WIP Brown-Haired Alice.

 Here is a photo-spam

of my commissioned

brunette Alice WIP.

Rough paper clay head

 Posing.

Getting ears.

Sketch of the face

Close-up of sketch.

(Final painting won't look

anything like this!)

Painted hands and head

Sculpted hands.

Cloth core, pipe cleaners 

and paper clay.

Next, eyes and wig!

The Green Backpack

Sometimes, a doll just demands to be made.

I started here.

This is a pattern for a small doll 

I've been working on

for quite a while.

Now she has bendy arms, 

legs strong enough to stand, 

and a head that can go flat

or soft sculpted.

But the face caused me some grief.

Scary, huh?

  After a bit of work,

soft-sculpting a wider smile

and emphasising the eyes,

she looked like this.

Better?

She would like some hair, though.

(This is a clue about her final destination.

My write up on Magaly's wonderful

box of delights is here.)

Now she has hair. 

And a sunhat.

And a big smile

which was what I wanted. 

You see...

....this doll was made as a thank -you for

Magaly Guerrero

whose strong, bright personality

pervades everything she does

and who has been a huge help

on my nascent writing blog 

collaboration

with the Narrator.

This doll represents the titular character

of Magaly's own wonderful writing,

the wild and sweet 

AlmaMia Cienfuegos.

In the story, she's a child

but the doll insisted she wanted to be a big girl,

going to college to study

Botany and Applied Folklore.

(I wish 'Applied Folklore' was a real subject. 

I'd be off to study for my MA right now)

Here she is, dressed in her shorts

and hat and all-important back pack.

I couldn't resist adding the flap and little green buttons.

Superman pose. No capes, darling.

No doll stand, either!

Bright, optimistic  I-can-do-anything look.

She made it clear she wanted a prancing tutu

over the sensible pink shorts.

Hence the removable tutu.

(I had a lot of fun making this frothy, no-sew skirt

and I'm going to make another doll to dance around in one.

And a tutorial, so you can dress up your

Barbies, bears, and BJD.

Or husbands, if you can make a big-enough one.)

Ta-dah!

Posing with hat.

Shimmying back view.

Here she is in my hand to show scale,

out in the freezing-cold sunshine.

If you want to see photos 

of her in her new home, go here. 

Magaly has a giveaway, too!

 Of books!

 Which is probably the best sort of giveaway.

It's 2014! Happy New Year and happy new Alice.

 Well, that was 2013 

and here is a new year.

Happy New Year

and I hope yours is

creative and exciting

 and healthy and hopeful!

I have three commissions,

which is a great way to start the year.

Here is a working drawing for the first,

an Alice, with brown hair,

a pretty dress and big sweet eyes.

She's 20cm, which is a new scale to me

for a child doll.

It's going to be exciting!