Big adventures in a small world

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The freedom to change one’s mind

If there’s one thing I was certain of on Friday, it was that I was going to take a year off from reworking the My Doll Adventure series once I’d wrapped up the first draft. Naturally, the first thing I… Continue Reading →

Taking action shots of inanimate objects

I’ve spent more hours than I’d care to guess trying to prop up my figures for motion shots. For my fashion dolls – all four of the My Doll Adventure  figures – I rely on some kind of stand. For… Continue Reading →

My Doll Adventure 29: The Stranger’s Story

We ended Rosie’s last episode with Frank placing a story in the local paper seeking any info on the girls’ (Rosie and Daisy)’s mother, Camellia. This week’s episode starts with someone reading that article. Over coffee, someone reads the day’s… Continue Reading →

Attention to detail – creating a sense of a complete world

Attention to detail has never been my strong suit. It always seems to hinder my mad rush forward. But a world without detail, even a very little world, starts to feel as if it’s floating in space – unanchored to… Continue Reading →

My Doll Adventure 28: Rosie’s pirate adventure, part 1

In Daisy and Lily’s last episode, Daisy, Lily and Frank talked about the day that Frank had found the girls – toddler Daisy and her baby sister Rosie – at the library where he worked. This week, Frank joins the… Continue Reading →

Pirates on the windowsill

There’s always that moment in a Rosie adventure where I try and figure out who going to whisk her away on her dream adventure. For her doll adventure, I always knew that it would be my “big” dolls (China girl,… Continue Reading →

Pirates in pieces, or aspect-to-aspect transitions

This week I’m more deliberately trying out one of the transition types Scott McCloud mentions in his Making Comics. This is the aspect-to-aspect transitions – that is, a set of images each showing a small piece of a single moment…. Continue Reading →

My Doll Adventure 27: Camellia works on the hut and recalls her escape

At the end of Camellia’s last episode, she had encountered a stranger on the island and, together, they began working on a hut. This week they continue working on the hut, and Camellia tells about her escape. ***** Camellia and… Continue Reading →

Ironing backdrops, or what I’ve done this week

Here’s what my to do list for this week looks like: * Fix very front of hut for close-ups * Add some items for inside the hut * Iron out backdrop * Rewatch citizen kane * Work through next Photoshop… Continue Reading →

Select and mask: Camellia escapes from the ball

The first series of shots I took of Camellia, before I started the doll adventure, were of her escaping the ball. I love the idea of her in bare feet with her skirt lifted up fleeing down some marble steps…. Continue Reading →

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