Harold Wideman
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Left: Original drawing and Right: Pancake doll based on drawing
Harold Wideman
Harold is prototype number 2 in my pancake doll project. The first was Alice O’Grady. Harold is the father in The Widemans vs the Narrowsmiths (link this) story that I drew three years ago.
Harold went together easier than Alice. Reasons for this include a rudimentary pattern was already made and a procedure had been established – and the Jeff Beck CD didn’t seem to hurt, either. =D
Front
Back
The biggest change I made with Harold was opting to embroider his facial features (and the hairy chest) rather than using permanent marker.
I really like the effect of the outlining stitches, they seem more “definite” and appropriate for a sewn object. The lenses in his glasses are painted on the cloth with acrylic paint. I also elected to not sew the limbs at the elbows and knees because that seemed to stiffen them which was opposite to the effect I’d wished for.
The hair was sewn directly into the seam where the front of the head joins the back, exactly like Alice’s hair only much shorter.
