Repaint: Subscriber Idea Warrior Fairy Elaborate Hair Monster High Art Doll

Hello and welcome to lady dynamite creates today i'm going to be showing you how i made my warrior fairy. The base style i'm going to be using on this project is a luna matthews and originally i had a hard time choosing between her and gigi grant and actually up until i finalized her clothing had not decided which one i was going to use. But when i saw all of the nice areas of sculpting were going to be covered on the gigi grant doll, i decided this one should be the one i go ahead and buzz her hair down like normal, and then i pop her into a cup of hot Water to sit for a few minutes, this just gets the vinyl, nice and soft and allows me to pull off the head easily, i'm using a cloth to help protect my hands. This way the hot water doesn't burn me and if you notice, when i'm pulling the head off, i'm pulling it straight and not at an angle any of the times i've actually chipped the neck or broken out the neck peg has been when i have angled the Doll, so i tried to avoid doing that using a flathead screwdriver, i scrape out all the hair plugs and loosen up that glue. Then using my needle nose pliers, i pull it out through the neck hole. It was so nice to prep a doll that just didn't have nasty sticky hair for a change using 100 acetone. I wipe off all the factory paint i prep her scalp for rereading with some acrylic paint. This is just a color that is very similar to the hair color i've picked. I do a few coats to make sure it's opaque enough. I have plans to shave signs and want to make sure none of that yellow is showing through for the reroute. I am using this arctic blue from the doll planet and i actually picked the hair color after i'd made all of the clothing, i had quite a few fabrics lined out to make the outfit with, and i wanted to finalize that before i picked a color, the Reroute on her was pretty simple, since she didn't have a part line, she's going to be styled in a mohawk down the center of her head. So i rooted around the hairline and then just filled that in and then a couple of spaces around the temple are going to be decorative braiding. I use the knotting method to reroute and i wrap the hair around my finger slide, the needle on tighten it and then plug it down into the head then to secure all the hair. I use a little bit of liquid fusion glue, squeeze it down into the head and jam it around with a q-tip and make sure i coat all of those plugs, including the ones that are at the temples away from the main hunk of hair for the outfit. I went ahead and did some rough sketches just to get a silhouette of what i was looking for, and i did several just to see what i liked. I wanted a look with a lot of leathers and furs. Think, along the lines of old school hollywood like conan, the barbarian or 1 million years bc with raquel welch, then once i decided on a design, i went ahead and started making my patterns. I wrapped my mannequin up with some kitchen clean film and some masking tape and then just started sketching out the design for the shirt. The things that i kept in mind when designing this was any decorative scenes that i wanted to have, which natural seams would the bodice have, and also since she was a fairy and would have wings. I needed to keep that in mind too. Once i was satisfied with that, i went ahead and cut it out and made paper patterns from that duct tape form when making my paper patterns. I need to remember to add enough for seam allowance on all of my pieces, as well as places for closures on the back piece. These will be closed with some velcro, so i add a little bit of extra fabric on the back just to account for that space. One thing i noticed when trying to cut out my pattern pieces was this fabric was extra slippery and i was quickly getting shapes that were not the actual shapes i was traced to solve this problem. I used a little bit of kid's craft glue, sticks and glued. My pattern pieces down directly to the fabric and cut out around those this solved. My problem and all of my pattern pieces came out fine after that i attached the two center front pieces to their side pieces. Next, i sew the two center seams on the top and the bottom. I apply fray check to all of these seams and flatten them out with my fingers and then hit them with my flat iron. This will reduce the appearance of lumps and bumps in the garment. Now i attach the top and bottom portions of the shirt. Next, i measure out where the straps should meet on the back and tack those down and apply some velcro at the closure with an orangey brown embroidery thread. I do a decorative cross stitch down the front of the garment, just to give it a little bit more detail now for her first doll. I found this particular fur that had a lot of nice patterning to it and it was pretty short, so it worked well on doll scale. So i cut out an oval of this and i folded this in half right sides facing and pinned up the edges of it and sewed those down. This leaves an opening in the middle for me to flip it once sewn. I trim up all of the excess off the edges and flip it right side out once it's right side out, i go ahead and stitch up that hole using a ladder, stitch and i'll have to say this was a pretty messy stitch job, if i do say So but if you've ever tried to stitch fur, you can't see crap because of all the fur. I try this onto my mannequin and i see where i want this to fit. Once i'm satisfied with the placement, i go ahead and sew on some snaps. So, on one onto one shoulder and one onto the bust side in the middle of the stall, i sew the corresponding snaps onto the shirt. At this point, i go ahead and stitch on one side of the chain, too. There'S going to be a chain that connects from the shoulder to the breast side and the top point will be sewn on and there will be a hook at the other side if you've ever worked with fur, you know what a nightmare it is just kept getting. My thread trapped and just couldn't see what i was doing and that's not even counting all of the fur that was on everything in the house, and here you can see how all these attachments work for her shoes. I'M going to make these pull on moccasin style boots, and this is not stretch pleather. If you see when i'm pulling along the grains, it does not stretch at all so in order to use this on something that does need to have a little bit of give. I'M going to be sewing it along the bias i'm going to twist this to be on the diagonal you can see when i'm stretching this at the bias on that diagonal. There is a decent amount of stretch to it. I want my boots to have a decorative stitch down the front to accomplish this. I'M going to cut this piece down that diagonal line and then re-sew it along that line after the pieces are sewn together. I go ahead and trim off the excess on either end and then i'm going to use a little bit of fabric fusion and i'm going to flatten out those two seams so that there's not that extra added bulk and i can get a good tight fit on Her leg, i use my flat iron to help activate and set the glue you'll notice, i'm not using anything in between my flat iron and this. My flat iron is such a low setting that it's not going to damage my pleather now that that seam is flattened. I'M going to do a zig zag stitch across of it just to give it some visual interest. Now that my decorative stitch is added, i'm going to go ahead and sketch out the pattern for the boot. I trim some of the excess off and then i'm going to sew down that edge, leaving the top and the bottom of the shoe open once sewn. I flip it right side out. I try it onto a mannequin and then i go ahead and start trimming up along the edge of the foot i'm going to leave about two millimeters along that seam. That'S just going to allow me space to sew on the sole i cut my sole out of a piece of real leather. I want this to be pretty sturdy and not fall apart, and i worried that some pleather would start fraying and just rip once i have myself cut out. I start stitching it in place. It'S a little unwieldy at first, but once you get the first half of it sewn on it becomes much easier when you're first getting the stitches started, you're trying to hold the sole on hold the boot in place, and it's a little difficult at first. But it does get easier, i'm just using a basic whip stitch just all around the edge once i've sewn it all the way around and i'm back at my starting point, i can tie off the thread for the decorative fur trim. I have just cut a strip of that same fur fabric again and i am wrapping it around and hot gluing it in place once i've made it all the way around. I'M going to trim that up - and i slide my scissors along the base of the first. So that i'm not cutting the longer pieces of fur into a blunt cut, this leaves the fur having its knives taper. Still now, i'm adding in some wrapping to the boots and i've just taken these little thin strips of jewelry leather and i've, just wrapped them around and tacking them in place, with a little bit of hot glue to finish off the top of the boot and to Help hide that odd fur edge i'm using a little bit of the jewelry leather. This is just a little bit thicker piece and i'm wrapping around and gluing it at the top. I'M actually really happy with how these boots came out now for her weapons. I knew i wasn't going to have time to actually model anything for this style, because i had a feeling these wings were going to be very time consuming, which they were so. I went on to thingiverse and found these and just it's a standard axe and some little medallions and daggers i'll have the link for these in the description box below, but i'm just getting them sanded and ready for painting. But before i can start painting, i want to make a holster. I use the axe itself to make a template and then just sketch out a basic shape for a very simple axe. Holster i've cut out these pieces out of faux leather and then i'm going to put them wrong sides facing and do a blanket stitch around the very corner of the top from the front edge and up to the bottom to where the handle is going to be Sticking out, i add, a strip of that jewelry leather, all the way around it, making sure that i leave enough room that it can hang from a belt after it's together, i mark where the belt would be going through, and i tack that down. I also add a hook and eye this way. The axe can actually come in and out of the holster using a little bit of super glue. I start tacking down some nail art gems. These are just going to give some visual interest and make it not. Quite so plain and give it some real world feel to add a closure to the belt. I'M adding a piece of chain to one side, just super gluing that into place and then sewing down a hook to the other side. And this allows the belt to come on and off very easily, then using these exact same techniques. I made a thigh holster for one of the daggers too. Now that i don't have to worry about damaging a paint job, i can start painting these weapons and i've already got them based out in a black coat of paint, i'm masking off any areas that are going to be silver or gold and then gon na give Those a shot of spray paint now that my axe has a silver blade, i'm going to paint the handle to look like wood and it does take a few coats to work up to a deep enough color, all the little medallions are gold. So i'm going to start giving them a dry brushing of black to start dipping some in those areas and i just liberally apply it and then wipe away any excess. I also weather the dagger and the eggs in this technique for the final touches on her dagger and her axe, i'm going to add leather wrapping to the handles i just felt like they were liking, something and this just added a little bit of extra. The final touches for her outfit is just adding on all of her little medallions. The smallest one is going to go on her thigh holster she's, going to have one as a belt buckle and then the final two are going to be. The connection points on her stool, i'm not going to show how i made her skirt. It was a very simple build just strips of fabric glued to a strip for her wings. I knew i wanted them to have a fuzzy look like moth wings, and i found this silvery gray upholstery fabric that was kind of a velvety feel to it. I thought it was just beautiful. However, the backside of it was kind of ugly to solve that problem. I'M going to combine it with the silky gray fabric to adhere them together, i'm using double sided interfacing, and i'm just going according to the package directions on those. Now that my fabric's together, i trim off any of the excess and then i sketch out my veining pattern onto the fabric. I take this over to my sewing machine and i set this at a very short stitch length and i just carefully stitch these out. Taking time to be careful around the curves and get a nice pretty line, and this is how it looks after it comes off the sewing machine, this is just my line pattern now. I need to actually add in my patterning for the wings themselves. My inspiration for this came from a magpie moth and they have these gorgeous black and yellow patternings. To add this to my fabric, in a cohesive way that it looks a little bit mirrored not quite twins but sisters. I made a stencil and sketched that out onto my fabric, using some fabric markers once i have both wing patterns drawn out, i'm going to use a fabric pin and mark where the other wing will be broken. I didn't want to accidentally embroider areas that i didn't have to, because this is going to take a while, i add my fabric to the embroidery hook and then using some embroidery floss. I start stitching out my pattern: i'm just using a basic satin stitch to fill in all of this space. I first go in with my black and then i go back in with my yellow. This actually took a little longer than normal embroidery, because i had to make sure it looked pretty on both sides, so it was a little bit more time consuming. This felt like it took forever to finish, but with the magic of editing, voila finished wings. So now that the embroidery is all complete, i'm going to start trimming these down, and i just take my scissors and i trim down any of the excess trying to get as close to that outlining stitch as possible. I'M very careful not to accidentally cut any of the embroidery threads. That would be a nightmare. This fabric was on the thick side, so i am going to take my fabric markers and cover up those edges so that the black and the yellows are matched up to their front and back sides after six hours. These do need to be heat set. Finally, to attach the wings i'm going to be dropping just a little bit of hot glue down into that very convenient back hole on linda mathews and then putting her magnet down in there. Then, for the wing side of things, i'm going to be attaching a magnet with a little bit of hot glue there making sure to hit both of those sides of the wings. And then i'm going to be encasing that with some fabric just to make sure it doesn't pull off. I just take a piece of fabric: that's cut down to shape and hot glue that in place too now her wings, snap on and off very easily now onto the face up. Her face has been prepped, with two coats of minster super clear, allowing about 30 minutes in between each coat to dry. Before i can start working on her face up. The first thing i always like to start with is sketching in the eye shape, and i always start with my left side first and then match my right to that side. However, this time around, my doll is going to be battle damaged. She is a warrior she's going to been getting in fights, and so i thought it would be cool to have her have a scar down one side of her face and it has damaged that eye blinding it essentially. So it wasn't very important that they matched. I mean she's a warrior fairy she's wearing leather, i'm assuming she got in a fight with a squirrel or something so after i finalized her eye shape and the placement of the scar i filled in the scholars, and then i started blushing out her face. I blush her out first in a pastel, almost the same color as her, and then i'm going in with some blues and just pulling in areas here and there. This is just going to give her some variation to her skin tone like natural skin has then using some darker ochre colors, i'm going to start detailing around her eyes, her nose, her mouth and her ears, just any of the areas that are going to naturally have A little bit deeper skin tone, i use a q-tip to blend some of these areas out when the shadow just appears too harsh. I use a pencil to define the eyelid crease. This doll did push me a little bit out of my comfort zone and i have to say i did procrastinate on some stuff a little bit because it scared me those wings, especially scared me. I was really terrified about how i was going to accomplish that look. I really wanted them to have a fuzzy feel to them, like you kind of see, with real moths and just didn't know how i was going to accomplish that and went through several iterations using a darker pastel. I darken just the inside of the mouth and then using a brighter coral. Add the lip color. I use this coral to blush her cheeks too, using a larger fluffy brush. I start doing the major contouring to the face. I'M just going right around the sides and in the hollows of the cheek, using a very bright vibrant red. I detail some of the larger areas of the scar and i use this same red to detail the corners of the eye. I use a lighter pink in the middle area of the water line. I start hitting up some various areas for some white highlights using a black watercolor pencil. I start adding some black to that, just defining the edge of the scarf. This just adds some depth there. I darken up the lash line using some turquoise pastels. I start sketching in the shape for the eyebrows and once again, since these are scarred they don't have to match, which made my job a lot easier this time around, and that was the last thing i did on layer. One had started layer two. The first thing i do is start sketching in the iris shapes take my time getting my shapes right and once i'm happy with those i start facing in the colors one eye i am doing in shades of turquoise and the other one is goldman shades of grays And whites, because it is a blinded eye. One thing i did want to show you is my pencil left this little clump of pigment on the eye. I don't know if it was the heat or the humidity affecting them that day or what i gently took the flat edge of my xacto, not the sharpened edge and just scraped just pulling off a little clump of that pigment after i fixed that. I just build up the color a little bit more and then add in my pupil. I am just going to let you know that on all these layers, i am applying more pastels to the eyes and around the face. I just don't always show it. It'S a little repetitive. I start detailing out the eyebrows adding just little flicks of hair, and i do this in several different colors of that same turquoise and then move back to the eye, adding in some striations of color using my gray watercolor. I start shading around the sclera of the eye, just giving it a rounder feel shading it towards the top and around the sides using a very sharp watercolor pencil. I start adding in my lower lashes i do find when i'm drawing lashes, the more controlled i try to be the worse. They look. I try to be very loose and just keep them with quick flicks using my stubby brush. I start adding in some shading around the scar. This is just pushing it so that it looks like more of a raised edge like you naturally get with scars. I do a few different passes on the lips using a couple of different colors of pencils. Just detailing out some of the lip lines. I use a blender pencil to soften up some of those lines, so they don't appear so harsh. That'S it for layer, two onto layer three - and i start this one off with a little bit of metallic watercolor in the eyes i use a black watercolor pencil to define the nostrils and then using a very sharp black pencil start, adding in the top lashes. The fourth and final layer is just about those highlights, so i go in with some white gouache and i hit the tear, ducts and water line, as well as the catch lines and she's all done. I'M very pleased with how she came out. This was the first time i'd ever worked on a scar before and i felt like i did a decent job with it on to the body. First, she needs to be prepped, so i start sanding away at her and i have to say it was a fine line between trying to sand her and not sand away her details. I did feel like there was moments. I was having trouble getting pastels to adhere because i couldn't sand in those areas. Well enough. One thing i did find helpful was sanding with the corner of the sanding block, because it allowed me to angle into some of the tighter areas after i've got her. Sanded is about as good as she's gon na get. I get her all wiped down and let her dry off and then give her several coats of mr super clear. Then i get started blushing her body. Her molding is just so absolutely beautiful that she is just a dream to blush, there's just so many little nooks and crannies and things to highlight on her body that it just takes forever, because you could just keep finding areas. I use the same pastels that i used on her face on her body and i use those corals to bring out the blushing areas like the tops of a breast and her hips and any of the joints. And then i used those golden ochres and some of the darker browns to go into the nooks and crannies in any area that just needed an extra pot. I felt like some of the deeper areas just weren't getting highlighted enough, so i did go in with a pencil and would rub it along just the edge making tiny little lines and would go in with the q-tip or the blending pencil to blend them out. A little softer, yes, i do know that a lot of these areas that i'm blushing will not be seen at all because, like they're covered with their boots or whatever, but it felt like a shame to not highlight them too and just in case her clothes are Ever off, then, when i'm finally satisfied with the blushing, i go ahead and give her a couple of coats of mr super clear and her body's all done now we're going to jump over to the hair styling and, like i said, i wanted her to have the Shaved sides we only re-rooted down the very middle of her hair, so we're going to need to make flocking - and i have this yarn that is a very close match to what her hair is. So i'm going to pull out some strings of it and i'm just going to start clipping this down into this little cup and i'm just clipping it and clipping it clipping and clipping very small little snips at a time. Until all that's done, then, i'm going to start clipping and clipping and clipping into the cup as well. Until i get a nice fine powder to apply the flocking, i'm using some mod podge and a silicone tool, and i'm applying this very thickly - and i'm trying to do this very fast, because i want to apply this whole section in one - go and have to work. Quick, so that it doesn't dry on me, so apply it thick pop down some flocking and let it sit, don't move it once you've allowed the glue to dry, you can start getting off all the excess and i just take and dump off as much as i Can and slowly just brush it off with my fingers at a certain point, i've gotten all that i can get off that way and i take a toothbrush and i gently just brush the hair. This pulls off any that's, not adhered well and any excess. That'S just going to sit there. You don't want this eventually, just being everywhere on the doll. If you have some bald spots, it's fine just apply a little bit more glue in those areas, pat down some more flocking. Allow it to dry and repeat this step. I decided to style her hair into a fishbone french braid, and to do this i take a section at the front of her hair and i divide it in two. Then i take a piece from the right side and put it into the left hand. With that section, then a piece from the left side and put it into the right hand into that section, and then i just keep doing this until i get all the way down to the base of the neck. Once i've reached the base of the neck, i'm just going to put it into a ponytail holder now for all of those little pieces at the temples, i'm just going to take those divide them and do basic braids with them. So there'll be four braids two on each side. When i get down to the bottom of the braid, i tie it off with a piece of string. I clip off any of the excess and then i melt the ends with a lighter. Then styling them is pretty simple. I just take them and i cross them over into an x and then wrap them around, underneath the ponytail and wrap them around the ponytail and then glue them in place. So the idea for this doll actually came from a subscriber petra. Very sorry, if i mispronounced your name, she commented a while back and she said that she thought it'd be really cool. If i made a warrior fairy that had a ripped up wing - and i did - i thought that was a really great idea, so it got jotted down in my little idea book and i really love hearing all of your ideas and i can't always promise that they Will be something that i can make, but i do love hearing from you guys for the ones that are closer to the ears. I take those and i twist them twice over the head, so they are more at the crown. Then i wrap them underneath the ponytail and bring them back up to that crown area, and then i pin them in place and then tuck those ends back into the braid so that they are a little bit hidden. The final thing i do on the hair is do a little bit of curling. I know this hair says that you're not supposed to use human styling tools, but i think mine have such a low temperature on them that it doesn't hurt. It hasn't, melted it yet. So i gently curl the hair, then i clip it up with a clip and let it sit like that for a while, so it holds the curl a little longer. I don't want this ponytail to be super curly. I just want it to have a slight curl at the bottom now it's time to attach your head back to our body and i just take and pull those two prongs back so that they are kind of tucked in and then just gently twist her head on. The final detail i wanted to add to her body was a little bit of fur at the top of the wings, i'm taking a little bit of brushed yarn that i've cut down to this tapered edge and i'm just hot gluing that right above, where the magnet Sits so when it's time for the wings to plop on it'll have the nice flow with the wings now it's time to get her dressed at the time this video goes live. This doll will be available in my etsy store at lady dynamite, creates the link is down in the description box. Thank you so much for watching and if you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel. I try to put out videos every two to four weeks, just depending on how hectic my life gets. Stay tuned for the final reveal photos at the end, remember always be creating you.