KAIDAMA

I'm a big fan of coming up with the key-tie that also acts as a zipper, the zipper mouth, and jax toy eyes. In early development, I originally hesitated to try and use stitches as to not step on ragatha's whole thing but.. eh, we'll see how to tackle this if I ever give her a fan design.

I would've done that geometric zigzaggish shape that looks more akin to real zippers but didn't like the idea of applying that to his teeth. I wanted to keep his overall straps, but wasn't willing to compromise on his fluffy "shoulder pads" , so that combined with the stitches, zipper, tie, collar already present on his mid section comes off as too crowded. Perhaps if I made the straps relatively skinny and the same color as the shoulder pads and connected them directly to said pads, sharing lineart...? ... I'm still imagining it to be too much crowding.

shout out to the bestie @Leon (indefinite hiatus) , and @• Bella • for helping brainstorm to iron out details like the idea of introducing stitches which helped to lessen zipper crowding (leo), zipper and some stitch placement on torso (leo), stuffing-hair tufts (leo, which i then elongated to double as a face/nose crest) as well as the idea of a big zipper tail and a big stuffing tail (which i combined), certain clothing stitch placement (bella), and multicolored whiskers (bella)