#fantasy Faceup

[izasfaceups]

Today's faceup is on a Pipos R.PI Charlotte in grey akin, along with a manicure and tail blush. She was a fun commission to work on, as I've always wanted to work on a Pipos doll!

I have a before and after of her, the previous faceup was done by the owner, but they wanted a more experienced hand for her fresh faceup. I was happy to oblige!

Want to see more of my work or commission me? Then please check out my website at www[dot]IzasFaceUps[dot]com!

[7-thheaven]

Isabella 🧚🏼‍♀️

[theflybitteneye]

WIP ROUND UP!

NOT FOR SALE!

To do:

Fix her hand (oopsie I broke it.)

Finish sewing her bloomers.

Finish sewing her blazer.

Finish her stockings (including a stump cover for her leg.)

Make her wig.

Make a hat (bowler or bonnet? Still undecided.)

Make her shoes (booties? Slippers?)

Make her umbrella gun (inspired by the real life Bulgarian Umbrella.)

Here's my thicc, steampunk, WW1 black-and-white, vaguely Silent-Era cartoon, one armed, one legged prostitute-assasine Smart Doll WIP. If that seems like a dense concept, you need to get on my level of neurodivergency, clearly.

The idea behind her is she's like, this "exotic entertainer" in a vaguely turn-of-the-century WW1 steampunk setting. She officially employed under the ruse of being something like an all-in-one, singer, dancer, conversationalist, "professional company and party attendant for high-powered men and women" escort. Soft, feminine, "silly," and physically disabled, she's actually a highly effective contract killer who gets away with it by acting like a helpless empty headed bimbo who uses people's own mysogyny and people's prejudice against her being obviously disabled and a sex worker to her advantage.

The kind of backstory I had in mind was that she managed to survive a bombing of her hometown when she was little that took both her right limbs and caused severe nerve damage. Due to an error in message decoding, her town was reported to be taken by enemy forces. The monarchy, taken by spurise by this development and panicking due to the geographic advantage of the localtion for attack on the capital, opted to hastily bomb it without any other evidence or confirming how the opposition's army could have taken the town without them knowing until now. They didn't know until after the whole area had been leveled they just blew up their own citizens over a mistake. It left her (pun not intended, but welcomed, ha) fighting to balance chronic pain and addiction to painkillers for the rest of her life, and surviving on sheer spite for authoritarian incompetence. She loves destroying the lives of high powered figures as much as she loves being paid for it. Because her ability to feel pain had been altered so drastically, she can take a hit, stabbing, and even a gunshot like it's nothing so long as it isn't lethal. The extreme sports of "when life gives you lemons." Her go-to weapon is her parasole that fires small poison pellets at close range, that can also be converted into a disguised sniper rifle by swapping out attachments. Her signature trick to things going tits up is letting herself get battered up a bit, than crying on command like a helpless girl. Pitiful as possible. She can hold her own in a brawl, but it's often more effective to let her targets attack her and make a big scene. Have them die slow painful deaths hours later when their organs give out seemingly out of nowhere in the company of witnesses after she's long been "saved" by her handlers. Assault being common for escorts in her line of work, no one thinks the wiser. Even if they do, she's just a "poor, simple, crippled girl" who just got beaten up by a client, how would that make them look if they accused her of fowl play?

I'm not really writing a story persay in mind for this character, it's more so just the fun of character development and narrative through character design, but maybe I'll use the idea somewhere someday. Really I just love that contrast of innocently dangerous, and wanted her to physically embody that. As an animator, obviously, that Silent Era aesthetic is something I'm living for. Osamu Tezuka is post-WW2 obviously, but the vibes I'm kind of going for is if he worked for Fleischer Studios. Blackjack, but make it Out of the Inkwell.

Her eyes are handmade and hand painted out of acrylic, and her body's obviously very heavily moded. I gave her much more generous cleavage, and tried to give her the chubbyiest thighs, tummy and butt I thought I could get away with, but, looking at her I think I might have been able to give her some more pudge. For anyone unfamiliar with the issues with trying to mod base dolls into plus sizes, the joints can pose problems when making it look right. I prefer dolls with more extreme figures and bodies and like the challenge and look of making dolls with different body types and fat distributions, so I'm experimenting more and more with doll "mid-sizifying" I suppose you could call it. Eventually I'd like to get to trying to do a full like, proper "plusizification." Taking a thin doll and trying to put like, an approximate 100 lbs on her if nothing for the joy of the logistics of it alone. It'd be cool to try it with a Smart Doll or Dollfie Dream, something with an interior skeleton. I think that'd be the best results. I think I might as well make body parts to fit over those endo skeletons from scratch, though. I only have Smart dolls at the moment to work off of, but if anyone is interested in commissioning some chubby to full plus-size Smart Doll custom option parts, let me know. I'll happily give you a discount while I'm just experimenting with all this.

Her head is of course also moded. I wanted her to look like she was punched, so her cheek is swelling a bit. She's a Smart Doll Journey if I remember correctly.

Her leg is a mixed media. Fabric, wire, metal, a pen. Those interior skeletons make Smart Dolls fantastic to put robotic limbs on--- extremely easy to attach. I wanted it big and cartoonish, the foot looking like a big heavy oversized metal boot, and also to look like a highly engenieered peg leg instead of a proper prostetic. Vaguely inspired by Hiccup from How To Train Your Dragon's leg, which the suggestion it's spring operated. You know, antiquated but advanced as most fantasy steampunk is.

Her tattoos are all flowers that have some meaning in Victorian flower code. The big one on her chest being an anemone. It represents a warning or notes something as "forsaken." Used to ward off evil spirits, disease, death, and bad luck. So it's kind of an omen of bad shit happening. A protection and a bad sign. Because I'm trash I'm tempted to name her "Anne Amie." "Amie" is the feminine word for "friend." It also sounds both like "anemone" and "an enemy" when run together out loud. That might be a play on words, punny name so loaded it might rip a fabric in the universe, haven't decided yet, but there you go. I might just decided I accept my crimes against the English, French, and flower-based languages. We'll see.

[yukke-x]

soom - serin and rico

photo credits to ID: 996615493 on 小红书

19 jan 2023

[amygdahlia]

She’s almost done 🙏🏻🥹

[cotbegemotdoll]

[bjds--fantasy]

Gem of Dolls Wings and Faceup for 20 cm

[dolly-birdi]

Ok so I feel like the best way to combat the deluge of recasts is to promote more affordable doll brands, so I'm gonna give it a shot!

Here's a list of some more affordable legit bjd brands, their general price ranges, and where to buy them! All of these are complete dolls (body+head). The lowest prices listed are from their smallest sizes no faceup, and the highest prices will be largest with faceup if they offer it. Prices can vary between dealers. (Please add more if you know some, especially for outside the US!)

Also some of these upper prices seem insanely high because they include any 70cm beasts they have as well, but I mainly judged these based on the 1/4 dolls being under or around 300 with faceup, since that's typically the most popular size.

Qianhe ($70-116) 1/6, 1/5, and 1/4 male and female resin blind box bjds. Realistic style. Available on Janesdolland, and until 8/02 you can choose the head you want from the blind boxes.

Sprouting Dragon ($68-138): 1/6 and 1/4 female resin bjds. Anime style. On Janesdolland.

UFDoll ($56-155): 1/6, 1/4, and 1/3 PVC bjds, both male and female, both anime and realistic available. The 1/6 fullset blindbox dolls are available on Kikasgoods and Janesdolland. Others are on Janesdolland and LegendDoll.

Evantasy ($125.80-412.05): 1/6, 1/4, and 1/3 resin bjds, all female but 1. Anime style. On Janesdolland and LegendDoll.

ImomoDoll ($15-145): 1/12, 1/6, and 1/4 vinyl mjds. Both males and females. Anime style, good sub for MDDs and Puyoodoll. On Janesdolland, New Clover Singing, and LegendDoll.

SweetyDoll ($110-217): 1/6, 1/5, and 1/4 female resin bjds. Anime style. On Janesdolland. Also look like Puyoodoll.

BonBon Galaxy ($49-259): 1/12, 1/6, and 1/4 male and female resin bjds. Both anime and realistic. On Alice's Collections, Janesdolland, LegendDoll, and the tinies are on Kikasgoods.

Guard Love ($169-285) 1/6 and 1/4 resin bjd. Both males and females. Both anime and realistic. On Alice's Collections, Janesdolland, New Clover Singing, and LegendDoll.

Xaga Doll ($152-504): 1/8, 1/6, 1/4, and 1/3 resin bjds. Both males and females, both anime and realistic. On Alice's Collections, Janesdolland, and LegendDoll.

Asleep Eidolon ($198-554): 1/6, 1/4, 1/3, and 70cm resin bjds. Both males and females. Realistic style. On Janesdolland and LegendDoll.

Tinyfox ($168-289): 1/6 and 1/4 PVC mjds. Gender neutral and females. Anime style. All come as fullsets. On Janesdolland, New Clover Singing, Kikasgoods, and LegendDoll.

FairyCastle ($169-669): 1/6, 1/4, and 75cm resin bjds. Both male and females. Realistic style. On Janesdolland and LegendDoll.

True Love ($159-305): 1/6, 1/4, and 1/3 resin bjds. Both males and females. Realistic style. On Janesdolland and LegendDoll.

Resinsoul/Bobobie ($85-330): 1/12, 1/6, 1/4, 1/3, and 70cm resin bjds. Both males and females. Realistic style. Specializes in fantasy parts and skintones. On Denver Doll Emporium.

Doll Leaves ($149-510): 1/6, 1/4, 1/3, and 70cm resin bjds. Both male and females. Realistic style. On Alice's Collections, Denver Doll Emporium, and LegendDoll. Somewhat artsy doll vibe.

Gem of Doll ($155- 560): 1/8, 1/6, 1/4, 1/3, and 70cm resin bjds. Both males and females. Realistic style. On Alice's Collections, New Clover Singing, and LegendDoll.

Huajing Doll ($120-495): 1/8, 1/6, 1/5, 1/4, 1/3, and 70cm resin bjds. Both males and females. Realistic style. On Alice's Collections, New Clover Singing, and LegendDoll.

Myou Doll ($138-428): 1/8, 1/6, 1/4, and 1/3 resin bjds. Both males and females. Realistic style with 1 anime doll available. On Alice's Collections, Denver Doll Emporium, and LegendDoll. Similar look to Volks SDs imo.

[cryptic-forge]

our 3d printer had a brief trip to hell, first spending a month waiting for replacement parts and then the better part of another refusing to produce much anything other than blobs, lines, and spaghetti. my partner finally wrangled it into submission, and we are back in business!

not much to post yet; we also moved house during the printer downtime, and haven't figured out a good photography setup. but i got excited when i noticed this prototype could stand on one foot pretty effortlessly, so here's a peek & a status update. i don't usually do bodies that are this.. unadorned, but i felt a calling to make just a simple orc girl without a thousand things going on in the sculpt. i love orcs, trolls, and other fantasy races that tend to get the short end of the stick and be relegated to mindless enemies without nuance [INJUSTICE], and want to make a fuckload of dolls representing them.

faceup is not fully finished, but i had to see what she would look like with eyes. i love the texture msc gives to even the most basic PLA; it's almost as easy to blush with pastels as resin or vinyl would be.

[maleficentmrsofallevil]

Dolly play time.

The more I try things on DC Bella, the more I realize that my initial plan for her is going to change. I wanted to do a fantasy blue-toned face up. Now, I realize I love her ghostly white and blank. Her faceup is going to need to be as minimalistic as possible.

Sent these to Yummy Sweets Dolls. I love Lotus on the Huajing body, and I have it on good authority that the artist is also a bit of a hybrid fanatic.

Another new obsession - buying human size STL files and shrinking them down to doll size. This is a Sauron cosplay crown at 42%. Bumped it up to 43% cuz the crown has a habit of sproinging off the wig. Waiting for the print to finish (each crown takes about 15 hours to print, but resin prints don't have layer lines).

I wuv her. Still deciding what she wants to be. I've seen so many different, amazing things people have done with these dolls.

Apparently, I'm tempting fate by posting natural fiber wigs (I've been told there was a bit of drama over them before I started collecting). Lol. Pretty sure I've demonstrated that I'm happy to argue. Come at me, bro.

[dolloaf]

Concluding my weekend of Doll Shit is this bitch. I got the sudden urge to repaint her, and decided to do it without pastels at all, in the style of a factory faceup. My hands weren't as steady as they could have been, but it's not bad, and there's a layer of sealant under so I can always redo it. I gotta get one of those magnifying ring lights. Problem is I want it to also hold a phone for video/pics and I'm a cheapskate.

Anyways, love this G1 core Jane Boolittle's skin tone!! I love fantasy skin tones in dolls

Closeup:

Gotta give her a lip ring one of these days

[izasfaceups]

In honor of 2024 being the year of the dragon in the Chinese zodiac, it felt appropriate to repaint my own noodle dragon girl Dollzone Po in white skin. I had absolutely hated the previous Faceup I’d put on her for many reasons, so I was happy to redo her. Also who can resist shimmer freckles?

See for yourself in the before and after below!

The new Faceup is much much cuter in my opinion. I opted for no applied eyelashes this time because her eyes are just so dang small!

The redo was prompted by her new wig, which was the first wig I’d ever sewn like this. The part is messy, but acceptable to me and not bad for my first time working with sewn wefts!

She’s just so adorable, I’m glad I finally bonded with her

[7-thheaven]

Bellatrix 🌒

[theflybitteneye]

Eyes are the windows to the smol homunculi humanoid facsimile's lack of soul.

[yukke-x]

mystic kids - francis

out of all the bjds i own, he’s my favourite!

2 june 2023- 12:25

[katharynthethird]

I went to a local doll fair yesterday and brought my Marie Teacup (she fits safely and perfectly into the Barbie Cakeworthy bag so that was pretty cool). So I thought today would be cool day to show some much clearer photos of my teacup & teacup hybrid!

My first teacup, Marie is from the most recent teacup preorder and is just adorable in the resin color Vanilla Pudding. I had gotten her head separately and my amazing friend @/amberharrisart found a way to get me her body for my bday 🥹❤️ so she has a very special place in my heart! She will probably have many fashion adventures but is currently styled after mori kei.

Aurie, my teacup hybrid happened very shortly after Marie. Because I was absolutely obsessed and wanted another one. Aurie is one of my original faves when I first found DDD, and I styled & named her after one of Fave j fashion icons; Minori! She’s hybrided on a melonpan kit body, the match was unexpected and pleasant surprise. Next thing I knew she’d called dibs on that body. I will say it is a great fit if you happen to have floating teacup head, the head sits perfectly on the kit body’s neck.

Both of their faceups are by me, and supposed to parallel each other on top of pushing as much maximalist decorating I could fit here. Marie’s horn I do not know the maker (and decorated on top), Minori’s is a syntheticephemera (used to be Lorelei’s before her unicorn wig).

Their eyes are by @/melonpan.market as per usual 🥰

Their outfits are a combo of dollmore but most of the accessories, which I feel really make the outfits; are from @/worldruinedsales. Most of my mori & high fantasy styled dolls are styled with accessories from them. And I have to say if you don’t already follow @/worldruinedfactory you are missing out, as they record and post lovely outfit styling flat lays with brand & designer information. An amazing BJD styling resource!

And of course, Marie is a full teacup by @/dodollsdream and Minori is the teacup Aurie head on the human kit body from Melondolls.