Hello, 2015!

Well, let's have with some doll pictures, shall we?  A part of my collection, to start this year with:

6 dolls out of my whole 10

And what I did last year, to summ-up 2014:

As well as the BJD of my own making:

Slumberbloom

These must be my favorite pictures so far.

Broken robot, flowerhead

I didn' post the pictures of what this head has become either ^^"

Solan, the broken robot whom Réi has found on the Edge of Koross. He's split onto pieces and scattered aroud the place, but he still works. He actually is quite a nice, friendly fellow and likes to have long talks with visitors about anything at all. Réi would very much like to find spare parts and fix him, maybe someday he can be whole again?

More pictures and  the face-up walkthrough:

Snejinka

Snejinka, Snej for short stands for Snowflake in russian. It's a Dust of Dolls Lünn - she's tiny, delicate, cute and very curvy^^ And I should be taking more pictures of her sometime.

 

Demon face

I just wanted to change his face-up, but I ended up modding the whole face...not sure about how it came up but it did. Now I have the rest of his little chubby body to paint.

Faceup tutorial

I happened to put together something that looks like a face-blushing tutorial.

Kinda made me realize what I really need to improve myself^^

Let darkness reign

All of a sudden

I have been thinking about opening a Zaoll mouth but never dared to do it. And suddenly...

I can't say if it really works well, but I now am fond of his cheekbones and teeth :D

At least, Vice is back, and I don't totally dislike how he turns out on pictures!

Good robot

Rei is a good robot. He is obedient and calm, thoughtful, polite. He wants to fulfill his purpose.

Yet he is curious about all sort of things and underneath it all he has courage and determination of his own. And he may yet find a different purpose for himself than the one he knows of.

I changed Rei's face-up for the sake of giving him a slightly different expression, it's a lso a tiny bit less girlish, I think.

Face-up Tutorial

Well, not a real tutorial, just a walkthrough, actually.

Narsha and Zaoll face-up:

Unless I've skipped some I did these ones in three steps:
- First step defines the color  areas of the face, where which color goes, using the lighter shades of each tint. I also usually define the mouth line at that stage unless I forget it^^"
- Second step is for accentuating colors, use darker and more saturated variations, start working on the skin texture and define the eye-brow shapes. I usually try the eyes on at that point in order to make sure the facial expression is coming out fine.
- Third step comes with details: more skin texture, lashes, mouth details, eye-brow details, while the darker parts of the face-up get more dense color with extra layers of pastel.

And then a layer of gloss or two, and here we are :)

Petite nouvelle

C'est sans trop y réfléchir que j'ai enfin cédé à l'envie d'avoir une Narsha chez moi, et là voilà, c'est une petite chose merveilleuse et fort bien faite (sauf au niveau des genoux qui me posent quelques souci). 

Donc pas de regrets donc, mais beaucoup de questions que je me pose sur sa custo... qui n'est toujours absolument pas décidée. Mais peu importe, j'avais envie de lui faire quelques petites modifications sur le visage et un face-up, juste pour m'en faire une meilleure idée. 

Bleeding Bird

Switch Ruyn R that I brought from Ldoll, finally has a face!

 I should be putting him up for sale sometime soon.

New alien-face

I'm working on Vice again, in order to bring his alien-ish dark looks back, so a new face-up, new hands and arms, and even new mods on the face.

I'm looking forward to getting a new wig as well, that character deserves more attention then what I've been giving it this far!

Slumberboy - Unoa

Finally posting some pictures of my new doll - and a new dilema.
I got a Dollchateau body that I wanted to use with a Unoa head, yet I also got the Cerisedolls head I totally love. The unoa head suits the body better in terms of color match and proportions. It also suits my character somehow better. The cerisedolls head is just prettier (in my opinion).
So I made basically the same face-up on both, and took some pictures to see how it all works out.

Unoa l-bi/Dollchateau combination:

Slumberboy - Ombre

Finally posting some pictures of my new doll - and a new dilema.
I got a Dollchateau body that I wanted to use with a Unoa head, yet I also got the Cerisedolls head I totally love. The unoa head suits the body better in terms of color match and proportions. It also suits my character somehow better. The cerisedolls head is just prettier (in my opinion).
So I made basically the same face-up on both, and took some pictures to see how it all works out.

Cerisedolls Ombre/Dollchateau combination:

 

Snow White?

Oh I've changed Vice's face-up again. 

Mneh. Trying to get him at least look more photogenic, but it didn't work out really well.
So I dressed him up with lacy white stuff for a photo shoot.

He look like a Pierrot... or a weird version of the Snow White :D