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Uncategorized Boards => Balloon Chit Chat => Topic started by: Graham Lee on February 08, 2015, 10:51:09 PM
For the past few months, well the geo play thread started early Oct I have been having a play with a panda design. One or two were just OK, nothing I was truly happy with.
The criteria was the head had to be made with a geo and would appear on my up coming geo DVD.
Had another play tonight and I think we had the lightbulb moment and have one that I'm pretty pleased with.
This panda I taught at the Leeds event back in March 2014, it uses 350's for the head and body.
These two panda's were made the week before Leeds when I was coming up with the panda design above.
That's a good panda Graham, I wonder if i could replace the Geo with a heart and get the same effect!! I have no Geo's!! :)
Quote from: "Kenny"I wonder if i could replace the Geo with a heart and get the same effect!! I have no Geo's!! :)
There are no geo's in this panda design Kenny, the body and head are all 350's
I saw a nice easy panda on facebook by Jeanine von Essen and decided to have a play, Jeanine's was made with a 350 I believe and I started off with a 5" round.
This was a pretty poor effort compared to Jeanine's, this is her facebook page to view the original, <!-- m -->https://www.facebook.com/HeyBalloonLady (https://www.facebook.com/HeyBalloonLady)<!-- m -->
I quickly had another go after effort one,
I made these all yesterday, I think 4 variations in all. These two are the same, I was trying for the sit down look.
Another variation.
I had another play with a panda design yesterday.
I bought e-file from David Brenion some time ago and learnt this design :)
Quote from: "nklaw"I bought e-file from David Brenion some time ago and learnt this design :)
That has given me another idea, thanks.
I remember David placing the ears on after with that design, there was a slack 260 which fitted under the muzzle.
So I changed the way I had the ears on the panda and this made the ears higher on the design.
I also made some new eyes, the ones with the white looked racoon like to me.
This latest Panda definitely looks better than the previous , and the eyes are so much alive. Like !
Mee too!!!!
I was making a couple of Panda's at the millennium jam, when I get to resize them on that thread then I will add here as well.
Today I made another version, it needs a little tweaking here and there which I will have a play with tomorrow.
I quite liked your panda that you gave to Patricia at the MJ. Did you see Beatings panda? totally different to yours but I really liked it.
Quote from: "magirob"I quite liked your panda that you gave to Patricia at the MJ. Did you see Beatings panda? totally different to yours but I really liked it.
I took a couple of pictures of Beatings design but did not sit down to watch the construction,
yes Patricia liked the panda I made and wanted to wear it, it was OK.
Well surprise surprise, guess what? ............................YES
I have been playing with a panda design again today <!-- s:( -->:(<!-- s:( --> How sad am I?.............................very, he he.
The head is made from 260 white and 260 black for the ears.
The finished panda, I will take a side and back shot later in case anyone would like to have a go at making it.
Side and rear view of the panda in case any wanted to have a play?
I added an extra piece of black around the neck area.
Seems like a lot of work for a real world off the cuff panda design, but would work as a special gift!!
I will add a few panda designs I have made recently, I think will make it easier if anyone is searching for Panda's in the future.
The first picture was from model of the month so a step by step guide to these is available.
november-competition-panda-t10244.html (http://balloonchat.co.uk/november-competition-panda-t10244.html)
The last picture is the latest internet craze, panda dating website :)
Another Panda.
This is the looking for love Panda, he was made at the London jam and his nose is too long.
It was a new idea I was playing with, it made a nice dog/fox face.
We then went onto Kung Fu Panda and then a different idea for the Panda face.
OH NO!!!
oh yes, I made another panda yesterday. I thought the ears were too big and made smaller and now they look too small.
oh well, you get the idea.
:D Another Panda
Same panda, different angle.
Playing with the design Simon Jong showed at his Birmingham workshop, I sized down to 260/160
The arms and feet are all made from the same balloon so makes it a little quicker as well, still playing with the idea.
Then changing the eyes, I tried white for the eye area and a painted eye in black to get the correct slope.
I had another play with a panda design.
AND have to say I made one that I rather like for the real world.
These are different and proportions not quite right.
These are the ones I like, two balloons and a scrap for the eyes.
We might have to add some white for the eyes and a few black spots around the nose.
Just tweaking the design, I filmed the panda today for BalloonTube.
It will be going live in February sometime.
I up-scaled the 260 panda to a 350 last night.
I made this one a few days back,
I added something to try and make the black eye stand out a little more.
Was hoping to get a picture with it a little more sunny but that looks like a non starter.
I also added the white to separate the eyes.
I made this yesterday after seeing the panda design that Dan Catt made at the Bishops Stortford
Care & Share balloon day.
I like the one before the last one the best. It's got a nice round head. I also like the pandas with the white eyes and black drawn on. Very cool to see your progression. :-)
After seeing the design Dan Catt showed at the Bishops Stortford Care & Share day
I came home and had a little play so these are influenced from Dan's design.
Just variations on a theme really.
I then made a variation on the 2 balloon panda.
This uses a 260 white and a 160 black.
I've just added the instructions up over on BalloonTube for the two balloon panda
with a scrap of 160 as well.................................so three balloon panda really.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stW2_DncbjQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stW2_DncbjQ)
cute design Graham, can't wait to give it a try. Thanks!
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Merci, je cherchais un panda rapide...
Playing with more panda's.
This is the Panda Mark showed at the care & share day last week.
Which I think is a variation on a Mr Bomas design but not 100% sure.
So I was having a little play.
I have just looked through this thread and noticed there are quite a
few panda designs missing. This I'm assuming happened when we
had the forum updated a few months back now.
I have not noticed any missing pictures on other threads so
fingers crossed it was just this thread that had the hic-up.
The panda I posted onto BalloonTube over a year ago up-scaled with 350's.
This is the link if anyone would like to try the Panda design,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stW2_DncbjQ
Plus the two Panda's that were inspired from the Mark Byrne day.
The head design on the right we believe is from Mr Bomas
which Mark did credit at the day. Mark changed the design to add
onto a hat and then I altered the design for a simpler body.
The one on the left has the mouth/nose structure added,
The evolving panda, this is how our balloon art form evolves.
I upsized the panda to a 350 design.
The first picture is a 260 design and second picture 350
I made a 260 panda so we could get a picture together to see the size difference.
More pandas.
And another one.
Carrying on the panda design.
I made a panda again this week.
Different body.
Another panda design.
A variation on a theme, not sure about the mouth.
Quote from: Graham Lee on August 01, 2020, 09:49:17 AM
A variation on a theme, not sure about the mouth.
Agreed Graham, perhaps a tiny bubble in the end of a 160 tied in as a tongue?
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A different idea, I made the nose fold twist larger to fit a 160.
Quote from: Graham Lee on August 03, 2020, 04:10:46 PM
A different idea, I made the nose fold twist larger to fit a 160.
I like it
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Made a couple from 260's and changed the eye look.
Changed the mouth a little.
I have noticed loads of Panda pictures are missing from this thread, this is because if a picture
is named Panda1 and I add another named panda1 the first one dis-appears.
It will be a challenge going through all my panda pictures and trying to add back the correct ones.
Perhaps I will start a new thread and just add all the Panda pictures there for people to see.
Will have a think.
Anyway yesterday I started to make some more Panda designs.
Picture one, The mouth and nose were too low on this design.
Picture two, I added extra bubbles behind the mouth and nose to lift it slightly.
Picture three, moved mouth and nose up a 1 finger bubble on face.
None look proportioned right to me as yet.
I made a cat with just the mouth drawn on so looked to see what it would look like as a Panda.
Still not right. Then all lined up for a mug shot ;D
Just trying to get the right proportion to where the mouth/nose should be on the face.
A couple of variations on the eye look as well.
I'm liking these ones way better.
Another rogues gallery, he he
I was having another play with a Panda design a few days back. I was trying to make
something a little different to the others we have made over the years.
Then went for a different style head design. The first one was too narrow, version two looked better.
But was not Panda like to me.
I then changed the arms and added some extra Black for the Panda.
Another Panda design we made a few weeks back now.
So I posted the Panda I made way back in February 2017 as tutorial number 24 onto Facebook yesterday and it got me twisting and upsizing the design.
This is the original design made from 260's for the head and body and a 160 for the eyes and nose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stW2_DncbjQ
I used Ivory instead of White for the look.
Then upsized it with 350's and changed things a little. Ears on the first one were
too big and I did not like the double bubble front on the second one.
So went for a 646 for the front and back sections of the Panda. But then did not like the
look of the separate twists on the 160 around the mouth and in front of the eyes.
And the eyes possibly needed to be separated a little from each other as with Panda on the left.
So we separated the eyes a little but the twists and 160 in front of the eyes was way wrong for me.
So ended up with this look on picture 8 of the larger design which I did like.
So the original design to the newer larger upsized Panda.