I finished trimming/styling Ghaleon's hair. \o/
Suri is such a fabulous fiber to work with, it's so soft and silky. Definitely styles differently than your typical synthetic fiber doll hair, can't heat set it.
But it'll keep whatever shape it dries in pretty well, so I kinda tease it into shape with drops of water on a big pointed paint brush, after combing some detangler mist thru the hair. (Sprayed the comb, didn't want to coat his face with detangler.)
I'm so pleased with how he's pulling back together. >u<
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I painted a map of Lunar (Silver Star era) on a miniature globe last night :3
The continets are not perfectly to scale with eachother, but I did my best haha ^^;;;
I took some liberties with this area of the southern hemisphere... in the few illustrations of the TSS/SSSC/SSH map I could dig up, it was covered by sea serpents or clouds haha. But I believe EB/EBC opens it up as the ocean line dropped considerably over the centuries, so I hinted at a hidden landmass. :3c
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I wonder if Deedlit's long-necked lute could have been an inspiration for Ghaleon's extra-long-necked lute...
Probably just a coincidence.
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Lunar: Glam Nap Ghaleon
Mushy-hearted romantic, anarchist(?) Magic Emperor takes a well deserved nap after some hardcore tyrannical brainstorming. Inspired by @indigozeal /R. Ballien's ongoing translation of the Beep21 Lunar interviews!
Continuing my crusade to finish the drawings I started in 2022! Also slowly internalizing the lesson that applying "retro vhs" auto action effects to drawings helps push them from "Eh I guess this is fine" to "OH YEAH I REALLY LIKE THIS!!!" for me. :3
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I totally forgot to upload this one here 😖
Dark Althena to complement the Luna one I drew a while back. She's always been one of my favorites from the series.
Althena from Lunar Silver Star Story. Done in Open Canvas and Clip Studio Paint. Lunar is copyright of Working Designs, Game Arts, Japan Media Art, and Media Rings
Edit: Now available as a print on my Etsy store!
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Making a Ramus doll now lol
The victims: Drew Carey body from the mid-late 90's and a Devilock Char Aznable body from the mid 00's. (Idk why my phone camera makes the Devilock body look so much more yellow than Drew's body, they are slightly different shades but not by that much lol)
Man I love it when dolls and action figures are held together with screws. :3 Makes hybriding sooo much quicker when I don't have to saw off the bits I wanna use.
I took this pic mainly because I was amused that Devilock put some kind of wax in the tummy joint for added friction/stability. I mean honestly there are worse options! Whatever works XD
The hips had screws, but they seemed to also be glued together. No prob, I like the Devilock butt better anyway, so I'm just gonna trim Drew's butt off and stick his torso on top of the Devilock hips.
Armssssss. I shaved a slant into Drew's shoulder holes as evenly as possible and greenstuff puttied the Devilock shoulder joint pegs in place. (It's a sloppy job don't look too close XD but I managed to preserve as much shoulder articulation as I possibly could with the tools I had on hand.)
Test fit...
More greenstuff and he's all stuck together! \o/
As you might be able to tell from the leg stance, I came up against a small issue with actually joining Drew's belly to Char's hips: both bodies were made before 3d sculpting and printing was a common part of toy engineering, so they're not perfectly symmetrical and have little quirks and imperfections from the master mold having been made off of handsculpted pieces. (One of those quirks is Char's legs seem to be slightly different lengths, and his buttcheeks are two different sizes. XD)
So I prioritized lining up the front over the back...
Eh, so it goes. I can live with it.
Next I need to find where I stowed all my little sample sized jam and honey jars so I can mix up some acetone goop to smooth the transition and cover the greenstuff. :3c
Then I gotta find a head to mod into Ramus, or start sculpting one from scratch...
Ahahahaha. The dangerous part of konmari-ing stuff but not getting it out of your life fast enough; I pulled both these bodies from my destash bins. ^^;; I pulled a couple more for other Lunar character dolls at the same time, actually.... >:3c
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