I want to make a fursuit of a Kirby character I adore.

[Retriever II]

Well, I guess I have some experience here since I've built a fullsuit scyther costume (actually going to be competing with it at Connecticon tomorrow .. we'll see how that goes!)

I'd recommend buying some anti-pill fleece (it's always on sale at Joanne and pretty cheap). It's not as visually cool as fur/minky/whatever a lot of fursuits are made with, but it's a very forgiving material and would be good practice. If you want to try learning some sewing with a smaller project, I design and make pokemon fleece hats, and I could give you some sewing patterns to try out. I'd suggest maybe looking into building a fleece kigurumi first, which would be a good practice project on its own and maybe could lead to an actual costume as well.

Sorry what??? You got pictures of this full on scyther? You can't just bring that up an leave us hanging haha

(Bad lighting ahoy)
This is sort of version 1.5, with a fully rebuilt thorax and wings. I have a thread from last Halloween with a few earlier pictures.

https://forums.mfgg.net/showthread.php?tid=1406

It's a bit unusual for a fullsuit/fursuit in that I used spandex as a covering (which I thought was pretty ideal for a bug)