I absolutely love Halloween! Everything single little thing about it! I really like being scared too and even hold an annual terrifying "Haunted Forest" event. I also like the cute side of halloween and think it's just as important, especially for the young ones. I live in Japan and Halloween is popular, but kids mostly engage with the cutesy side of it. I have an annual "Candy Forest" event for these youngsters and this is where the Halloween Friends started.

Supplies

Supplies

building stuff

-table saw

-5.5x910x1820mm plywood

-15x57x2000mm lumber

-wood screws

-drill

drawing & painting stuff

-tape measure

-ruler

-pencil

-paint brush

-stain brush

-paint

-Oil marker or paint pen (line work)

-stain

Step 1: Building

I wanted the characters to be taller than a kid, lightweight and easily stackable.

I cut two characters out of one sheet of 5.5x910x1820mm plywood: two heads and two bodies. I just trimmed around it with 15x57mm wood and added a piece in the middle to secure the head to the body,

Step 2: Drawing

Cute characters are easy to draw! Just simple lines and shapes with minimal features and rounded edges. My halloween friends are basically a circle on a rounded rectangle with circle hands and rectangle feet.

If you're bad at measuring out shapes, you can easily trace them. For example, trace a large pot or lid to create the circle for the head and trace a plate to make the eyes. You can draw this entire character by just tracing things around the house