Front, side, and back turnaround drawings of a plush design for a zero gravity indicator design competition for the NASA Artemis II space flight. The design is an ox resembling a calf in proportions, seated like a floppy plush puppy, featuring a crescent moon turned sideways as the horn across the forehead, a star at the top of the tail, and blue eyes with a small star in them. The design is navy blue for the body, light blue for the tummy and markings, and light yellow for the horn, hooves, nose, inner ears, and the star detail on the tail. Proposed materials are minky for the blue tones and kevlar for the yellow, plus embroidered eyes and thread sculpting in the hooves.

Text that reads as follows: I've always been huge on stuffed animals and space, so when I heard about a contest for a ZGI for the Artemis II, I was ECSTATIC. However, I was in the process of dropping out of art school due to my undiagnosed disability, and in the end, due to fatigue as well as having to return my school tech, leaving me with only my phone and an old android tablet to edit files (which did not have the capabilities to edit a nice clean questionnaire for submissions), I ended up missing the submission deadline by 3 minutes which... sucked. I never shared this artwork just cause the memory still kinda hurts. But this was my design! I likened back to videos from NASA of a Snoopy plush as a ZGI, relating to the Snoopy Cap I remember seeing in a science museum years ago, and took inspiration from the Artemis II mission uniforms, abbreviated OCSS, or ox. I designed a little ox plush with cozy bedtime colors featuring a crescent moon for horns, 4-pointed star marking on the forehead, a star on the tail, embroidered starry eyes, and a marking on the back in the shape of the silhouette of the flight path the mission was set to take.

Even if I did miss the deadline for the design contest last year, I still had fun planning and think it came out quite cute and sentimental 💖

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