Bionicandy wrote:@Vetinari and she_flame: Eheehee, thank you so much for the compliments! I'll try my best to keep improving, and its good to hear that I'm starting off pretty okay for a first faceup!
@MeltedCaramel: Whoooo more feedback! I reaallly appreciate the time you took to offer all that <3
About the camera: Sadly enough, these pictures were taken on a digital camera, but the camera was meant more for outdoorsy/underwater shots, and has pitiful zoom... plus it freezes and bugs out half the time. So yes, I do hope to get a new and improved one soon! And yes, the brighter pictures were with flash, though I do think buying a good lighting fixture would help with my current crap camera. I offered pictures of both flash and no-flash as the no-flash better captured what it looked like to the naked eye sorta, but the flash was totally necessary to show the details of the doll. So in the future, I'll try to go for a better lit place so that I don't have to rely on over-shiny flash : D
And ehee x'''DDD thank you for the praise, I'm still all teeheeing about the feedback! I know a little about makeup, and I tend to have 'sad' eyes, which ain't bad all the time... but when I want to look sharper, I bust out with the cat-eye liner to bring up the shape of my eyes to be a bit more mischievous >:3... and so I did the same with this Hujoo's! I've always found it fascinating how people can 'mod' sculpts just through the makeup, because that's what people do on real life faces also! Think about all those 'makeup transformation' videos... they ain't applying any face putty, just contouring in difference places!
About the lips... yes, the 1000 layer adventure is DEFINITELY to blame there. I was going for her wearing a bright pastel lipstick rather than making it her natural lip color, though going natural may have been better. As for the dark, I struggled to get the crack between her lips dark (so they don't shine where there's shadow) while also having that dark taper out naturally to the light lipstick color... after tweaking here and there for eternity, I rage quit and that is why it looks a bit like how she just ate a dark cherry popsicle while wearing lipliner x'D;;. I'm having trouble going simple with lips, because when I draw lips I usually do lots of lines and detail (I'm a sketchy person), but on a face where you want attention spread across all details, I'm learning that ultra-delineated lips aren't the way to go uwu. Already, on the Monster-High faceup I'm working on, she's got some serious dark lipstick going on... it started out very nice and simple, and I overtweaked once more : (. Ah, well.. maybe I'll do simple lips right the third time :')
LOL as for the names.. that's what I was thinking too. All I could think of were stripper-esque saccharine-sweet names. None of them are quite sticking well enough yet, so I'll have to keep thinking... xD;
To all, a question about the eyebrows though... I hear you about the few dark hairs of eyebrow in the light-hair eyebrow, but for future reference.. what about dark-haired eyebrows? I look at my own and they're a uniform color.. is it still important to have a few darker-or-lighter colors in there?
bionicandy: I am more than happy to provide honest feedback when people ask for it. I'm happy you're brave enough to ask for it and realize that concrit isn't an attack. (...The BJD hobby is a bit...err...putting it delicately, sensitive.) I really enjoyed honestly looking at your work and picking out what I loved and what I felt could use a bit of work. <33
I think as a rule of thumb for "lipstick", it tends to only work for darker colours (and even then that takes a bit of work). Bright colours tend to look a bit caked, if that makes sense? A natural look would definitely work here, natural as in BJD natural of course!
Also, now you have me picturing someone trying desperately to plump their lips with a popsicle. Good luck on the naming thing! Anything sticking yet?
As for eyebrows, even with darker eyebrows you want to vary the colours, yes. Not drastically, but a few darker or lighter hairs really helps the eye with "realism". Just a quick tip though, darker colours on dark eyebrows will make the eyebrows appear a few shades darker than the wig, so be careful about which highlight/lowlight colour you want to use!! <3 I hope this helps a bit, any more in depth questions, etc, just ask! I'm always glad to help where I can.
