Crafty Tuesday Meet Chris Parker

This one was a challenge.


(For the VI: This is the puppet of Chris Parker. He has brown hair and a brown van dyke and brown eyes. He is wearing a grey suit with a white shirt and black tie)

Looks simple right?

Chris Parker is a character in the Marketplace series by Laura Antonio, which is a series of erotic novels with serious world building. She created a secret society where there are Masters and Servants. The Servants are part of it by their own free will and are trained to serve their owners by trainers and then sold to the highest bidder.

Chris is a trainer with a couple of secrets that are revealed during the books.


(for the VI: Chris in just a white shirt that is open revealing a phoenix across his stomach.)

Chris has a series of marks all over his body mapping his life and choices. He has tattoos, brands, cuttings and piercings, which made this a very interesting project.

I decided that for the cutting I would embroider the symbols.


(for the VI: This is a Rose embroidered in red with a blue Japanese chop on top.)

For the branding, I would use puffy paint to get the raised texture of a brand.

(For the VI, this is a side view of the puppet. There is puffy paint on his upper arm and flame tattoos on his lower arm. )

For the Tattoos, I used a combination of pens to get a tattoo effect on the skin of the puppets.


(for the VI: Chris without his shirt. There is a phoenix across his stomach with flame wristbands around his wrists and forearms)

The back of puppet.


(For the VI: In addition to the rose, there is a pennant on his left shoulder that reads “Go Swallows” in Japanese and there is on the lower half a samurai cutting through a waterfall)

Like I said, it was an interesting project.

You can find the Marketplace books on Amazon and Barnes and Noble and other book sites.

I am grateful for a project that really challenged my abilities.