#ProArtist

[the-enzyme]

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.

[pomomos]

The comparison between bjd collectors and designer purse collectors has always made alotta sense to me, especially in regards to fakes. But what I NEVER understood was the way anti artists use that comparison and rework it into their anti artist arguments.

We as bjd collectors will compare the two and say that collecting bjds, just like collecting designer bags, is a hobby that requires saving up funds, hunting for bargains, buying from the source, researching reputable resellers and dealers, modifying, refurbishing, and building up communities and relationships with other people involved in our luxury hobby

But anti artists will compare the two and almost only focus on the looks! They'll state that they would never want to own a minifee Chloe when they can have a finimee Zoey just like they would never want to own a Prada when they can have a Nada! And it's like, fine, if you don't want to buy the doll you want then werk mama. But at least try to be more sane about it like the Nada owner is!!

I've see girlies go on paragraph after paragraph rants about how happy they are with their "minifee" and how it's (allegedly) just as good as a Fairyland minifee and how they're doing better than us because their "minfee" didn't cost an arm and a leg. And it's honestly concerning in a sick way. Like watching someone struggle (and fail) to not throw up

You think the Nada purse owners are doing that!? NO!!!!! The Nada owners are being just as shady, sneaky, snake like, and silly as the anti artists girlies, but at least the fake purse owners haven't convinced themselves that they ACTUALLY own the designer bags they NEVER paid for. You talk to anyone in the rbjd and ask them to name what type of dolls they own and those clowns actually have the AUDACITY to name off companies and sculpts!

Makes me shake in my heels every time I see it!

Like no mama. You know that you didn't buy a minifee Chloe because minifee Chloe is ONLY produced by Fairyland and Chloe was ONLY sculpted by one of their employees getting their FL paycheck. Why don't you call it New Sexy Minifee SD Chloe Dollfie Fairyland 1/4 Cute Girl Bjd just like how you bought it huh?? Oh right! Cuz to you long term lala land residents an rbjd and a bjd is 200% the exact same thing in every regard except price

Honestly. Anti artists either really need to take a page outta the bootleg purse girl playbook OR they need an 80cc dose of reality

[timoshairgroup]

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[of-his-dragoon-ways]

I'm not a bitch for being extremely pro-artist, nor am I rich for having close to 6 BJDs, a smart doll, an obitsu and a Ye Luoli doll within a two year time frame of being in the hobby. Layaway exists, saving up also exists and if you're a fellow streamer you might also be able to save up that way. Dream of Doll literally shut down thanks to recasts, from what we have heard. We're a mentally ill, autistic Polyfragmented DID system, we have medical bills, a car and college. Yet, we can still afford to buy dolls without stressing out. Recasts do harm artists, imagine buying a doll that takes days to print versus buying a legit doll that takes months to sculpt. It's literal art theft and many BJD companies have made announcements about recasts of their dolls. Can't afford a Fairyland?? Save up, hybrid or buy a cheaper doll if you're impatient. BJD Divas literally offers the longest layaway (up to a fucking year), yeah you heard us! A whole fucking year to pay off your doll. This isn't elitist or classist, we enjoy this hobby and thousands of other people donas well.

We can't even trust BJD owners anymore because some recast owners don't tag their doll as a recast, thankfully we can easily spot on. Stop trying to invade our space, excusing art theft and stop talking shit about how DOA is hell. Den of Angel's has strict rules for a fuclkng reason and no we are not open for a debate as to why recasts aren't harmful.

Pro recast DNI /srs

[carolinasacco]

[kosomolski-dolls]

"I see a pretty feed, I hit follow! [No matter if they have recasts]"

OK, nice if that works for you, but for me, it immediately "taints" the beautiful feed. There's enough pro-artist photographers out there who I can follow.

[muscular-japanese-girls]

「新作イラストを投稿しました！✨ 筋肉質な黒ギャルが水着で登場💪🏾🔥 NovelAIを活用して描いたこのキャラクターは、力強さとセクシーさを兼ね備えています。自分らしいアートスタイルで、彼女たちの存在感を表現しました。気に入っていただけたら、ぜひリブログ＆フォローお願いします！💖」

[jkarts]

Sketchy art style for a medical client. ⁠ ⁠ #dailydoodle #proartists #artistsoninstagram instaart #sharingart #sketch_daily #artofdrawingg #artistic_share #illustatorsoninstagram #drawing #draweveryday ⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CnUkv2prusx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[simzart]

Hey guys!

I've been commissioned by ASUS to create an illustration for the ASUS ProArtist Awards 2023!

This contest will have over total value US$100,000 in prizes and can be joined by clicking on this link: https://asus.click/proartist23_simz

In the picture I included their top of the line creator laptop, an ASUS ProArt Studiobook Pro 16 OLED rocking its signature ASUS Dial, an awesome 3.2k 120hz OLED touchscreen and an Intel i9-13980HX CPU paired with an NVIDIA RTX 3000 Ada Laptop GPU!

Finally, don't forget to submit your piece for the ASUS ProArtist Awards 2023 before July 15, 2023 to win great prizes. Hurry up!

#ASUS #ProArtistAwards2023 #ProArt

[the-enzyme]

I repainted my fan-art Ken Kaneki (MYou Bettina male) for the second time. I had enhanced the 1st face up I gave him previously. However, I decided to attempt painting him the way I learned to do 1:6 sculpts, form that one (15 episodes) tutorial I watched. I was impatient however, which I regret to no tomorrow. So, I was able to get most of the pigmented skin texture on there with mostly acrylics. Then I grew impatient, because I was taking too long (it was dumb of me, terribly so!). 

I am still super happy with how he looks despite using pastels and ruining the beautiful subtleness I had going on. I did take progress photos, but they ar more awful than these. I am of course heavily disappointed in my hair strokes -- my eyebrows and eyelashes are horrid. However, I am happy with how much more mature he appears, due to the heavy dark brows, so I’ll probably be keeping them for a while (before I start obsessing and repaint him again!). 

I need to get a new pointy brush, because I managed to already ruin the one I was using to paint my Sephiroth and Leon 1:6 head sculpts. Bettina has much, much larger eyes, and I was still not able to get not-so-clean, but kind of sharp lines like on Sephy. I wasn’t able to do a better job on Leon either, but he has tinier eyes and they were sculpted way off, so I kind of have to cheat with the way I shade his lower eyelid to make it look like they are a more accurate shape. Leaving me to having to pain the lashes on an area that is hard to do so (and yes, I also suck, so there’s that too!). 

Still, I am super happy with my Kaneki fan-art doll so far. I wish he had broader shoulders, and overall, more lean-young-male body proportions, like Kaneki has in the anime. Instead of noodle arms and child-bearing-hips. Besides the proportions, I am in-love with this tiny face! He’s so pretty and has great lips, as he as intended to be female, but can be a very versatile sculpt! (: Now I just need to start making some actual Kaneki inspired clothes and maybe a more accurate wig, as painful as that will be. I was thinking of this wig as his default one, but it makes him look cone-headed. Lol! DX

[the-bjd-community-confess]

On recasts of no longer produced sculpts

I get it. I have one myself from when i was ok with buying recasts. i still love the doll. But you know what? I realised that having it or any other bjd didn't matter as much as i thought.

The fantasies of buying the sculpt and all the expectations of owning it, the excitement of being able to get something you would never get otherwise, and how pretty the sculpt was waay more exciting than.. having the doll on my own hands. Like I realised I barely look at my bjds in general. I remember reading that bit from the book: power of habits about how expectations gives you a higher dopamine hit than actually getting the thing you want (Keep that in mind)

I really tried to not buy her at that time; justified it because i felt strongly that i needed it. But really, i needed a way out of my awful life/emotions. My mind lied to me, told me that if i get it i will love my life better. It didn't, just improved slightly like 10%. Dolls aren't therapy replacements.

I hate proartist bully-behaviour as i was bullied myself and i hate this behaviour with my guts and don't think mocking, ostracising and publicly shaming others is moral (that's another talk for another day). But they're right, you don't need a doll. In fact, you don't need any material thing. They improve things a bit but it goes just as fast as it arrived.

Is it moral to support the recasters that don't protect their workers? How funny is it that the prediction of recasters increasing the price of recasts and stealing from small artists became a reality? You can't take back the money, the damage.

I want you to think outside of the hate that <some, not all> proartists give. Make an informed decision. Bjds aren't too expensive; haven't you seen blythes/pullips/monster high/reborns and other customising hobby? Literally seen some ranging from 200-400$ esp with limited releases of wanted dolls. Im sure you have lots of dolls you want to buy besides your grail- focus on them and forget the grail, or ask a 3d artist to make one similar to it. Nothing justifes a recast, even if the artist doesn't benefit from you buying secondhand or they don't sell the dolls anymore, you still support an unethical business (recasters)

I think a lot of artists have bad business practices that make them not profit,but their pricing isn't one of them. In fact i think we are lucky to have unique sculpts at the current prices and i feel like they're underpriced/valued when i compare them to other hobbies.

~Anonymous

[orionzangaraart]

Here is an illustration for my portrait drawing program with Loudoun County Public Library in Loudoun County, Virginia! If anyone is in the Washington D.C. area, I have an upcoming portrait drawing program on April 22nd at the Cascades Library, May 7th at the Ashburn Library, and May 13th at the Rust Library! Hope to see some of you there! :)

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[of-his-dragoon-ways]

Kobeni got a new wig 🥺

[thomerama]

abstract tree, with copper branches unfurling against a white sky, for a nature-inspired wall art

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[ivabellini]

Posted @withregram • @vivianpantoja1 #instagram #foto He aprendido algo valioso para mí vida: he aprendido a disfrutar cada respiro como si fuera el primero, siendo consciente de que también podría ser el último, ahora miro claramente que la belleza siempre está disponible para quien desea contemplarla, está en absolutamente todas las cosas y situaciones, agradezco y valoro mi salud aún más que antes y enternezco mi corazón con las personas que me aman y me acompañan en el camino, se siente bien 🙏 he aprendido a encontrarle un verdadero sentido a las palabras amor y existencia o por lo menos me siento más segura en el proceso de hacerlo, hay días buenos, malos, días regulares, días felices .. pero esta vida es un tránsito corto realmente, los años pasan rápido y no tenemos asegurado nada.. por lo menos nada realmente importante como los latidos de nuestro corazón, entonces es bueno reflexionar sobre el "para que".. de todo, quiero intentar que cada una de mis acciones sea conciente, llevar mis valores muy en alto y seguir conociendo de cerquita la calma y la claridad mental 🌟💛 . #vivianpantoja #Collage # #collagestash #illustration #Editorial #thecollageempire #mural #c_expo #graphicdesign #psychedelicart #editorial #collage #feminismo #ilustradorescolombianos #thetaxcollection #thepinklemonade #vaporwave #metavisions #contemporaryart #creative #lovewatts #contemporaryart #ilustradorescolombianos #proartists #artfido #artphoto # #newmediaart #photographyart

[aartltstudio]

New project #artistsoninstagram #artists #artistsofinstagram #makeupartistsworldwide #royalsnappingartists #illustrationartists #worldofartists #darkartists #makeupartists #supportlocalartists #nikonartists #thebesttattooartists #artiststudio #tattooartists #womenartists #balayageartists #supportartists #makeupartistsurabaya #young_artists_help #artistsofig #bestmountainartists #spotlightonartists #proartists #styleartists #localartists #nailartists #blackartists https://www.instagram.com/p/CohJjSXs_fb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=