Sharkyra's BJD Blog

Today I've finished the dress from the outfit, but as things are going currently I won't be able to finish it before the end of this month. The dress is also only completed, because I've skipped a couple of decorations and other stuff that were meant to be put on it. Maybe I will at least add some of the rhinestones I had the intention to add, when I started the dress. Currently I'm pondering whether or not to fill the balloon skirt with a little bit of padding to the dress to have the pumpkin shape show a little bit more. I've also finished a prototype for her hat and I hope that I will be able to finish this one as well till the end of October.

Since I had the urge to participate in this month's Project Runway Challenge I thought I'do some sort of Halloween Steampunk. So basically my idea was a pumpkin dress (that would be a dress, where the lower part is like a balloon skirt, yet slightly reminiscent of a pumpkin in shape), with a top hat (or something similar) and a lovely magician's cloak. So last week I went shopping and bought some lovely silk-like material in pink-orange for the dress and some darker red-brownish cloth for the cloak. I've already started the dress and finished the hardest part, the top of the dress. I feel pretty confident that the rest of the dress is gonna be a breeze! As you can see from the picture I prefer to sew a big part of the doll outfits by hand. Until now I haven't figured out, how to get the little details precisely done with the sewing machine, so I rather work a little bit slower and get my seams exactly where I want them to be ^__~

Okay, I guess you all still remember what Sôji used to look like before: Well, the face-up was lovely, but somehow he felt too young for me. So I decided to give him a face-up that has him look slightly more mature. I especially wanted to get him longer eyebrows. I love long eyebrows ^__^. Anyway, so that's what he looks like right now: Granted, you cannot see his eyebrows completely, but you have to believe me that they're much longer now. I still need to glue in his upper lashes though.

 Well, almost. She still lacks her horns, but the more I think about it, the more I want some antlers instead of horns for her. Most likely I will have to sculpt them myself, because until now I haven' found a pair that I really liked. Yet other than that she is complete. Her new lovely face-up and hooves blushing was done by Shiroi (thanks!) and luckily I was able to get a lovely brown wig at LDoll in France, so for now she's ready to be taken pictures of.

Actually I wanted to take a course in head sculpting this autumn, but as things go I won't have the time to attend. So I just got me the instruction sheets and am trying to practice all by myself. It's funny I never had great difficulties sculpting an anatomical correct body, but the head and especially the face gave me lots of headaches. Now those written instructions make it look fairly easy. So today I started practicing different mouth shapes. As you can see I couldn't help myself and added a little chin as well *lol*. Just a tiny little bit disproportionate, right?!! ^--~