{"id":17192,"date":"2022-09-04T14:49:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T18:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=17192"},"modified":"2022-09-04T14:49:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T18:49:41","slug":"stylist-3-0-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2022\/09\/04\/stylist-3-0-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"Stylist 3.0 — finally!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Stylist has proved very challenging to make a doll of, much like the Magister and Ethan\/the Spymaster. My first version captured her air of comfortable, everyday glam, but looked very young compared to the other two Elder Witches. But they’re all around 400 years old. I wanted them to look their ages, with eyebags and wrinkles and such.<\/p>\n

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Stylist 1.0 is a Mattel Barbie head, repainted by me, on a Mattel Barbie Made To Move body with a wig.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My second version looked older, but it was really…round and balloon-like in an unattractive way.<\/p>\n

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The Stylist Hardship<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Stylist 2.0 also shared a problem with Stylist 1.0. Both headsculpts were very stylized, and they did not evoke the Stylist’s particular character. Lively and fast-talking, she uses a combination of outmoded slang and her own kind of folksy similes. She’s sarcastic; she has a mutually sarcastic and subderisorous relationship with the Magister, and she’s very direct. She has hair magic and amazing artistic and fashion design skills; she also cultivates and exploits a vast regional network of informants who tell her everything about everyone and also allow her to strategically disseminate information or disinformation, as she feels is appropriate. In other words, she needs to be very old and very striking, with a face that suggests sharpness, severity, sarcasm, and <\/em>silliness.<\/p>\n

The sculpt I ended up using is my own invention based on the open-source Poser figure Antonia Polygon. She was originally going to be Florrie, an ancient and sharp-as-a-tack relative of Alison from my DW fanfic. I looked at the sculpt and said, “Yeah, that feels like the Stylist,” so I adjusted it for printing, had her printed, and painted her.<\/p>\n

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In painting in progress. Wig is from American Girl Girls of Many Lands Saba. Head is painted brown. Wrinkles are drawn in black, painted over with a layer of brown, then highlighted with very light tan. Eyes are neon purple, which looks magenta in this context, while lips are brown mixed with some neon purple. Eyebrows and mouth line are black.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Head to toe, she’s wearing a Mattel WWE Superstars leotard, an MGA Shadow High Ash Silverstone teeshirt [barely seen], a rainbow striped sweatshirt of unknown origin, and RH Mini Accessories Studio boots [Jade’s?].<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I tried finishing the edges of the eye whites as best I could, but I intentionally left this paint job even simpler than usual, with no eyelashes or upper lip. At long last, I have the essence of the Stylist successfully suggested, and I don’t want to ruin it by adding too many little fiddly details. I never scrutinize my dolls as closely as the camera does anyway. In any event, she now looks as old and full of expressiveness as her spouses the Magister and the Hippie!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Stylist has proved very challenging to make a doll of, much like the Magister and Ethan\/the Spymaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[794],"class_list":["post-17192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-stylist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17192"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17199,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17192\/revisions\/17199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}