It might be a good idea to do a post about your process. I know that it’s always cool to get tips or inspiration and you never know if a budding artist is reading your blog.. I know I always found your dolls inspiring. Plus it’s always interesting to see how other people make their artwork.

I do hand draw every doll with pen and ink. Then I scan them at a very high resolution (usually 600 dpi) and use Photoshop to clean them up, color the colored dolls, and do the layout, add tabs… whatever else has to be done… sometimes to fix little problems like accidental lines across things or whatever I might have screwed up in inking.

I use sketch paper (usually about 50 lb plain white smooth bristol style), black ball point pens, Micron archival very fine pens and a very cheap fabercastle brush pen for shading dolls like Curves. Over the years of drawing paper dolls, I have learned to go pretty fast when inking, but penciling still takes me a long time. I pencil every piece, ink it and then shade it if needed.

I hope I answered your question. Let me know if I didn’t and since you’re not the first person to ask about the process, maybe I should do a post on it or something.