As promised, here is the outfit James is wearing under his smoking robe from yesterday's post. It's pretty typical day wear: a plain white cotton pleated-front shirt, dun-colored trousers, and a print cotton vest. I wish I could say that I copied an actual Victorian fabric design for the vest, but what's here is actually a variation on a 19th century fabric design ~ so modified, we'll have to call it "inspired by" rather than based on. I will try to be a little more faithful to the period in the future, but while there are some artists who have done amazing work reproducing museum pieces as paper dolls, I may be too lazy for that amount of commitment. Besides which, the characters are made up, so why not their clothes as well?
For the record, I created the detail on the vest with watercolor pencils (Faber-Castell's Albrecht Drurer). I am just learning how to use them, so as an initial experiment I am pleased with the effect. They go on amazing when the paper is wet, but I let the under-paint on the vest dry first, so the effect is drier here than I wanted.
Lastly, he has no shoes here because he's wearing this outfit with the slippers I posted on Monday.
For the record, I created the detail on the vest with watercolor pencils (Faber-Castell's Albrecht Drurer). I am just learning how to use them, so as an initial experiment I am pleased with the effect. They go on amazing when the paper is wet, but I let the under-paint on the vest dry first, so the effect is drier here than I wanted.
Lastly, he has no shoes here because he's wearing this outfit with the slippers I posted on Monday.
And I am posting here as well, the full set of items (except the nightshirt) assembled for your amusement. I am pretty pleased with how James came out. I think I mentioned elsewhere that he's always been a pain in all my other many incarnations of these dolls, but I am very happy with this particular rendition and am having fun with him. This is a good indicator that I will continue working and not let things slough off as I have in the past. Yay!
I am currently working on Olivia's clothes and hope to post them soon. Then I have additional clothing for James and Emmaline and another character who is introduced in the next scene. I have so many characters and clothes to make, I better step it up!
I am also rethinking my tags on this blog, which are getting kind of unwieldy. Not sure how to fix that, however. I can't make tags for every single character (there would be dozens and dozens!). I would hope the gallery would help organize the characters and anyone who is not a "principal" would just be labeled "Supporting Characters" or something of that ilk.
And speaking of the gallery, I am still working on that. Maybe this coming weekend I will be able to get it in order.
I am currently working on Olivia's clothes and hope to post them soon. Then I have additional clothing for James and Emmaline and another character who is introduced in the next scene. I have so many characters and clothes to make, I better step it up!
I am also rethinking my tags on this blog, which are getting kind of unwieldy. Not sure how to fix that, however. I can't make tags for every single character (there would be dozens and dozens!). I would hope the gallery would help organize the characters and anyone who is not a "principal" would just be labeled "Supporting Characters" or something of that ilk.
And speaking of the gallery, I am still working on that. Maybe this coming weekend I will be able to get it in order.
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