your sylvanian customs make me feel crazy in the head i love them so much
Thank you very much! They're a ton of fun to make and I have endless ideas for more. I'm cooking up several new sets of them for the conventions I'm tabling at this summer (Furlandia 2024, Anthro Weekend Utah 2024, possibly Denfur 2024). Expect a big post showing them off in the next month or so, but for now, here's another sneak peek. :)
LPS Custom #9: Y2K girlypop daisy bedroom.
Been a while since I've made a custom! I've got a video on the making-of on this one but that's gonna take awhile to edit, so have the pics for now and look forward to the vid later. ( if the footage ends up being useable lol)
Fearidescent Draculaura joins the ranks of gorgeous gorgeous girls with saran ♡
I decided to give her a more icey look, forgoing the standard black streaks for white, I also wanted to show off her adorable widows peak!
I only have one more doll to reroot and then I'm DONE! For now at least, till the next inevitable polypropylene headed dolls from Monster High come out.
“This is a perfect example of how our conversations go.”
“This is not a conversation. I’m talking to you and you are clowning.”
The holiday calendar trudges along. Halloween is past and so the scales of seasons are tipping from spooky skulls to Christmas trees. And SPEAKING of scales, it may be a little bit late, but here is Enchanterium’s latest zodiac doll, Libra!
This doll’s two random prompts were chosen with a good old wheel of fortune, and they were clouds and dragon, fitting for an air sign. Let’s go!
“Libras are known for being well-balanced, patient, charming, and generous. And our typical European dragon is kind of the opposite of that.”
“I am here outside the hazardous materials lab, and I have a knife in my head because we just finished shooting the Halloween intro.”
“Can I try or are you afraid?”
“Try it, I will superglue it if you mess it up.”
“At this point I’m just improvising. Glueing wefts, taking them off, being frustrated, and crying inside.”
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And here’s Libra! I think this doll turned out super cool, I love the little fangs going up and the way they balanced scales from her antlers. And yes, Libra season ended a little bit ago, but rest assured Scorpio will be here in time for their own season!
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Allow me to present, Delilah Fields with textured hair:
Wow this took forever! I used the same process as xCanadensis used in her YouTube video on turning Zooey Electra into a Novi Stars doll, which in my case meant braiding the hair around 101 Pipecleaners, boiling the hair, freezing the hair, waiting 2 days for everything to finally dry, unwrapping all 101 Pipecleaners, separating the curls to give the hair more volume, and using hair ties to style it into puffs. Needless to say I was TIRED after all of that, but I think the result was SO worth the effort!
Got this little guy from the NAGI Kindergarten blind box serie!
I was worried those blind box bjds would be cheap but he is actually quite well made!
So of course, I customized him a little bit and made him into a cute little plant prince!:D
Base Doll: G3 Twyla from Monster High
Clothing Pattern: Dollightful's Asymmetrical Dress (read to the end, I have notes about this)
Happy Halloween everyone! Since becoming a doll customizer, my Halloween dolls are usually related to my favorite indie horror game, Bendy and the Ink Machine. However, seeing as I've completed two Bendy dolls already this year, I felt it was time to give myself a break and try something a bit different. My friends over in DollyAnna's Discord server wanted to do a collaboration, so we decided to all make some Dark Fairies for Halloween!
Belladonna Nightshade is a mischievous fae that loves to play tricks and tempt mortals. That said, she's easily bribed with a sweet treat or two, and will usually let you be if you have a little candy or pastry to give her. I haven't decided what I want to do with her yet in terms of a story, but there is a part of me that would love to have her in my Equinox story.
When you consider the fact that most of my other Halloween dolls are black and yellow, it's no surprise she ended up super colorful. XD Would you believe this is my first doll with rainbow hair? Yeah neither did I, but she is! Part of my style is having really colorful and vibrant dolls, it surprises a lot of people that I've never done a rainbow before, but honestly? I'm glad to have finally tackled one! I'm also glad to have worked with another G3. Twyla is very near and dear to my heart, and I was so psyched to work with her mold! You can't see it in any of these photos, but I used glow in the dark varnish on her eyes and neon markings, so that her eyes still glow like the original. I will say, this doll has a lot more acrylic paint than my others, just by the nature of I don't have any pencils in neon colors. It was nice to get the practice in, I feel more confident than I did before in my brush skills. It was also nice to have a doll with dark scleras for a change! I haven't done that since I made Dreamer, it's surprisingly fun to draw on!
I was inspired by a LOT of different things with this one, and I went back and forth on my concepts a lot. Black light skeleton make-up, butterflies, fairies with non-traditional wings, candy, jesters, these were all sources of inspiration, and I think most obviously of all, Dollightful herself. This wasn't intentional, but I ended up using a doll of one of her favorite characters, with a lot of saturated colors which we know she loves, and even her dress pattern! I've been wanting to make this garment for ages, and finally I had a reason to try it!
So those of you who know how this pattern works are probably asking "Kat, how did you make this fit a G3? This dress is supposed to fit a G1 Monster High doll!" Believe it or not, Requiem Arts has a method for easily adjusting G1 patterns to fit G3 bodies. It's as simple as scaling a pattern up to 104% and printing it that way. It's meant for her garments, but I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work for other doll patterns. So I tried it with Katherine's dress, and I'm happy to say it worked out just fine! I think I probably should have adjusted a bit more on the skirt though. This outfit is essentially two pieces, and the skirt with all the ruffles is a little tight around the booty, it could have used a little more sizing up. So if you own this pattern and want to try this yourself, do keep that in mind!
Do let me know what you think! I had so much fun working on Belladonna, she's so vibrant and fun, I wanna try more fairies like her someday. I also need to try using props more. I got these pumpkins and hay bales on sale, and it was fun using them to craft a little temporary set for photos.
LPS Custom #3: Konpeito Spaniel
Konpeito are a really pretty candy so I just had to make a custom based off this sweet treat!
For this one I had a lot of fun playing around with props in the photoshoot as well as adding the cute candy beads onto the custom itself as accessories!
figured out how to repaint the inside of the rainbow high eye chips.
here's how I did it since there's no real how to anywhere, and I'll make an in depth tutorial next time I do it
1. take the eyes out of the head (there's plenty of tutorials on how to do this
2. pry the colored part away from the black part. I did this by putting an exacto knife thru part of the seam on one side and an awl in the seam on the other side
3. soak the eye chips in white vinegar for at least 24 hours
4. FOR THE SCLERA (white part of the eyes). skip this if you're leaving it white. I used a combination of needle nose pliers, xacto knife, and the same awl to scrape away as much of the paint as I could. I used the awl especially for the part just around her iris since it had the smallest point. this part could use some perfection since u can see there's still a little bit of white around her iris. for this character it works, but for others I'll need to figure something out. maybe a sewing needle or pin?
5. FOR THE IRIS use an exacto knife to peel as much of the paper sticker away from the iris. there will be only left on the iris and unfortunately the only way I've been able to get it off is through just sanding it off. there's a little dip where the pupil is and for that I scraped it with the xacto knife and the awl again since the sandpaper couldn't get in such a tiny space
6. this part is maybe optional, you can put a layer of gloss all over the inside of the chip to provide a smoother surface for painting. I only put gloss over the iris. If you're doing glitter, put gloss over wherever you want the glitter to be and carefully sprinkle it over the gloss. wait for it to dry and brush away extra glitter with a paintbrush. now you're ready to paint! do it in layers, I recommend putting any highlights or shine down first, then the pupil, then small iris details, and then your main color.
7. wait for everything to dry and pop the eyes back in! this part is tricky again, but I found this video helped me, and I used the thicker end of a chopstick instead in place of the tool she had.
feel free to ask questions and I'll answer as best I can.
Miss De Nile's reroot is done, and she is my FAVORITE to date.
she's a blend of a few different sarans from shimmerlocks; Maelstrom Blue, Sandy Blonde, and Warm Cocoa.
I wasn't super in love with her original one shade situation, and since it was poly it had to go. The blonde and blue give her such an icy sheen I think it works for her ♡
I'll have to pause my reroots for now, I'm waiting on the rest of my hair to get in from Australia 🇦🇺