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Ever really surprised yourself?

May 31, 2013

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    1. Yeah...Surprising myself yet again....

      Going UP in size...From more tinies to...


      An SD...

      I'm starting to seriously think about it, I see so many lovely SD's...But I'm thinking while I'm saving up for the girl I'm starting to consider (and she's actually cheaper then my RS Yo-SD was) I'll handle more SD's at meets and find out more about them before I make the buy. Cause if I buy...

      I'm gonna be the one lugging it around.
       
      #21 Arashi Uchiha, Mar 25, 2014
    2. I'm surprised about how much i like face sculpt that have absolutely nothing on them, the ones that are super flat that looks like a mask with a nose and two eyeholes on it. before i actually started doing face ups i always thought that i prefer dolls with super detailistic sculpt and unique features. But recently i've realized that a sculpt with nothing have more potential than a sculpt that have everything. the more unique and stand out the features of the doll is the easier it looks like every other copy of that sculpt, as it's really hard to steer away the given characteristics of the face.
       
      #22 Bahh, Mar 25, 2014
    3. The real surprise I can recall happened a couple of years ago, 3-4 years into the hobby...

      I was all set to order this adorable mature mini-sized doll (I've had many mature minis up until that point, and swore I'd never want to go bigger), and then one day I seriously woke up freaking out that I will think she's too small. So in a day, I changed my mind from a mini whose order period I've been impatiently awaiting to buying not one, but two of Iplehouse's big girls.

      And I LOVED the size when I got them. I mean, I owned a bigger doll in the past (Soom SG Chrom, male), and I thought he was impressive but I kept saying that oh, no, he's too big. But nope! I loved having a doll that went up above my calf when we stood next to each other.

      I've since sold the two girls I got because they really weren't working out (too sad-looking, no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get over that), but I'm excited to try again with a new, happier-looking girl, and my wishlist is almost entirely 60+.


      The other thing is that I was planning on "shelling" all of my characters into dolls but it turns out that can't always work. Some characters just... can't have doll forms because I end up conflating the two and it just becomes a huge pain in the butt creatively. Especially if it's supposed to be a comic book character whom I draw a lot... Unless the doll is PERFECT for the character, like 3D-walked-off-the-page perfect, it's really a terrible idea for me to get that doll. Every single doll I've bought under such circumstances I ended up selling, unhappily because I inevitably ended up changing their character visually as well and it just didn't work. So for me now the only dolls I'm allowed to buy are either dolls that I see and immediately find a character for, OR they're dolls meant to represent the characters in my books, who don't have as rigid of a visual appearance reference and therefore won't get influenced by the doll form.


      There was one exception to the rule, and that was Iplehouse Doria... I've long had a character in my head, who was kind of this archetypal femme fatale - really lethal, really aggressively sexual, bent on revenge - but she kind of eluded me on a more complex level than that... Until I saw Iplehouse Doria and her tired, cynical face. Literally the same night I had a dream as if I was that character and suddenly I understood everything about her, and how everything I was trying to make her to be before was completely wrong. So... Doria kind of IS the character's face now, even if I never end up owning the doll.
       
      #23 Lelite, Mar 25, 2014
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