#vee :d

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eclipse please drink your water 🙏

vee i dont wanna ;-;

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There isn't enough Softball/Baseball Vee art

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what’s your daily routine??? :)

Wake up, get ready for school, have small crisis over jellybabies, go to school, talk about arson, come home and flop (play Minecraft) :))

Thanks for the ask!!

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I like to write Vee as unknowing of witch culture and a lot of things when it comes to the Boiling Isles. It makes a lot of sense that Vee doesn't want to go back their in Thanks to Them because the human realm IS more of a home to her.

I like to think that she learned more about humans and their culture in the months she spent in the human realm then the years she spent growing up locked away in a dungeon getting expiremented on. She knows nothing about the coven system, witch history and all that stuff.

Which I think is great, she's like the perfect blank slate, and inbetween for both cultures, the ultimate fish out of water. Which can be used comedically with Masha or Camila being like "woah this magic stuff is crazy whats the deal?" And Vee just shrugging and being like "no clue I was raised in Plato's cave" but also I can be played up really tragically like, I was brought back from extinction, I have no culture to call my own, I shouldnt exist kinda deal.

I like that there is a bit of a hint at this characterization is somewhat resolved at the end of the series with her being both accepted in the human realm and in the demon realm. Vee seems to go to school in the human realm, but is also present in the demon realm in all of the pictures, and of course she's wearing the earth/demon shirt because she's the perfect person to represent tying those two worlds together (besides luz of course)

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Merry Christmas!!! (I didn’t really have time to do an actually do a full holiday pic so I added a hat to the Vee Scrunkle gif)

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Vee Doll Version 1!

This is the first doll I’ve actually finished. I'd like to talk about my process, because I’ve learned a lot going through with it! 

I was very much inspired by the doll making of @strangegutz I’d been wanting to try and make my own for the longest time. I had also picked up a custom Harpy Eda doll from thecosmicdolls on etsy, so I really wanted to give it a try on my own.

I started with the head using super sculpey and painting it afterwards. It’s the first time I’ve used super sculpey instead of colored sculpey. It's sooo much easier than trying to mix color through combining clay. I like the sculpt I did, but I did it before I even had an idea what I’d do with the body. I used craft paper for the hair, a method it used for the other doll I never finished, and overall I think it turned out well. I like the cartoon-y look the paper gives the definition of the hair but it was a process to figure out how to fold and glue it into the shapes I like. For the facial features I also used pieces of paper with sticky tack so I could change the expressions if I wanted to.

The body is made out of floral wire and foam, and the clothes are made from thrifted shirt fabric, a ripped pair of jeans and GI Joe boots. The process of making the underbody was a big learning experience for me. My first body I twisted the floral wire around a ton thinking I needed it to have a sturdy base, I realized it didn’t really need to have as much support as I thought with the wire especially if I’m the only one posing it, I can take my time to make it look the best. So the next step was gluing together a bunch of pieces of foam in the shape of the body that I was just going to shove a wire through, I spent a while trying to make the under body shape as perfect as I could, but when I finally went on to make the clothes I learned something important, the shape of the underbody didn’t matter too much, the only thing that really matters for body shape is how the fabric is sewn. The first shirt I did was way too small, but luckily I did the sleeves separate from the shirt because it would be easier to put them on the doll, so I didn’t have to remake those. 

My biggest take away from this all is something simple and obvious but is still something that’s always been hard for me to do. If I do something wrong, if something doesn’t turn out right, It’s GOOD to go back and do it again and do it right! Duh right? Well, I’ve always been really stubborn when it comes to art, the steps I look forward too are never the ones I’m actually working on at the moment it feels like so I’m always rushing ahead, living with my mistakes and skipping over refinement. Sometimes it’s okay to take shortcuts, and your art can never be perfect of course, but it took a lot of willpower for me to follow through and redo parts of this doll and it really helped overall. The arms and legs were all individual parts at first, and this made it so difficult to dress and work with it. I took a step back, thought it over and refined it, redoing the arms and legs with a single long piece of foam for each that was easy to get the fabric over. This solidified the process for me, because I took the time to redo it. I've set myself up to work better next time. 

I will be very honest, I don’t think this doll is that good, there’s a ton of things I think are off about it, I feel like the head style doesn’t make the rest of the doll. The proportions are off all over the place, and my sewing skills are still pretty mid after all these years. BUT I’ve never been prouder of myself actually following through and finishing and learning something from this process. I’ve figured out a lot of the process and I really want to go through and make another version of it.

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Made a second version of my Vee Doll's head. I went with a full sculpt and paint this time. As much as I like the idea of doing the papercraft hair and face I don't think it originally turned out well. Now I got some nice felt to match the haircolor and it looks amazing! Super happy with it.

I might remake the body and make the proportions better and make it less fragile but I think I'm gonna work on some other projects first.

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Got this cute little sketch book from the Owl House Elements Zine. Gonna try to sketch in it everyday as a psuedo inktober!