Have I ever said how much more I love tumblr layout for photos? man, I didn't even realise how much I have missed this...
Anyway, I bought these ballet shoes sometime ago and I had planned to use them for my Bimong body but they are just a tad too long... So my next order of business is to decide if I want to try to make them smaller by opening the backseam or if I just stuff the toes full... I mean not like I believe doll could stand with them unaided regardless... right?
I am thinking about repainting this tiny, little dude. However, I am trying to figure out if I just want to “improve”, or at least attempt doing a better job. Or, if I want to paint him a bit differently. So, I was looking at old photos I’ve taken of him and found these. I never posted these, because they were in their majority, blurry as the dickens. I took more the day after, and those I did share on a few different places. But these I felt so disappointed with, I just left them be.
A bit less than a year later, I feel less passionate about how much they suck! Lol! So, I decided to share them! DX These were taking in July 2022, so I had the fan blasting on, while taking them. I feel that might be why some of them are terribly blurry; you can kind of see the wind movement on the sleeves on some of them. The (cell phone’s) camera kept trying to focus on everything but the doll. My fault I know, but I hate, loathe with a passion, summer weather. I am a fan of winter, fall and a don’t mind spring. I absolutely love, love snow and rain! I wish I could have rain and snow all year round! Hate that wildfires are the norm now, thanks to us not giving a rotten peanut about anything but ourselves. >__>;;
I am still thinking about how to tackle his awakened outfit and also trying to make a few more wigs for him (because three are obviously not enough!), but attempting soft loose wavy curls on a tiny wig is a royal pain in the gut hole, no matter which technique I attempt. I might have to give up on that idea, and just give him boring straight hair all the time (which I love on myself, naturally straight hair, because I am lazy and don’t have to bother mainlining it but would love at least one of my tiny dolls with an optional slightly wavy wig).
I also need to get a tiny white zipper for his outfit and figure out what I want to do with his face for sure. I know that I would be okay, if my lashes weren’t crap, but maybe I might try something different! Maybe not the 1:6 action figure painting technique, because he’s based on an anime character and doesn’t need any level of realism. However, I am a bit curious, so who knows...DX
Well, Instagram is starting to kill my posts by limiting the hashtags too, I am running back to actually posting on tumblr too, instead of just commenting and participating fandom dwelling.
Those who have followed me on Instagram (as fragmentedimagination), you know I sew a lot less than before but I do more faceups and wigs.
I mostly collect SD's but I have few MSD's stored under my bed...
If you do, please tell me where people are migrating to, please!
I guess I’ll just post something to prove I’m not dead.
Amber has been treated to a couple of new dresses. The first is obviously her crushes favorite color, but the second is more her speed. I haven’t touched my machines in well over a year and luckily I still have the talent. 👍
I’ve been mostly quiet on social media, but I’ve been working on some new projects. Elliott is amassing a collection of knitted hats, little Enya has been painted, and I’m working on bringing bodies home.
I repainted my fan-art Ken Kaneki (MYou Bettina male) for the second time. I had enhanced the 1st face up I gave him previously. However, I decided to attempt painting him the way I learned to do 1:6 sculpts, form that one (15 episodes) tutorial I watched. I was impatient however, which I regret to no tomorrow. So, I was able to get most of the pigmented skin texture on there with mostly acrylics. Then I grew impatient, because I was taking too long (it was dumb of me, terribly so!).
I am still super happy with how he looks despite using pastels and ruining the beautiful subtleness I had going on. I did take progress photos, but they ar more awful than these. I am of course heavily disappointed in my hair strokes -- my eyebrows and eyelashes are horrid. However, I am happy with how much more mature he appears, due to the heavy dark brows, so I’ll probably be keeping them for a while (before I start obsessing and repaint him again!).
I need to get a new pointy brush, because I managed to already ruin the one I was using to paint my Sephiroth and Leon 1:6 head sculpts. Bettina has much, much larger eyes, and I was still not able to get not-so-clean, but kind of sharp lines like on Sephy. I wasn’t able to do a better job on Leon either, but he has tinier eyes and they were sculpted way off, so I kind of have to cheat with the way I shade his lower eyelid to make it look like they are a more accurate shape. Leaving me to having to pain the lashes on an area that is hard to do so (and yes, I also suck, so there’s that too!).
Still, I am super happy with my Kaneki fan-art doll so far. I wish he had broader shoulders, and overall, more lean-young-male body proportions, like Kaneki has in the anime. Instead of noodle arms and child-bearing-hips. Besides the proportions, I am in-love with this tiny face! He’s so pretty and has great lips, as he as intended to be female, but can be a very versatile sculpt! (: Now I just need to start making some actual Kaneki inspired clothes and maybe a more accurate wig, as painful as that will be. I was thinking of this wig as his default one, but it makes him look cone-headed. Lol! DX