Mythical Creatures

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This month's theme for the Paper Doll Collaboration Project was Mythical Creatures.  My first thought was Lamia, since I've been reading/watching the anime Monster Musume: Everyday Life with Monster Girls.  Please note before you look it up, it is NOT the most appropriate series in the world!  Anyway, a Lamia is a Greek inspired myth where one of Zeus's poor girlfriends (named Lamia) gets turned into a child-eating monster by the jealous Hera.  She's not always a half snake lady, but that seems to be the most popular depiction.  Also, she can never close her eyes, poor thing!  A Naga is a religious deity linked with Indian religion such as Buddhism and Hinduism, that can take the form of a 'very great snake' usually a cobra.  Sometimes they are part-snake, part human and sometimes they are just snakes depending on the tale.  Naga show up in other cultures as well.  Gorgon's hardly need any introduction, since they are the most well known with Medusa being the most popular.  Another Greek myth, these creatures differ in appearance as well over different myths but usually thought of having snake hair and turn people to stone if they look at them.  I made the snake hair a little more playful and cartoonist, inspired by Monster High.  Kinda looks like brains from far away, now that I see it smaller on the screen. Wow, I think that's the most I've ever written on this blog!

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Jack Oakie

This male paper doll newspaper sheet is another Movie Dressograph featuring the actor Jackie Oakie.  He has 4 full outfits, 3 hats,and a coat.  These costumes are from his movies "Touchdown", "Let's go Native" and "Dude Ranch"  This page was published January 31st, 1932 by the St Louis Post-Dispatch.

Misty Mysterious

Here is another Lalaloopsy paper doll designed by me using Adobe Illustrator.  She was created by MGA.  Misty is a magician themed doll who was sewn on March 24th, (Harry Houdini's Birthday).  Misty has 3 pairs of shoes, 3 tops, 3 skirts, a dress and 3 hair accessories along with her pet bunny rabbit and 2 magic wands.

Candi

This cute two page doll is from the artist Diana E Vining and was published in Dolls magazine Nov/Dec 2016.  Candi has 4 adorable sweet themed outfits and 43 hair accessories.  I especially like the detailed boarder on these pages. 

Haute Mademoiselle

This two page magazine doll was featured in Haute Doll November/December 2016.  The art is by Amiechou Arts.  The doll has 3 dresses, 3 tops, 1 skirt, 2 hair styles, 4 hair pieces, 4 sets of gloves, and lots of other accessories all in a retro style with main colors of black and white with some red, pink, and blue pieces as well. 

OPDAG NEWS 33

Tom King

Sylvia Kleindinst

Shirley M Pond

Brenda Sneathen

Brenda Sneathen

Audrey Kaiser

Audrey Kaiser

Sandra Vanderpool

Tom King

Brenda Sneathen

Audrey Kaiser

OPDAG NEWS issue 33 from November 1992 featured an Art Deco theme.  All of the pages are black and white.  Not all of the pages are shown here.  I've included some images from an article by Brenda Sneathen featuring how to draw models.  She also did the Dress A Doll of Cinderella.

Jane Arden's Wardobe Cousin Sue

Jane Arden's Cousin Sue is a blonde doll.  She has 5 outfits here with 2 hats.  Her wardrobe includes: 1 lime green dress with shoulder shrug and red accents, 1 blue dress with lace detail, 1 brown dress with fur, 1 red dress with apron, and 1 grey/purple night gown.  Her hats are both green. This newspaper sheet is from 11-19-1939.

Dede Denton

DeDe Denton is a 18 inch fashion doll from Tonner.  This 2 page paper doll was drawn by Robert Tonner and is dated 2016 and was featured in Haute Doll magazine. All of the outfits featured are actual doll outfits, including her swimsuit.  The outfits are called "Dede Denton Making a Splash" (swimsuit) "Drinks before Dinner" (black outfit), "DeDe Celebrates" (long nude dress) and "Manhattan Blush" (my favorite the pink one!) These outfits were all sold with a doll, not individually. 

June Bride

This two page paper doll is from Dolls Magazine dated June 2014 (I believe) and is from the artist Diane E Vining.  The doll has 3 lovely bridal gowns with veils from the years 1814, 1914 and 2014.  I can't believe it's already June!  Love the bits of blue on the 1814 doll

Dora Beach Costumes

This newspaper comic is from the strip of the character Dumb Dora.  Dora has 2 outfits and a hat.  Love the yellow dress with the buttons!  Dated 6-25-1933.

Myrna Loy

A few of my Dressographs have been cut, like the one above, and the previous owner made copies of an uncut set and laid out the pieces on top so that you can see it's complete as well as read the description of the costumes.  This set is of Myrna Loy and features  3 outfits with 2 headpieces.  These costumes are from "The Animal Kingdom", "The Mask of Fu Machu" and "Thirteen Women"  I personally love the green dress that the base doll is wearing.  This is dated January 29, 1933.

This is Jean

This single page paper doll is from Wee Wisdom magazine and features a teenage girl with 3 full outfits, a top and a skirt.  The colors are red, black and white. This was designed by 12 year old Barbara Creel and redrawn by Dorothy Wagstaff.   I do not have a date on this.