Only $1 at the state fair! I found this guy in a huge basket filled with hand knit finger puppets from Peru. Is he one of the Three Kings? Someone from an Arabian folk tale? He's holding a staff, which is all curled up because it's made out of yarn. I'm not quite sure who he is but he was the only one of his kind amongst the elephants, giraffes, and octopi.
I thought it would be an interesting challenge to try to draw something made out of yarn. I wish I could've better captured the fuzziness of the fiber. If I were to do this same drawing again I would draw him much smaller on the page, to emphasize what it felt like to find this lone finger puppet who was not like the others.
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