Here’s Moist von Lipwig of the Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett – a request recently made to me by a family friend. He’s an acrylic repaint on a Jackson Jekkyl Monster high boy doll. As usual I managed to make his outfit reversible.
As well as his face, I repainted his boots. His post-bags are knitted in basket-weave stitch and then the AM logo embroidered on. I also made him a black briefcase/satchel for his incarnation as Albert Spangler. He has grey knitted long-johns as well.
I’ve had a few requests to see more Discworld characters in my collection, but I’m also practising other styles for my repertoire. This is a second-hand superstar-era Barbie doll that I’m turning into Lady Gaga from her video for ‘Telephone’:
I highlighted her straight blonde hair with a yellow Sharpie before curling it using the boil perm method. then gave her an acrylic/pastel repaint. Due to her face shape and structure, she still looks much more like a Barbie than Lady Gaga, but I’m looking forward to having fun with making the outfits for her 🙂
This was her ‘before’ picture – below on the left. Like the AA Barbie on the right, she’d had a very rough repaint earlier while I was practising, had really nice long straight hair to play with, but then I’d put her aside while I worked on my Tiffany Aching charity doll and Moist von Lipwig, as well as the Kung Fu Saffron dolls I donated (I must make a few more of those to actually sell!).
I pulled her out again on Friday to have a go at making Lady Gaga, and I’m really pleased so far – kind of shocked how my skills/style has developed over the last few months too. A lot of it is mainly getting better brushes and materials to work with – when I made Tiffany, I still only owned one usable paintbrush! 🙂
So I’m really pleased with my improvement already – I hope other people can tell the difference too 🙂
I’ve currently got one of my hybrid rescue Barbies on ebay that I redressed in a customised reversible Disney Cinderella dress – she’s been restyled by me for play or display, as I do with any doll I’m not keeping or completely revamping. That way I can sell things at lower prices for fun and for anyone to enjoy – check her out below:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/291491989330
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