#animerepaint

[the-enzyme]

Finally took some photos of my DIM Minimee Lelouch Vi Britannia head sculpt. With heavily modified eyes. I feel like his current eyeballs are too big for him, and I also need to bevel his eyes, but I only own an 11mm beveler right now, so I'll have to get one, or just do it the old good sandpaper and patience way. Which, I did attempt, but I guess I didn't do a great of a job, as I thought.

I know he could look a lot nicer, but I suck, so I'll be redoing his mods and paint work some day in the not-so-distant future. Right now, I am happy with him. I know I didn't have to mod him, he probably would have looked 'okay" with how his eyes were sculpted by DIM, originally. However, I wanted him to have more accurate eye shape, so I modded him... I love Lelouch, so I had to.

His face is not the right shape, to get the eyes are gigantic as Lulu's, but I also know his eyes look smaller sometimes, depending on the scene, episode, the season, ect. He doesn't look as yellow compared to my Mano's body, like he appears on some of these, but cameras. I don't get them; they don't get me... DX

My line work is atrocious, I cleaned it up a bit, but it is still terrible. I hope I can do better next time. His eyes are not as slanted, but I somehow managed to make the anime lashes way thicker than I had planned, due to the extremely shaky hands, nothing I could do... except wait longer to get him done. There's always next time, at least! (;

[the-enzyme]

I'm finally done modifying my DIM Minimee Lelouch (Lamperouge, Vi Britannia, Zero, etc.) head sculpt! It only took me an eternity to come even close to completing the heavy additive mods, but I can now say I feel like I am done (for now)!

I am happy thus far, but I can see the all the obvious flaws, and I know I'll be fixing them, someday. However, this was super frustrating, as someone who loves modifying things. I never thought doing additive mods on a super smooth anime sculpt would be such a huge pain in the lower back. I always hated that DIM gave him such weird eye-shape and carved eyelids, but I never said anything during the GO (group order on DoA), because the Leon (S. Kennedy) one was so frustrating at the time. This one seemed like a breeze and we only requested them to make the eyes more symmetrical. I thought I could just mod my head sculpt anyway. I thought, how hard can it be to mod giant anime eyes.... T____T;;;

I can't recall if the CG S2 Ep21 "The Ragnarök Connection,' had already been released (probably already had), but for some odd reason we didn't use the mask on that episode as a reference image for DIM to sculpt this head sculpt. It seems now like just the perfect way to get a perfect Lulu, from people who know what they are doing (or so I we wanted to believe). Regardless, that's what I used for reference for these eye mods. A screen shot of Lulu with the "blank" mask superimposed on his face. I am super happy even with all the things that could have been done better, but I never really contemplated how hard it would be to do hyper smooth additive mods on a super smooth anime head sculpt. (:

I just need to fix a few things here and there. My hands were particularly shaky yesterday, when I first began repainting him (this is three layers of fixative and a million of heavily diluted acrylics). So, the ultra-shaky line work is thanks to that, and my stubbornness about using my oldest tiniest brush that I've been using for all my recent tiny repaints. Which is a bit beat up by now, but I thought I could still get this repaint done with it. No freaking way, of course! That only made things messier, but I am stubborn as the dickens. Then, after I attempt to clean some of the crappfest, I'll seal the work, and he'll be done for now. I am sharing some mocks, and a comparison with his old default self and older but more recent repaint -- I believe I only attempted to repaint him twice. Anime style face ups are far and away from being my comfort zone. Despite me loving anime to h3ll and back. DX