Final Sugar Monster Design

Here is the final Sugar Monster puppet design. The finished puppet is pink with lavender accents, not the the brown pictured here.

Hershey's Kiss

For some of the puppet designs I incorporated elements reminiscent of familiar candy and junk food. Notice that this Sugar Monster is shaped like an elongated Hershey's Kiss, with a big curl at the top of the head. I based the color on cotton candy.

Female Sugar Monster

I always imagined the Sugar Monster as a female character. In this puppet design I tried playing up the traditional female design characteristics, giving her full lips and large eyelashes. I also experimented with the horns, making them wavy and dragon-like.

Cute And Cuddly

In this Sugar Monster puppet design my goal was to create a character that was cute and cuddly, but obviously wired. I thought it would be funny if the Sugar Monster was short and bouncy with a long tail.

Striped Candy Horns

The client found Sugar Monster No. 1 the most appealing because of the cotton candy-like body and the striped candy horns. Using this illustration as a starting point, I developed a bunch of variations, playing with the shape of the nose, the color, and the scale of the body.

Sugar Monster Choices

Here is a group of Sugar Monsters that I assembled for the client. When designing a puppet for someone else, it’s important to present them with a wide range of choices to help focus their vision of the character. These illustrations served as a starting point for the design process of the Sugar Monster.