My Fair Lady dresses from Liana’s Paperdoll Boutique
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A weakness of mine, nine or ten years ago when I was drawing dresses like these for the Paperdoll Boutique, was always letting my desire for perfection (or completion, perhaps) take over, ultimately impeding what I actually wanted to do. It wasn’t enough to have one great outfit from a movie: they all had beauty and value and it was only worth doing if I did them all. Ideas and dresses I felt obligated to do crowded my mind and at a certain point it is easier to accept getting nothing done than it is to accept you can’t do everything you want to do. I do this all the time, and not just with paperdolls; I combat this tendency by drawing one thing a day, none if I’m just not feeling it (like tonight *yawn*) and not holding myself responsible for paperdolling every beautiful dress humans have ever created, or feeling guilty if I can’t draw everything waiting for its turn in my head.
But now I look back and I’m sometimes pretty impressed by the dedication I had to chronicling every single bit of something that I felt needed paperdolling. There are five in this group, here are two: and I guarantee you that at the time I felt bad that I didn’t get her dress from the ball.
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By Krysti, April 4, 2008 @ 12:20 am
I remember looking at some of your older paper dolls… I had a whole set, and printed some for a friend. They were all very nice, these are no exception. :)
By Liana, April 4, 2008 @ 6:09 pm
I’m so glad you found your way back to my new paperdoll project, then! I sometimes think that’s why I never quite let go of paperdolls… I didn’t want the most well-known and popular thing I’ve done to be in my past, never to be repeated…
By Vera, April 7, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
HI, I found your page by change and I really love it. I need to draw costumes for LARPs (Live action role playing) so I printed your dolls and it is quite easier for me to draw sthing on them then just on a sheet of paper.
Do you also do fantasy things? Like Barbarians… maybe? You know, leather top and skirt, bracers etc.
By Liana, April 7, 2008 @ 1:25 pm
Hi Vera, I’m glad you like it (and that you’ve found a good use for the doll, too!) :)
Do you mean some sort of Xena-type costume? I don’t think I’ve ever really tried… Is that the sort of thing you design for your LARP costumes?