Friday 26 October 2012

Lunar Chronicles Pumpkin Contest - Iko Pumpkin Android



Description: 

This is supposed to be Iko, in a new body specially for Halloween! Iko has an oversized pumpkin head in Halloween style, with a pretty long stalk that I tried to arrange like a girl's hair. (My sister says that the pumpkin looks like a basketball with a green stalk 0__0). Iko has a undersized body with two hands, that looks cute with the huge head. Iko's hand has a red ribbon, from Peony. At the bottom, there's a pair of shoes, since I think Iko would have liked to have shoes for her new body. Although Iko's body is supposed to sort of hover above the shoes...

Inspiration: 

This is inspired by Iko from Cinder, who is one of the cutest robots I've met! The robot body is also inspired by Eva from Wall-e. I added the shoes because Iko loved shoes, so I thought Iko would like it if she could have shoes for her new body. I know Iko might have preferred a more feminine body though, but I think a cute look would suit her better.

Materials: 

This is made up of mostly recycled materials. The pumpkin head and the small body are balloon piñatas, and the colour papers are rough papers. The shoes are from my grandma. Making the piñata is pretty tedious, as I had to paste layers of newspapers on the balloon, and then leave it to dry for a few days. And after that, I had to paste another layer of coloured paper over it and basically design it, and finally creating the cute Iko bot!

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Love, 
Penny