Paper dolls can be surprisingly adult. These paper dolls, created by C. David Claudon, cover a variety of periods and styles.

My earlier sets were made the traditional way. I would draw them, ink in the finished design and then paint them with water color or colored pencil. I now work with Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Corel Painter IX, however. After creating the original drawing in ink on tracing paper, I scan them and "paint" them in Photoshop and Painter. The original file has all the paper dolls layered so I can check the accuracy of fit. Also I can get great detail working in 300 dpi.

© 2004-2007 David Claudon

This November, I have just published a new 160 page book which includes 17 full panel color sets of paper dolls. Included are five saints, Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, Samuel Pepys, Theda Bara as Cleopatra, and Santa Claus. Click here to learn more.     Or check out the 2008 calendar of some of the paper dolls. Click here to learn more.

Use the thumbnails at right to go to each set,
or use the navagation chart below.

| Ancient Egyptian Transformations |

| Clarence's Eight Lives |

| A Durer Everyman Paper Doll |

| An Inferno Paper Doll Set |

| Sir Gawain & the Green Knight |

| A Plantagenet Paper Doll Set |

| A Gothic Romance Paper Doll told in the style of the Limbourg Brothers: The Little Mermaid |

| Geoffrey Chaucer |

| Dunant's The Birth of Venus: Italian Renaissance Paper Dolls |

| Commedia dell'arte |

| Elizabeth I Transformations |

| William Shakespeare |

| Taming of the Shrew |

| Five Saints: S. Anthony, S. Bernardine, S. Joan, S. Rocco, S. Raphael |

| Renaissance Artists & Models |

| A Pepys Show: the World of Samuel Pepys in Paper Dolls

| Moliere: A Baroque Paper Doll |

| The Gilt of the Sun: Louis XIV |

| The World of Oscar Wilde |

| The Importance of Being Earnest |

| Nelle and Chuck, 1904 |

| Theda Bara: Just a Nice Jewish Girl from Cincinnati |

| Who is Marty Graw?|

| Morpheus from Sandman |

| 1973: What to Wear on the Island (a Fire Island paper doll) |

Check out The Paper Doll Top 100 List

This page was created by C. David Claudon, April 22, 2004.
Last update November 15, 2007.

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