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.
I liked making the tibetan lamb wig for Clawdeen so much that I splurged on a white pelt so I can make wigs with a bit more variety. (It’s a lot nicer-feeling than the stuff salvaged from the rummage sale skirt trim, unsurprisingly. I wonder if I can condition that. ) I decided to make a wig for my neglected old DIM boy. He’s been a character I don’t care about for about 8 years, so at this point I’m exploring doing other stuff with him. I like the doll more than I ever liked the character. This is a new-ish faceup too, although it needs to be redone because I didn’t seal it well and a bit of blush came off the nose. The brows are also too solid and brown, the lip line is awful, bleh bleh bleh.
The wig looks way poofier in pictures than in real life. It’s nice and soft though.
Thank you all for the very nice comments on Clawdeen when I posted her! I feel very awkward that I don’t know how to respond to reblogs without reblogging my own post a bunch of times. @oak23, I had acually originally planned to put the ears on the side of her head cause I love your Blaine but I decided I wanted her to be hyooman.
Anyway, seeing as that post was my most popular ever (!) I figured I should get a couple pictures of her dressed for y’all. She has a BFC Ink shirt, Ken shorts, a mystery sweater, Avea’s leg guard things, and her original boots which I cut down.
Frightfully Tall Clawdeen custom! Fun stuff. I promise her head and body match in real life, I didn’t change the color of either. That’s just the camera being weird.
Anyway, I did the very obvious eye surgery thing using an exacto knife and diamond files. The head glue was, as others have noted, super weird but at least less gross. I positioned the eyes up considerably higher than the painted eyes so she looks pretty different. The eyes are 16 or 18 mm – I don’t know and I honestly don’t remember where I got them? It is a mystery. I did her faceup BJD style, it was fun.
The wig was also a fun experiment, and it hides the fact that she has no ears. It’s a very lazy plastic-and-painted-masking-tape hard cap with glued-on tibetan lamb that I got from the trim of a $1 skirt from a rummage sale at the local children’s theater, which is probably the weirdest possible source of specialty craft supplies. I have no idea why that skirt was trimmed with that.