fairy creations: How I made "Little Prince" in rubber foam.

Hello everyone, welcome back, today I want to show you my version of the Little Prince. In my Journal I am adding several quotes taken from the book, and some months ago I bought a Little Prince scrapbooking paper pad, I remember when I was a child I watched the anime on TV but it was different, who knows if it can be recovered on some streaming platform, I remember he was dressed in blue with a white scarf, then I bought the book and saw that it was different from how I remembered it. Anyway, I add a picture of the anime I'm talking about, who knows if there isn't someone among you who remembers it...

Anime I watched when I was a child

To create this I instead took a photo from the series that aired on Rai Yo Yo, and that I saw some time ago I don't remember if on Netflix or Prime. The same dress also had in the movie also seen that I believe on Netflix a couple of years ago.

from movie

Someone asked me for the pattern and the video a few months ago. As I have said several times, to create a pattern I need several days and attempts, this time they were more than the previous one.

The first looks like Theodore from the Chipmunks cosplaying the Little Prince, so I did a second try while recording the video adjusting the pattern. In the video I had used a different tripod and the lights set in a different way, the fact is that I often went out of the frame and some pieces were missing, because I couldn't see if he was recording or not. So today I made the third Prince, and I glued it on the planet, on his planet with his rose, I was thinking about adding rose quote underneath, glued on a banner, I still don't know if I glue it or not. I'll see eventually I will add the photo if I decide to add quote.

In these Pictures I found in Google you can see image of movie and on right an image of the TV serie I watched on Rai YoYo surely you can find in your Country too.

Anyway I saw this dress and I tried to make similar to this.

Even failures should be shared... on the right you can see the first attempt, I'll probably take the head off and use it for another character... because I truly don't like it.

The final height is around 22cm, my characters are all more or less this height.

As for the creation of the character we always need the same tools:

iron
hot glue
scissors and earwigs
wire
acrylic paints
fine tip indelible pens
nippers and pliers
tweezers (me having chubby hands)
large cutter, cutter
4x2.5cm eggs (preferably 2, one for thermoforming and one for cutting in half)
4cm ball
5cm ball
handmade molds or molds (optional)
awl or toothpick to score
pattern
foam rubber in the colors:

yellow
black or brown
green
skin color

Here are the patterns, I lengthened the trousers a bit compared to the video, both above and below because they remained open and pulling them up they seemed short, you could see the ankle, so I added 5-6mm below and above too. As I've always said, each character takes a different shape, and changes along the way...

I thermoform the arms with moulds, but I drawed it in the pattern, in the following photo you can't see them because I had forgotten to thermoform them.

For all the characters who have a dress covering their leg you can use another color of foam rubber so you won't see it.

I made the sleeves like this this time, they are less thick on the shoulders. The hairstyle is what I call "very disheveled" I got the idea of doing this hairstyle looking at a die I had and I didn't know how to do the hair of my favorite character, Conan the boy of the future, although I love many other characters, that anime is in first place in my personal top list, and I wondered how to make Conan's hair messy? The little prince is not really combed, so I changed a few strands and here he is. For the belt in the video I show how I did it, or rather the part that he didn't record then I recorded it when I did the third Prince.

In the second attempt I had put the tails both on the neck, like a scarf and on the belt, in the second one only on the belt, if you decide to put them around the neck I also suggest to attach them first.

With the awl or a toothpick, mark all the pieces, which we will cut later. For the first attempt I cut gradually, but once the pattern was defined I usually cut all the pieces together and then thermoformed them all, so the iron only turns on once. Beautiful is when you have to make several subjects together that you cut everything and then thermoform everything, you save not only energy but time, a lot of time. In the photo beside the trousers that as I said before I modified, should now be right or better to fit even better.

So once I cut all the pieces I started as usual from the feet. As I said before I keep an egg to thermoform and the other I cut it in half, to put inside the shoe. Sacrificing an egg and always keeping it to do the molding work is important in my opinion, because when we squeeze to thermoform the shoe, the underside of the egg or the sphere is deformed and therefore we risk obtaining two different feet, one higher and one lower. I also said it last time and I repeat it again today. If you want or if the work is not as precise as you wanted, add a 4-5 mm band along the circumference of the shoe.

I roll up the legs widthwise, on the pattern it shows the arrow that relates to the height and how to roll up the foam, for the legs and for the neck/body too. We put the wire inside, 2 cm longer because one part goes into the shoe and one into the basin.

Pants, then as I said before I stretched a little in height and as a crotch because they remained open underneath, I thermoformed without using color, close in a circle and squeeze them to give the worn effect, first we glue the leg on the shoe. If you use shoe molds, ok but if you use an egg like me in the video, you have to cut obliquely from the front more so that the leg rests entirely on the shoe, for normal molds even if I still put the egg in it for support it has a straight cut and therefore the problem does not arise.

We put on the trousers and model the wire that sticks out of the legs and practice holes in the sphere that will act as a basin, turn up the trousers to better see where I'm going to glue the legs, and also to avoid dirtying the trousers with glue, then I'll try to glue the rest and close the rest of the trousers.

We are halfway through the work, I glue the body/neck always with the wire that goes for one centimeter in the sphere and then one will go to the head, I take the shirt and close it on the back then on the bottom of the shirt I put a round of glue and I glue it on the body, we take care to match the edge of the neck on the back and also match the shirt on the back.

We glue the belt and the tails, and since a little bit remains compared to the pattern I also create the knot, for the neck / scarf I didn't tie the knot I put a "tail" in front and one behind. but in the next I only put the collar, which will be glued after attaching the sleeves.

The sleeves, so I made them differently and once closed I glued the lower part on the other (higher) side and then I cut the arm as you can see in the sign made on the pattern and I glued inside the sleeve, then glued on the shoulders and then I added the collar I was talking about before.

Thermoformed the head and glued foam rubber on the polystyrene I glue the ears and the fringe and then the disheveled hairstyle. As a hairdresser I'm not so bright, so I'm sure you'll do better than me.

I try size of the head on my character

I paint the face and finally glue the head to the neck. As I said before, I cut almost a cm of neck because it still seemed too long so compared to the pattern, about 1.5cm more, I made pattern longer than you need because it's bettere to cut later than risk to cut another piece longer.

detail scarf

For the third Little Prince I made I didn't put the pigtails around my neck but only around my waist.

How did I make the planet?

I used a half sphere of the large polystyrene ones, the ones that are made up of two parts, which I had taken years ago to make special packages for Christmas presents, never used, they are still there,, so I took one half and I used a kind of clay I have in few colors because I almost end all colours I had, this clay is like das or fimo air, with the difference that it remains soft and "gummy" , I created the planet and then I painted, I think I will use the other colors in this way too, I have had these packs for years. I filmed making it, I'll probably make a music-only video of it and post it.

detail vulcano

is not perfect but cool

here without Little Prince

I think it's all for the moment, I'll add other picture of Little Prince, and maybe some from video, because I didn't make picture while I was recording the video.

I send you a big kiss.

Lot of Love Betty.