How to Design Your Own Pokemon Plushie Template

My Meowth plushie template.  For instructions on how to make a Meowth plushie, see this post.

Materials:
*Image of desired Pokemon
*Painter's tape
*White copy paper
*Pencil

Directions:
*Choose an image of the Pokemon you'd like to make a plushie of in the desired pose.  I chose one of my AR photos of Meowth and cropped it.

*Resize the photo to be approximately the size that you'd like your plushie to be and print.  It's okay if it looks a bit pixelated as long as you can distinguish the outline and the various features of your Pokemon.
*Decide what features you'd like to include in your plushie.  If your monster is rather complicated, you may want to pick specific features to concentrate on while ignoring others.  Think about whether you'd like to include the limbs (assuming it has limbs) as part of the body or separately.  If you'd like to stuff them, it's probably easier to do them separately, but otherwise you could do them together.  What facial features and markings will you use?  Are there ears?  You'll probably want to do those separately from the body.
*Tape the photo to a sunny window (the sunnier out it is, the easier it will be to see the details of your monster) using painter's tape.

*Tape a sheet of white copy paper over your picture, again using painter's tape.

*Trace the "body" piece, which should include the head and torso, plus limbs if you choose to keep them connected.  Trace the facial features you'll be using as well.  (I had to darken the photo a lot to make the pencil lines visible.)

*Move the paper and trace each of the remaining body parts separate from the body.  (You could trace it all as one piece, with e.g. the ears extending partway into the head, but that necessitates printing an extra copy or so of the template when you're done.)

*Now your template is done.  See my previous Pokemon plushie tutorials to get an idea of what supplies you'll need for your plushie (felt, stuffing, needle and thread, etc.) and how to construct it.  Also, feel free to contact me (in the comments below or at hathaway.amber@gmail,com) if you have further questions.