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So, I hope you all out there are having good luck with your New Years resolutions, because I, oh, TOTALLY failed mine already. (”Draw more,” of course.) Yeah, sad, I know. I have no excuse, and I offer a fancy dress in penance.
I designed this one when drawing Diana’s masquerade gown, but I thought it would be a poor spy who would wear something so dramatic, so I drew the blue gown instead. But I did like the design, and so it didn’t get tossed with the rest of my sketches.
Tags: ball, ballgown, black, blue, dark blue, gold, gown, jupiter, mask, masquerade, midnight blue, night, orange, overskirt, ruby, sky, stars, underskirt
Costumes, fantasy, gowns, paperdolls | Liana January 19, 2009 | 
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On the good side, I got a new pencil sharpener; its box promises an “extra heavy duty motor” and indicates that it is designed for “continuous” use. Which is good, because I subject my poor sharpeners to some sad conditions… Anyways, today I got started too late and wasn’t feeling inspired at all, so here are two fairy dresses from the old Boutique.
The poll continues:
Tags: blue, Boutique, dress, faery, fairy, flower, flowers, green, pink
Boutique, fantasy, paperdolls | Liana January 5, 2009 | Comments (3)
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This is one of the “birthday dresses” I did for the Boutique that I referred to earlier — even if it’s ten years old I like this one better than the one I did this year. Well, maybe I’ll just try again next January.
So, I have a lovely design for the dress I intended to do today, and then my pencil sharpener died. Poor thing, I probably did put it through its paces… Come back tomorrow for something pretty!
Tags: birthday, Boutique, burgundy, carnations, garnet, gown, january, red, white
Boutique, holidays, paperdolls | Liana January 4, 2009 | Comments (1)
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So recently, I got an e-mail from Diana asking if I could draw a dress for a roleplay she was taking part in. I went through and read the scenario, and Diana’s character Leslie is a human spy in a magical world who has to infiltrate a masquerade ball attended by aristocrats. So I thought this was a fun challenge: what sort of thing might a spy wear to such a ball? It’s dead easy to make a gown that says “hey everyone, look at me!” or one that says “I am a Woman of Mystery” but one that looks expensive and magical enough that no one questions its wearer’s right to be there, yet isn’t so noticeable that everyone winds up talking about her… fun. I ended up going with blue, a rich but soothing color, and an overskirt with fabric like shimmering water and seafoam, studded with crystals — although I don’t really think the crystals worked out too well. Oh well. Diana, I hope you like it anyways, and I look forward to seeing where the story goes!
The poll is yet ongoing…
Tags: ball, blue, crystals, dark blue, gloves, light blue, mask, masquerade, off the shoulder, overskirt, royal blue, satin, sea green, seafoam, underskirt, water, white
Costumes, fantasy, geeky stuff, gowns, paperdolls | Liana January 3, 2009 | Comments (14)
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These are two dresses from the old Boutique holiday section. Since they’re so old, I can’t say for sure but I’m pretty sure they were intended for New Year’s parties, and although it is a little too late I thought I’d put them up. Not that I did much partying, but I did stay up until midnight at least, and made black-eyed pea curry with collard greens.
I think the poll is quite interesting so far, take it if you haven’t…
Tags: 2009, black, Boutique, confetti, dress, dresses, holiday, multicolored, new year's, new year's day, new year's eve, red, short, sparkly, white
Boutique, holidays, paperdolls | Liana January 2, 2009 | Comments (0)
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So one of the things I did with the Boutique was to draw dresses with the birthstone and flower associated with each month. Since that was fun, I’m going to give it a shot this year, too, so here is January with snowdrop embroidery and garnets. The design is intended to be vaguely angelic, but I don’t really like how it turned out… I guess I have 11 more tries this year.
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Tags: angel, belt, birth flower, birth stone, birthday, birthstone, dress, garnet, garnets, gown, january, pearls, red, snowdrop, snowdrops, white
fantasy, gowns, holidays, paperdolls | Liana January 1, 2009 | Comments (7)
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