Merida of Dun Broch

Got Merida painted not too long ago. It's 'only' been 3-4 months since she 

came home and started feeling bad for having her laying around as a blank

 face for so long. So yeah.. First things first; I got her eyes opened at long 

last, she came home with her eyes closed as I wanted to decide for myself 

how big they were going to be. Had to drill a bit from the inside to hollow 

out the eye sockets a bit and after I outlined the shape I aimed to make. 

Here with the first one opened..

Then the other..

Got out the pastels, brushes and got down to business!

Blush work down, moving on to the freckles.. 

As she's not quite the same age as in the movie I figured she'd have a lot
more freckles coming to since then.

The eyebrows wasn't as much of a pain in the ass as usual to paint and
found they came out pretty decent, definitely getting better at
painting them ever so slowly.

Some gloss and eyelashes in place later she could finally get back on her 

body again sporting her untamable mane of curly red hair gazing out 

on the world with her blue eyes.

Now I just need to sew her her dresses to be able to really show her off.

Merida of Dun Broch

After having watched Brave a handful of times back when it got up on NF I started getting the idea to find a suiting sculpt for Merida. This idea grew until I started looking around for an actual sculpt as well and some 3-4 months back I also found one. An AngellStudio Dana which with a few modifications here and there will be just perfect in my eyes as the 16 year old fiery redheaded wee lass, Princess Merida of Dun Broch. Going to sand down her nose to make it more button like, lips needs to be rounded off some more and her eyes needs opening.

Her eyes, which are already on their way, are from Mako and from their Owl series. Found the most perfect wig at etsy which are also well on it's way here.

 

First time ever that I've felt excited about getting home a girl and she will get to be the only one, any other girl dolls I see I just want to put their heads on a male body xD