Monday, June 29, 2015

A Guide On How To Be A Gothic Doll Maker

By Jordan Schmidt


Goth is a lifestyle and it is a means of expressing one self through the medium of art. Some express their thoughts through music while some express themselves through arts and crafts. One of the most common ways that goth people would express themselves would be through making dolls. It is actually quite easy to be a gothic doll maker if one is interested in doing this sort of thing.

Now if one would want to create one of these dolls, there are two options that one can choose from. The first option would require that the creator would have some background on how to weave strings into something solid. This art is known as crochet and is quite a difficult art to learn.

Of course the other way would be to simply just buy one of those plain dolls and just customize them in anyway possible. So using one of these two methods, one would now be able to have one of those plain dolls. Next thing to do would be to make up the clothes for them.

Now if one is not very good at creating cloth designs, then he may actually get a pattern from the internet. Now the clothing that will be made for the doll will definitely depend on the sex of the creation. However, both sexes would have gothic inspired looks that are rather dark and quite mysterious to most people.

Now in order to make the goth inspired clothing, black is usually the color that is used mixed with a lot of white and a little dark red. The boy dolls would usually be wearing dark long sleeves, pants and an accessory. The females on the other hand would usually have tight dark pants, lacy skirts, and knee high socks.

Once the clothes are already made, then the next thing to do would be to fill in the other details of the figurine. First thing to think about would of course be the hair. Most goth dolls actually have long hair for both male and female genders. The male ones would have medium long or spikey hair while the females would have long straight or tied up hair. The color would usually range from black and yellow to even red or violet.

The last part to take note of now would be the face. Now the facial expression of the figurine is one of the most important things to take note of. Now one can either make it cute or a little bit scary however one thing in common found in all goth dolls would be that they would have a poker face. The design of its face can then be made in any way that the creator would want.

So as one can see, there are actually a lot of things that one can experiment with when working on these dolls. Of course everything will all be up to the creative aspirations of the artist. However, these are just the basic steps that one can follow in order to create a good figurine.




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