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Base: wish04 You know, I never thought I had a muse, but now I know I do. It's a square box with rabbit ears and it's called "Teevee". I don't know why I'm compelled to doll random things I see on television, but I'm learning to accept it with only moderate amounts of embarrassment. Remember the Hollywood writer's strike of aught eight? Remember how late night kingpins Conan O'Brien, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart created a fake feud that culminated in "The Brawl in the Hall"? Remember how awesome that was? So awesome, in fact, that I had to pay it tribute. I've always wanted to doll Stewart & Colbert anyway. The dolls on the left are three separate files. If you would like to commemorate this ménage à awesome with a all three in one file, click here.
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Base: Porcelain Doll This doll is based on a movie . . . that I recently watched on DVD, thus on my television. I can't escape it! One of my favourite movies of '07 was The Darjeeling Limited. After viewing the aforementioned DVD, I was all revved up to make the three Whitman brothers, but alas, I only got as far as Adrian Brody's character, Peter. My dolling stamina ain't what it used to be. Looking at him right now, I realized I forgot to draw jacket buttons. Wow, is that going to bug me, although I suspect it won't bug me enough to actually take him back into PS and create some.
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Base: None (left), Orange-crux.net (right) A before and after? A very unintentional one. The recent doll on the right was made after trawling YouTube and watching music videos of bands/artists I like (because it's not like music video channels are going to play them, or indeed, any music videos at all). Once I had viewed Joel Plaskett Emergency's "Fashionable People" video a few dozen times, I felt compelled to recreate Mr. Plaskett. With an entirely incorrect hairstyle. Oh well, I think the clothes are right! As I was posting him here, I realized I had dolled him before. A looooooong time ago. Joel on the left is one of the very first dolls I made (I buried him so deep in my folders that I forgot he existed). I believe I traced the outline from a low-res capture of a third generation VHS copy of Thrush Hermit's "French Inhale" video. Which may be cheating, but a rather inefficient form of cheating n'est-ce pas? |
Base: Misfit Ghost Dollz Aaaaand we're off with the doll subject theme of this particular update. It's Heroes. Again. Second time in three updates. I love this show, even when hiatuses conspire to make me forget about it. This here is Sylar (on the left) and Peter (on the right) in Final Showdown mode. I'm tres happy I was able to replicate Peter's emo bangs and Sylar's "too funky for evil people" boots.
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Apitchou Sylar again. I couldn't resist when EE's New Year Bash provided a Sylar request. He's pretty and evil and pretty evil. And fun to doll. This version is based on an obscure promo shot for the show that had ZQ in a vest. I added a pocket watch chain as a nod to his former unevil days, and pinstripes on the pants for panache. You can never have too much panache. |
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Apitchou Another EE NY request. I've wanted to retackle (ahem . . .) Mohinder ever since I made a mini-version of him. I think I wimped out with details and shading, but I'm still happy as he still looks somewhat Mohindery.
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Megaema FeyMeggan's EE NY request list was chock full o' interesting male characters, none of whom I had heard of before, but I was intrigued and in the mood to stretch some creative muscles. Unfortunately, I'm still suffering from the long-standing curse of "I can never make something for FM that I think is to a satisfactory standard".
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Pixels KH (left),
Dark Souls (right) More EE NY requests. I think one of the things I'll miss most about EE are the events where people made dolls for complete strangers in return for other strangers making dolls for them. It was a terrific idea and the response was always generous. On the left, Banana requested a "cute boy". I knew I could do that. On the right, Dead Kittie requested something gothic. I'd never made anything gothic before, but figured then was as good a time as any to try. She's kind of a cute punk goth. (A poth? A gunk?)
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Cathie's
Crazie Creations (dragon), The
Silver Light (doll), PoppedArtDolls
(charms) Last of the EE NY gifts. Man, that event really kicked my tv-shaped muse in the butt. And if I had more time, I'd do a lot more experimenting with my charm base. |
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Dolls Over at FF, I participated in the always groovy Secret Santa event. I always stress about getting the pixelling done at the height of the Christmas rush, but I think the inspiration it provides gives me an extra boost of incentive. This year, I was assigned to CrankyAngel. I proceeded to render three of her favourite actors in three of their former roles. From left to right: John Cusack as Rob Gordon (High Fidelity), Keanu Reeves as Ted (in Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey garb), and Johnny Depp as Sam (Benny & Joon). |
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Creations I'm pretty sure the fancy-tickling feeling of seeing your own based used is universal in the community, so I thought I'd make CA a doll on one of her bases. I must stretch my avatar base horizons more often - I really like how this turned out. |
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Silver Light Speaking of avatars . . . I hadn't made one for myself in years (literally years)! This isn't me, but a character I was writing about at the time, who started sounding more and more familiar. So behold the fictional me hybrid (whatever the heck that means). |
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Bases: Rhudriel's Dolls Same character, same fictional autobiographical doll. This was created for Scatron's "Pretties, Pets & Purses" contest. I think the ratio of contests I want to enter to contests I actually enter is hovering around 50:1 these days. |
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Enchanted exclusive
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Dolls) Sloooooowly clearing out my doll queue. This is actually the last doll I started, but the first one I finished. I knew she would be hard, so I forced myself to stick with it until I was done. This is Jo (aka Rhudriel)'s character/muse in all her rock & roll glory. Jo mentioned that she likes loud music with a lot of guitar, so I figured she would be a fan of Danko Jones.
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Doodles I think this has to be one of my all-time favourite bases. I keep coming back to it. I've never been more guilt-ridden when making a doll . . . I usually stay away from request threads because I know I'll get inspired and start making dolls when I should really be finishing dolls I've already promised people. But I peeked at an EE thread one day and was hooked by this character (not to mention the chance to practice some suit jacket skills). Rachel, Verbina and Penny: I'm so, so sorry. |
