New friend for Yu-chan arrival! (May 10 2022) Otohime has lots of great features, and I found I really like the size, but Lusion excels at a lot of the things Otohime struggles with (sitting poses especially). I thought I was safe from them but I had never seen the Alice sculpt before! I loooove her, she reminds me of Kid Dollmore Momo with an open mouth so as soon as I knew she existed it was over for me.

Ghost in the Shell Innocence Gynoid Hadari doll I got off Mandarake. The lips seemed to me painted with enamel the same as the white coating, so I opted to just paint right over them. She’s a stunning sculpt! Although, I think it’s funny that her teeth are the only part not coated in white enamel.
The picture that shows the inside of her head gives you a good visual of how yellow 17-year-old resin might get. The inside of her head has never seen sunlight so this is 100% natural aging.

So, in May I attended PNW BJD Expo and did a faceup presentation/demo. For that I took exhaustive step by step photos of the faceup on my Megu and made a whole Powerpoint presentation on it. You can read it if you want! But be warned that the notes are speaker notes and not proofread at all, haha.

Airbrushed Minifee Soony on Dream Valley body WIP shots! (March/April 2022) My airbrush was exceptionally well-behaved for this one.

This DV body B4-11 was the darker event color (Coffee) from August 2021. Different people got very different colors out of that event. Mine is pretty dark, more similar to Iplehouse’s light brown than the tan shades I saw some other people receive. That’s why I took the comparison photo.

Resin comparison: Rosenlied WS, Dream Valley white, Resinsoul NS, Fairyland NS (2020), Dream Valley Yellow (2021), Fairyland Tan (~2016 and greened), Serenade Doll Tan (older, environmental resin… bought some parts from them in 2022 and they were the same color but opaque?), Dream Valley Coffee (2022), Iplehouse Light Brown

I think I’m going to start trying to actually post again. I’ll continue posting art/dolls here but I’m also going to attempt to pick up using my reblog-blog @skeevyken for reblogs and more personal posts.

I got a nice camera and lens lot on eBay so I ran aorund my room taking pictures of dolls as they were without any special lighting or anything.

Dolls:

Modded Dollshe Fashion Maxi SA Saint on Fairyland Fairyline (Minifee) boy body
Luts CP Delf Soony on hybrid Luts CP Delf/2013 Fairyland Feeple F60 body
Fairyland Minifee Juri 2014 Elf Soony with Luts Minifee hands
Modded Fairyland Littlefee Nanuri 2015 Dreaming Elf Soony on Dollzone Mini Jing body
Modded Parabox Otohime Yu-Chan
Modded Fairyland Sleeping Minifee Tika

Not having a great time lately, either at the personal, work or global level. Just doing what I can. Working on something I like in the off time is always good, though. Here’s faceup progress on my sleeping Soony. She’s very softly color matched to the DD1 body… I wanted her to be in-between enough that I could use either the DD1 or the Delf/F60 hybrid body if I wanted.

Today’s doll update: finally painted some 1/6 factory heads. I’d done the blushing before (pastel/brush-on sealant on Unoa and gouache on Fashion Royalty) but today I did the rest. Tried using just Acryl Gouache – I like it (it’s basically just very matte acrylic paint) but it dries SO fast. And I’m rusty!

This is a modded Batchix St. George head that bought from Krowbar/handy_dandy_degenerate_candy at PNW BJD Expo way back in 2017. At the time I asked if they would mind me redoing the faceup and they said they didn’t mind at all, but it wasn’t something I felt up to tackling for a long time. He finally has a body I think feels right for him (the WS Dream Valley 51cm body) and I finally felt up to starting on it. The mods were pretty rough under the paint so I sanded him some more, but not enough apparently! I’m trying to use some Vallejo acrylic primer instead of just paint, so there’s more sanding and spraying ahead for me but I think it’ll look nicer than regular acrylic in the end.