Dollieh Sanctuary

Yay! Like I said in the other post, I've wanted to do this for over a year now. Or around a year. Something like that. Anyway, I decided NOT to try it myself. Not on my two favorites. So I mustered up the courage and sent them via USPS to Arrowchild for the royal treatment.



Ivan has new cool color palette, which is great since he's undead and all. I love the icy colors and of course Arrowchild did the best man-chest blushing of all time.



I bought him a new pair of jeans, a lighter color, so hopefully this time he won't end up with blue-stained legs. D'oh!!



New eyes from Safrin Doll. These are a more intense blue and I really like them. They're 14mm so they don't fill up the eye-space quite so much.





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Ivan will never be allowed to wear a shirt again.




I'm so impressed with the tiny details of Ivan's work. Arrowchild painted the veins a faint blue so they look SO realistic. And the finger and toenails a have a tiny white tip so they look natural!!! So awesome. I wish I could get the lighting to work a little better. I'm having camera troubles (operator error no doubt) so it's really hard to tell in the pictures the more subtle nuances in the shading. But by golly his veins look really amazing.

I wish the lighting was better. Sorry the pictures are washed out. I've played around with the exposure and turned the lights on and off and it seems like no matter what I try the camera just sucks in so much light.

Anyway, here's Micah!!



I wanted Ivan to be more dramatic but I wanted Micah to be more simple. He's just a dude, nothing fancy, and so I wanted to avoid the "made-up" look. I really like the clean no-lines look around his eyes.







Aww, this is so embarrassing.



Are you finished yet? *blush blush blush*



Lookit those cute little tosies!!

hahaha... and now in comparison, I re-did Abe's face-up. I didn't put ANY pigment on the lips. I just drew a few tiny lines on them to look more natural, sealed, and glossed.

So. The darkening is the gloss. And now, I don't care. Abe is just going to have to have a lady-face.

And don't you just love his wig? hahahahaha... I tried to make dreadlocks. Still working on it. I think he looks like he stuck his finger in an electric socket. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... oh Abe, sorry buddy.

Ivan is so gorgeous. He no doubts seduces many people!
Abe's wig is AWESOME. I would keep it just like that - granted I love all that untamed, living in the wild look.
I actually want hair similar to that for Shakan, but I'm going to be using synthetic mohair. It will have the same look though, all flying around. XD
Pride? What pride?

Ivan looks amazing, obviously. I adore how Micah looks too <3 Love the blushing he has going.

Poor Abe lol.

Arrowchild did a fantastic job on them! They look great.

I just really want to give Abe a hug. He has that adorable awkward look to him right now which is totally not a bad thing. And his eyes look sooo wide there.

Beautiful dolls <3. I love Abe's hair lol!

They look amazing! Good luck ever getting Ivan back in a shirt though... And I love Abe's look, especially that ear piercing.

They look wonderful.
I agree about Abe's wig. I like it.
Ivan is just sooooo beautiful. I love his new eyes. He's heart-stopping. And that dreamy, sleepy, lazy smile...

<3 Thanks everyone. I was really excited to see them. They look so much like THEM, you know? Just like the image in my head. hahahahaha... Abe, poor fella. I'll eventually get those dreads finished. If that wig doesn't work I can always try to make one with the wefts tutorial posted on Junkyspot.