First Mock Ups (sphynx doll post #5)
Dec. 7th, 2014 10:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
e_phemerartUsed VexiWolf's pattern on Deviantart.com for this first flannel mock up. Size needs to be enlaged, but not much. Mostly, I want to work on making a more recognizably feline shaped body silhouette. Needs a bit more body length; adjust front legs for a narrower mid-chest, and definitely have to (pellet) weight butt to make the doll sit properly on haunches.
:/ I do wish the vinyl doll kit hadn't varied the leg designs; one pair is smaller than the other and differently shaped. As posed here, the front feet are using the larger set. The other dolls I've seen using this same mold choose to use the smaller feet for the forelegs, but I think the shape for upright sitting works better this way. Will try both ways (probably back and forth several times) before making any final decisions.
I also got a mock up of the other posable pattern (IsisMasshiro's) sewn this morning as well. Will futz around and take photos of that one later on. Nope, it's not perfect either, but it was easier to sew, and is more cat-like overall. As I said earlier, I'll probably end up with something between the two patterns.
I do feel like I'm getting somewhere, or at least beginning to see what I need to do for the pattern making part of this doll project.
http://theynevergrowupnursery.blogspot.com/2012/11/art-and-magic-water-borne-air-dry.html Looks like a good, basic painting tutorial! Also googlebooks for Beautiful Babies: The Art of Reborn Doll Making. Note to self: for the painitng: KEEP IT SIMPLE and basic.
Lest anyone think this is a cheap craft...the doll kit cost me $35.00; the eyes were $20.00, and I just ordered the basic WaterBourne Air Dry painting supplies for $40.00 (but there should be plenty of paints left over). So, that's $95.00 so far. I haven't yet gotten fabric for the body or weighting pellets, and gods know there will probably also be other this-and-that things before I'm done. But the end result will be a One Of A Kind Art Doll.
:/ I do wish the vinyl doll kit hadn't varied the leg designs; one pair is smaller than the other and differently shaped. As posed here, the front feet are using the larger set. The other dolls I've seen using this same mold choose to use the smaller feet for the forelegs, but I think the shape for upright sitting works better this way. Will try both ways (probably back and forth several times) before making any final decisions.
I also got a mock up of the other posable pattern (IsisMasshiro's) sewn this morning as well. Will futz around and take photos of that one later on. Nope, it's not perfect either, but it was easier to sew, and is more cat-like overall. As I said earlier, I'll probably end up with something between the two patterns.
I do feel like I'm getting somewhere, or at least beginning to see what I need to do for the pattern making part of this doll project.
http://theynevergrowupnursery.blogspot.com/2012/11/art-and-magic-water-borne-air-dry.html Looks like a good, basic painting tutorial! Also googlebooks for Beautiful Babies: The Art of Reborn Doll Making. Note to self: for the painitng: KEEP IT SIMPLE and basic.
Lest anyone think this is a cheap craft...the doll kit cost me $35.00; the eyes were $20.00, and I just ordered the basic WaterBourne Air Dry painting supplies for $40.00 (but there should be plenty of paints left over). So, that's $95.00 so far. I haven't yet gotten fabric for the body or weighting pellets, and gods know there will probably also be other this-and-that things before I'm done. But the end result will be a One Of A Kind Art Doll.
