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Spelldon Monster High Custom

Once I saw that G3 Deuce had green skin, I knew I had to try my hand at making Spelldon Cauldronello. I re-haired him and flocked the sides of his head with yarn to imitate dreads. I sewed him a jacket, shirt, joggers, and socks. I made his little potions (out of beads), earrings (also out of beads), necklaces, gloves, pointed ears (I wish I could have gotten them smoother, but they were so delicate that I could not sand them without them breaking), shoes (out of paperboard and papier-mâché), and repainted his face (my first full face repaint and daaang was that difficult to try and make his eyes and eyebrows look related to one another).

He’s not perfect, but he was super fun to pose and creating him was a HUGE learning experience (like to start sealing all of my thread knots with fabric glue).

You’re more than welcome to draw fanart/make your own based on mine, just tag me- I’d love to see them. Feel free to comment what you like/dislike think I should improve on. :)

Edit: thank you for all the sweet comments in the reblogs guys. You’re all making my day. :)

More under the cut

Close ups of his left side (I like how this ear turned out the best).

And his right side. I couldn’t get this side smoothed out to save my life, haha. Hopefully his earrings distract enough from it. Keeping beads from old bracelets come in handy! These were just the right size for him. I repainted the lower earring in black, with a stripe of purple, and added silver Ancient Greek designs on either side.

One more close up of his left ear and earring (I added a purple pentagram in the center of the silver Greek designs and the color shift sparkle paint around the rim). His upper earring is the same as his right lower earring, but has an orange stripe.

His face-up took awhile, but it is very rewarding to finally give him a face. I tried to make it look like the factory g1 monster high face up and took a lot of inspiration from his older sister Casta’s pupils. I gave him darker purple eyes, with the yellow/gold zig-zags. I gave him three moles, instead of just the one that Casta has, to mix it up a little. I did take a little inspiration from G3 for his eyebrows to add some orange and purple streaks in the front and a cut in his left eyebrow (I don’t know if that is still trendy, but I think it looks cool). The eyebrows are still not super symmetrical, but I already sealed it. I went back and forth on what I wanted his lip colors to be (I know I wanted something two toned) but finally decided on a dark purple upper lip, with a green outlined lower lip.

Also G3 heads are SUPER difficult to try and reattach (and remove) and have to be VERY squishy to put back on their bodies (even after I had trimmed down the neck peg).

Okay, onto his wardrobe! I wanted to imitate Casta’s color pallet: black, orange, purple, silver (and sparkles and studs), while bringing in more “witchy” themes (the buckles, stripe socks, and pentagrams), and his scaritage from his mama Circe (hence the potions, boars on his shirt and shoes, the greek vase designs and the boar designs being black on orange -like the Ancient Greek vases). Even on the Greek designs, I put some teeny tiny pentagrams (namely on his jacket sand socks).

His jacket took the longest (his shoes were the second longest). It is fully lined (the sleeves have a white lining to keep staining to a minimum), and working pockets. I liked the sparkly material I found, but does it shed like crazy (I used it for his collar, cuffs, pockets, and the bottom of his jacket in the back, and wrong side-out for his sleeves -they still have silver sparkles showing though and it doesn’t shed…but it will catch on things). I used thin ribbon for the outside of his pockets (next time I will fabric glue the ends shut on all my ribbons and a thicker ribbon for the bottom of his coat), and bent some wire into buckles. I also used ribbon wire and looped black thread over it to make it look like a zipper. I used fabric paint for the pattern down the front and REALLY hope it stays on there.

I really wanted a mesh back to his coat (I love how that part turned out), and then added this purple sparkly ribbon to his sleeves. He was going to have another pentagram in the back but it was too much (but it left a cool shadow of the star after I removed it).

His gloves are made of mesh and ribbon (with glitter fabric glue continuously added on top of each other, and then painted silver, to make the spikes on his knuckles -same thing I did with his choker and shoes). His nails are painted black with the same color flash glaze paint as part of his earrings.

Okay onto his main outfit without the coat (he’s much more fun and easier to pose without his jacket).

“Spelldon, please move your necklace out of the way, so we can see your shirt better, thank you.”

Close up of his wild boar and Greek vase designs on his shirt (done in fabric paint). I REALLY love how the boar turned out as I was SUPER nervous I was going to mess it up. Having a boar/Greek vase design on an orange shirt was also inspired by @spookberry ‘s design of Spelldon. His necklace pendant was another bead I had (and it worked great for attacking thread too).

Side and back of his outfit (you can see some of that stray black glitter).

“‘Scuse me Spelldon, can you lift your shirt so we can see you joggers better? Thank you.” His joggers/capri’s and socks were inspired by @peppapigvevo ‘s Spelldon design. Once again I used ribbon, that sparkly material for his waistband and cuffs, and silver fabric paint for Greek vase design.

I attached a chain to his joggers and added these potion bottles (while Casta looks like she uses more magic spells and incantations through her singing, I like to think Spelldon uses potions -more like his mom). I made these potions out of wire, beads, thread and air-dry clay.

Onto his shoes and socks. I made the shoes out of paperboard and paper-maché. I wanted them to be boar themed while still having pentagrams and studs on them. They turned out a bit wonky (and a tad too long -but it helps him stand up, haha), but I spent too much time on them to redo them, haha. His shoe sole I also painted with that sparkle flash glaze paint too. I also gave him the striped socks, because I love striped socks and tights on witches.

“Thanks for holding still Spelldon, and being patient with me.” I’m going to make another post or two with comparisons with his sister, some of my other customs, and some vampire that claims he knows him or something, heehee.

Oh yeah! My sketches for him:

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Spelldon Sneak Peak

I’ll get better pictures tomorrow, but I JUST finished him and couldn’t wait to share him. He’s not perfect, but he’s the first full custom doll I’ve done (besides the Skull Shore Tikis and Hoodude). His shoes could be better, but after spending a week sculpting them out of paper board and paper maché, and painting them (the orange needed like eight layers of paint) I’m going to call it good.

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Spelldon and Friends

My first post focused on Spelldon and breaking down his outfit pieces. This one will focus on him and some other Monster High dolls….including a vampire….more under the cut because I took a lot of photos!!

From Valentine’s Diary: July 2nd

“While attempting to hide in the shadows, I bumped into a student I didn't recognize. He said his name was Spelldon Cauldronello. He had only been at MH a couple of weeks as he had been traveling with his older sister. Meeting him totally made me space out and forget to send a text that was supposed to help Clawd. He asked if I went to MH, and I said I was just visiting, but I would love to go to MH if I can. He said he'd keep me up on the groanings on around school if I wanted, so I gave him my number.”

I kept seeing fanart of Spelldon dropping a book and Valentine and Spelldon reaching for it at the same time that I thought it had happened in the diaries too, and decided to quickly pose them like that. Valentine is completely and instantly love struck with Spelldon. Spelldon is lightly curious at this dapper looking southern-drawling vampire.

It didn’t take them long to start trying to hold hands. It was a bit tricky, but they managed. They have started to flirt incessantly.

They seemed to like dancing (Valentine has had many dances over the centuries with “young fillies” he had tried to steal love from, but this felt so much different. Spelldon hasn’t danced many slow dances, but meeting Valentine has made him want to start learning).

Still working on hand holding….

Valentine is pretty stealthy (like most vampires), and has surprised Spelldon quite a few times when sneaking in for a surprise kiss on the cheek. Spelldon lightheartedly threatens to give Valentine a potion that make his footsteps as loud as a giant’s.

Spelldon might have used an invisibility potion to finally manage to sneak up on Valentine and surprise him with a kiss on a cheek. Valentine tells Spelldon he doesn’t need to try and surprise him, he would gladly take a kiss from him anytime.

“Who is this?!” Spelldon looks up and Valentine thinks he remembers hearing that voice from the radio…..

Casta has entered the chat.

Casta is still getting used to her younger brother dating an emotion-feeding vampire (especially someone who was as notorious as Valentine -she might be a famous singer, but she knows a fiend who knows a fiend who knows a vampire who has had a run-in with Valentine). But she’s proud to see her little brother thriving at Monster High She trusts Spelldon, and is happy to see Spelldon’s boyfriend tagging along and helping Spelldon gather and shop for potion supplies, and enjoy being a teenager (instead of always being on the road).

Valentine is still a bit nervous around Casta and all of her star-power (she may have threatened to turn him into a piglet if he hurts her brother. Spelldon said she was kidding and it’s a family joke).

I had forgotten that I had added some detail to my SDCC Valentine to try and make him closer to his film appearance. I had cut his hair (although he need to be dipped in some LA’s Totally Awesome as his hair is very gluey), add some paint to his earrings, glasses (and make them sunglasses with a paint wash) and shoes (I made the buckle into broken hearts and made the broken heart jacket buttons). I also added some extra gold and green embroidery to his lapel and cuff and some extra ribbon around his collar too.

Spelldon and his big sister Casta Fierce. I didn’t realize how much darker green she is until I got her out of storage (I had also painted her nails and boots too when I first got her). She also needs to be de-glued in some LA’s Totally Awesome. They look so good together, eeeeee!!!

Spelldon and his sister again (sans jacket). Oof! He might have been distracted by his boyfriend off camera.

Spelldon and Casta practicing their witchcraft while she is in town. They are not the best at fortune telling, but their mama would be proud they’re keeping up with their studies. Casta is the best at reciting magical incantations, while Spelldon is happy to be adding the ingredients. “The whole bottle should do it….I’m pretty sure.”

“This one has an invisible gas inside. And this one is a part of a rare ‘glow worm’ from a cave Valentine’s family had visited in Transylvania.” I was going to have the glow in the dark potion also hang from his belt, but it was too much weight and kept falling off.

“You’ve grown quite the collection of ingredients Spelly.”

“Thank you. I miss being on the road with you, …but it’s nice living in one place for a while. I’ve been able to safely practice my magic at Monster High. You’re right, they have a great magic course here. I’ve made new friends….and…someone who is more than a friend….”

Casta and Spelldon promise to keep Fate-timing each other at least once a week.

My G3 Deuce (don’t mind his glasses being off, all the other dolls have been told not to look at him, and visa versa, for this quick photo shoot, and the photographer was only stoned for an hour afterwards) and Spelldon (who used the same body and sculpt). Spelldon thinks Deuce looks kinda familiar, while Valentine is appalled at the thought that Spelldon might resemble Deuce.

(G3 Deuce’s hair repaint - I missed the gradient G1 Deuce had and G3 Deuce has a much more detail on his snakes in the show…..I don’t care for the paler plastic green his doll comes with).

And finally, a group photo of Spelldon and my other Monster High customs. Welcome to the family Spelldon!

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Finished sewing Spelldon’s jacket. This took forever! The most complicated piece of done….haha; it’s not perfect, but it will work. The arm holes could have been a bit larger to more easily accommodate his shirt too. I still plan on painting a few more details on it after I’m done sewing his socks and gloves.

I am happy with how the mesh part turned out and the working pockets. It is also fully lined. The sparkly material I have been using in his jacket and joggers is the worst (it stretches, snags, and the sparkles shed like crazy), but I love the look of it.

EDIT:

I made his gloves and socks (which I should have tried making from a pattern with his feet bent and not pointed -like I did do- oh well, they’ll mostly be hidden by his shoes anyways).

Okay, onto the paint details! I still need to make him some shoes, a belt (where some of his potion bottles can hang from), and maaaaaybe a witches hat. That one is a maybe though.

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I also painted over G3 Twyla’s smokey tendrils to give them more of a shadow look (and make them stand out more).

I had first tried painting them all more of a silver grey (like G1’s), but it just didn’t look cohesive.

Although you can’t tell after I sealed it, but I did have some small silver specks mixed in with the paint to give it a shimmery look.

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Finished painting Spelldon’s clothing.

I am REALLY happy with how his wild boar graphic turned out. The fabric paint I used (even when I tried thinning it out with water) was really thick and clung to itself.

I could have done their socks a bit cleaner. It was more rushed because I just wanted to be done.

The paint really stuck well to the fabric I used on his pants the best, and that silver I think helped elevate the look.

I also really like how his jacket’s Greek design turned out (and the little pentagrams inside it too).

He was going to have a large star on the back, but it looked really tacky. The ghost image it left behind looks kinda cool though.

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I finally got my G3 Clawdeens light repaints done (some lipstick color changes, making their wolf noses bigger, and giving them round pupils). I had micro braided and twisted the hair of my Clawdeens awhile ago, I guess I just forgot to post them. I think Ghoul Spirit ended up being my favorite out of all my current G3 Clawdeens, despite being on the fence with whether I was going to keep her or not.

I also gave Clawdeen different pedicures/nail colors for funzies:

Some animal print tipped with gold for my OG G3 Clawdeen, some purple tipped with black and then gold for my budget Clawdeen, blue/purple/lavender for my Skulltimate Secrets, and different shades of purple tipped with lavender for my Ghoul Spirit.

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Still working on my Spelldon Cauldronello! My sister helped me decide on what type of fabric to use. He’s going to have an orange shirt, black jacket, sport 3-quarter pants, socks, fingerless gloves, belt, and shoes. Maybe a type of witch hat, but we will see if it will still go with his outfit.

I don’t have my sewing machine with me right now, but I can’t wait, so I’ve been trying to hand sew his shirt. Haha.

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I finally had good weather in my area to be able to spray my finished face-ups/touch-ups/painted accessories with Mr. Superclear. Thank you @oak23 for mentioning warming up the can before using it. It goes on so much easier and didn’t cloud at all.

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Spelldon Cauldronello’s pants are done! I lined the inside of these with a white satin material (to hopefully prevent much staining), but doing that got rid of the softer drape I was going for with his pants, as well. I might fix his right cuff a bit more, and maybe add some silver or black painted details on the ribbon going down the side of his legs. Hand sewing is the worst, haha, props to all of those who are actually talented at hand sewing. His pants were inspired by @peppapigvevo’s Spelldon’s design. Onto sewing his jacket, maybe a hat, his socks, and gloves……woooo

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This was my first custom doll that I ever created (back in 2014). I didn’t own the SDCC release at the time and didn’t think he really represented the character well, so I tried making this guy. I also wanted him to have a removable jacket (which I might re-make and give a slick fabric lining to reduce the friction of getting it on and off, I would also not get fabric glue all over, and I would get some ribbon the correct magenta color/find some that wont fade with time). I think he turned out pretty good. He’s made of felt, stuffing, pipe cleaners, and lots of thread holding him together. Haha. He has six real pins stuck in him as well. I tried to capture his pouty lip, and his little belly too. He’s fully posable (but would have done well to have a thicker wire skeleton), and has held up fairly well despite my amateur sewing skills and use of really thin blue felt on his body. His fingers were the most difficult to create, but are also individually pose-able, and his fair has two colors of blue felt in it. He’s not for sale and is for my personal collection.

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Custom Monster High Skull Shores Tiki I had made for myself, ummmm, four or five years ago…? They are made from Dollar Tree strawberry shortcake knockoff dolls that I heavily modified (ripped off the head, cut off the ring fingers, cut off the feet, carved out the legs and arms), I then added layers of papermache, glued down tissue paper, and paperboard to try to give them their wood-like texture. Their eyebrows and mouth can move, their clothing and necklaces are removable, and their hands can grip their spears.

They are not for sale and for my personal collection.

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