Ah, these are my first attempts at a pop-up room. I thought it would be cute to FINALLY put the ppl in my head (and I don’t mean OCs) into a physical space! Unfortunately my will to express and my skills to make it happen are not on a similar level! But it’s good to grasp the basics of pop up mechanisms first!

I still had so much fun making these! It’s meditative :’) unsure if I mentioned this before but while my depression is less potent I’m forcing myself to make as much art as possible to help build a sense of self and try to maintain a hobby!

The guy in the clouds! They are Wind, like, a personification of Wind…. I don’t know how to visually depict wind?!?! 😭 hm, if I’m going to redo this, (very likely) I might put them into another format that allows for more layers of clouds!!! If I could eventually figure out how to use movements in a pop-up card I would want to see clouds parting when I open a card with them in it! Sometimes they have like this long band over their eyes????

Hmm, for the little blue guy, hmm, there’s nothing they are reaching out at. THATS AN ISSUE! Originally they were aiming for the jellyfishes on the wall! But my glue really isn’t strong enough to handle the person being so close to the wall + it didn’t look like they are reaching at the jellyfishes either 😭 if I can acquire some strings I could have them be reaching out at those with little stars on them?!?

Comrades, please, don’t be like me and make an absolutely tiny pop up room AND want details if it’s your first time doing it. The battle I had with measurement. Cutting out objects. Drawing. Coloring. And most of all GLUING could have been avoided. maybe. Be a bit more patient!!! Plan things out! (Or just follow your creative spirit if that’s possible <:] )

geometry is hard! And fascinating!! What an unexpected way to come back to math. I love how much art and math are married with each other. :)

Also!! For people that couldn’t see the penguin on my last post! :D hopefully now you can envision a joyous penguin petting session… u wiggle the middle flap from side to penguin and the penguin will wiggle with it in the trajectory of an arc!! I can also send you a video in dms!

Be able to make art is a privilege, thank you everyone for letting me being here 🧎🙏