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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Making a Rainbow Wig!

I made a rainbow wig for one of my dolls and got a lot of interest in how I made it, so here's a little tutorial! I threw another one together today with the leftover materials from the first one :)

I don't specify how I made the wefts in the tutorial, but it's basically the same way as this, the only difference is that I sew them onto tracing paper and tear them off instead of tulle.

I used some cheap braiding hair because I needed six different colors, but only a little bit of each color, so I wanted to save some money. You can buy it for $3.55 a pack at Doctored Locks, they have a low price guarantee and a huge selection of colors, so I like buying from them :) Or if you have some more money to burn feel free to buy wefts pre made somewhere like Cool Cat, they have a huge selection of doll hair wefts. If you're looking to just make a junky practice wig I recommend buying a cheap weave from a beauty supply store in your area, they come as cheap as $8 in my experience, and are good if you don't want to waste money on more expensive hair just for practice!

On to the tutorial!

Supplies you'll need:
-Scissors, sharp enough to cut hair
-Hair wefts
-Plastic bag
-Stretchy, thin fabric for the wig cap
-Brush or comb, to deal with the hair
-Hot glue gun (not shown)
-Needle and thread, or sewing machine (not shown)

See the rest after the cut!

Monster High 'Design Lab' Head

I painted this head on a commission. I've never picked it up from the stores because of the lack of features, but it was interesting to paint :) The customer had the head on a skeleton body and asked for dark and skeleton like!

Blank!

White highlights, especially important with suck a smooth head.

Some subtle yellow blush on the cheeks and above the eyes.

Black around the eyes, since it's going to be black sclera (to look like a skull with eye holes instead of eyes).

I used some pastels to give the black a sharper edge, making it look more like blank sockets.

This head has no lips so they have to be painted on, a little difficult to make them look not flat? I did it with pastels and added some paint detail after.

I started just painting white outlines where I wanted shading (the pupil and iris on the left) and slowly worked on blending it into the black. In some ways doing white on black is easier, and in others much harder!

Finished both eyes up to match.

Added eyelashes, just some light black ones, but no eyebrows this time. I also painted a black line between the lips to help give it a little depth, but there's only so much that can be done on a flat face.

I almost forgot to do the little shinies in the eyes, but she's all done now! And the finished doll looks like...

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Monster High Harpy CAM Painting

Progress photos of painting this girl, I found myself liking her face more and more the more I looked at her :)

First step white highlights.

Next a little color, I was trying to go with something a little bird like.

More color.

Even more color ^^; At this point I thought I had messed everything up and this face up was going to be a disaster, but kept going anyways.

Paint the whites of the eyes.

Another layer of white on the eyes, and some black details in the nostrils and corners of the mouth.

Black eyeliner, red water line, and white outline. I didn't do black eyeliner on the bottom lid since I wanted to keep her a little natural looking, not too much make up.

Painted her iris color.

Black shadows.

A quick initial blend with the eyes.

More blending, this part always takes much longer than the rest of the head combined!

Put a little white in the bottoms of the eyes and blended it.

Little eye shine dots.

Eyelashes.

Eyebrows.

I put some white 'freckles' in, I thought it would be a cute little thing to keep her looking 'bird like' and feathery. The last step is seal and add gloss!