Minotaurs and horny things

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Tonight's blog is about Minotaurs and you guessed it, dolls!... I'm slightly predictable,sorry about that... anyways here we go...

Whats a Minotaur?   SO glad you asked ! A Minotaur is from Greek mythology and it is a creature that is half Bull and half Man... usually the head is the bull part. (click on pics to enlarge)

But.. I'm going to make this into a girl.. .. here's my take on it

and here is the 'utterly ' ridiculous part... I had several friends whom knew I was creating this

suggest to me that a female would be a Cow,well that is true.

They also suggested that 'she' might have .. umm Utters...... or several pairs of breasts...

right about now you figured out that these friends are probably male...

Moving on I said "NAY!".. smh

So I picked Clawdeen Wolf (Monster High Doll) Nice bronzy skin-tone and a great nose to work with.

so there's a few things to keep in mind for this

• Hooves /hind knees
• bovine nose/features
• horns

everything else can be your own

I started by creating the back calf.I wanted to keep the leg intact

so a lot of sculpting was to be done. I used a hardening epoxy for the base to make it really strong.

This stuff was designed for fixing tile and is a bit tricky to use because of wearing a mask/gloves and you only have 5 mins molding time.. WHoot! (cue the tremendous amounts of pics)

start of the leg re-sculpt

wrapping and sculpting polymer    

Over most of the leg wrapped and sculpted polymer on to the leg with a glue base.. I then brushed liquid Sculpty  on top... it looks bad at first but it works out I promise ...

it looks bad,but it hasn't been cooked yet

Really important!! I knew there was no way with all this clay I was going to get around baking the entire doll and I didn't  like that ,it seems with the original dolls Frankie ,Draculaura etc...they don't do very well with excessive baking... but somehow the Add-ons parts from the (create a monster labs) can really Take a POUNDING!... maybe someone should say something about that.. but really what are you going to say " Hey Mattel I'm mad I can't cook your dolls like a turkey!!".. meh, nevermind..

polymer neckpiece

WHile that was all baking I started working on costume pieces.

for some strange reason I wanted the colors to be red with gold accents.

Gold fabric with hand cut shapes

when the legs were cooled from baking I first painted them brown and then I used Tacky glueand applied fur in layers

                                                    

                                                               added tribal style markings

Horns, after I shaped the wire,I did a few coats of hardening acrylic to make them strong( lord knows these things might bump around in transit) then I laid and smoothed a layer of polymer clay over the top.

FACE TIME!

I wanted to reshape the nose a bit to give her more of a bovine look,I added the nose ring first ,I was afraid messing with the ring after I sculpted would possibly crack the acrylic. I brushed on some acrylic a little scratchy so it would look a bit like fur

still looking too cat like

she started to look like a cat so I had to really look at some cows to get an idea of what... well you know makes them look like COWS!

Getting there

I changed the contour of her face using pastel/chalks and a dry paint brush.

Cows always have fabulous lashes these are embedded and crazy glued.

DONE, with a final coat of MSC before glossing the eyes

ANd Finish!

And there she is all finished!
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Mistakes.. I've made a few. Part 1

In a kingdom of mistakes he who holds an eraser is King!
Of you have made some customizing boo boos this blog might help you out
I've been working on this Rusalka doll. and between the Heat and my new cankles I made crazy mistakes... but I'll get to that later
Lets start from where things were going peachy keen

 This is what I was going for

Well she's undead so I picked a gray skin-tone.

First a coat of Mr. Super Clear matte

Once it's dried ( like 5-10 mins)I lay down the first of the shading

{A little note about Mr.Super Clear.As with all chemicals, PLEASE use CAUTION, Use a Mask,Use Gloves!! We really don't know what's in there. Only in a Highly ventilated area .These are Your Lungs!} 

Back to this Bog....

first shading

The key to a good repaint I believe is Layers. Like everyone else I want to jump in but there's much to be said about the art of restraint.

Pretty much how I normally start a doll

But I knew something had to be different about the eyes this time.

Rusalkas are known to NOT have pupils.. so I said 'Hey lets try something new!'

med,light,dark glitter for the eyes

I wanted the eyes to be vacant... but with a spark of something

So I used some fine milled glitter to paint with rather than .. well Paint!

before adding definition

(At first you won't see a difference , the glitter is from dark to light starting at the top.)

Around this point I did a coat of Mr. Super Clear so that all the touching I was doing was not going to rub off the base of green

Eye brows and Lips start to form

Now besides being.... Um well Dead...she has to be alluring and beautiful..so I gave her a smokey eye and Lashes.... Lonnng lashes

Lashes

I do this by glueing and embedding the lashes into the rubber... after much trial and error I always do it this way now.. and once it's done it's Not budging! No sir!

You can make lashes out of any hair you chose.. they don't actually have to be false lashes ( for humans)

End of part one

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