I've been an artist pretty much since I could pick up a crayon! I've always enjoyed trying new things, so I have trouble sticking to a medium usually. I love drawing, painting, sculpting, CG, sewing... just about anything but photography. Never was able to get a handle on photography!

My current passion is customizing Monster High and Ever After High dolls. I decided this would be the route I'd try to pay for daycare for 2 kids. Hopefully it will work out! *crosses fingers*

The one thing I do that not many other customizers do is shrink the heads of all the dolls so that they are more proportionate to the bodies. Hoping other people will enjoy the same aesthetic! With Ever After High dolls, they get additional reshaping with dremeling and sanding to give their faces more definition and escape the roundness that many of them have. This takes a lot of time and effort. You can see my tutorials on shrinking and reshaping on these pages on my website here:
shrinking: http://www.dirili.com/mh/shrinkop.html
reshaping: http://www.dirili.com/mh/index.html

Each doll I modify has the following features:

1. More proportionate heads, shrunken in acetone - It's about a week long process to shrink each vinyl head to make them a little more appropriately sized for their bodies. The Ever After High dolls that I modify get additional work. Dremeling and sanding to add more shape and definition to their faces.

2. Full seam removal/body sanding and molded underwear removal - This can take 3-6 hours per doll depending on the state of the seams and details, but it's well worth it, especially if painting the whole body!

3. Face repaint and full body blushing - Face repaints are the staple of any OOAK doll, but not everyone paints the full body. I like to make the body's details stand out and have a particular love for detailing hands and feet which started back when I used to paint my resin bjds.

4. Redress - Some of my dolls will be redressed with stock clothing that I have on hand if I see something that suits them, but most of them will have hand sewn and crafted outfits. I plan to use Worbla and other thermoplastics to create some armored looks and special accessories.

5. Optional: reroot - Not all my dolls will have reroots which is why I list this last. It depends on the idea I have for the doll. I use the punch tool method myself which typically takes me 8-15 hours per doll.

A select few of my earliest creations do not have all of these features, so please read each description carefully to see what each doll has.

I love talking to other artists and exchanging techniques and ideas, so feel free to ask me any questions!