I'm drawing up sketches for the Puppet contest and made a template for each Project Puppet pattern to help me sketch out designs.  It includes an light outline of the various Project Puppet shapes.  I'd be willing to share them if that would be helpful for you. 

yes please that would be great

Yes that would definetly be a great hel.You are so smart.
Brenda

Maybe it's just me but huh?  What are you guy talking about? 

Puppetfreak:

I would have said "hu" as well if someone had said this to me six months ago. 

When I entered the Monster Contest from Project Puppet I got some interesting feedback from Pasha Romanowski and Phillip Hatter.  Although I was one of three winners, I noticed from the comments that it was important to the judges that the puppet wasn't just thrown together and happened to look nice.  (Which is what I did.) They were interested in seeing some purposeful design.  Pasha emailed me later and gave me some constructive criticism (that I welcomed!) which has led me to take more time in the planning stages of puppet building - namely sketching out what I wanted to make and trying to develop a character which possess physical characteristics that support the kind of character the puppet actually is.  For example, A bad guy who looks mean and nasty because his eyes are angry and his other features support the idea as well.  The problem I was having with this pre-plan stage is that my drawing skills are weak.  So I developed these templates to help me sketch out my designs.  The template is basically an empty puppet shape that I can draw eyes and nose and hair on and colour in with coloured pencils.  The head and body shapes are different for the various patterns, so I made seperate templates for each of the Project Puppet patterns.  I also added a box on the bottom for written details.

Here are the templates I made for the simple series.  These are the patterns that can be used for the contest.  These are NOT the patterns themselves.  The patterns are available at www.projectpuppet.com

Are the templates going to be posted for the Project Puppet patterns? The last post from Puppet Lady has a sketch order, but not templates.

Sue

[very light]

Yes, somehow that thread got locked.  The templates are a rough sketch of a finished puppet. It is NOT the pattern.  They are a sketch of the shape of the finished puppet so you can draw the details on top and plan ahead what your character will look like.  The real pattern must be purchased from Project Puppet.  To get the template for an empty puppet shape to draw up your plans on, go to my gallery and download the pdf for the pattern you are using for your puppet.  The template will look like a very light drawing of a puppet shape with space to write notes.  Does this make sense?  It's for planning purposes.

I have the patterns, but when I went to your gallery the sketches didn't show on my screen. Just the information about customer name, requirements, character name, etc. Am I missing the templates somehow?

The puppet sketch should be very very light gray in the open white area.  I made it light so you can sketch over top.  Is anyone else having problems?  In my gallery you click on the template of your choice (the ones with no thumbnail).  Click "no thumbnail" and then click "download document".  It should be a pdf file not a jpg and print to fill a full sheet of paper.

Puppetlady
Thankyou very much for the templates.I had no problem downloading them.They are going to be very helpful.
Brenda

OK, they downloaded and printed just fine. I just can't see any picture when I view them on my computer. Thanks for the templates. Great idea by the way. I'm going to do the same thing with my other patterns. Right now I use a photo in Paint to test out features and colors. With a template it will be easier to change them.
Sue

Very nice but I was wondering how or where did you get it. Didn't they use one for the Pig Tutorial in Project Puppet. and just as a question is there a way you can get us a frontal view cause the melon head looked kind of like the roly. BTW you have been so good to us by providing this! Thank You so much!

I took Pasha's Roly sketch from the pig tutorial and used that as a reference to sketch up all the shapes for the other pattern types.  Notice how the body bottoms are the same?  I merely altered the heads using his drawing style.  (I asked Pasha about my using and modifying his Roly sketch and he's OK about it.)  Yep the melonhead is not the best.  A front view would be nice since it's a football shape head, but like I said earlier, my drawing skills are a little weak.  Maybe I'll add a front view to the Melonhead.  Would you like that?

Sure If you have to time that would be great!