An Abundance of Purple

There should be a nacramo (National craft month). Every year, I have good intentions of doing Nanowrimo but when November comes around, I just struggle to commit. There's always something else I need to do instead, like craft stuff!

Anyone doing Nanowrimo this year and how's your progress coming along?

Today, I wanted to post about Purple Top (I think her official name is Lea). I have quite a few of this particular face sculpt and I've been slowly tweaking their appearances so they look slightly different from each other. Right now, the count is at six with a spare head (in case something happens to one of the current heads). Only three of these have Made to Move bodies. Two have fashionista bodies and one has a partly articulated body (her arms are articulated but her legs are not).

I've been thinking about their story and I decided they are all alternate versions of the same person, the original being Zoe ( I posted about her last week). The rest of them are what she would have become due to circumstances and decisions she's made along the way. In other words, they are shadows of the original.

We'll start with Cleo. I haven't done her outfit yet but expect a lot of black, brown and greys. She's from a world where science and magic exist side by side. She's also the only one of the shadows who is able to shift between the different realities.

I gave Cleo a re-root that is more in line with her character. I also enhanced her face with some light dusting of pastels.

Using liquidtex matte medium with a brush, I brushed onto the areas I wanted the pastel to adhere to, added the pastels then sealed with liquidtex matte varnish using the brush on method. I don't mind the results.

Next up is Meredith. All I know is that she's a fashion model and a fairly well known one. She's successful and seems to have it all. There's always a "but" in there somewhere.

Then there's Sabine who is a bit of a bookworm. She owns and runs a tiny little book store called, "Reads". She's got a fairly active imagination and enjoys the type of magic books can bring into her life. Her favourite story of all time is 'The Neverending Story'. She's a kid at heart.

And finally, we have Vivian. Polished shopaholic who likes to keep up with current fashion trends. She works for a fashion magazine, "NOW" and has a column of the latest trends in the fashion world.

The three girls together. Different as night and day although I think Meredith and Vivian have closer interests and personalities than they do with Sabine.

I also started on a re-root for currently nameless Purple Top.

The front and lower back sections are done but I still have the middle parts to do. I tried to make a wig for her but it didn't turn out so well so I decided to just go ahead and re-root her. I don't mind the colour combinations on this. Her backstory is a blank slate to me right now. Maybe once she's done it'll come to me along with a name!