Dollieh Sanctuary

*SQUEE*

YOU GUYS.
OMG.
I JUST CAN'T EVEN.
I am way too pleased with myself right now omg omg omg

Okay, but first, here's the story.
I was doing a photostory shoot about a month ago for Ghaleon's blog, when suddenly everything that could go wrong with him did. His chest (bloody new-style slim male chest) kept popping apart at the neck, and the metal neck pin kept falling into his stomach. His (very crappy) magic sculpt ears snapped off and his face up got grubby and scratched.

So I decided it was far past time for a little re-haul on him, swapped his chest out for an old-style slim male chest (which pops apart marginally less than the new style, it's something about that new style tummy that makes the chest pop apart so frequently u_u), wiped and redid his face and tossed his old ears.

I liked what I had done with the new face-up, but without his ears I felt uneasy, unsure if I had managed to make him "Ghaleon" enough again. Then tonight I finished sculpting some new ears (this time out of amazing sculpt, which seems to actually want to adhere to the vinyl, unlike magic sculpt), let down his hair and HOLY CRAP IT'S GHALEON.



Now for the sake of padding this post out even more before the big reveal, let me take you back to Ghaleon's first two face-ups...

2007-2008

My very first face-up on my very first obitsu! My very first root job, too... His hair was actually PURE WHITE once, but it yellowed really quickly. *sigh* Some day I'll reroot him in snowy white nylon. I am done with saran forever, I have to say. Moving on.


I then did some refinement in the eyes probably a week or so later.


Those were cute ears, but they were sculpy and very fragile. I think you can guess what happened to them. ;A;

2008-2012

Ghaleon's second face-up and pair of ears. I played with watercolor pencils and mica powder for this one... but the gloss I used for his eyes and lips never properly dried, so he became a sticky dust magnet almost immediately. u_u (btw, that reminds me of a question I was going to ask years ago, but never did. What brands of gloss do you all use for your soft vinyl dolls? I bought Liquitex gloss, but could never get it to work. Works great on hard, non-vinyl surfaces, but won't dry on vinyl. I've read that heating it up before you use it can help, but I haven't given that a try yet. I'm not anxious to potentially ruin a face-up with it if it fails. OK THAT WAS A LONG QUESTION/RANT MOVING ON.)


There's a tiny bit of refinement in the mouth in this picture. I think I just picked the excess paint off with a pin. Which says something for how thick my paint must have been. u_u;;;

AND NOW...

2012-Onward!





YAY!

The ears are slightly chunkier than I would have liked, but I had the hair to contend with so good enough. :B If you're planning on sculpting elf ears on a head, for the love of everything good do it on a BLANK, UNROOTED head! Don't be like me!

Also, side-glancing eyes for LIFE.

So, in conclusion: SQUEE!! >w<

:O That's actually quite a huge improvement on him. I definitely can see how your skills have grown and yesh, he looks so much more refined and much better right now. I can see why you're proud of yourself! (Also get well better to your computers)

He looks even prettier than before. i like the new eyes its gives an overall feminine elf air

Very nice!! Thank you for showing us the progression, it's really neat!

Great job. I never heard of this amazing sculpt that you talked about. Where do you find this stuff?

Kd_Bunchanumbers wrote::O That's actually quite a huge improvement on him. I definitely can see how your skills have grown and yesh, he looks so much more refined and much better right now. I can see why you're proud of yourself! (Also get well better to your computers)

Level up!! Thank you! (And thanks for the well-wishes for desk-chan and lappy-kun. ;A; )

Iwa_Hoshi wrote:He looks even prettier than before. i like the new eyes its gives an overall feminine elf air

Thanks!

zirconmermaid wrote:Very nice!! Thank you for showing us the progression, it's really neat!

Thank you! I thought it would be neat to have a little bit of a retrospective.

maywong wrote:Great job. I never heard of this amazing sculpt that you talked about. Where do you find this stuff?

Thanks.
I'm not sure where I bought it from originally, but you can buy it from their website or from this other webstore that I bought the smoother liquid from. One of the downsides to AS vs MS is while MS can be smoothed with water, AS cannot. It can be smoothed with acetone, but they recommend their "non-toxic" smoother instead. (Although the warnings on the bottle I received do not lead me to believe it's actually non-toxic at all... :B ) It does, however, sand to a nicer finish than MS does. (I don't think I'll be sanding Ghallie's ears, tho.)

The stuff looks like Apoxie Sculpt. However Apoxie S. you can use water to smooth down and also for clean up. It's non-toxic, when dries you can sand, paint, drill etc. Have you tried Apoxie S.? It works great. I use it all the time.
http://www.avesstudio.com/index.php?pag ... 1&Itemid=4

MS stands for Magic Sculpt.

Never tried Apoxie Sculpt, and I forget why. a

STOP FLIRTING WITH ME THROUGH THE COMPUTER SCREEN, GHALEON >w>

He's too gorgeous for his own good! 8D I love the finer features you've put on him this time around. Side-glance eyes for life, indeed. He looks coy and a bit devious >) Really nice job! And the ears look great--the color match is pretty spot-on!

He looks very distinguished now!!