Miss Piggy goes Walkabout

Here's the latest heads I made for the walking doll. Although the heads aren't bad they don't work with the doll. So I think it's time to set her aside and move on to something else. I thought the one on the left looked like Miss Piggy when I put the blond wig on her. I have this thing about bald dolls - I hate them. So when I work on a doll I always have to put a wig or turban on her until she gets her final 'do'. I have two little wigs that I use just for that. One of my friends thinks this is very strange and she's quite amused by it - but, hey, what can I say! Everyone has their little idiosyncracies and this one's mine!

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The doll on the right has an enormous amount of needle sculpting. The entire

eye is sculpted - around the whole socket and the eyelid. The nose has the bridge, nostrils, and nostrils flares sculpted. The mouth is a three-stitch sculpt. I really like the look this gives the face. I used techniques from a book called Needle Sculpting from the Beginning that is written by Barbara Owen. It's a great resource and you can get it in black-and-white book form or on a CD. The CD has face coloring instructions which the book does not. I may have mentioned this book in an earlier post. Guess that means I really like it!