Yeah i'm going to try a few things.  Between Billy and Daryl's ideas I have a bunch of  stuff to test out.  If I get a chance i'll post a pick on what worked best.

Found this and thought of you. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and check out the center figure.
http://www.furrypuppet.com/blog/index.php?paged=2


I also thought of taking black fishing line and making "French knots" all over the lower face. A french knot is an embroidery technique. It is basically tying your thread off on the right side of the fabric and not cutting the end. Rather you go back down through the fabric beside where you came out and then up to the right side and repeat the process until you have all the stubble you want. It would look like morning face, if that's the look you want.The cool thing about this method is you don't have to worry about the knots coming out. Start the thread in the hair to hide the end knot. It is a process that doesn't lend itself to writing about, it needs a video to demonstrate.

More than you ever wanted to know about flocking:

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https://youtu.be/COH6I0bO-gU

Reticulated foam with paint/make up is indeed very effective in theatre, experiment first (of course) the trick is to get a pretty dry "brush" and then you can build up slowly, dap your sponge in paint and dry it on some unsealed cardboard to absorb the paint solvent a bit and and you'll be left with the pigment, I get this from plastic model making, airplanes etc, where you dry brush to pick up detail. To make this more effective it might be good to deliberately pill the fleece around the chin. I haven't worked with antron (shame, shame shame) I believe it's low pill but there must be a way to get the pill up a bit then dry brush pigment onto the high points.
So pilling fleece, what's the best way? Rub with another piece of fleece?

I tried out allot of different stuff and in the end it came out that the best look was the slowest.  Go figure  


Click the image to see a closer look.

Really nice job. I like it! 

fantastic puppet gave!!!! I am sorry I saw this too late but you can flock antron by shaving the antron first then flocking over it. But still you made a great puppet!!!!! I love the look of the puppet.

I missed seeing the picture of your puppet. Great Job!

Billy D.

Thanks Yeah I was happy how it came out =)

Oh also i'll try the flocking method you mentioned.  I never thought about shaving it down first.  That's a great idea.