Lenore and the Raven

Tonight will be more of a speedy blog...

Fall is upon us,and Halloween is my favorite, favoritty ,fave holiday.

When I think of Halloween one of the things I think of or people rather is Edgar Allan Poe.

I thought how could I make Lenore into a doll with a Tim Burton spin on it ....hmmm..

Trying on the wig

If you've never read it ,here is the poem.. LENORE by Edgar Allan Poe

  I started out with a Draculaura (click on pics to enlarge)

Adding the shading

I love Tim Burton and find a lot of his works reminds me of my own earlier sketches.. which is so Cool!

Shaping the eyes

Drawing the irises 

I went for dark green and gloomy

Details and lashes

Her dolly I wanted a look of horror, (House of Usher)

I started with a polymer ball and added a wire loop

starting to have the look of horror

I keep already baked tiny polymer balls for eyes

with eyes added and start of sculpt

AT this point I don't know what happened but I had to scrap it and start again ,this is the final sculpt

Final sculpt with wire and body getting added

I blush and darkened the eye sockets prior to baking... stays forever that way!

Almost there,beginning of paint

I also made the dress and I always always always forget to write it down but I did a little sketch just to show where some of the basic stitching went

THe Raven,... and I forgot to take pics...again.. but basically I started much like the dolly with a polymer ball......and I did a little sketch...wanna see it? here yah go!

wiring for the Raven

Now all of this together .. with some final touches.. and she had to have a little Poe book too

queenliest dead that ever died so young 

Nevermore Lenore...never more

Thank you for reading :)

Have a good Night!