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[i-draw-oets-officail]

As a heads up since I now have people in my inbox, I’m currently on hiatus while I stay at a friends house. You’ll have to wait I fear, but your creatures will be drawn if you’ve sent them.

[a-humbletoymaker]

The First Half has been completed

[ID START: a picture of 9 crochet plushies leaning up against a tree. END ID]

I have finally completed the first phase of my @hellofromthehallowoods dolls, and am super excited to talk about them! beware, however, as this post will inevitably be long. So long in fact, that I actually logged into this godforsaken website rather than use the app, so I could properly type.

[ID START: a photo of one of the dolls from the above photograph. The doll is of a white girl with brown buzz cut hair. She has brown eyes and wears a red tank top with a black jacket. Her Jeans are blue, and her shoes are black. END ID]

Riot was my first doll, which also means she's my least favorite. This was a doll that made many firsts for me, including crocheting pants, and not rooting the hair of the doll. Given my affinity for doll hair, she just never felt complete too me. She also just seemed incredibly bulky due to all of the layers of yarn blanketing her. It makes her rather stiff. That said, I did learn a lot while making her that you'll see through the rest of the first half.

{ID START: another photograph of a doll from the above image. She is a black girl, with black hair, eyes, and glasses. She wears a dress with a salmon top, and neon pink skirt. It has a teal bow around the waist with a pale yellow center. She wears yellow leggings and teal boots. END ID]

Naturally, Clara came next. I still think she's my favorite of the first phase of dolls. I knew from the start that she wore a dress; although, I had pictured her in something more... calm? regardless, I was doing a huge deep dive into J-fashon at the time, and it likely seeped a bit into my work. I have no regrets. She's adorable! Also she got to be the first doll I've ever embroidered glasses on to!

[ID START: a photo of another doll from the top photo. This one is white with black hair pulled back into two braids. She wears a plain, sparkly blue dress, with matching shoes. END ID]

Did I buy this blue yarn specifically to make this doll? Yes. Do I have any regrets? nope. I based this design loosely on Wednesday Adams, because Friday just frankly gives me those vibes. Her design is quite simple, but I do love how her and Clara look when next too each other.

[ID START: another photo of one of the dolls. This time the doll hangs from a tree, They have choppy black hair, and a patchwork of different skin tones stitched to their body, with pink thread. they have pale eyes, a white shirt, black jacket, and blue jeans. END ID]

Diggory Graves was a challenge to design. A known hill I will die on is that they wear a plague doctor mask; however, I knew I'd have a hard time showcasing their skin if I gave them one. Design wise, I like the stitches, so I originally sewed a plague doctor mask to the side of the head, as I had seen that done with creepy pasta fanart in the past.It didn't look as good in a 3D space as it had in 2D, so I ended up getting rid of it all together. Make no mistake however, this character absolutely wears a plague doctor mask.

[ID START: another photo of one of the dolls. This one has light blue skin, and takers off where the feet should be, to a small crochet paint cord. He has mess dark blue hair, black a blue dress shirt, and a purple vest on top. END ID]

Percy went through a few designs before I settled on one I liked. I have an incredibly hard time doing short hair, and somewhat wanted to choose a design that would allow that to be a feature rather than a flaw. At the end of the day, I just ended up sort of going for it. I had purposefully made Diggory's hair choppy, so why couldn't I do Percy's the same? He did cut both of their hair at some point.

[ID START: another picture of a doll. This one has white skin, puffy blue hair, a light blue jacket under a sparking blue cape. They have a white shirt with black pants and blue shoes. Their eyes are also blue. END ID]

I adore Olivier so much. Just, I would die for them. I had wanted to make them using a mid tone between the two tones you've seen me use throughout this post, but my dog decided that that yarn was his actually (aka he tore it up and had it all over the house.) Living in the woods, while also being blind and thus unable to drive, does sadly mean that I couldn't just go to my local craft store and pick some up; the show still had to go on. I wanted to link them with Friday by using the same yarn for her dress in their cape. I quite like how this one turned out.

[ID START: another picture of a crochet doll. This one has pale skin, black pants, a brown wing like cape, and a red shirt. They have a moth tattoo on their face, have red eyes and pale blonde hair. END ID]

Sadly, Moth is the first, and only time I've ever interacted with a character/ person who uses neopronouns. I'm still trying to get around how they work, and Hello From the Hallowoods is currently my only point of reference to that. I've always imagined Moth having albinism. I don't know why, but I didn't question it when designing the doll. I also went back and forth a lot about giving moth, moth's tattoo, and where it would go. I know its on moth's neck in the show, but the necks on these dolls are frankly way to small to attempt doing that.

[ID START: an image of a dark skinned crochet doll. She had black hair with flecks of red, orange and yellow throughout. She has matching dog ears and a matching tail. Her hair is pulled back into a messy braid. She wears a white tank top with khaki pants and black shoes. END ID]

Please know that I watched an entire 2 hour documentary about Oscar Wilde, and Spirited away, while rooting her hair, yet I still had time to catch up on a few other podcasts as well. She has so much hair. I may or may not have been crying, and my fingers hurt so bad. I probably should have decided to just give her black hair and save myself the pain, but I refuse to make anything easy for myself. I do not regret anything however, because I love how she turned out.

[ID START: another picture of a white, crochet doll. He has long, red and orange hair, that is curled, and is worn in a bony tail. He has red eyes and horns to match. He wears a silver suit, with pink pants and matching silver shoes, END ID]

I was originally going to make Polly before Yaretzi, but someone, who knows who they are, made that difficult. I'm trying to make these dolls as close to the cannon discriptions as I can, so I had to wait out the incident too make sure Polly was OK before making the doll. He was going to be much more pink than he is now, but midway through I decided actually I hated it, and started over in a very me fashion.

You may notice a lack of Mort. I did want to add him to this phase, but I haven't figured out how I wanted to actually go about writing a pattern for him. I adore that hunk of metal so, so much, but I already write my own patterns, and don't really know where to start with him. In all likeliness, he'll make up the final phase of this project. I also didn't post Dogsmell because I hated how he turned out; although he is still on my blog, and will be re-making him at some point.

Because I am going off to college here soon, and do not know what to expect, I have decided to take a break from this project before beginning the second phase. I want to work on other projects in the time being. Once I'm settled in I shall continue on with phase two!

For those wondering, phase two will include these characters in no particular order:

Lady Ethol Malory

Jonah Duckworth

Hector Mendoza

Burn Keene

Violet Keene

Zelda Duckworth

Al

The Omen

Winnona Rider

[a-humbletoymaker]

I live for getting updates of The Oracle

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[askyukihayashi]

I wish someone else was up completely demolishing their sleep schedule right beside me. Never going to happen because I'm just too scared to talk to the people who are up.

[yukiwritesfanfiction-blog]

All about Fanfiction

Hey guys! I figured I might as well do an introduction piece. So! I haven’t written fanfiction in about.... two years  now? But after watching some new anime series... I decided to get back into it! And what better way to kick off the blog than with some Free! fanfiction? More specifically with number one butterfly boy Rei Ryugazaki! I really wanted to participate in ReixSenpai week, but due to finals I was unable to. So... expect late submissions for all eight? days. It’ll take me some time but I’ll post them up when I’m finished. 

[i-draw-oets-officail]

Hey ya’ll if you have pets you want me to draw, whatever they are be it something furry, slimy or crawly please send in a picture!

It’s hard to find peoples animals on tumblr because people don’t post a super ton about them, and when they do they’re often untagged. My goal is to draw one on the daily though.

[a-humbletoymaker]

Mx. Wellmen I am trying to make dolls of your charecter so, if you could stop maiming or killing then that would be great. I want them to actually look like the characters they’re supposed to be by the end of the doll making.

[a-humbletoymaker]

THESES THINGS ARE CURSED YOU GUYS!

Ok ok ok so, I got one of these when I continued from elementary to middle school. I loved it. You could press its hand and it would go “pika-pika” in a cute voice. The thing is: it spoke in a demonic scratchy sounding voice for no reason. I didn’t even have to press a button. It would just do it because it felt like it. I tried changing the batteries but it did nothing. It STILL goes off whenever it pleases without buttons.

[a-humbletoymaker]

Hhhh so I’m almost done with Diggery Graves, but I got distracted and am now working in a pillow, and I want to make an Inuyasha doll because I’ve been watching way too much of that while working. I also wanna make it while yashahime is still running so that hopefully people will actually see it lol. Anyway we’ll see what order these things got done in.

[a-humbletoymaker]

So like, I was working on Polly for my doll collection (well Solomon first before abruptly deciding fuck him and then working on Polly) but due to… circumstances, I’ll have to workshop that design. I’m thinking of maybe doing yaretzi in the meantime? ;I’ve done absolutely no workshopping on Mort’s design lol)

[a-humbletoymaker]

Alright so here’s Clara Martin coming in for part 2 of my Hello From the Hallowoods doll collection.

I actually like how she came out a lot more that I did Riot, but that’s most likely because I actually got to root hair this time instead of just making the wig cap.

In the past a lot of you have pointed out that I tend to spend a lot of time on the hair, and that’s probably be a use as a visually impaired/blind person, that’s the only semi reliable way I have to distinguish people, so styling the hair is not only my favorite part, but it also makes the doll feel a lot more alive for me.

Anyway I was originally planning on making Clara a lot more cottage core, but as I worked I realized it kept leaning more towards Lolita styles.Eventually I just scrapped the cottage core idea all together. I’m really happy I did though because I think this doll is super cute, and it’ll contrast nicely with what I have planned for Friday.

Anyway, up next is Dogsmell.

[ID start: a picture of a black doll with fluffy black hair and brown eyes. She wears black glasses and pale yellow bows in her hair. She has on a peach topped dress with a giant teal bow and a neon pink hoop skirt that reaches to her knees. She wears yellow pants that match the bows on her hair, and teal boots that match the bow on her dress. End ID]

[a-humbletoymaker]

Ok ya’ll I know this isn’t toy or crochet related but I took a nap earlier and my guardian got this picture of me and my dog and I just want to show you

[ID start: a picture of a person wearing red laying on a brown couch. Their head is resting on a very medium sized, fluffy, gray and black dog who is looking at the camera. ID WBD]

[a-humbletoymaker]

Hello world!!

Back in December I got two Tamagotchi ONs that I was running by January I had to take out they’re batteries because I had a mental health problem and they were making it worse. I tried putting in batteries and they still aren’t working? I tried cleaning where the batteries go with rubbing alcohol and a q-tip as well as tested the batteries and trying brand new ones. I also tested them in other devises that worked fine. Any ideas what’s going on?

[a-humbletoymaker]

Ya’ll I’m gonna make Jon and Martin dolls. I broke. I need them in my life. I haven’t made an overweight doll yet so forgive me if I don’t have the pattern for that done great. It’ll be a bit of an expirament.

[a-humbletoymaker]

I really wanna make a Tohru doll. Like I know I made a rice ball when Fruits Basket got re-booted but I really think she would make a really cute human doll? Maybe I’ll do that when my wrist stops trying to kill me.

[a-humbletoymaker]

I’m using a yarn that’s so thin I can’t use my usual Bobby pin stitch markers. This is suffering.