random lily belcher headcanons:
she absolutely HATED hospital food, like she would refuse to eat it even when she got sick and was staying in the hospital she said it was bcuz she was married to a professional chef so she had an expectation of quality, Big bob had to sneak food into the hospital for her like multiple times a week
she loved having background noise for her entire life (like the static radio station when she was a baby) she loved big bob's snoring and the restaurant conversations and everything, it was very comforting to know other people were around and she would've listened to like nature sounds ambience on youtube if she was alive when that became a thing
she wasn't like a total health nut but she would randomly get into like a miracle cure (not for cancer or a terminal illness but for like a sore throat or whatever) and would be like NO BOB WILL BE OKAY HE JUST HAS A COLD WE NEED TO GIVE HIM 5 CUPS OF PEPPERMINT TEA EVERY DAY AND HIS IMMUNE SYSTEM WILL HEAL and big bob would kinda go along with it but also sneak bob medicine, she was very into like natural soaps and stuff like that she WOULD HAVE been an essential oils enjoyer
she was mostly a stay-at-home mom and worked serving customer's at big bob's restaurant just like linda, she took care of bob when he was younger and big bob was running the restaurant
lily absolutely LOVED being in nature especially bcuz she (presumably) grew up in the city she loved going camping and hiking in the forest and swimming in the ocean, bob and big bob absolutely hated it but she would convince them to come along with her sometimes and they would usually have fun bcuz she was so into it and excited, i feel like she would have enjoyed plant identification and bird watching
she never really cared about her physical appearance or expectations for women at the time or how they were supposed to act, she didn't usually do her hair or wear makeup and big bob was totally okay with this (he was very supportive of her independence which was a somewhat new mindset considering they were dating in the late 60s early 70s) she was probably a 2nd generation bra-burning feminist but maybe a little bit more lowkey (she also probably got this from her own mother)
despite being married to a professional chef she could not cook AT ALL she would find a way to fuck up preparing a sandwich, big bob cooked all the meals in their family and this was fine with everybody bcuz he was already a chef and she didn't really care about learning to cook when she could just force her husband to cook for her /lh Big bob also loved cooking for his family so it worked out
big bob tried teaching her to cook when they first started dating but bcuz of her not being very naturally inclined for it and him being a bit of a control freak it never ended up happening, he did teach bob a lot about cooking later in life though :)
she genuinely did start wearing her pink hat bcuz she just liked it and thought it was a cute look (and bcuz she was too lazy to do her hair) but it ended up coming in handy when her hair started falling out bcuz of cancer
everybody in lily's family thought big bob was kinda an asshole and that lily was too good for him bcuz they just saw him as an emotionally closed-off person who didnt really like socializing and was very blunt but lily really REALLY loved that about him and she loved bob a lot bcuz he reminded her so much of her husband, whenever bob feels bad about himself bcuz he thinks he's too similar to his father he remembers that his mother loved that about him and thought that wasn't a negative thing at all, and it makes him feel a bit better bcuz she always saw the positive aspects of their personalities where others saw negatives
personality-wise lily was like a mix of louise and linda, she definitely got into trouble a lot and didnt care about what other people thought of her and had louise's sense of humor but she was probably slightly nicer and more maternal than louise would be
lily had the WORST sense of humor and thought like those books with jokes for kindergartens and puns were unironically hilarious, bob loved this when he was a little kid bcuz she laughed at all his horrible jokes and it definitely influenced his own sense of humor but big bob thought they were both absolutely ridiculous and he did NOT enjoy puns or wordplay based humor (sometimes bcuz he didnt really understand it and felt stupid)
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Franken faceup (finally lol) under the cut :) very very long and text heavy because i had a LOT to say with the new stuff I tried :)
^ mockup :) you can see the placing of a lot of the stitches shifted slightly and that it was pretty dark makeup around the eyes! My big inspo for this was early pics of avril lavigne since I wanted to capture that vibe in the way of silly skater girl in this doll. I very much was kind of on the fence on this one, going back and forth on what I would do with the doll (which is why I um was postponing working on the head [outside of painting it] until now) but was convinced I would go with this.
I promise you I had plans to use this mockup. It just did not feel right when I *did* get around to the faceup so I went into it with my usual tactic of ehh it's fine I'll figure it out later which either goes really well or really bad from my experience. I had gotten some tips from a friend of mine who is a PHENOMENAL doll artist so was very hyped to put those into use as well!
I started with blushing the normal resin, not even touching the other colors until I had already gotten this layer sealed so there would be less color contamination (or that was the hope lol)
I just was focused on building up the pinks in the VERY yellowed resin to hopefully balance it out a little (with my experience with very yellowed dolls, this helps a lot in making the color a bit more balanced and life like instead of just. YELLOW. And with this head being from ~2006, she needed all the help she could get lol)
Next coat was the dark purple which shocker. This paint gave me even more issues lmao in the way that I struggled getting my pastels dark enough to really blush the cheeks and lips :/
Like it's there a bit but not a ton and that was ok! My lip lines kept disappearing with my sealant so I added more and more each layer.
Eventually decided that the small areas I had to blush on the teal and the light purple could be done on the same layer, so did that next
Added a bit more of the lip lines and blush around the eye area on this layer too :)
Brows were SCARY bc i was going to be trying new tactics next coat but for now, just a simple pastel outline was my goal! I was SUPER torn on how to proceed with eyeshadow (whether neutral, bright or dark) so focused on everything else (mainly getting the body blushed and getting things to look good there).
Then well. I would like to say i was just gonna do a TINY bit of watercolor to darken the purple side of the lips but then i got lost in the sauce of watercolors, adding moles, freckles, liner, and lashes with it! My favorite thing about this method of sealant (and this is a drawback to some people but to me it's a fun part) is that sometimes dust or small hairs get trapped in the sealant. And why I find this fun is that I can turn it into facial features on the doll, ie moles or scars. It's something where obviously I would prefer to NOT have it in there and I could pick it out but on this doll I wanted to gain as much skin texture as possible on each color so I let it be as messy of a sealant job as I wanted, which is why she's got the moles you see on the normal resin :)
I also used watercolors to add a bit of color where the pastels were not working well (the dark purple and teal parts of the head were giving me grief so I just got my brush wet, dipped it in my watercolors and placed it where i needed it, dabbing at it with a dry [or wet depending on what I needed] makeup sponge cut into small squares. It helped add a bit of color to the lips especially and I was very happy with how it turned out!
I am THRILLED with it so I'm letting it dry a bit and then sealant time! Honestly i do not think this faceup could have gone better :) i was NOT expecting it to go well but it came together and it feels very much like my doll announced her personality of hey. This is what I wanna look like and who am I to not follow those vibes!
Bonus pic w the eyes in (not perfectly aligned bc i didn't wanna budge the paint, I will be making them look a bit better later but I just was ready to get a pic and then put gloss on lol) :)
Also bonus bonus pic of the finished hand bc i am so so happy w it!!
^ gloss is still drying but :)
I'll post pics once it's all dry and ofc more progress as the body comes along but I'm really happy with it!
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