Just a bit of background: I write a lesson for this blog - complete with visuals - every week. Sometimes the lesson goes quickly and I can get it done in about an hour. Sometimes....not so much and it takes me most of the week to write it! December is a super busy month for me. My oldest son is turning 3 this month, and my husband's birthday is two days before Christmas, and then the annual family shuffle, and maybe - just maybe - we can see some friends and their kids. Phew. Makes me tired just thinking about it! I can't possibly write three or four lessons this month. I initially thought about just taking the month off, but that didn't seem right. So I decided to post a black and white doll every day. But isn't that more work?! Not really. I've had this doll for a while & I haven't had time to do much with it.
This doll is about four years old. It started as a scribble on a post-it note during a lunch hour at my last job. I used an oversized post-it pad (I think it was 2.5 inches by 4 inches. Still small!!) and traced this doll out on individual sheets. At the time, I was commuting over an hour each way, I was trying to get pregnant and worrying about becoming a stay-at-home mom, while taking an evening certificate course in graphic design, and my art was suffering badly. I came up with a challenge for myself - draw a mini doll every day. This is the result.
To make the doll a manageable size, I scanned it at a high resolution, then auto-traced it in Illustrator, brought it into Photoshop to clean it up. Auto-trace can be messy and complicated when dealing with tiny, hand-drawn images, but it's also one of the best ways to enlarge a doll, in my opinion. The doll is a little rough. I may work with it again in the future and didn't want to put a ton of time in now.
Enough chatter, here's the doll. The idea is to print & color (or digitally color) the doll and clothes. I'd love to see how it turns out :) I'll post an outfit for this every day in December, with a PDF of everything at the end. We'll go back to the regular schedule in January. Enjoy!
Thank you! Her hairstyle reminds me of the type of hairstyles they would wear in the victorian era....I love that era.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Glad you like it :) Victorian would be fun... Maybe that will be a project soon!
ReplyDeleteI really like this cute flirty doll pose. Very original I think, and sort of makes all her clothes look extra fun. I also like that you've put her outfits all together, rather than separating each piece. That is how I tend to draw mine, and I don't see it as much from others!
ReplyDeleteThanks! It's amazing what a little scribble can become. I'd like to do more with this doll at some point. And the "daily doll" experiment was a lot of fun.
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