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Sunday, February 28, 2010

Birthday doll














I decided I would make a doll for my niece's birthday. I wanted it to be a fairly proportionate doll, so I drew a picture to block out the body.

Sadly, I left that picture at work, and made the doll at home, so what I ended up with was the longest torso'd shortest legged doll ever. I was going to make it a pair of shorts and a shirt, but as it turns out, I had to do a dress to cover up the tragic misproportion of the body.

It's my first "person" creation though, and I'm really proud of the hair, I worked for at least an hour trying to get the hairline fixed so that it looked somewhat realistic.

The dress just sort of created itself as I went, and it turned into a ballerina looking thing, so I went with it. I had some trouble figuring out how to create underwear (one try looked like a dolly thong), but in the end I got it together and ended up with a pretty nice looking ballerina doll. I added the pink ribbon to make it look a little fancier. =)

My niece loved it! Yay!