Work in Progress: Regency, Mermaid and Circus

Happy August! I used to do these sorts of work in Progress posts all the time and then I started Patreon and I sort of decided these sorts of posts should be Patreon exclusive. Then somehow I stopped doing them over there and I honestly do not know why. I think I was nervous- what if I shared something and I never finished it? Would people be upset with me?

But I know that this is silly. I’m not promising completion here. I’m just showing you some screen captures of a few things that I’ve been working on, so you can see them and maybe find them interesting. Maybe not. I have no idea. I would love to know if you do and I’ll try to do more of these.

So, first up we have a regency historical fashion set using my 2020 Patreon 365 project doll base. I love that doll base and I think she’s super cute and I really like her size. She feels like the perfect paper doll size to me- just right to fit in an envelope and tuck into a pocket.

The set will likely be either Patreon exclusive or an Etsy set, I think. It’s going to one doll, eight dresses for a total of three pages and each dress has a matching hat. I am conquering my fear of bonnet drawing! There’s a morning dress, dinner dress, carriage dress, ballgown… basically what a lady of the 1810s needed to be dressed properly in around 1810ish. No riding habit though… perhaps for another set.

Yes, I have been watching too much Bridgerton… why do you ask? 🙂

My Mermaid set is next up. I know Jaime said her and her kids were mad about mermaids, well…. here’s a sneak peak of the mermaid coloring pages I plan to get up on Etsy hopefully before the end of the month.

There’s four dolls, a bunch of tails and a lot of different “land” clothing all done in the same sort of flowy garments theme that I seem to associate with mermaids.

It’s big and I am realizing that I probably need a few more accessory items to help the pages feel full (otherwise there’s gaping in the layout and things start to feel to sparse to me). So, I may need to hit the sketchbook again and make more necklaces and daggers or something. What accessories make sense for mermaids has be me a little stumped… Tridents? Harpoons? Bones of drowned sailors?

Maybe not that last one…

Moving rapidly along, this is a little preview of a circus set I’ve been working on. This is Jade. I tied to do this lipstick thing and it may not survive the coloring process, because I am not 100% happy with how it looks… Maybe I’ll like the lips more in color.

Or I’ll decide it was a bad idea and fix it. Thank goodness for Photoshop!

The circus set is gong to have a mix of things from old Patreon posts and some older Jewels and Gemstones stuff. I sometimes like getting to pull those items back together to make a set, because man it does save me time! So much time, but it’s not always as much for me as new stuff. It’s still fun, but fun in a different way. Sometimes working within a structure if sort of liberating.

So, that’s it. Little preview of things to come I hope.

Let me know which of these you’re most excited about in a comment!