A little while ago I sat down with my daughters and showed them the art of the paper bag monster. Little did I know that this session would give birth to two little buggers named Zoopy and Billiam and would entertain my daughters and their friends like crazy. What quickly emerged was the Zoopy and Billiam show which was made up of some raw dialogue between a southern yee-haw (who suffers from untimely flatulence and a tendency to think anythink is edible) and an upper-class Englishman (who knows his manners but is blindly in love with Makayla Rae and despaprately seeks her hand in marriage). Were talking songs and dancing and jokes and endlessly sending Zoopy to time-out. We have been having so much fun with them (and they are quickly getting tore up from all the tomfoolery) that I have decided to put together a legitimate puppet set for Zoopy and Billiam muppet style. I haven’t tried this before so it should be interesting. I also have very limited time for a project like this so it will grow slowly but I will keep you posted on the progress. Stay tuned. It’s hard not to love these guys.

Zoopy will go first. I have researched online what the best way to make these things are and have gotten a bit frustrated. I haven’t found clear instruction. So, in the spirit of forward progress I will do what I know and that is scuplture. I need to have a better understanding of how these guys will look in a 3 dimensional setting anyways. I will go my standard Super Sculpey route and create a 6″ little Zoopy guy.

First things first:

Sketches:

I have been fleshing Zoopy out while files are saving or waiting for the computer to start up. This provides for some very loose, very fun sketches and I think it is moving in the right direction.

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