Prompt Challenge: Slimsy

I knew immediately what to do with this week’s prompt challenge word. Slimsy is a portmanteau, a word formed by combining two other words (many examples here). Since I’d been thinking about mix and match books that create new creatures by blending the parts of others, I thought it would be the perfect structure. After a bit of research (see this post from the other day), I also knew that a week really wasn’t enough time to do much more than a rough model.
After trying out a few ideas, I settled on drawing some people and animals, and then giving each one three attributes (for a bear, for instance: clumsy, rough, grumpy). When a new creature is created by flipping pages in the book, it mixes not only head, torso and legs, but it also has 3 new descriptors.
As I set about photographing the resulting book, it seemed awfully slimsy, both in heft and quality. So maybe I can say it’s a success!

This one is a combination of bear, ballerina and snake.

This is a combination of snake, dog and bratty little boy.

Next word: neoterism: noun. an innovation in language, as a new word, term, or expression.