the Turtle Queen! from wildbow's web serial Pale. she's so cool. i love her so much. super inspired by psychonauts & coraline for this one. really wanted to make it look like a still out of an imaginary stop-motion film
extra photos and making of below! This is my second tumblr post ever so im hoping that will work.
Here's an empty shot of the hallway; I'm really happy with the door:
The room itself is almost all cardboard and construction paper textured/detailed with Posca markers (except for the photo frames). The wallpaper is custom-- if you look closely, you can see it's turtle-patterned....
And here's a neat behind-the-scenes picture. The ceiling lights are small glass bottles with paper inside to diffuse the light. Now, on to the doll herself!
TQ herself is made with sculpey medium blend (still not super technically great with it.. I'm getting there!) and her clothes are largely thrifted fabrics.
The puffer jacket is meant to evoke a turtle shell. Originally, it was supposed to be a diamond pattern, but my sewing machine broke and the deadline for the contest she was for was in two hours...
She stands on her own, but not super reliably. In the future, I'd like to use magnets & make these guys more articulatable-- she's not built for much wear & tear, unfortunately
she took (see what i did there?) second place, though! you go, TQ!
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Wikipedia poem #2, the sites where life and death :)
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1913 A meadow at Cragston, John Pierpont Morgan House, Highland Falls, New York. From vintag.es.com.
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fairy receiver by masaaki sasamoto
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Photography: Leslie Zhang — Makeup: Lu Wang
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Hana Grizelj captured by Franjo Matkovic for Journal.hr December 2023
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