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Sunday, March 28, 2004 4:27 PM
Costuming tribulations... A dollmaking project may plod through its phases, depending on how fully you've thought it through before touching a single tool. Here, I started with a minimum of planning: A figure for conversion to a specific body type (heavy bottomed); next, the head sculpt, which prompted revisions to the body type (heavy topped-- really, really heavy topped); preliminary costuming experiments; additional costuming experiments; and finally (and I'm not there yet), finishing the figure, dressing the doll and calling it "done".
Costuming this one
has been difficult, since I didn't start with a clue. Trial and error.
The first costuming experiments captured aspects that I found interesting--
a corseted look and a gown which emphasized her lusty fullness. Neither
fit within the fantasy Brass Bras genre though, and both were pitifully
simple efforts. I prefer that there to be at least a few interesting
things involved with the construction, even if the result looks "been-there-done-that"
(which is kinda unavoidable after a while). The Barsoomian wired bra thing
works across fantasy genres and offers ample opportunity for detailing,
despite the ratio of outfit to skin... and for in-your-face lewdness,
it's a ratio in total harmony with this figure's abundant flesh.
