A few pictures of Tennant all put together outside. Thanks to @oak23 and @dollsahoy for the nice comments on the WIP (I don’t know what the best way to reply is, I’m awful at Tumblr.)! John, I’ll try the lighter next time I mess with him, and Andrea, that made me actually laugh, he is VERY my style, huh? 

Anyway, outside and dressed. Now that his shoulders are narrower he looks much better in the Rosie O’Donnell suit jacket. I cut apart his finger and tried to heat shape them but they’re soft and it didn’t take. I’m going to wire the fingers with pins, but I can’t find my metal cutters, bleh. 

@oak23, you’ve put these hands on this body, how do you get rid of that ridge on the wrist? The plastic’s so hard and brittle. 

Bonus Kid Kore repaint from when I did Tennant. I basically had just been testing all my strokes/colors on her, so when I was done with Tennant I felt bad and gave her a ~30 minute repaint using the colors I had on the palette. Could be a lot better, but, ::shrugs::

I like this face mold and her huge hair, though. I stuck her on a handless EAH body because apparently the ball at the top of that neck is close enough to the ball-joint neck she originally had to work. The neck looks hilariously thin, but it kind of did on her original body too.

Finished up Tennant-doll for now! First two photos are him finished, third is the WIP where I left off (although I’d glued his hair down between that and the last time I posted him), and the fourth is his original repaint from… 2010, whoa. I still think it’s pretty funny to be painting a doll to match a character that was based on the doll in the first place, but, either way, I think it’s an improvement!

I got some Golden Fluid Acryllics for my birthday, which I used to finish this repaint, and they are awesome. Passable out of the bottle, and mixed one drop paint to one drop water, they actually feel a lot like using a pencil – a light, even line that dries super quickly. I also love the little dropper bottles, I don’t feel like I’ve wasted a ton dropping the colors onto the palette.

As for the paint job itself, I mostly tried to soften up and even out the eyes. I didn’t like the look/color of the brows I’d blocked in before, so I wiped them and started again. Whatever mix of paints I’d used, it was apparently terrible because it stained the area yellow despite only being there for like two weeks.

I also tried to cover up all the stress marks from prying open the torso with some bruises, but in my attempt to actually get the paint to stick to the slick plastic I definitely overdid it. For now i’s fine though, since I don’t leave him sitting around shirtless, heh.

Also, can I just say that this face mold looks 10 times better with the hair slicked back like that? It’s also smirking, which I hadn’t really noticed.

Sculpt-y project, I dremmelled up a broken Moxie Teenz body I had wondering how much I could push the range of motion. Apparently, quite a bit! I like the size and proportions of this body so I thought I’d try using it as a base to sculpt on. I chopped off the hands and chest, strung up the neck so I could actually put a head on it, and substituted a Liv head as a base cause I much prefer the proportions of it.

For surfacing I thought I’d be clever and mix some paint with my white gesso to match the skin tone. I got a pretty good match, but, alas, the paint mixed in totally ruins the sandability of the gesso. I might still use this for my final layer, though. It’s durable and feels nice.

Another (slightly older) WIP dolly, hodgepodge OC Myr! The body was a Monster High Howleen and the head was a very discolored Disney Store Elsa. I tried @oak23‘s method of dyeing the parts with iPoly. Uhh, the dye was working really well on test pieces, but the steam from the pot started coloring my stove hood before I could put the parts I actually wanted to dye in – lesson learned there. I took the pot off the stove, then decided to go for broke and toss the parts into the warm water. I used a tiny amount of black dye going for grey but they still came out really dark in a short amount of time (except for the lower legs and joint pin parts). If I did this again I’d definitely not use a color I wanted a weak tint of – it dyes too well! I think the color would be very even if I could’ve left the parts to sit. 

In the end I did paint over most of the body and all of the head for consistency, but the dyed color is extremely close so I’m not so worried about chipping. The color is darker than I really wanted (it looks lighter in the photo, there isn’t as much contrast in the stripe in real life) but it still looks pretty good I think. 

They still need hair, ears and antennae, but it turns out I don’t have any golden-blonde hair, somehow. 

PS: Painting yellow scleras on black is awful.