FF12- Fran

After 30 hours of work, she's finally finished!

Actually, I think I'm going to put more detail in the helmet, and I still have her bow to make. But all in all, she's finished.

I'm going to retake better pictures, but I have to wait until I finish Kos-Mos, since these two dolls are my project for my contemporary art history class. The title of the work is "She's not a Human, so it's Okay." And I'm exploring themes of pop culture, sexuality in contemporary japanese art, and the role of craft in art. I've inspired myself from Murakami's work; and I'm aware of my use of appropriation. Full details on the meaning of the work are pending, because I'm not finished researching and I still need to organise my thoughts on the work.

Fran's armor is nearly completely made out of felt. I used this "higher quality felt" (well, it was 11$ the meter) and my other black felt that was different tone. I had many ideas on what to use, but I finally decided on felt since I wanted to layer and make as much detail as possible. She looks a lot better in real life!

I'm not entirely satisfied with her anatomy...It could have easily been tweaked, but I failed to change it at the time, so I'm left with a bit of dissapointment. But all in all, she's quite a success.

Here are some additional details:
body
leg
shoe

EDIT She's exaclty 30inches tall (as in, including her ears). I had to edit this in because people kept on asking me!!

So that's it for now, folks! Thanks for looking.