Making Articulated Paper Puppets

I decided to make traditinal puppets, in that they are hand drawn, but decided to take it a step further by utilizing my computer and printer.

The first step is to take a large piece of paper. I use a strathmore drawing pad. I sketch out the puppet with pencil, leaving extra room for the moveable pieces.

Then I use my trusty speedball pen with interchangeable nibs, depending on the quality and fineness of line I
require, and ink in the whole thing.

I have a great 10.1 mega-pixel camera and set it on the "macro" setting to take a picture of my puppet.

After uploading the image on my computer and keeping it at full size so the image will remain crisp, I take it to adobe photoshop, where I color it in. I make a print of the results.

Then I cut out all the pieces, connect the moveable parts with metal brads and I have a finished puppet.

Several articulated puppets can be found in my shop http://rtisan2.etsy.com. I also have a photo tutorial about making puppets in my blog: http://rtisan.blogspot.com