#sherasdcc2016

I FINALLY have accomplished my goal of doing all the toy canon vintage She Ra characters with this Angella custom. She was the character I was heavily dreading on working on the most due to how much I dislike the Filmation version of her character design, as well as how drastically different she is to the toy version of Angella. So Angella in the Filmation series was written to be Glimmer's mother but the initial toy canon of Angella was that she was She Ra's random angel friend who was queen of a separate nation. For all of my She Ra dolls, I usually picked the toy design as the basis of the custom but used the Filmation series to better add detail since the overlap helped with the same face syndrome that a lot of dolls had. It's something I tried to work from when I saw the prototypes of the other characters that was a healthy mix of Toy canon and Filmation canon. But Angella's design was changed so drastically I opted to lean heavily into the toy design and the mini comic that came with her where she had long reddish strawberry hair and pink lips, as I felt this made her much more distinct than the weird yellow blonde bob that Filmation went with. Since this was my last of the She Ra characters with a toy design from the 1985-1987 run, I decided to really lean into the 80s toy aesthetic of having no black paint and blue eyeshadow as I feel that would make her more angelic and otherworldly compared to my other She Ra dolls. I'm really happy with how the colours evoke that toy aesthetic too. Anyway I'm happy I finally accomplished doing modern versions of all the characters from the She Ra 80s toy line to go with my 2016 SDCC She Ra as she's definitely one of my most favourite modern figures from Mattel. It's also has been a fun exercise to reimagine an 80s doll line as modern dolls since I stuck with only saran hair colours, and worked with the limited sculpt selection and paint. #angella #repaint #shera #princessofpower #motu #sherasdcc2016 #wewantmoremotu #wewantmoreshera https://www.instagram.com/p/CTFIeEGhp73/?utm_medium=tumblr

So it's been a couple of years since I worked on my custom She Ra dolls since the base parts (factory SDCC She Ra heads and WWE Superstar bodies) became incredibly difficult to track down and my dwindling supply of parts made me incredibly nervous to finish off my initial project of the toy canon characters. But I've seen the Rainbow High Closet set, and I know in my heart that the orange knit butterfly dress would be perfect for Flutterina so I finally got around to painting her face. For my She Ra dolls I tend to use the vintage Mattel toys as my main basis while only looking to the Filmation canon to help extrapolate details in the face since I feel like that would work best with my 2016 She Ra's stylisation. But Flutterina has a pretty generic toy face so a lot of my inspiration is lifted directly from Filmation. I know a lot of people admire my ability to make a custom doll, but this doll was waiting for a face up since 2019. I'm glad I finally finished her though and I'm looking forward to dressing her in a specific dress when I have the chance. #flutterina #repaint #shera #princessofpower #motu #sherasdcc2016 #wewantmoremotu #wewantmoreshera https://www.instagram.com/p/CTDKMaMhmBT/?utm_medium=tumblr

Feeling sweet #doubletrouble #repaint #shera #princessofpower #motu #sherasdcc2016 #wewantmoremotu #wewantmoreshera #doubletroubleshera https://www.instagram.com/p/CTJFMJVBpbb/?utm_medium=tumblr

Part of the reason why I lost steam in the She Ra project was that I wanted to make She Ra's friend who could wear modern clothes, and roughly as I was getting into the project the fact play line doll clothes went in a direction that wasn't to my taste, especially with non feminine associated colours like green. But Rainbow High really got me excited for modern doll clothes again and Double Trouble wearing Karma's clothes I think is a fun fit. #doubletrouble #repaint #shera #princessofpower #motu #sherasdcc2016 #wewantmoremotu #wewantmoreshera #doubletroubleshera https://www.instagram.com/p/CTJFDkChaSP/?utm_medium=tumblr

Feeling spicy. #doubletrouble #repaint #shera #princessofpower #motu #sherasdcc2016 #wewantmoremotu #wewantmoreshera #doubletroubleshera https://www.instagram.com/p/CTJFQdGhwAG/?utm_medium=tumblr

Breakfast with She-Ra! Gotta power up before a full day at SDCC! #princessofpower #sherasdcc2016 #shera #sherasdcc #lioncoffee #breakfast #yum #wewantmoreshera #motu #heman (at LION Coffee (Mainland))