( 20 September 2022 ) I’ve
only done the first layer of Alice’s faceup, but I’ve been super busy
and probably won’t finish her for a while, so I put her back together so
that she’s less unnerving to have hanging around. Better than blank at
least! I’m going for a Heather Silent Hill 3 vibe with her faceup.
( June 5 2022) After the biggest workout of a sueding job ever, Alice can stand! So
here’s a comparison of Lusion and Otohime. Their proportions are quite
different but not so much that I feel like they can’t hang out.
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.
Another girl I’ve been working on since summer because I’ve very slow! I got this Torrie head from Dollmore. Torrie was actually the first BJD I ever had, about 14 years before I got this one. I had originally picked her as an alternative to Soony, the one I really loved, because she was smaller and less expensive. I eventually sold her because I was afraid to do much with her, and disappointed that she wasn’t Soony. Now that the Soony-shaped hole in my heart is full I can appreciate her on her own merits, and she is an adorable sculpt that I have no fear of doing my own customization on. I put her on the modded Resinsoul body that Juri used to be on, and the match is a lot better.
I tried something a little different with her faceup, where it’s heavily inspired by the work of Ravendolls. I don’t think she’s been in the hobby for a long time now, but her faceup portfolio and style was hugely inspiring to me when I first got into BJDs so I thought I’d try to go for that look with this doll from the same period. It’s honestly still a lot more my style than hers but it was cool to at least try to do something different.
1. Kid Dollmore Torrie head on a modded Resinsoul Rong body with Minifee #6 hands (Resinsoul wrists modified to magnets)