We were playing around with a few ideas for a panda today with reasonable success & was just wondering if anyone else makes a panda they would like to share, easy or difficult or anything in between.
Unfortunately I didn't get any photo's as I was around at a friends house.

Graham Lee

Hi Graham,
We're going to be so busy next week with moving house (at last) but I do still have Sabina in the diary for Wednesday.
Simple Panda.
I would start with white or off white, and do a normal teady bear head but with a smaller forehead and tiny ears which you will later colour in black, together with big black eyes and nose.
The white balloon becomes the tummy but the rest is discarded.
Then start with a black balloon at a hand and do a split pinch twist fist followed by a pinch twist elbow joint for a kung fu pose, making sure the whole arm is short and chunky.  A pinch twist goes either side of the neck and then down to a tail pinch twist, back up to the neck and out to the other arm and hand.  This gives a 3 bubble roll through type body but positioned with a white tummy.
Take another black balloon, make a bubblefor a foot, pinch twist then wrap round the tail and out to the other foot.
In other words elbow joints but no knee joints.
I'll try to post a picture
Coffee

Oh and a couple of bigger ones. Plus another bear and a shrunken pink 160 bear in the foreground.  I should have woven more black into the face.
Coffee

I tried to make a panda, using Bonnie's head design for Elmer Fudd.
It looks a bit like a panda,....but I think it needs some more work.

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Petra, I can see this working  
I was also playing around with the head design by Bonnie today at the Darlington Care & share day which I was pleased with.
Will post when I get back on Friday as I need to resize the pictures on my computer at home to put on the forum.