I finally documented the two previous face ups I posted, and did 3 more! That means I have a lot of pictures to post into this blog post. First up is the Doll Family-A Fox in white skin. He was a lot of fun to work on and very simple too. I like how he turned out. Second is my little sea monkey Pearl who is a Dollzone Dale on the human body in normal skin pink. She turned out a lot more elaborate than I though. Maybe she's a princess of sea monkeys? Then we have a Dollshe Pabo in oriental skin. I really like the feel of Dollshe resin, it reminds me of Limhwa almost! Finally last, but not least, we have the OE and SA heads of a Dollshe Ausley. I still have to blush her bust and her hands, but then she's fully done as well. Very lovely doll, I'm glad I got to work on one!
I'm also 1 face up away from 160, then I will FINALLY post my face up collage again. It's been forever since I've posted one...
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On my weekend I did finally manage to have some time to face up, but I only managed to do 2 out of many I need to do. The first I did is a fox face up on a Doll Family-A Fox. I still need to document him properly, but have a preview image! He's in white skin and this was him freshly glossed on my table. And then I took a short break to paint my Christmas doll I got from my SO. She is a Dollzone Dale on the human body in normal skin pink. I'll still need to work on her body, but that won't be until I'm done with all of my commissions.
Both face ups still need to be documented to be properly added as examples. I'm hoping to soon work on the rest of the commissions I have accumulated. Sorry about seemingly disappearing for a few weeks. I got sick for two weeks with what started as a cold and ended up as bronchitis. I'm finally better now and managed to squeeze out two more commissions for one person. The first is a Lillycat Ninon in caramel and the second is a Dollzone Freddy-2 with modded ears. I've always wanted to work on a Lillycat/Cerisedoll! Just need them approved and then I'll send the invoice and mail them back to their owner. These are probably the last face ups I'll complete before I fly to Florida for Christmas with my SO's family on Sunday.
On, and as a heads up, I'll be raising my prices in mid January by $5. Anyone that's contacted me so far will still get the current prices if I've given them estimates, so don't worry current customers! It's been about a year since I've raised my prices, but I feel I've improved enough to warrant it at this point. I finally got some decent pictures of the Dollzone Dale and her body blush. Her name is Coral and she is a sea princess. I'm super happy with how she turned out and her delicate little body blush. I'm glad I got to work on one, because it convinced me to get one myself.
My SO got me one for Christmas so she's sitting wrapped up in a box waiting for the big day I can unwrap her. Yay! Today and tomorrow I'll try to work on a few more commissions since I have 4 on me, and a couple on a wait list. I should be able to clear some of them out today at least. A friend of mine asked me to face up her Luts Satyros Yul in white for her and I managed to finish him yesterday despite having a migraine in the morning. I handed him back to her yesterday afternoon and I am so glad I have photoshop because the documentation pictures were horrible colorwise. I did manage to correct them at least. I think he turned out quite handsome. His name is Blizzard. Also my doll Lily got a new set of legs recently. They are Soom MD Cheshire legs in white skin. I love the way she looks now. The legs aren't a perfect fit, but they are good enough for me.
I finished up two commissions today, one that I have had for ages sitting with me from a friend that had given me artistic license to do whatever I wanted to on her Dollmore Gem Doll Dona. I also worked on another friend's Dollzone June. Now for some pictures of the two! First up we have the Dollzone June. My friend wanted her to have freckles and I gave her some of my premium eyelashes, which are pretty but such a pain to put on. They are actually human fake eyelashes that I simply trim to doll sized. Rather sad that this sculpt is discontinued... Then here we have the Dollmore Basic Gem Doll Dona in normal skin. She's actually a fairy, but every time I tried to make her fairy like it just didn't look good, so finally I went with a biker look and it clicked. The head is minuscule, as are her hands. Putting that tattoo on her was a challenge because of her voluptuous nature.
Either way, that leaves me with only one commission now, a Doll Family-A Fox. So tell your friends about my shop if they're looking to commission someone to paint one of their lovelies! I finally finished up the Dollzone Hazel, and redid my Dollzone Shoyo because her face up was so old. I've had the same face up on her for 2 years, and it definitely was old (it was my 18th and now she's my 132nd). I'm rather happy with her updated look. Without further ado, here are some detail shots! The top three are my Dollzone Shoyo, who I've had for a good 2 years now in my collection, so it was time to update her look. The bottom three are the completed Dollzone Hazel who belongs to a friend. I also wanted to show how I've progressed with her. The first face up is her default, the second is my 18th, and the third is my 132nd.
I worked more on that Dollzone Hazel head yesterday and today, and I'm almost done with her. I'm going to finish her up tomorrow. I'm also going to teach a friend of mine how to face up in a private workshop. For that I'm going to assemble my little spray booth. Here she is so far. I balanced out the bright red lips with darker and dramatic eyes. I'm actually happy with how it looks so far.
I'm also going to document the Hujoo Nano Freya either today or tomorrow. Well, I am getting things done, although slowly. I sent off approval pics of the Hujoo Nano Freya to his owner this afternoon after some finishing touches. He doesn't have eyes at this point yet, but I'm sure the owner will amend that soon enough. I also picked up another local commission from a friend on her Dollzone Hazel. She asked for bright red lips on her and gave me free range on the eyes. The head is still very much a work in progress. It's been a challenge to work on this head, mostly because the lips are so large on this sculpt that they are kind of overpowering bright red. The eyes are far from done, I'm hoping that they'll help pull the face up together and balance it.
I know, I know, I should have gotten some of these done a while ago, but things have been rather crazy here. I finally had some downtime today and managed to do a face up. Now I only have 2 commissions left. First up the finished pictures of the Withdoll Angela in rosy brown. She's meant to look like a mix between a night elf and a drow. It was quite the challenge to work on that resin color, but I'm overall happy with the end result. And then here we have a Dollzone Moon, who is a really cool little hybrid. Her owner has her on a Doll Chateau Alberta body, and with the head being so big (it's meant to be YoSD) it works great on it. I can't wait to see her put back together again.
Also some FYI. My schedule at work is changing to earlier. I'll be working from 6:00am to 2:30pm Wednesday through Sunday. That is really nice for me because then I get to work on other things in the afternoon, like face ups! With a beautiful 49 degrees outside and everything melting, spring is finally knocking on our door! Too bad it's going to snow again tomorrow. Fortunately it won't stay with how warm it is supposed to be. Either way, I have some new work to show! I finished up the modded DZ April and finally got around to working on the Only Doll RouDie as well. I took one of my liner brushes and trimmed it until it was a 30/0 rather than a 5/0. I'm really happy with how both turned out. I haven't done much with colorful eyeshadow, but I really like how the OnlyDoll turned out. I also really liked the eyelashes I was sent. I wish I could keep the extras, but I'm not, I'm going to send them back. I'll just ask her where they are from. I'm expecting a few more heads soon, so keep an eye out for new work in the next few weeks!
I've been switched to a new work schedule at my job, so now I have Sunday through Tuesday off, but for that I work 4 ten hour shifts a week. I managed to get through one of those on Saturday, so here's to hoping I can get through 4 in a row! I finally finished glossing the heads from the last picture, and got a good chunk painted of the modded DZ April head. I had a lot of fun with these guys, though my eyes were ready to pop out working on the Apple Biki head. It's just so tiny... I also have some WIP shots of the DZ April head. I was originally trying to match her to her default face up, but that quickly proved to be too difficult with just pastels. I valiantly tried for over an hour, before I gave up and just went to town on the head. She is a fantasy character anyway. Basically what I did was mod her eyes to dreaming (first mod I've done like that), I just now need to learn how to use my airbrush so I can colormatch the apoxie sculpt parts to the skin tone better. Oh well, I'll do that next time... The head is no where near done with the paint job.
In other news, the pipe burst in our wall again flooding half the living room this time. We also have a new hole in the wall from that. Hopefully this time when they fix it they won't need to punch another hole in. I was certainly busy yesterday. I painted 3 heads and cleaned up a dreaming eye mod I was working on. From left to right:
Apple Biki Head, Fairyland LTF Baby Ruru, Hujoo Nano Freya, Dollzone April. Not much is left on the painted heads, only gloss and they can all go home. The DZ April head is getting painted hopefully today along with another head I received in the mail yesterday from a commissioner. It's a good thing I bought more MSC recently because I would have been down to just 1 bottle, and that's never enough. I'm safely at 4 bottles now, so I won't need to worry about stocking up again anytime soon... hopefully that is. My tan DZ Stramonium is finally done aesthetic wise, I did the scar on her chest and a partial body blush on her torso. I just can't get over how pretty this doll is. Once I clean up my poor desk again, I will take some good documentation pictures of her body blush and scar mod. For now this will have to do. I really love how the scar turned out, I just wish doing scars took less time (gotta wait for the glue to dry), but oh well. The end result of patience is usually best.
Also I now have most of my commissions in hand, with one more arriving probably today or Monday and then I'll be painting faces like a maniac. I currently have 3 heads to paint, with 1 more arriving. I also finally finished blushing the ears for my penpal, so once I document those I'll be sending them out to her. Someone asked me on a forum to take WIP shots while working on a face up. With Christmas just having been I got a new doll from my dad as a gift, a DZ Stramonium in tan. She is so pretty. I didn't care for the face up she came with so I did my own as soon as possible while taking pictures. The head is clean and sealed and the scar is applied with white (PVA) glue. It takes forever for the glue to dry, so if you're going to do scars, be prepared to wait up to an hour before you can start blushing. The glue dries clear. I always start with eyebrows for two reasons; one, that's how I was taught, and two, it sets the mood for the whole face up. I also blushed the scar a bit to match it to the tan resin. Now to seal again. Blushing applied here and there to bring color and life to the face. I use peach tones and some muted mauve colors to bring depth to the features. After this I seal again to make sure I can detail. Details! Here I flushed out the lips fully, added eyelashes and defined the eyebrows. At this point I'm done with the painting part so now to seal again twice. The final step is to gloss and applying eyelashes. At this point the face up is done. All that's left is to wait for the glue to dry on the eyelashes.
And that concludes my face up process. As you see it really isn't that involved. I will document this face up soon properly to add to my examples. |
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