Erm... now it's 4 Iplehouse dolls

[Iwa_Hoshi]

I don't normally look at Iplehouse ladies bodies (that sounds wrong but then I'm not looking for female bjds at the moment) other than most of the completed clothed ones that were running around on this board.

But your gal just had me thinking that she reminds me of 1/6 Cygirl in some sense. Not the bulky muscluar one but the leaner trimer athletic type. I like the way her legs look.

[Lamia of the Dark]

O___O

*makes grabby hands*

I want dolls that look that beautiful...

[Dirili]

Thanks again y'all Sanded seams on the guys today and got Lee's base coat up. If it doesn't rain tomorrow I'll base coat Arvid too and paint Lee.

[SugarCorpse]

i'm so excited to see them all painted up!!! OuO <3

[Dirili]

Wait no longer! XD

Alright, here's some more of my horrible photography! I swear they all look so much better irl, but I just can't work a freaking digital camera (or a regular one for that matter) to save my life.

So I finished the blushing and facups for Alexander (Arvid) and Shen (Lee).

Ok, this requires a bit of explanation and a few excuses. First off, please keep in mind that the boys in particular look a bit... horrid... because I didn't have a SINGLE wig that worked out for any of them! And most of them don't have the correct eyes yet either. I ordered some that are on the way and I think Shen/Bichun MAY be keeping that wig, but the bangs would need a trim. The character is supposed to have shorter spikey hair though, and he needs some sunglasses. Alex/Arvid should have medium brown hair with a slightly reddish tint in a mildly long crewcut style which I'm not sure exactly how I'm going to achieve, because my 2 attempts at trying to make a wig like that have failed thus far. Kou/Lee is a doctor so he needs a neater more kempt hairstyle. I just stuck these wigs on the guys because I hate seeing them bald and these were the closest things I had on hand.

First, the line up. It's weird, but now that I actually HAVE a Super Hero body and a Model body, they look far more different than they did in pics on Iplehouse's site. I feel like even in my own pics here they look far more different. I'm actually liking the super hero body a lot more now even though it wasn't what I initially wanted, so it's a happy mistake.

Everyone's labeled in the pics, but the crew is:
Lynn Yi (EID Asa normal skin)
Kou Yi (SID Lee real skin)
Shen Yi (EID Super Hero Bichun normal skin)
Alexander (EID Model Arvid real skin)




(and I have to mention that I'm rather perplexed and disgruntled at the *cough* lack of manliness in a certain area of the Super Hero body compared to the other guys. Even the sculpting there isn't quite right!)

I had ordered Alex/Arvid before Kou/Lee actually arrived (yes, impatient fool that I am), so I didn't realize real skin was going to be that dark. I might have gone for peach gold instead, but real skin looks so much lighter and natural in some pictures than others. So with Kou/Lee, I had taken an airbrush to paint some highlights on him. Problem was that the airbrush I had was free (given to me by an x-boyfriend years ago) and apparently it wasn't very good, because it was very inconsistent. I practiced for hours before trying anything on Lee and I thought I had gotten the hang of it, but things just don't show up on paper quite like they do on resin, so sometimes the brush would sputter and make a horrible spotted pattern on the poor guy that I had to race to wipe off before it set in. So you can see some inconsistencies in the highlighting over his body... particularly how his left pectorals are too white. And somehow I forgot to blush the back of his knees... how the heck did that happen? Think I may need to thicken his eyebrows a bit too.





So I ordered another airbrush that will hopefully work better, but in the meantime, I decided to stick to pastels when I finished Lee and for doing Alex/Arvid. Highlighting with pastels did not work at all.... lighter colors just completely disappeared once the msc was sprayed on, so I had to stick to shading only. Might try to do a highlight layer once the new airbrush arrives.

I'm so confused about how Alex/Arvid came out in these pics...For some reason the shading looks waaaay darker than it does irl which makes him look a bit emaciated or something, and his face just looks crazy and maybe a little stoned! lol Yes the one eyebrow is supposed to be raise a bit as he's a bit of a quirky character, but I probably should have made it higher because the way it is now it doesn't quite look intentional... In order to make him look more like the friendly nice guy that he is, I painted the eybrows higher than the sculpt ridge is set, and I raised the edges of his mouth a bit (with pastels, no sculpting) and shaded those little cheek pouches, whatever they are called, up at the ends of the smile to accent it.

I think once I get the right wig and eyes on him he'll look a lot better and less insane lol.





Oh, forgot to mention I did a touchup of Bichun's face too, but forgot to take a pic... He needed black eyebrows and the lips were too peachy. But I also always just HAVE to add some shading to faceups, so all the guys have some shading on their faces. Unfortunately I mixed the wrong colors for Bichun I think because the colors on his body look warmer than his face... *sigh*

I feel like I've just been screwing up a lot lately. Been really depressed.

[letchhausen]

I know you think things look bad but seriously, you're working at a pretty high level here.

[Iwa_Hoshi]

They look incredible.
I just notice the super hero body being broader than the model body

[Evelien]

Yeah! And I for one really like those broad shoulders! And your shading work looks amazing!!!

[Dirili]

XD Thanks you all!
Yeah, sometimes it's the ton of little things that I keep messing up that really weigh me down.