Week Twenty-Five is Also a Doll

And for this week I worked on more dolls. But no hair rooting this time, which was healthy for my sanity. This time I bought two Fashionista Ken dolls by Mattel (because I'm spoiled and like dolls with joints) and customized their hair and faces.

The first doll is meant to look like Alfred Jones/USA from Hetalia, but I lack glasses that actually fit him. That's also why his eyes are so large - was trying to achieve something of an "anime" look without them taking up half his face.

The other is something I've been meaning to do for a while; I wanted to customize a doll to resemble Hugh Jackman as The Drover from the movie "Australia". While it's by no means perfect (there's a limit on what I know how to do), I think it looks great for my first time adding facial hair to a doll. 

Below is more or less what they looked like before. Except that I'd already started on the blonde doll's hair when I took that photo.

Week 22 Was a Doll

I did, in fact, do this the week after 21, but never got around to putting it up here. Anyway, most of my creative energy that week was spent manually inserting hair strands into a doll's head (which took about two days and probably ten hours between the two), cutting it, styling it, and then putting a face on said doll. It took enough work that I'm totally counting it as art.

Week Twenty-One is Crafty

This week wasn't for drawing so much, but that doesn't mean it lacked creative endeavors. I made the origami boxes above for an upcoming party, and also made this doll room and box shown below:

They're to scale for 12 inch dolls. Here's one in the room before it and the blanket were done:

Next week I'm hoping to actually draw something complex.

Week Ten Part Two?

It's truly irksome that this semester has challenged me to a duel and is thus far winning. After making it to at least June last year with Weekly Art, however, giving up already is hardly an option. So onward we press. Hopefully April will bring something of a fresh start.

The commission is still being worked on and is finally in the color stage, which shouldn't take nearly as long as sketching it since these were new characters to me. Unfortunately working on it during my lunch break right now isn't an option because I left the picture in my scanner like the genius I am.

We've moved onto to ink media in Figure Drawing, and though I don't have photos of what we did yesterday, here's something from last week. These were done with Tombow markers, which I hadn't used in a few years. It was an experience that revealed that I need a lot more practice with faces.

And finally, a little something that kept me good and occupied all last Sunday afternoon. It's lumpy and very retro, but it was hard work and it's mine. Too big for the dollhouse, alas, but perfect for the Barbie-sized collection I have.