This is Melvin.  He's my newest puppet.  I made him from an old fitted cotton bed sheet that I tore into strips.  His lips are actually the elastic from the corners of the sheet.  The eyes are custom made.  I cast them in resin, painted them on the back, hot glued them to a strip of black felt and then hot glued that to the head before wrapping the entire thing in strips.  This was actually much harder than I thought it would be as the strips couldn't just be any old which way without looking sloppy and poorly designed.  It also took a very long time.  Fortunately, I had a few Muppet movies to watch to keep me company and provide some inspiration.

I have no idea what I'm going to do with him yet.  I was thinking of doing a few monster-type puppets and put together a sort of adult-oriented monster puppet short film, but after doing a little research I see that it's already been done a few times and thus not altogether original.  Ah well... I'll think of something.

Interested in any comments or suggestions for the next one.

I think he looks great............ I like the way the eyes turned out.

How fun!

Nice!  How did you incorporate the backdrop into this photo?

He looks like fun.  Maybe you could do a spoof? Using a story that's not traditionally "monsterish" but incorporating the monsters in it? 

Cool idea, Angel (and Melvin is a very cool puppet, too!)- maybe -since he is a mummy- his bandages could come off? Frankenstein's Monster could have headaches from the steelbolts and a vampire suffering from a "schnitzel- complex" (I often thought: humans are just prey for vampires. Stories with vampires falling in love with humans (mostly girls, I guess) have become very popular. But wouldn't that be like me falling for a schnitzel?). So all of those monsters could have a self-help group getting to be really hard monsters again? These times must be rather hard on old fashioned monsters, anyway...
http://www.youtube.com/user/DeadGentlemen#p/u/32/EcrUk_MiD4I
This guy learned to cope with modern ways... ;-)

Angel and Rikka, this is a great idea!  Thank you.  Maybe a vegetarian vampire?  A Frankenstein monster who feels he has to act dumb to fit in but is really smart?  A mummy with Oedepus complex (get it?  He loves his mummy)?  A werewolf with allergies?  Or an alternate vamp idea might be a vampire who is vain but can't see himself in a mirror and has developed self-esteem issues?  And the psychologist is a mad scientist and wants to electric shock everyone as a cure-all.

Hmmmmm.  Great!  Now I have something to keep me occupied while I'm supposed to concentrate on work.  What a great day!

But seriously, thanks.  This has sparked a whole new round of ideas.  I'll offer credit where it's due.

Cheers.

A Veggievampie who goes by on tomato- soup? Love the idea. Also the Werewolf with allergies (might be he has to shave because he is allergic to his own fur?)! And the oedepus- complex is funny, too. The Frankenstein could be afraid to be out in the dark. Or suffering from mobbing at work- they call him Frankfurter (Sausage). This could be a whole series. Doc Wilder McWahn (Wahnsinn is madness in German, a "Wahn" could refer to an illusion) presents the new cures for rotten (or rotting) monsters... Tonight on Wilders Wahn:... Can't wait to see that. Thanks for the offering, but Angel really got me there, there the credit should go.

vampire who is vain but can't see himself in a mirror and has developed self-esteem issues?

Hilarious!!! I think you are on a roll now.