[Deadcraft.Com]: Dir En Grey: Kyo & X-Japan: Yoshikitty Dolls A few more Japanese rock-themed crochet dolls for your enjoyment! I mentioned a couple of posts ago that I've crafted quite a few dolls based on popular J-rock band Dir en Grey; well, someone specifically requested a couple more Dir en grey dolls; this time of an 8 inch high Kyo! To showcase the different looks Kyo has had throughout the years, one doll sports a pretty shiny tracksuit, while the other sports a little eyepatch, from his Vulgar era.
[Deadcraft.Com]: Pirates of the Carribean: Jack Sparrow
With all the yummy Johnny Depp characters coming up in movies nowadays (and let's not forget that he's also 2009's Sexiest Man of the Year? Take that, Brad Pitt!) it's hard not to want to make something based on him to some degree. So it's probably best to start out with the character that he is currently most known by - Jack Sparrow from the trilogy Pirates of the Caribbean!
This little tyke is going to be making its rounds frequently over at my deadcraft store in etsy. Bug me if there isn't one in stock!
http://www.deadcraft.com/2009/12/11/pirates-of-the-carribean-jack-sparrow/[Deadcraft.Com]: Dragonball: Son Gohan Crochet Doll A large 8 inches high Son Gohan doll that I had commissioned for a customer in the past, based on the character from the Dragonball series! And of course, being the absolute masochist that I am, also agreed to do Son Gohan's more complicated Chineseque suit instead of his regular martial arts garb. And let's not forget the monkey tail!
[Deadcraft.Com]: Twilight Crochet Dolls I'm going to be honest. I am not a fan of the Twilight series. When I think of the perfect, ideal man, my heart shall always remain entirely with Pride and Prejudice's Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy. As an admitted bibliophile who grew up with monsters on the brain, as you can probably see with not only my dolls but in other artworks I've made / stories I've written, I like the writing styles of Umberto Eco and Jeffrey Eugenides, and am probably too old to be fully regaled with a four-book romantic story geared primarily for teens. However, I do have a lot of friends who are stark raving mad, crazed to the point of wtfness huge fans of the series, and I have eventually learned to deal with their moments of squee-ness if I am to maintain the friendship, despite their sometimes inability to deal with my poor fanpire-related barbed quips at their expense. They are also the same lovably exasperating people who had first requested me to make Edward Cullen dolls in the first place, so you also have them to thank for the series of dolls shown below. I have been making Edward Cullen and Jacob Black dolls for awhile now, and one out of every five customers who make the purchases inevitably asks me: "When are you ever going to make a Bella Swan doll?" While I could confess to a certain level of procrastination there, along with a truckload of other priority commissions and custom requests that took up most of my time for the better part of a year, one glaring reason it took me so long to make Bella was simply because she didn't have particular features that could easily be showcased in a doll and therefore easily observed to be a "Bella". Edward has his golden eyes and manly pomade. For the Jacob Black doll I settled for adding a tiny paw print on his lower back. But unless I stitchedthe word 'Bella' right across her shirt, I didn't know how people could easily discern her to be a Bella doll. A few people suggested Bella in her prom dress, or of her wearing an engagement ring. But she only wears her prom dress for a couple of scenes all in all and would have no further basis in later books, nor is a ring easy to do in miniature. The requests for her doll increased; in my Ravelry account, my Bella doll was still a work in progress, without any pictures to show, but four users had it listed as their favorite, and the entr viewed over a hundred times without my ever promoting or showcasing the attempt in groups. In the end, I decided to just make her without any "Bella" markings. I supposed that if Stephanie Meyer intended for her to look plain and normal and doe-eyed (and oddly enough, to also look a lot like Stephanie Meyer) then I supposed this would just reinforce the statement.
[Deadcraft.Com]: Dir en Grey Crochet Dolls I don't always have the opportunity to collaborate with a lot of other people in this crocheting business, so when you have friends over in Japan who also happen to maintain one of the best and most popular Dir En Grey websites on the web, then you tend to jump all over their offer to do something in tandem with the fandom. And so presenting, the current incarnation of Dir En Grey!
Given that the band look tends to change often in the same way seasons change, this is their current Autumn 2009 regalia. Of course, a few people who'd been with me way back when I was crocheting long before I'd had a website know that this isn't the first time I've crocheted Kyo.
Risu and Nao have been kind enough to promote these little dolls for me at their Dir en Grey site, http://www.orchestrated-chaos.com - and to my surprise, the dolls promptly sold out in a matter of days. So if any of you guys would like to purchase more Dir en Grey dolls, either with their current look, or in any previous costumes / wardrobes, head on over to their site and put in a request! They do a far lot better job at organizing these things than I could ever do!
http://www.deadcraft.com/2009/11/12/dir-en-grey-crochet-dolls/[Deadcraft.Com]: Odin Sphere: Gwendolyn and Oswald Dolls Odin Sphere was my favorite game of 2008. Okay, so maybe God of War 2 was my favorite game of 2008, but this was a very, very close second. Ingway is possibly the most adorable character that no one has ever heard of. So you can say that this was something of a labor of love, because I nearly broke my brain making two of its five main characters, Oswald and Gwendolyn. Not since my Valkyrie Profile Lenneth Valkyrie doll had there been so many details that I'd willingly made on something roughly 4 inches tall. I'm pretty happy about how then result is though, although Oswald's armor was harder to imagine than Gwenolyn's feather-and-armor affair.
Gwendolyn and Oswald
Gwendolyn
Oswald
[Deadcraft.Com]: Gensomaden Saiyuki Dolls
All dolls are available at my deadcraft etsy shop!
http://www.deadcraft.com/2009/10/26/gensomaden-saiyuki-dolls/[Deadcraft.Com]: Tim Burton's Nine Doll In honor of the awesome new Tim Burton movie out, here's my version of its main character, the lovable Nine doll (voiced by Elijah Wood)I tried to get most of the details as I was able to, and I'm proud of actually being able to scrounge up some push buttons for the eyes, especially. This is deviating slightly from most of my other dolls in that this is roughly 6 - 7 inches high, with a pattern I made up on the spot while I was crocheting. And on a slightly related note, anyone as excited over the new Alice in Wonderland animation coming out as I am, too?
This was specially made for a customr, and can be seen in my deadcraft etsy shop!
http://www.deadcraft.com/2009/10/22/tim-burtons-nine-doll/[Deadcraft.Com]: King of Fighters Dolls I blogged previously about having made a Terry Bogard doll for a happy customer, and a bit more customers emailed and wanted me to do more King of Fighters dolls. I get emails from people a lot, including but not limited to more doll-making, world peace, and complaints regarding my inability to pull up my pants. Since I have the capability to do only one of those three things mentioned, I figured why not? But of course, since this IS King of Fighters, there should be some poorly Photoshopped parody photos made by yours truly lurking about this entry, and here they are:
Kyo Kusanagi - easily the lead of the whole fighting franchise. He wears white bandannas, can shoot fire out of his hands (Among other things), likes long walks on the beach with Yuki, and particularly hates the Yagamis. He also likes hanging around with guys with gravity-defying hair whose name ends in -maru.
Blue Mary - actually based on Android #18 from Dragonball. I did not know this prior to typing this one out. Thank you, Wikipedia! Her father was killed in the line of duty protecting the President, so now she works as an agent to honor his memory. So original, yo.
Mai Shiranui - everyone's favorite bouncer. But for purposes to keep this page particularly wholesome (paperheroes.net shall be your better ource of writing smut instead) no boobs were created nor harmed in the creation of this doll.
Terry Bogard - Back then (until today, probably) the Japanese stereotype for American males. If the Japanese stereotype for American males also indicate that the latter develops their fighting techniques on the streets, have parents who have been killed by someone named geese, who perhaps have the most villainous, fowlest name ever (*rimshot*) and has a pet monkey. No, not that monkey.
On sale at my deadcraft etsy store! -
Terry Bogard - RESERVED
Blue Mary - RESERVED
Mai Shiranui - AVAILABLE
Kyo Kusanagi - AVAILABLE
http://www.deadcraft.com/2009/10/17/king-of-fighters-dolls/[Deadcraft.Com]: Twilight - Jacob Black Doll (Taylor Lautner and Werewolf version) I made a Jacob Black doll not too long ago long before New Moon was shot, quite awhile before even Twilight came out. Since he'd always been depicted as having long hair, especially with most of the Japanese manga versions that soon came out, my little Jacob had his long happy luxurious mane. Since New Moon ha pretty much established that Taylor Lautner's Jacob Black shall be sporting the short cropped hair version, I endeavored to change his hairtstyle up a bit:
