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Published: 2012-03-10 13:40:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 4950; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 71
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In a town in the woods at the top of a hill
There’s a house where no one lives
So you take a big bag of your big city money there
And buy it.

But at night, the house is dark
And you’re all alone, there’s a noise upstairs
At the top of the stairs, there’s a door
And you take a deep breath and try it.

And the flashlight shows you something moving just inside the door
There’s a tattered dress and a feeling you have felt somewhere before.

And there’s the creepy doll
That always follows you
It’s got a ruined eye
That’s always open…

And there’s a creepy doll
That always follows you
It’s got a pretty mouth
To swallow you whole…

"Creepy Dolls" by Jonathan Coulton

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This image was inspired more by someone I consider my best friend, !Lips0fArsenic than the actual song I quoted above. After seeing the video music photo montage of the same name on YouTube that her group ( RejectedPlaymates) created, I was inspired to make a creepy creation with my own tools and techniques, and here's the result. She does her own makeup, costumes, and props, which is really amazing a vast majority of the time, but I felt the desire (and she approved) to replace her makeup with touches of my own. The cracks and stitches were all her wonderful makeup job that, with her blessing, I replaced. The seams and screws of her joints on her limbs were added, and the extra limbs in the background too. The various styles of heels strewn all about were used from another friend, *latextanja , and are an homage of sorts to my friend's love of heels The spring is also obviously added, and the entire neck/shoulder area had to be constructed, though the pendant and "Toxic" tattoo are completely original. The body parts were pulled from a total of 4 different images, which hopefully she will leave as stock photos (*hint hint* ). And finally the skin is smoothed over completely to remove the graininess of the original photos and sell the look of hard rubber/plastic skin. I don't doubt she will, but I certainly hope she loves it I think perhaps I have found my new muse
UPDATE 3/11; Changed the eyes from their previous thin, multitonal brown irises (she took the image in a dark room, hence the dilation) to their current shape, almost-completely encompassing irises with pin-like dilation. Tried to make them look like they're held in by, perhaps, carpenter's nails or something.

Original photos ( 1, 2, 3, 4) by !Lips0fArsenic
Heels photos ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) by *latextanja
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Comments: 13

IzcentricPhotography [2013-08-17 14:26:38 +0000 UTC]

I really liked this photo! Wonderful manipulation and great skills with editing and adding effects and certain modifications! You display a great talent, as well as your friend who did an excellent make-up.

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WhyMe777x In reply to IzcentricPhotography [2013-08-20 09:14:02 +0000 UTC]

Heheheh, thank youuu! I'm glad you enjoyed it It's still one of my favorites, and she was really blown away by it too, so I feel really satisfied about it

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IzcentricPhotography In reply to WhyMe777x [2013-08-21 15:36:54 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome! I'm sure she was, just as well as she should. She looked dashing and made a lovely doll. And your work was stupendous.

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Tsubasa-Yume0793 [2012-03-10 22:21:02 +0000 UTC]

this is amazing!!!!! it looks so creepy 0.0 im gonna have nightmare tonight XD
i specially love the way her face turned out, does seem like a broken porcelain doll
great job love
altho there is something about the heels that makes me wonder, why are the heel inside the shoe behind it?

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WhyMe777x In reply to Tsubasa-Yume0793 [2012-03-11 20:26:43 +0000 UTC]

Hahahah, o my, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you! Well, maybe a little

Ahh wonderful, that's what I was going for Believe it or not, her skin really is that white in real life. Completely natural, no white makeup at all.

Thanx hon

You mean why are the legs inside the shoes in the background? Well in this image, she's a doll, so she can be taken apart and put together with other parts. If you look at her right hand (left side) carefully, you can see it is not attached, and also her left leg (right side) is at a very wrong angle, it is also not attached. Her parts can be switched out for other parts, and the legs in the back are just more parts. It's easier to screw off the one pair of legs and screw on the other, than to unlace the boots, slip them on, and lace them back up slowly.

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Lips0fArsenic [2012-03-10 19:01:09 +0000 UTC]

Wow... this is even better than I thought it was gonna be!

The new stitches and breaks look great! I really like the missing part of the cheek you added (or took off?)

I love the screws and details you put on the legs, I wasn't expecting that. Very creative I am actually so blown away with all the detail you put into this.. you even put doll details on my fingers! I am super impressed.. I don't even have words, I'm just so impressed
I also didn't know you were using more than one picture, I thought you were just gonna look and choose one, but I'm glad you didn't cuz the way you put everything together is just more amazing to me. The angle you set my head at on the spring looks very realistic with the way my hair is
The new background is badass. I love it. so much more fitting than what it actually was before
I love the "spare parts" and how my other leg looks broken in the box Of course you know I love all the shoes everywhere!
I love everything about it! I literally can't find one thing that I don't like. You did a super amazing job.

I like that you quoted the song in the description too.
Thanks for linking my youtube.

So I'm supposed to leave these at stock photos, huh? Well once I figure out how to do that... You know I suck at pretty much everything on this site Don't judge me

I consider you my best friend too and I've never been a muse, but I'm happy to be inspiration for you You've definately inspired me in some of my work

Thanks for doing this, I really do love it!

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WhyMe777x In reply to Lips0fArsenic [2012-03-11 20:09:05 +0000 UTC]

Orly? Thank goodness, near the end I was starting to think it was a bit underwhelming. I thought all the tiny details were great, but zooming out to fullscreen I could barely see any of them. But I'm so glad you were able to see them

Heh, thanx, it was a pretty long toil putting each of the cracks together, then putting each individual string and 2 holes for each Totally worth it though, I think. Lol, it definitely looks like took off, doesn't it I know you said "Black. Darkness. Hollow head.", but I just couldn't pass up adding that missing mesh part on the cheek, it just looked so awesome.

Heheh, yeah, actually except for the spring, the joints was the first detail that came to mind to add to it. Really proud of that particular detail, the joints. I expect if I had seen a bare foot, I might've smoothed over the toes to keep up with the effect

O yeah, I used 'em all in one way or another. And thanx about the background, that was another effort in itself. 3 different images to piece that together

Hmm, it looks broken, ey? Not sure I was going for that exactly, but I think it fits with the theme, sure. My master plan so to speak, was that only your left arm (right side) and maybe your right leg (left side) were supposed to be attached. The right arm (left side) and left leg (right side) were both supposed to be separated from your body. You can see the attachment-screw at the elbow of the right arm, and the left leg is waaay off from being attached. Guess I didn't quite drive it home? O well

Heheh, thanx hon. I'm so glad you love it, that's precisely the reason I made it

I usually like to tell a short story with the images I post, and I figured what better story than the song that inspired the music video And certainly hon, I thought why not do a bit of advertising for you.

Well if you would be so kind. Actually, you don't need to do anything except... well, not do anything I linked to each of the photos already in your sta.sh, so I don't need you to take any action except leave them where they are. Of course, that means that other people will be able to view them too (already 7-8 people each, with 4-5 downloads each). I hope that's not a problem. If you don't like that, I'll tell you how to delete them from sta.sh.

Heheh, aww, thanx hon I just reiterated the sentiment on the long thread. After my previous muse had to leave, I was feeling very not-interested in art. I'm happy this inspiring idea came along, and I'm so glad I could return the favor

Certainly my dear, so glad you love it

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Lips0fArsenic In reply to WhyMe777x [2012-03-11 21:14:57 +0000 UTC]

No no. Not at all. Its amazing

Well it looks great, and I'm glad you did.
Well by broken, I meant unattatched So yeah.. you drove it home all right, and I did notice the other arm didn't look attatched either.

Well it all looks great and I like the eye change

No, thats fine. I don't mind. That just means I don't have to figure out how to delete stuff and you to get to use the links Sounds like a win win.. haha

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WhyMe777x In reply to Lips0fArsenic [2012-03-11 21:46:36 +0000 UTC]

Ahh, well alright then I feel just a bit more accomplished now Thanx, I thought the eye change was a good direction. Heheh, win win indeed, no need to complicate things

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FueledbypartII [2012-03-10 17:38:56 +0000 UTC]

wow I remember a scary pictures of guro

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WhyMe777x In reply to FueledbypartII [2012-03-11 20:16:37 +0000 UTC]

Nah nah, guro is "malformed, unnatural or horrific". Perhaps she is unnatural, but she is well formed certainly She is inspired by Child's Play (1988) character. Chucky was scarred and broken doll, with soul of a killer. She is "Bride of Chucky" in a sense. But she is not evil or danger, she is only "Creepy".

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FueledbypartII In reply to WhyMe777x [2012-03-11 21:58:35 +0000 UTC]

not exactly, guro is Shintaro Kago art [link] and this is cute and scary. Guro is Lyn's Okamoto Elfen Lied and is sexy and frightened.
Is erotic Grotesque: grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, fantastic, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting. Scyla, Chimeras, Centaur, doll girls... are beauty and grotesque. But in english languaje grotesque is used to describe ugly thing. But a thing can be beauty and grotesque

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WhyMe777x In reply to FueledbypartII [2012-03-11 22:16:10 +0000 UTC]

Ahh yes, you mention Shintaro Kago previously, I remember.

Ugly, unpleasant, disgusting... Words that seem to be antonym, opposite of beauty. Incongruous is not correct, because she fits perfectly with her surroundings. Perhaps fantastic or strange can apply... But I would choose to call it fantastic or strange, simply. No need for a greater term that does not apply perfectly.

Beauty and art is opinion. My opinion; she is fantastic beauty, strange beauty, but not grotesque beauty.

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