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States Morse at Georgetown, 1860

1/8/2012

 
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The plates I am making for plates I will post on January 22 include Morse, so I thought I would try to get ahead and finish his first bits of wardrobe. I made the mistake of posing this character in a way that makes it a little difficult to layer his outfits and alter the position of his hands, but I am working on ways around that. In the meantime, it's a typical pose for him, so it works, regardless what he's wearing.

This should not have taken me as long as it did, but I made some huge sloppy mistakes with the layers (despite my lightbox), so it required a lot of Photo-shopping to correct (alas). The good news is, the pieces should work together fine now.

The other difficulty with Mister Morse is his infernal collection of purple vests. Purple is the absolutely most wretched color to mix, keep consistent, and paint. Most pre-mixed purples are not very good (and look like no color known to nature), so I feel like I have to make my own. Fortunately the end result doesn't look nearly like I struggled with it as much as I did. Now let's see how many variations on the purple vest I can manage.  This one is pretty simple because I was exhausted from just getting the color to layer.

The base outfit on the left, above, pretty much represents what Morse will wear for the rest of his life (ha!). We shall see how many more pairs of trousers I have to end up painting for him, though (certainly his war uniforms will offer some variety ~ at least for a while).

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1/8/2012 02:46:49 am

I can see how this pose might be frustrating. I always try to avoid having to redraw parts of the dolls on clothing- but that's likely because I want my dolls to share. You shouldn't worry to much, the purple vest looks fine to me.

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1/9/2012 05:47:58 am

I am always torn between arms away from the body so that the clothes can fit easily and arms close to the body so that you can pose them differently (with props, etc.). Both definitely have advantages and limitations ~ It's fun to experiment!


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