It's super cute and the additions from your last go-around are indeed an improvement. Only suggestion is perhaps some surface stitching detail in a finer gauge contrasting yarn to further define the "spacesuit" lines?
Lol, I did not get that at all. I was seeing a sheep's head on a misshapen turtle shell with baseball fins...and I had no idea what the blue balls on the neck were.
I think heās super cute and I see an astronaut. If you donāt mind me recommending it I think a little nasa patch or even a rocket patch on his chest would really make him be unmistakably an astronaut āŗļø
Use lighter weight yarn in blue to make a circle (probably just one or two rounds) and embroider the swoosh. You can also embroider the white circle and do French knots for the stars. Don't worry about the letters, it'll be too small for them to come out legibly.
At first I thought spider or moth or moth caterpillar because of the leg positions in the first pic, reminding me of pincers/furry antennae. Then I saw the second picture and thought āturtle withā¦ angel wings? and whatās that thing on the neckā¦?ā
A few things, if you want advice:
the back legs should maybe be sewn a little further back. Turtle flippers arenāt really arranged the same way quadruped limbs are. Also, the back legs are backwards; the curved side should be closer to the midline of the body (closer to where a tail would go)
the jetpack shape isnāt very ācrispā because of the chenille, so it doesnāt read well. Maybe consider using a smaller hook to get tighter gauge, and probably also a smaller yarn. If you can get a really neat and even cylindrical shape, that will probably look better.
Usually jetpacks also have a ābackpackā shape (with some machinery connecting the two propulsion ārocketā looking bits) so the two separate cylinders with no apparent attachment between them ends up looking more like odd wings. The cone shape of the shell will probably make it more difficult to create that attachment, so perhaps flattening the shell to something more gently rounded (instead of so sharply conical) will aid in that effort
Some embroidered details could go far! A little NASA (or nonspecific space symbol) badge/logo on the arm, back/shell/jetpack compartment, or chest could help sell the idea. You can also do this to add helmet details; Iām still not sure what the blue node on the neck is, and the bulkiness makes it hard to decipher, so replacing it with finer details might help
maybe use BLO stitches or surface crochet to create a ālipā around the visor of the helmet; the visor isnāt usually flush with the rest of the helmet, so that tactile demarcation will do a lot. Right now itās not so obvious even with the color change, especially since the eyes are there (usually eyes are not visible through a visor, so having them visibly set in the grey area goes against expectation and just makes it look like the turtleās got a half-grey face). You might consider instead going for a stylized look, with a fully white head then a slightly protruding grey visor in a narrow rectangular shape, and donāt use any eyeball attachments at all (think Among Us crewmate).
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