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Here's something I wanted to show off. So the top picture is the head of a Jirachi plush which I had tried to make back in February last year. At the time, I considered it somewhat weird looking although still potentially passable; nonetheless it bothered me so I decided to abandon the project. Now of course it looks completely off and unacceptable.

So what sorts of patterning breakthroughs did I achieve during the time? Back then since I was still somewhat new to pattern making, I used a few "naive" pattern-making methods, one of which was just taking a reference image (such as the official art) and simply tracing over the shape to achieve the desired pattern piece. So in this case, I found an official artwork of Jirachi, traced over the head, made a few minor adjustments, and then mirrored it for the other side. As you can see though that didn't work; the star points are at the wrong angles and the bottom of the head has a really weird shape which juts out.

What let me improve the pattern drastically? Unfortunately dA won't let me put images in my post so I'm gonna redirect you to my Tumblr post about this instead. It boils down to visualizing patterns in 3D and avoiding the complications which come with simply tracing over references.

Description
Here's something I wanted to show off. So the top picture is the head of a Jirachi plush which I had tried to make back in February last year. At the time, I considered it somewhat weird looking although still potentially passable; nonetheless it bothered me so I decided to abandon the project. Now of course it looks completely off and unacceptable.

So what sorts of patterning breakthroughs did I achieve during the time? Back then since I was still somewhat new to pattern making, I used a few "naive" pattern-making methods, one of which was just taking a reference image (such as the official art) and simply tracing over the shape to achieve the desired pattern piece. So in this case, I found an official artwork of Jirachi, traced over the head, made a few minor adjustments, and then mirrored it for the other side. As you can see though that didn't work; the star points are at the wrong angles and the bottom of the head has a really weird shape which juts out.

What let me improve the pattern drastically? Unfortunately dA won't let me put images in my post so I'm gonna redirect you to my Tumblr post about this instead. It boils down to visualizing patterns in 3D and avoiding the complications which come with simply tracing over references.