This beautiful sent of cocktail dresses was meant to show off ruching which I have been practicing. I love the combination of the apple green and the strawberry pink, but also wanted to have a more sedate color scheme for the less adventurous among the Dictionary Girls. I am pleased with how both dresses came out, but I sometimes admire the work of other paper doll artists and know I need more practice.
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Lately, I have been very impressed by Siyi Lin an artist from Taiwan, I think. Her work is beautiful and often featured in Haute Doll Magazine. She has both a webpage and a Picasa album which I confess to staring at for far too long. I love her colors and her drape and her faces. I think her paper dolls are done with vectors and that is something I really want to learn how to do. Someday, I’ll have the time to take a class on vector drawing. Yes… I’ll fit that in between my classes, work and job hunting. Not any time soon, I fear, but someday.
But I’m really inspired by her paper dolls of Ann Estelle and Betsy Mccall and I wonder about doing a child paper doll. I’ve played around with them in the past. It would certainly be a paper doll of a doll rather then a real child.
But this brings up a deeper more complicated issue of what should I do with paper dolls that aren’t part of my standard series, and I don’t have an answer. I don’t like the Gallery, but I don’t know what to do with the content I have there and the Short Run dolls were fine, but I haven’t used them in a while. I need to somehow consolidate the paper dolls that are not part of a series under a sort of umbrella category somehow… What do people like more? A gallery approach or something else? Does anyone, but me care? Possibly not.
Still loving the dolls! 🙂
(btw, Vee’s Paper Dolls is a dead link; site isn’t there anymore)
Oh thank you for letting me know about the link. I’ll fix it. 🙂
All the girls, but one, are ready for the holiday parties. Love the dresses!
The Picasa album, you’ve linked to is actually maintained by a PD artist friend of mine who lives in Estonia. She’s a big fan of Siyi Lin herself, but only the Making of Paper Dolls is maintained by Siyi.
Her work is gorgeous. The only downside I’ve seen is that they tend to get printed back to back in Haute Doll, so cutting them out is not a possibility. Great job on the ruching.