DIY Custom Worbla LOL Surprise Doll Dress

Let's make new clothes for the LOL Surprise dolls out of Worbla scraps!

This is a craft for grown-ups; it requires the use of a heat gun, plus painting with nail polish.

Materials:

Worbla scraps
Nail polish

Supplies/Tools needed:

Heat gun
Scissors for Worbla
Paper
Permanent Marker

This craft took about 30 minutes to make, plus paint & drying time.

Kokeshi Drawings

Kokeshi are a wooden Japanese dolls .  They use to look a thinner and taller, but these are the more common versions now a days.

I wanted to do some drawings, becuase I thought they were quite cute

Here I was trying some different techniques with shading, and I ended up really liking the Flat Paper Doll look

So I continued to experiment with different characters

Euphemia from Code Geass

I tried playing with the outlining, and got some textures for the background to make it not complety boring

Voicaloid Rin and Len

Trying the paper shadowing again, and making my own texture, because I didn't feel like using other's people work for the textures all the time.  But to be honest, I think the background is rather ugly.

Inner Scouts from Sailor Moon

My favorite of the series.  Even though in the cartoon they mostly look like the same character with different colours and hair styles, following the manga instead gave me more variety to make the characters more unique.  At this point I like the simplicity of the background, doesn't distract from the characters.

Harley Quinn from Batman

Because not everyone is an anime fan, I did one of my favorite comic book characters.  I didn't know what I wanted to do for the background and was just going at random shapes.  Than using the colours of "Mr J" aka the Joker.  I ended up loving this combination, it really enhances Harley's connection with the Joker

Crafters In Disguise - SmallRiniLady and Ava

It's US, aint we cute

Cosplay Week Sakura 2010 #4 - Sailor V Manga Cover Tutorial

What's more awesome than cosplay photos?  Making cosplay photos look like trading cards or Manga covers!  "woot woot"  So here's my photoshopping tutorial on making a manga cover using a Photo I took at SakuraCon.

Start with a good cosplay picture.

Also start with a good Manga picture as a guide

From that Manga picture I stripped out the Title (Sailor V) and additional text, in this cause the author's name

I layered a blurred version of the title to give it some depth

Now cropping out the cosplayer and resizing for this project.

Adding a colourful background.  A lot of manga covers might just have some colourful but not extremely busy background so to not distract you from the focus character.

For the SailorV covers I noticed the artist liked using lots of action lines to draw towards the super hero.  So I'm adding some here.

Adding the white bubbles, I also noticed the artist likes to do that with a lot of her manga series.

Adding more emphasis with the action lines drawing focus to the center.

The colouring of the cosplay was a little dark, lighting up the colours so match the background feel.

Adding in the words

Generated the cropping lines by aligning the original manga picture with the words. 

TaDa!