Tuesday, August 14, 2012

face up crap

I ran out of Testor's Dullcote last night in the middle of a face up redo. I was trying to make my Elysium Hugo SN look less derpy for sales photos. I've been trying to sell him for about 90 years now with no luck, so I thought maybe that would help.

Here is his head now:

Not super great, but much better than it was before. He had a really really old face up I did like four years ago.

Anyway, the point of this was that I ran out of Testor's. And I didn't want to just stop for the night, so I broke out the airbrush and just airbrushed on Liquitex Matte Medium for my sealer on the outer layers. Those who have been following my blog for a while will know that for a while this was my sealant of choice.

That changed for a while after a run in with my airbrush where it got clogged and I didn't know how to fix it. Taking the whole thing apart didn't help. Then I woke up one morning spontaneously sure of what the problem was and got it working easily. I haven't had a problem since. I just fell out of the habit of using it for sealing layers.

But last night I picked it up again and got a few face ups done. I did this one and I re-did Statik. And I messed a bit with Selly's Souldoll Agnetha head (and for that I am sorry. It'll be easy to wipe. I was just going mad with power and needed something to do faces on...)

I messed with the white balance on my camera for the Statik photo. It came out ultra blue.

I was relatively pleased with this (and by that I mean displeased but not so displeased that I wanted to chuck his head out a window and/or wipe it and start over) but then I put his wig on and he looked way too pissy. And I hated it. Enough to wipe it (but not chuck it out a window). So he has been wiped and I will try again shortly.
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  1. VampireAngel138/14/2012 9:09 PM

    Is it wrong that I kept laughing while reading this? I cannot count the number of times I've wanted to chuck dolls out the window...Glad I'm not the only one!

    I think the faceups turned out great though! I really like the first one.

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    1. Andarton8/14/2012 9:23 PM

      hahah no no! Nothing wrong with laughing! You definitely aren't the only one! My first reaction when things go horribly wrong or when I'm frustrated is to chuck things out a window! Or off the balcony. But same basic concept!

      Thank you very much! The first one is the one that's not getting wiped so that works out well! XD

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  2. selly8/14/2012 9:10 PM

    It's sad that he doesn't look good with his wig on; that's a cute face up. :( And I don't mind if you practice on Agnetha! You should have taken pictars. I'd have been interested to see. :)

    Also, Hugo looks p. rad!

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    1. Andarton8/14/2012 9:22 PM

      http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/andarton/1817609/245442/600.jpg

      But I did take pictures. I just didn't post them because I didn't finish the face up. Because I felt guilty. XD

      Statik is super weird in that he always gives me trouble that way. He'll look fine naked and then I put his wig on and suddenly he's awful. It works out okay though because I felt the face up was uneven and silly at times.

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