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So I finally have created a Patreon! Please check out my profile link! This is for people who have wanted to support me more directly as doll customising and sourcing parts can get quite expensive.

As for right now, all my Patreons will be getting content about a week early, and individual tiers will allow for some perks that won't be available publicly such as having input and seeing work in progress stuff I am not sure will see the light of day otherwise.

If you don't want to pay, don't worry as I will continue to share more work, it'll just be on a staggered time schedule. I figured a Patreon would allow me to explore more ideas without feeling overwhelmed as much.

I love Stop Motion movies so having Coraline made was always going to be on my list of dolls to make and having my one with my Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride dolls feels satisfying to do....

I must admit seeing the official Skullector Coraline has taken a lot of my excitement over working on this doll since I spent a lot of time trying to track down accessories and sewing to even finish her and I wasn't really enthused by the time I finished her.

I sewed her jeans and raincoat since I feel like this specific combination of clothes worked well for her tomboy-ish character instead of a dress, and I actually used a knockoff Coraline doll for her sweater to get the right scale pattern and fabric. I actually had to add a panel on her back closure to make it fit but I think this is the definitive Coraline outfit for me.

Her button key and butterfly hairclip are also from a Coraline charm bracelet and I like how they add to her character.

I did intend to add more accessories and pieces but the official doll coming out really dampened my enthuiasm for finishing my custom doll.

I've been procrastinating on this doll because I couldn't find the right face sculpt and body sculpt but I kind of forced myself to continue by using a short Ever After High Lizzie Hearts body even though I wanted to use a MH Little sister body. Her head sculpt was the hardest for me to do because the stop motion puppet has a distinct head shape and that I wanted a head with a strong nose bridge, something a lot of MH dolls lacked.I finally settled on using an Ice Girl Create A Monster doll head because she actually has a strong nose bridge that I think worked for her character and the proportions work well for a slightly younger character.As for her hair, the Coraline puppets actually use saran hair that they got from the japanese Volks doll company so it was actually quite easy to pinpoint what exact shade of blue Coraline uses. Unfortunately I couldn't track down a supplier but my friend pointed out G3 Cleo uses that colour so I ended up stealing hair and scalp on the Ice Girl head lol.I must admit I wasn't that excited since by the time I finisherd her I saw leaks of a Skullector Coraline doll and it took a lot of wind out of my sails.However I did finish my doll so here she is...

I do feel like Gaenna and my Xenomorph doll are two sides of the collector coin and the fact they're on opposite ends of the sci fi spectrum.

A majority of my collection is still in storage but I really wanted to showcase Gaenna with a few of my other robotic dolls.

So I think sci fi elements are missing in fashion dolls and while I've tried to do my own customs in the past, having an official Bratz cyborg doll was really amazing to me.

I think @capdollz did an amazing job 3d sculpting this body and I love that while it maintains the Bratz aesthetic, it's so amazingly detailed and I love how it looks.

I really do like how unique @lolliword doll style is that I do feel like my take on their style is pretty intimidating but I love how Gaenna looks.

I am so grateful to @doll_pants for this wedding gift because it is such a unique piece and it means so much to own this. I really do feel like a Bratz novice but this has been a great peek into that side of doll customising....

I was kind of distraught that Bratz released their first cyborg Bratz doll through a fashion collaboration, Gentle Monster, since the price was definitely out of reach for me.

However, I had a friend, @doll_pants, who found a damaged Gaenna body and sent it to me as a wedding present so I was really overjoyed at owning a small piece of an elusive doll.

Of course it came without a head so I actually dug through my Bratz parts box to find the right base doll. I honestly am ignorant to the subtle differences between Bratz sculpts but after carefully examining UV sculpt heads and original sculpts, I can see the sculpting quirks being a lot nicer when held in comparison.

It's why I settled on this older Cloe head rather than buying a new Bratz doll since it really felt obvious how much nicer this sculpt looked compared to the UV sculpt.

I've never done a Bratz reroot in my life, but I was surprised Cloe's scalp paint had rooting guide lines and that it was spaced pretty evenly compared to other dolls I've done. I also used a heatpad and it helped make the provcess go by quickly. As for the hair itself, I just followed the rooting pattern and I was surprised how thin the overal hair was but it was made up by how much hair went into the parting.

As for the face up, I must admit I am intimidated by @lolliword and their paint style, but I wanted to do my own take on their style since I really like how unique it is.

Since Gaenna doesn't have eyebrows I wanted an eyeshadow that matched her hair and it was pretty purple heavy until I put her head on the body and decided to add silver to bring her body more into the design.

I really do feel out of my element with Bratz customs but I'm really proud of how Gaenna turned out and I like how my face up complements the amazing body.

Here is Frankie Stein with her franken family. While I loved GDT's movie, I did try to make my version be more Monster High style to fit in Frankie's family tree. I love this story a lot so doing my own whacky take is fun.

I really tried making my Frankenstein's monster to be as different to his base doll, and I really like how he looks with my Neighthan.

Here is my custom Frankenstein doll based on Guillermo Del Toro's movie. His outfit is from a pair of altered BTS doll pants, a Pullip corset top, and a custom fur coat I sewed myself and a pair of EAH doll boots I altered by gluing on fur and adding 1inch thich platforms to the sole.

This is more of a Monster High take on the design so he leans a bit more stylish than slavishly recreating his look as I wanted him to slot into my collection. I added the choker as a throwbgack to the character's early life in the film where he's chained up and thought it was a fun detail to add.

I really do love Guillermo Del Toro's work and have attempted to do dolls before but I felt really inspired to complete this doll the moment I saw the movie in theaters.

Guillermo Del Toro is one of my favourite film directors and I was pretty excited to hear he was adapting one of my favourite gothic novels since I feel like he has a very strong sense of style and personality that would match the story.Needless to say, I really liked his take on the story, especially since it felt like he made the story his own.I've had this Neighthan Rot I was experimenting with filling in his face and adding human ears (that I got from an BTS doll) but the seams were never smooth enough and still retained a lumpy quality to. But I think his face shape matched GDT's FRankenstein well and the facial scars add to the lumpy base doll.I decided to do more of a Monster High take on his face rather than match the movie, which meant to me making the lines more graphical and that I painted his skin to be more green toned.I'm really happy to finally make a doll from Del Toro's work and having it be from one of my favourite novels to boot.

Some of my gargoyles are not photo ready so here is Rocco with just Rochelle and Garrott. It is funny to me thinking Rochelle tricked her gargoyle team into thinking she was a guy but then Garrott is proof that gargoyles are allowed to be twinks.

Monster High's biggest strength is making you care enough about the characters that you end up owning dolls that don't matter as much to you as it does to the dolls' character....

Here are my muscle body Monster High guys together. I am a bit sad these never got a release in any form asides from SDCC releases, but having the option to 3D print one now is quite exciting for me.

Here is my custom Rocco from the movie Friday Night Frights. He uses a fully custom sculpted head on a 3D printed Manny Taur body with wings from a 28inch Gore-geous Ghoul doll.

He's definitely a hodge podge of different things but I'm really happy how it all came together. It was my first time customising a doll made from filament but I think it works since he's a rough and tumble gargoyle that the texture works into his favour.

I did debate on making him his uniform but I rather enjoy having casual looks for my signature MH collection so I opted to give him Ken jeans alongside this custom tank top I made from this distressed fabric and a set of Shadow High boy shoes to tie it all together.

I really like Friday Night Frights as it introduces both Rochelle and Robecca, and I finally got make Rocco.

Since getting a Manny Taur body 3d printed in a pretty textured plastic, I knew it would be fun to lean into the texture by having him be a gargoyle. And of course, as a fan of Monster High movies, I had to make the antagonist Rocco from Fright Night Frights.

Since I can only sculpt the traditional way, I just built on top of the 3D printed torso neck joint with some cling film separating my epoxy putty from the print.

It took several passes and I did carve and sand as well, but I think it captures his look while also being passable as a Monster High doll.

As for his face, since he lacked eyebrows and lips, it was relatively easy just doing his hooded eyes and filling into the details where I can.

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