Comments: Reiko is a doll I've always planned on
making but never had any immediate plans to finish. If that makes any sense ^_^!
I constructed her entirely out of spare parts from other customizing projects.
Her body is the failed Dollfie Plus's, her hair was left over from when Kristen
rerooted a Timotei of mine, and her head used to belong to a C-body (probably Julian's).
The head that comes with the C-body is more like the old prerooted A-type heads
than the blank ones that now come packaged with Excellent bodies. The vinyl is
harder, and it's considerably fuller and more boyish. I think that Reiko has a
boyish look. Something about that jaw ^_^....I haven't decided whether it suits her
or not, but I guess it doesn't matter!
I had been shying away from 1/6 scale customizing for a while.
The materials have become harder to find, and 1/6 scale dolls aren't nearly as
popular as they used to be (thanks to the SD craze *_*!) Still, I told myself that I
wasn't going to improve at all by just thinking about painting! So I bought myself
some new brushes and started to work.
I had always wondered how some Japanese artists managed to do
that nice brownish wash around the eyelids and corners of the eyes. I had read all
about painting the features in soft brown at first, and going over it in the actual eye
colors, but the effect still seemed too hard-edged. It never dawned on me to add the
light brown wash AFTER I finished painting the eyes. I still do them in light brown
first, but I've found that you can't get that cool layered effect unless you blend the
lighter color around the corners at the end.
And I bet everyone already knew that -_-;.......
I have to keep reminding myself that if I can't force myself to
use each paint dab for only two little strokes of color, I have no future as an artist.
But when I'm tired, I tend to slack off ^_____^!
Leene's Comments: What's wrong with green food? 6_6
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