I spent a chunk of my weekend coloring my Margot in Wonderland paper doll from last week. Today, Margot gets to be a blond and has, of course, a wardrobe of Alice inspired paper clothing pieces. As I mentioned last week, I’ve been inspired by Alice many times before and drawn her many times over the years.
After some time I decided to go with a jewel tone color scheme that was a bit bright. I wanted to capture the richness of color that could be captured with color lithography from the 19th century. I was also heavily inspired by this Lolita outfit. I really loved the rich colors since they are not the pastels or black that I normally associate with Lolita fashion.
As I mentioned with my Turn of the Century Pixie Paper Doll, I often collect ideas on my Pinterest boards, so you can check out the Lolita board I keep to see where some of these outfit pieces came from. Nothing was directly taken, but I find ideas and inspiration makes drawing paper dolls faster and easier than it would be without them.
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The top hat’s floating tab is meant to be attached using the same method as I outlined in my instructions for attaching wigs and hats to paper dolls. This is one of my favorite methods of doing wig and hat attachment for the paper dolls I design and so I use it often.
By the way, yesterday I put up a new Featured Paper Doll Artist interview with Irma of Pabernukublogi. Check it out when you have a chance. 🙂
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The colors are great and not at all what I expected! I was imagining pastels and this is so much more awesome.
I also collect references and ideas for paper doll projects on my pinterest. I find it a nice alternative to saving things onto the computer. I think I’ve gotten somewhat carried away considering I have almost 50,000 pins.
http://www.pinterest.com/missypaperdolls/
Yeah. You have to find a way to organize your pin collection. 🙂 What I do is make secret boards for specific projects. So I might have a board called, “Fantasy” and then a specific secret board called, “Fantasy Marisole Set” and then place the specific pieces I want to use for ideas on that secret board.
These are great paper dolls. You are wonderfully talented.
Thank you so much.
You’re welcome. I’m so glad you like them.