#fanartdoll

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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! (;

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I completed a new set of clothes for my Myou Bettina tiny BJD male. He is a 28scm tall doll. I always feel like I have to specify, or else the AI on there gets these weird thoughts in its advanced AI brain... >___>;;; Weirdly enough, there's a lot of sh1t that gets suggested to me, I wouldn't let a grown person see, yet here we are.

Going back to the subject at hand. I completed a shirt, and a new pair of white denim jeans for my Kaneki fan art doll. I sewed it all by hand, because I struggle with the sewing machine. There's something wrong with mine, since the last time I used it (more than ten years ago!). It doesn't change stitch length anymore. I don't know if it is fixable, but I am scared because the tension also seems to not work anymore. I'm scared it'll ruin anything I'm working on. I suck at sewing, I never learned how to do it properly, when I got into BJD, I was in my early twenties. No one in my family knew how to sew. I still managed to put a few pieces together and draft a few crappy patterns. Crappy is the keyword.

So, I made a new shirt for my tiny dude. I am planning on repainting him soon. So, I took a few photos of his wearing most of his wigs. I took some of him wearing his black wig as well, but I didn't like how they turned out. I need to heat set the hair again, the cap appears to have shrunken some as well. Going back to the clothes. I feel like I did something wrong with the shirt's collar, so I made, or attempted to make an ascot of sorts. Then I opted for a giant bow. I thought it would lay droopier, but it looks more like a circus clown's bowtie, so I'll probably redo it again someday. Overall, I am happy with the new jeans, they fit better than the others. They are a struggle to put on, and so I'll remember not to make such tight jeans for him next time, I am working with denim. Lol! DX

[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

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I'm done modifying my MYou Bettina's eyes!! I am pleasantly surprised, that the Plastic Putty worked, considering how much larger this head sculpts eyes are, compared to the much tinier Leon's eyes. There are many things that could be improved, as I am just learning and I suck, to h3ll and back. However, I am pretty happy with how he looks now. I am not satisfied with my modifications; I wasn't able to sand the material as smoothly as I would have liked. It just doesn't sand well, sadly. And because this is not meant to do sculptural modifications, it is a bit of a learning curb for me. I am however, going to keep using it for tiny mods. I might change my mind later on and splurge on a tiny amount of Aves Apoxie, only not to ever use even a tenth of the .25z, I believe the product is as a whole. But for now, I am happy I found this works rather well.

I might try with my Mano too, since it's a tiny area that I want to mod (I want to widen his upper lip, so it would just be the outer corners that I would need to add material to). Next, I will try on a few fashion dolls that I've been itching to repaint and mod and will try to smooth out the product before it cures, so that I void needing to sand it, because it's definitely a pain in the gut to actually sand it.

I love my Bettina very much, I just wanted him to have smaller eyes, as those are my personal preference. I do like giant eyes, but I prefer them on hyperstylized cutesy younger dolls. Not so much on "older" characters, and he's supposed to represent my fan-art version of Ken Kaneki, so I wanted his eyes smaller. That's why I went with Bettina, instead of my initial choice of Alan, but I guess I made the wrong choice, as Alan's eyes appear to be much smaller, considering the eyes my Bettina is wearing are his and the iris are half the size of the default Bettina ones. Live and learn, I guess. I do love all the MYou sculpts, however, so I don't mind. I did always wondered if I got sent the wrong sculpt, but none of the Myou tinies, or at least the earlier four, have giant eyes. I wonder if the molds got warped by the time I got mine, and that's why I got a head with much larger eyes? I guess I'll never know. Although, I did need to mod his eyes smaller in the end. Lol! DX

The last photo was taken before I sealed the work, the shininess is due to the acrylic mediums I use; it makes layering multiple extra thin coats of paint, shine bright like the rays of the sun! Kind of like I rubbed oil all over his face! Lol! (:

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My MYou Bettina male, mature tiny BJD, with his new eye mods! I had to redo those sooner than I had hoped, because I learned that the plastic putty is not a permanent solution for modding tiny heads, sadly for me. I got a new batch of Aves Apoxie Sculpt, so I want to use as much of it as I can, before it gets too old to work with. Hopefully, I will remember to put it in the freezer this time, before it does go beyond saving. DX

I am supper happy with how these mods turned out. I still could have smoothed out a lot of the shape as a whole, particularly at the corners of either side of both eyes. However, working on tiny heads, even with opened eyes, that are much larger than true 1:6 scale action figures. Is still a huge pain in the lower back! I love this tiny dude regardless; I love him so much more each time I work on him some more! I look forward to completing something else, based on Ken Kaneki for him, since he is my fan-art doll based on him. I just want to keep on taking photos of him, even in crappy clothes, or no clothes! Lol! I find him incredibly beautiful, even with my crap-fest of a repaint job and mods! (:

I took a whole bunch of equally crappy photos, because I am super in-love with this tiny doll! I already loved him enough to purchase him, but now I am over the moon! I know I love narrower eye shapes the best, but I kind of thought Bettina already had narrower eyes. I am still wondering if I should have gone with Alan, despite me loving Bettina's mouth shape better.... >___<;;; Not regretting going with Bettina, just wondering. n_n;;

He's wearing the same top I can't recall who I made it for, but I feel it was for my MH Invisi Billy custom. It's a great fit on him, and I quite like it. He's also wearing the five wigs I've made for him so far, and I'll probably need to try to make yet another one, that's more anime-accurate. Try, is the keyword.

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My Myou Bettina, wearing the first outfit I complete for him, based on Ken Kaneki, who he is supposed to be. He's a 28cm tall doll, and I am not skilled at sewing. So, I should have known making clothes for him, let alone based on anime characters, was going to be next level nightmare. I chose to recreate this one first, not because I keep forgetting to purchase size #4/#3 zippers white nylon zippers, but because I know the struggle is going to be real once I start making that outfit for him. I already made a few pieces of clothing for this doll, but finding patters that fit well is an ordeal. I also made a cloth/foam manikin, that didn't go too well. And also, an initial pattern for his awakened/battle outfit, but I am not sure it's going to go well either. I know I suck at sewing, and this doll is extremely stylized. His body is willowy and very close to skeletal-like (kind of like me, yay! Lol!). So, making anything from pre-existing fashion doll patterns needs a lot of alterations, and me making my own is an ordeal on its own.

Regardless, I am supper happy with him and how he looks with his smaller eyes! I am also liking very much how he looks as my Ken Kaneki! I knew I loved the doll, but now I love him so much more, that I know he can pull off the look, even if not anime/manga accurate (I feel maybe the manga version is more stylized, and has a larger head, but my personal preference is the anime with the smaller head, and not stubby proportions).

Unfortunately, and as I had feared. The mods I did on him are not permanent! I was fearing so, when I learned that people usually clean up mistakes when using the Vajello Plastic putty, using alcohol. I feared taht meant the product is not meant to have any kind of solvents applied to it. My fears were true. Alcohol will melt the putty right off! I was cleaning my 3D artist Leon head, and the mods came right off with the paint apps! DX Looks like I'll have to get some Aves Apoxie Sculpt Afterall! Oh, well! Live and learn, is what I keep on saying! I was actually excited about the plastic putty working for permanent mods, because I tend to not love my repaint work and rework/redo those repaints like there's no tomorrow! Now, I know! There's no substitute for Aves' Apoxie Sculpt! I kind of want to cry a little, even if it was kind of cool to find what I can and can't do, with the Vallejo filler stuff. T____T;;;

The super washed out looking photos were taken with my super old cell phone. I think I like the way that one works a bit more, but I don't like the hazy/blurriness of it all.

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A few extra-repetitive photos of my MYou Bettina male, who's my fan-art version of Ken Kaneki. He's a 28cm-ish doll. I took a few shots of him and my BanDai Japanese bath-bombs trading figures. I got the full set of the Naruto Shippuden ones, thankfully that meant getting one Sasuke. Unfortunately, I got doubles of Sakura and Naruto... >_>;;

I also got doubles in the Sanrio versions, and two of those were doubles of the two bags I got from the same set. Luckily for me, it was Kuromi. Lol! I did get the ones I wanted the most from each set (like Pochacco), but doubles of all! It kind of sucks, but that is the nature of trading toys. Which leaves me thinking that I might get more of these bath bombs trading toys, unless they are from licenses I absolutely must get (like based on anime ones, or game ones, which I seriously doubt they'll do).

[the-enzyme]

So, I hope these don’t go to the dark-side, on this place. This is my Myou Bettina on a male 3-part-toso-body, ball jointed doll. He is a doll, around 28cm in height (I haven’t measured him, yet, but going by Myou’s measurements!). He is going to be my fan-art version of Ken Kaneki. So he should represent a 19-year-old, young man. Not a child. I am posting these to show the body blushing I’ve done on him. I have also made two wigs, the first one in the 1st image is synthetic fiber, the one in the 2nd image is brushed out acrylic yarn. 

I’m very happy with him so far. I purchased pale blue eyes for him, because I like blue and Ken is supposed to have either grey or blue eyes depending on the manga or anime version. I wanted him to have small irises eyes, but the ones i got were normal sized. So, he’s wearing the default Myou Bettina’s eyes in these, which are purple. They are lovely eyes, and actually have small iries, unlike the pair I purchased for him. I did purchase a few more pairs from Myou; the ones that are default to Alan, which appear to be blue, and the ones that are default to Reid, which appear to be beige or a tanner-grey.  I have no clue when I’ll be getting those, but hopefully soon.

In some of these images, he is posing holding or next to Ken Elephant Red Wing gashapon shoe figures. I was hoping they would be a touch bigger, but they are so tiny. They might work for flat-foot Barbie, or Azone Pure Nemo, but I haven’t tried them on any of mine yet. They won’t fit on these dudes, but maybe the girls might be able to wear them. I don’t know their foot sizes. The shoes are really nice regardless, but they are sadly too tiny -- which would have been obvious, had I read the measurements from their official website, but I didn’t.  I love this little guy, he is so beautiful. If I am being nitpicky, I wish his shoulders were a cm wider and/or his head smaller. His features are a bit too-baby-faced, but I missed out on SoulDoll  Little Kimmy, a million years ago and it still haunts me at night. Since I saw Alan, I knew I had to have one of these Myou mature tinies, even if I didn’t have anyone to bring to life with him. 

However, I feel like he makes a very decent Kaneki (for my purposes), and I will also force him to cosplay as Accelerator and KH Riku. When I stop being a lazy-bum and start sewing stuff for him to wear.(: