Dress 98

Hello, hello, hello. Whenever I say that I envision the coppers from The Pirate Movie when they say that. If you’ve never seen this, look it up. It’s classic!

Anyway, today we have another outfit for Cherry just ‘coz. (You can get her here)

And here’s the pin it’s based on.

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This was done completely on the computer. I think the lines are a little thick, but otherwise I’m happy with it. I’ve been using the thicker lines because they’re easier to see, but I think I may thin them down for the next one.

I can feel you asking if all her outfits will be red, but I honestly don’t know.

Anyway, I am setting this up and heading to bed.

Happy Paper dolling!

Ethne Touch Ups

After Cherry, I decided to change Ethne into colored outlines as well. This wasn’t super hard because I had all the layer files, but it was slightly time consuming.

Anyway, here she is now:

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And here are her outfits – be sure to save the full sized versions

 

To get them click on the images, then save the full sized image. I have also updated their original pages, but thought I’d put them all in one place.

And that’s all for now. Happy paper dolling!

Dress 97 & a new doll!

I mentioned somewhere that I made a new doll in January, so I decided it was time to share her:

As you can see she’s more traditional – aka the colored outlines instead of the black ones. I’ve actually thought about backtracking and redoing all y dolls that way (color replace) but I dunno. I’m pretty lazy.

And what’s a new doll without a new dress? So here is Dress 97!

As you can see, it’s made for Cherry.

And here is the pin it’s based on.

I’m reasonably happy with it. What do you think?

And now I better get something useful done!

Happy Paper dolling!

 

 

Dress 96

I’m baaaaaack! Yeah, I know, I have all this work to do – all of these responsibilities – and instead I’m here. I’ve noticed from re-reading old posts that that’s usually the case. I guess I do paper dolls as a way to rebel against the things I should be doing.

Anyway, today’s outfit is for Verchiel.  (You can get him here).

Here’s the pin it’s based on. – yeah, I changed the image on the t-shirt

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I also made an open flannel shirt for him to wear, but it wasn’t up to snuff and there was no room for it, anyway. The sunglasses: there’s no way to put tags on them, so you’d need to cut slits in his head and stick those little side wings in them. Like old skool paper dolls.

I should also note that the image on the t-shirt is from vector portal and used under a CC license.

Anyway, I’m happy with this one. I think it looks as good as the hand drawn stuff, and it was all done with the tablet (which did NOT need re-installed for a change!) So that made me happy.

I think my next set may be a surprise.

In the meantime, happy paper dolling.

 

Dress 95 FIXED

Okay, okay, so I fixed it. It was easier than I thought it would be to replicate all the layers and what not.

Anyway, it’s still for Jo. (You can get her here).

Here’s the pin it’s based on.

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It ended up warmer toned this time because I couldn’t remember my curve settings. oh well.

I also added the hair I had been going to do last night but was too aggravated to do.

Patterns are still from:

Lily_nymph via CC license

Lara 604 via CC license

And now I have work to do.

Happy Paper dolling!

Dress 95

Rather than do any of the things I should be doing, I decided to try another dress via tablet.

Anyway, it’s for Jo. (You can get her here).

Here’s the pin it’s based on.

Okay, there is an issue with the pattern BUT when I went to fix it, it turned out that I had NOT saved the layers (NOOOOOO) and I’m not going to redo it, so it is what it is *sigh*.

Speaking of the pattern, it came from:

Lily_nymph via CC license

Lara 604 via CC license

Maybe someday I’ll redo this, but I doubt it.

Happy Paper dolling!

 

Dress 94

Amazing -I’m back! I know, I know. Don’t have a heart attack.

I should have been reading on my book (I have to re-read all 8 of them so I can wrap things up in number 9) but I did this instead.

Anyway, today’s dress is not a dress – it’s a swinsuit and it’s for Katelina  (You can get her here).

Here’s the pin it’s based on. (which I think is an advertisement, but such is life)

First off the floral pattern isn’t even similar but I like this better.

Second off, I managed to use the tablet 100% for this one. I think for long sweeping lines in future I will use the line tool and stick to the tablet for shorter lines. As a secret I’ll admit sometimes when had drawing them I redo the long lines with the line tool, so there you go.

Not much to report, so I leave you and go to bed now.

Happy paperdolling!

Dress 93

Yeah, I’m back for no reason.

I got a tablet for Christmas – not that you’d know that since it’s May and I haven’t been here since then. Counting tonight I think I’ve played with it six or seven times. I have the same problem with it that i had with the last one – the jittery lines. I googled what to do about ti and the suggestions are to zoom in. Wow. Friggin’ helpful.

But for some reason at 2 a.m. I decided to give it another go with a simple dress. Of course the first thing that happened was i had to reinstall it – for some reason the laptop “looses” the drivers all the time (this is apparently a common problem because i found instructions on how to make it work again online) so I reinstalled the drivers (which I’ll probably have to do next time I go to use it too) and I got started. At 3:30 I gave up drawing and used vector lines. Maybe they’re better suited to the sweeping lines of the dress, anyway.

So, this is a dress for Ethne (you can get the doll here)

Here’s the pin it’s based on.

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I actually made a new doll in January that i have never uploaded – it was the first successful thing I did with the tablet. I don’t know, I just can’t DRAW with it. Trace, yes, but not DRAW. Ugh.

As for this dress, it’s not worth the two hours it took IMHO. But then maybe someone else will love it. One never knows.

And now it’s after four a.m. so I’m going to bed.

Happy paperdolling!

 

 

 

2015 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,200 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 37 trips to carry that many people.

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Dress 92

Today was a writing day. I stayed up until 5:30 this morning, since hubby was at his sleep test, writing in the notebook, so I had to transfer that all to type today, and then I added a bunch and I pent my paperdoll time writing, too. Good news, i am slightly ahead on NaNoWriMo, so that’s something good, at least.

Luckily, I had one last dress pre-done. It’s for Ethne.  (You can get her here).

There was a pin for this, but I can’t find it, so you’ll just have to take my word for it.

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It didn’t turn out quite the way I wanted, but then they rarely do.

And now I am going to take two ranitidine, have a  shower, and hit the hay.

Happy paperdolling!