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Tag Archives: blond
Shadow and Light… Number 26
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I stumbled across this set when I was looking for something else (sometimes days are like that) and I realized I’d drawn it year ago and never posted it.
Opps.
So, here the set is in all it’s glory. It’s one of those set’s I’m not overly pleased with, but I’m glad to finally share it, even if its a bit late. Sometimes I scan things and sort of forget about them in the depths of my harddrive. I like to think that sometimes it’s okay for paper dolls to age like a fine wine.
Since I have plans tonight and plans on Saturday, this is a short little post. I hope everyone enjoys the paper doll and I’ll be back next week for more. In June though, I should mention, I’ll be taking a break for a few weeks, possibly the whole month for travel and some work things.
Posted in Black & White, Printable Paper Dolls, Shadow & Light
Tagged blond, boots, fantasy, shadowed
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Magnetic Set for Grandma…
So, I made my Grandma a set of magnetic paper dolls. And she was very happy. And she sent me this very nice thank you note and she observed that her paper doll was lonely.
So, I made her additional dolls. Since she does not use the internet, I feel completely safe posting these here. The originals have been cut out and, along with more clothing from the other Marisole Magnetic sets, been sent off for her to enjoy. I am thinking of them as an early Mother’s day present for her. I’m working on something for my Mother as well, but since she actually reads this blog, I have to be tight lipped about the whole affair.
Please note that these girl’s can wear anything that the Magnetic Marisole’s can wear, so feel free to make them pirates or something.
You can get directions for making magnetic paper dolls, if you need them.
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Posted in Magnetic Marisole, Magnetic Paper Doll
Tagged blond, floral, glasses, high heels, pattern, pink, pleats, purple, red, red head, short hair, shorts, vintage
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Marisole Monday: Maurader Princess with Colors… Mostly Orange, as it happens
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Margot, Maurader Princess has returned.
And this time, it’s personal…
Okay, so it’s no more personal than last time, but I was trying to be dramatic.
Whenever a friend of my comments to me in the real world about my blog updates, I am sort of shocked. I forget that people you know.. read this and they also, you know, know me and they might actually have opinions.
Not that I expect them to. Most of my friends are male and most of my male friends are probably just don’t really care about paper dolls to begin with, though they are supportive of my hobby and for that I am grateful.
So, I am running a contest to name the new paper doll series. You can enter until Friday when I’ll choose my favorite as a winner and the winner gets a custom paper doll, so that should be useful incentive. Plus you’ll receive highly limited fame amongst a small, but dedicated audience.
Posted in Full Color, Margot, Marisole Monday & Friends
Tagged blond, boots, elf, fantasy, middle east inspired, mix and match, orange, patttern, pirate, sword, warrior
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Marisole Monday: Autumn Color in… Colors
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I have a similiar relationship with blond hair and brown skin as I do with red hair and brown skin. This is to say that I try it and than I don’t like it and swear I won’t do it again and than I do it again. Unlike the red-hair brown skin combination which I never feel like I’ve achieved, this blond hair brown-skinned Marisole is look pretty cute to me.
I think it’s her braids. Have I mentioned that I am totally in love with her braids?
So, February has come and gone. Last year I noted African American History Month (which is February) by compiling a list of paper dolls around the web. And um… I kinda forgot this year.So, though I don’t have another list of paper dolls, I would like to draw attention to Paper Doll’s by Gail where there are lots of lovely African American paper dolls including Condoleeza Rice, Michelle Obama, Halle Berry and Fantasia Barrino. Also, though unrelated to African American paper dolls, the entire cast of Twlight.
Posted in Full Color, Marisole, Marisole Monday & Friends, Printable Paper Dolls
Tagged black paper doll, blond, braids, contemporary, hat, mix and match, pattern, skirt
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Marisole Monday: Spikes and Pleats… In Pinks and Purples
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I seriously feel like I should have saved this for Valentine’s Day, but I didn’t have anything else finished, so up it goes.
It’s not like I started with a plan for the obnoxious color scheme, but somehow the traditional black and red thing I do for punk clothing just wasn’t hitting the mark. So, pink, purple and black became the name of the game.
I sort of like it.
I do wish the fuzzy sweater looked… well… fuzzier. By the way, the neckline of that sweater is low and it’s meant to go over one of the corsets or other tops, otherwise she shows off more of her swimsuit than perhaps is decent for polite society.
So, I think I’ve mentioned my wacky formula for calculating the number of outfit combos a paper doll set contains before which is the number of tops multiplied by the number of bottoms and then by the number of shoes and then by the number of “jackets” plus 1. Now often the formula doesn’t work, because the pieces aren’t really totally interchangeable, but this is a rare set where I think everything really can go with everything else. The result is a total of 146 outfit combinations (not taking into consideration accessories) which is pretty remarkable.
Posted in Full Color, Margot, Marisole Monday & Friends
Tagged blond, contemporary, corset, edgy, gloves, mix and match, pink, pink hair, platform boots, pleats, punk, purple, red, stripes, tattoos
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Pixie and Puck: The Princes in Color… Mostly Blue, as it happens…
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So, the black and white version of today’s paper dolls went up last week and I, being a space cadet, sorta forgot to post the color version, though I finished it on Sunday. I hope a little belated paper doll posting will be forgiven.
Have I mentioned this week has been INSANE? Because it has been, and classes get into full swing next week, so things are not looking to be much more peaceful. Despite that, I’m enjoying it. As I know I’ve said before, I would far rather be busy then bored. I also seem to have a lot of stuff inked, but I’m having trouble getting it onto the blog, so I am going to put some more effort into getting it scanned this weekend, so that it can go up.
Posted in Full Color, Pixie & Puck, Printable Paper Dolls, Pucks (Guys)
Tagged blond, blue, braids, crown, fairy tale, fantasy, green, jacket, male, prince, suit, vest
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Pixie & Puck: Mariana…
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First Pixie paper doll of the new year. That deserves some excitement, I think.
Maybe not for anyone but me.
She’s rocking a steampunk/neo-victorian paper doll theme. I think she hangs out with Jian, my steam punk male paper doll and probably makes trouble. Since I’ve had such a positive response to doing Marisole in black and white and in color, I decided to do this paper doll the same way and I might start doing this for all the Pixie and Pucks, we’ll see.
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Also, the poll is up until the end of the month and people should vote. I do actually pay attention to the poll.
I also pay attention to repeated requests (eventually) and I have had two ideas which more than one person has suggested. One is a cowgirl paper doll which has been stalled lately because I wanted to draw a horse and, frankly, drawing animals is not my thing. But last night I managed to sketch out a decent looking horse, so… a cowgirl may yet appear. The second thing I’ve been working on, and I expect this to make some peeps happy, is a male paper doll properly proportioned to hang out with Marisole.
So, depending on what wins the poll this time will depend on what I work on next year.
My point is this, if you want to see one of these things, vote for it, or if you want to see something else, drop me a comment.
Posted in Pixie & Puck, Pixies (Girls), Printable Paper Dolls
Tagged blond, boots, corset, kid friendly, mix and match, purple, steampunk, teal, vest, victorian inspired
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Magnetic Marisole… A New Layout for New Year
Everything about the magnetic paper dolls is getting revamped this year.
The old Magnetic Paper Doll Index has now been replaced with a new version that resembles the Printable Paper Doll Index much more closely. This is an attempt to streamline updating the magnetic paper dolls, allowing me to do more single sheet updates, like I do with the other printable paper dolls on the site, but it is still a work in progress.
Magnetic paper or adhesive sheets are more expensive than printer paper (as I am sure anyone who has ever printed them out has learned) and so I have re-organized the Marisole Magnetic Paper Dolls to have the shoes on the same sheet as the paper dolls. This means that they are now three dolls per sheet with four pairs of shoes and required re-doing the layouts on all of the magnetic sheets.
I just finished that, so I am posting them today instead of a traditional Marisole Monday update. You can see them here.
The Magnetic Marisole Printable Paper Dolls
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Contemporary Clothing Sets
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Everything here has been adapted from paper version of the printable Marisole posts, except for the shoes and the magnetic dolls, many of which have been re-colored to provide for the six different skin tones. If anyone has requests for skin tones which don’t appear here, please let me know. I try to have as much diversity in skin tone as is possible.
Thoughts? Feel free to comment. I know I don’t always answer every one, but I do read them all.
Pixie and Puck: Astrid
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When I was in middle school, I played a character named Astrid in a school play… but that is neither here nor there.
Personally, I really like her axe. That’s probably my favorite part of the paper doll… is that weird?
- So, Boots asked: since you do a lot of coloring, etc. on the computer, what (if anything) do you do with the original art? Also: have you ever considered attending a paper doll convention?
Well, I draw in sketchbooks. So, my paper dolls end up in sketchbooks and the sketchbooks get labeled with the date and the year that they were done and get stuck in a bookcase. I don’t really “do” anything with the original art, except save it, because someday I might need it for something…. I keep a xerox of every common base paper doll (Marisole, Pixie & Puck, Dictionary and Shadow and Light) in a binder, so that I can have something draw off of without damaging the original art. I live in terror of losing the original art, since I tend to beat up my copies.
As for going to a paper doll convention, I totally want too. I’ve wanted to go to one for forever, but they’ve never been in locations or at times that were convenient for me. Living in Alaska was a huge hurdle and then school was a huge hurdle, but I’m hoping next year or something, I might get to go to one.
Mostly, I just think it would be cool to meet people who get as excited as I do about these paper people I love to draw so much. 
Speaking of paper people, I was pawing around the internet and I found this beautiful horoscope paper doll on a dutch (I think…) language website. She’s really lovely and I adore her “theme costumes”.
Posted in Full Color, Pixie & Puck, Pixies (Girls), Printable Paper Dolls
Tagged axe, blond, boots, cape, fantasy, medieval inspired, Norse inspired
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Pixie & Puck: Kandi
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Normally, I do my futuristic, cyber-punky sets in blacks with neons, but I wanted to play around with white as a base color, rather than black. Since I was using white, the citrus candy colors seemed proper to accent the clothes and the candy colors gave this paper doll her name- Kandi. Her dark skin tone was chosen to contrast with the white and pink scheme. I’m mostly pleased with how she came out, though I have some mixed feelings about the hair. It was originally black with pink highlights and I wonder if perhaps I should have kept it that way.
In the end, I’m fairly pleased with how she turned out. I like her clothes and her hair is okay, though I’m not totally pleased with it.
In my head, Kandi is from the same world Thorne, the Cyborg, Jay and Vera, though perhaps a happier more brightly colored part of that world… maybe the tropics.
Posted in Pixie & Puck, Pixies (Girls), Printable Paper Dolls
Tagged black paper doll, blond, boots, cyberpunk, edgy, futuristic, pink, pink hair, punk, straps, white, yellow
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