One thing leads to another!

Wild Eyed Willy 

The last new pattern I made is Wild Eyed Willy. I wanted to do something fun and totally different.  He was such fun to make.  It was released to Dollmakers Journey Pattern in February. It is available on there website 

 https://dollmakersjourney.com/sieving.html 

You can purchase a as a paper pattern or PDF pattern right now. 

My goal is to complete a new pattern every other month. Life gets crazy sometimes and you just can't do what you want.  Instead I have been sketching out ideas for a Fall Halloween line when time allows. I wanted to be ready to hit my studio running.  Excited and creating a compete line of original characters for the Halloween season.  

I had originally made some little Bat Girls for a show called Merry Krampus and used the same idea for Wild Eyed Willy.  Although I love the Bat Girls and they did very well at the art show I was not totally pleased with them. I decided to revamp the design before making it into a pattern. 

 Keeping the bodies of the original Bat Girls the heads were removed. I love the change. Changing out the head and ears from skin tones to light grey, elevating the expression and adding the fuzzy top knot of hair made all the difference. I think you will agree she is almost the cutest bat you ever saw. 

I even gave her a new name

Bat-Tina 

I also had the perfect back drop to for her photo shot. 

 It is funny how just a couple changes makes all the difference. 

Changes:

Wide Bright Eyes, Highlighted Nose, Full mouth, Fangs, Fury Top Knot and most important the right Skin Tone.

Bat-Tina pattern will be available late summer at Dollmakers Journeys Online store and Etsy site.

After the pattern for Bat-Tina was written and tested I got excited and started sketching like crazy.  Making a whole line of new critters and characters for the Halloween season.  I hope to have them all released this late summer just in time for everyone make them for this fun season.  Write now I am working on my Cyclops family picnic. I will keep you updated with pictures and sketches as it comes along.

Dragons for Christmas

  

The Dragon that made it in time for Christmas

Every Christmas I buy my husband and unusual dragon. This year I decided to make him a dragon 9 days before Christmas. I would make a small one....What was I thinking!  I worked on it in secret.  I would get up at night and work on it for several hours into the early morning.  I would work on it when he went out. Near the end when I was painting it finally I had to forbid him to be around me. It was finished December 24th! 

I thought just keep it small. Which I did, I drew a body pattern out only 10 inches long and the legs to match the size of the body.  I knew that the sculpting would cause it to reduce in size. there were 4 legs 2 wings and a basic head to account for also.. Every scale and indentation in the dragon was sculpted with needle and thread. Sculpting in the black thread have me a better visual as to the size of the scales. This way the size of the scales could be reduced as the went down to the tail.

The head was a bit different.  There was a base the eyes, eyelids, nose, lips, horns upper and lower head was added as I built it up with fabric and sculpting as I went. 

The wings were added after they were individual sculpted.  The dragons tail, body and head have a single armature the wings have their own armature.

I loved the way he turned out.

t turned out! He was surprised and added to his collection as right after he opened it.