#headsculptrepaint

[the-enzyme]

Some repetitive photos of my GameToys Sephiroth on his default Remake body. I am super happy with how he turned out. I don't love how shiny the fixative dried this time. I have added one layer of gloss and two layers of matte in the past, with decent results. To my other 1:6 repaint attempts, so I am not sure why this one didn't dry as "matte" with a bit of "skin-texture-shine." I'm not too bothered, but I might try to fix it some other time -- it's not as harsh IRL, as it appears in some of these crappy photos. I am not quite satisfied with the irises either, although I am super happy of how bright and glowy they look this time. I messed them up with the gloss -- I need a better brush for dropping the domes, and a steadier pair of hands, I wonder where I can get some of those... Lol!

Sephiroth is my favorite character of all time, for as long as I've known of his existence (back when OG FFVII was released and I played it multiple times, when I was in my mid-teens!), I always wanted a custom figure based on him that gave him justice. I feel this figure is pretty close, although my ideal would be an OG Crisis Core key are version. This one is quite beautiful as well and had the factory paint apps matched the actual release, I would have been completely in-love with this figure. I know my repaint work will never be clean nor precise, so I can only do the repaint in my own personal style, trying to aim for a misture of Crisis Core Sephiroth and Remake, since the sculpt is based on that and they are a slightly different version of Sephy (I'm not talking about the hair and coat/belts).

I am pleased with him for now, and the terrible paint work I've done on him. So I'll be keeping him like this for a while, until I start to question my life choices once again and decide to repaint him once agian. LoL! That's the weirdo that I am. (:

[the-enzyme]

I finally repainted my already repainted GameToys Sephiroth's irises for the third time. I am super happy with how bright and glowy they look. Although, most of the crappy detail I managed to squeeze in there, got lost with the terrible doming/glossing job I did. Story of my life! T___T;;;

Despite the crapfest my paint work and glossing are at any given time, at this scale. I am really happy with him, thus far. I took some of these while the fixative was still drying (as usual!), so he seems particularly greasy in some of these, but I don't feel he looks as terrible IRL. I took a bunch of repetitive close ups, because besides that being the thing I love to do, I wanted to see how he photographs from most angles, with any amount of light. I want his eyes to truly glow, from every angle from any lighting because my previous irises were so dark, and they didn't photograph as glowy. I'm finally happy with the glow, not I jsut need to not suck, so I can get in as much detail as I want. Or at the very least, as much as I had them the first time, I repainted his irises when he still had his default factory paint going on, and I only partially repainted his face.

Now that I have fully repainted him, I don't fear ruining anything however, so it's much easier for me to just go in and redo certain areas, without any guilt. Which makes me feel freer to do as I please, instead of worrying about ruining him. We're well past that! (: The last image is the un-glossed irises before sealing everything. I sealed him again because I lightened his skin-tone, I thought I had colored matched him to his default body, but he looked way too red toned in comparison. I might have matched him to the optional loose GameToys Sephiroth's body, which might actually be red-toned compared to the default one... I have never compared the two, so I don't know for sure.