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.