Narcissa Malfoy and baby Draco, of Harry Potter, as MLPs.
I did a 2-dimensional version of Narcissa and baby Draco [link] a few years ago, as a gift for -- she was my very first 100th favouriter on any image at my main account, ~WolfenMoondaughter. A little over a year ago, my crafting muse, Hern, suddenly got it in his head that I should do a "live", 3-dimensional version of that image (I think my 2-D art muse, La, put him up to it.) Between life and difficulties with the dress and Draco's wings, though, I ended up putting it aside, and so most of the supplies to make it have been sitting on my crafting table for ages. Recent computer troubles have prompted us to finally biting the bullet and upgrading my desktop to Windows 7, so while we were waiting for the disc, I decided to get back to this project so I could put things away, finally -- as well as put the project in the spot I left open for it in my Harry Potter collection! LOL Yeah, okay, it didn't turn out *quite* the same, but I'm fairly satisfied.
Narcissa is a Sweetheart Sisters MLP; I removed her original, glittery marks with Goo Gone Extreme Remover (otherwise the texture would have shown through), ad painted over her in acrylic. She had a hole in her right ear from an earring -- I filled it in with Crayola Model Magic and painted over it. I used the remains of the earring as the center of her narcissa blossom pendant; I used Model magic for the petals, painted it all with Royal Violet acrylic, and painted over it all with glossy Mod Podge. There was a post in back of the earring, so I poked a hole in her chest and pushed the post into it, to secure it. I cut off her hair and replaced it with embroidery thread, which I knotted and pinned in place. Her dress is a somewhat stretchy velour, which I basically just wrapped around her and hot-glued in place. Then I added swirls in silver glitter paint. The collar is a green cotton fabric with a faint rose design. For the Slytherin shield, I cut the shield out of a Pop-Tart wrapper, then cut out a snake from printer painter, painted it with metallic green paint, and glued it to the shield. Note that it's pointing in a different direction from the snake on the shield of the two-dimensional image -- it occurred to me that it would make a nice "S" for Slytherin! Her snake bracelet is made of Model Magic, painted with both silver acrylic and silver glitter paint. The eyes are glass beads.
Draco was a baby pony, obviously -- I cut his mane short and then coloured it with a yellow Sharpie. I then strung a bit of wire through his back, in such a way that not only was there armature for the wings, but also a loop between his shoulders for stringing fishing line through, to make him "fly"". I shaped wings out of Sculpy by sketching one out on a piece of paper, pressing the clay down on it so that the pencil graphite would stick to the clay, then cutting it with an exacto blade. After attaching the wings, I then baked him in the oven, as per the Sculpy instructions. He was a little jelly-like, but he didn't warp or anything, and happily went back to normal after cooling off. I painted him in acrylic, then printed out the symbol I'd done for the 2-D image and cut it out with an exacto (which was *not* easy), coated it with gloss Mod Podge, and glued it on him. His shield was made the same way that Narcissa's was. I’ve since had to replace his wings (they cracked; this time I made tissue-paper wings), thus necessitating I repaint him, though I tried for a similar green.
For the room set, I used a flat, flip-top cardboard box. The green wall behind them is the samw "wallpaper" I used for the 2-D image, using a pattern brush I made for another "Draco in Malfoy Manor"-related image ( [link] ). Alas, you can't see the patten very well, and I had to do it in sections because the paper wasn't big enough to do it all in one sheet. I coated it with packing tape so it wouldn't get wet or tear, but that made it look worse -- I may redo that part someday .... For the floor, I cut up the backing of an empty canvas pad, then painted it with glossy Mod Podge. I covered an old check box with white satin to make the mattress, and more of the velour for the wall behind it and the canopy curtains. The tie for the curtains is silver pipe cleaner. I attached a hanger to the flap overhead, to tie Draco's fishing line to, and secured it with more pipe cleaner in the back. The mirror, which is based on one I originally did for that other image of Draco in Malfoy Manor and reused for the 2D Narcissa and Baby Draco image, was made similarly to the bracelet, with the addition of more Pop Tart wrapper for the actual mirror part.
