual.
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I’ve been looking at some concept art in the official website, which is awesome by the way (atomic-puppet.com). While doing so I’ve spotted this particular design of Joey and it caught my attention, so then I tried out drawing him just for fun. I can only guess that Tai from Digimon was the inspiration for this design. I basically picked the colors out of experimenting since the only official pic available is in greyscale.
He came out amazingly adorable, as expected by Budsies. I was going to originally have them make him as Atomic Puppet but I had a bad feeling they were going to screw it up due to the complex design. Plus I wanted to take advantage of their 30% discount that was going on that week, so I submitted a quick reference, which was a turnaround image of Joey that was posted on Tumblr. The only negative part was his pants turned out dark green instead of brown, but that was my fault, since I looked closely afterward on the reference pic that they were actually dark green (must be an earlier design of him before certain additions and changes). That’s alright though since I loved how he came out regardless.
The most I did was draw the logo on his shirt for a clearer reference, and they nailed the design! One thing I absolutely love is they actually sew the details instead of draw them with paint or markers. I also drew his freckles and replaced his teeth with a closed smile on the reference pic.
I’m going to start drawing a turnaround image of AP (as a regular puppet) before their Cyber Monday sale comes up in November (I think).