Face-up on your First doll; Brave Enough?

One of the reasons I got into this hobby was for the customization aspect. My first bjd was three years ago or so, but I knew I was going to be painting all of my dolls. Not that I was especially great at it, but I wanted to do it anyway!

Raven

 

I only did a faceup I kept for awhile like once. It wasn't a terrible faceup but I could think of so many other people who could do much better so I had it replaced.

I don't really have the patience to try to get really good at faceups.

 

I did the faceup on my first ever doll, for me it's a really enjoyable part of the hobby but I can see why that might not be the case for everyone. I've since redone her faceup and I think it looks a lot better now... so if it doesn't come out quite as you expected you can always redo it

 

Well, my first girl School C came without face up... That's the reason why I started learning face up. In fact, it's not as difficult as somebody thinks. You can do it if you are patient enough.

 

I would do it, so I could see where I need improvement. Also, I think it would make the doll feel more "mine".

 

Omigawd....doing my own face-up on my first doll? No way!! I mean, I know I've been trained to do it and everything, but I couldn't do it to my first doll. I love her default face. And besides, I would feel guilty if I messed it up somehow.

If I had an unassembled doll, yeah, I would probably brave my own face-up. It just depends.

 

I don't have my first doll yet, but most of the reason I'm interested in this hobby is to customize myself, not let someone else do it. I think trying to do a faceup and making mistakes would be more satisfying personally than sending it out for someone else to do it or just keeping the default.

 

I did my first faceup ever on my first doll ever xD;

i was brave enough.. not talented enough, but brave enough xD;

Even though im not good at it (even still) it is very fun

 

I'm going to try the same thing when my boy comes. I don't think it'll be "easy" especially since I'm a perfectionist but I think having a background in painting and drawing should help.

I wonder if being good with makeup would also help since it's an actual 3d surface?

 

I did it. Never will again though. xD Well atleast not right now, I need more practice.

 

I haven't done the face up for my first doll, because I loved the default, but I have done face ups for later ones. It took some courage, though.

 

I have 6 dolls (3 Obitsus, 3 resin) and I've done the faceup on 4 of them. I did the faceup for my first doll ever (An Obitsu Gretel) and my first resin (DZ Tintan). I am always both nervous and excited to do a new faceup on a doll, I think that one is able to really make the doll "unique" when they can do their own faceup. I have one factory faceup and though I think she's adorable she also looks like most other dolls of her mold I've seen. She's special because she's mine, but she's not unique.

 

I wouldn't do it on Echo, she's too small! I would love to do my own dolls though but I'd need to know more about it and I don't have the space/money to have all the stuff you need!

 

I now have a tiny (my first) who i got default face up. i plan on buying either a lati cara or a DOC tender bee ah and do the face up. I have done a faceup on a pullip, so i figure if i cn do that fine i can do a BJD. My only problem is eyeliner, its hard to get it so fine. I used watercolour pencils on my pullip.

 

I was always the one in art classes who couldn't draw or paint to save their lives. My brother is a great artist, my mother does some pretty great doodles/sketches and my father can doodle, but me? I got skipped over with the artistic gene. I wouldn't even RISK doing it. Well, maybe if I had some head laying around that I had no plans what-so-ever for. But no. If I paid a decent sum of money for the doll, it will not suffer from a faceup by me.

 

I made my first doll make up , and all the time I do that I have now another doll (waiting for blanck head), and also I will make it another make up

 

One of the main reasons I wanted a doll is so I could do the customization, especially the face. I'm not great at it (yet), but I love it!

 

Yes, that's one of the reasons why I bought a doll, to be creative with it. I did all my faceups so far. Maybe the first ones weren't that great... but I'm learning every time I do a new one and having fun with it.

 

lol probably not,id be too nervous

 

Same here. I got my first doll without a face-up, because you can give them a face up yourself and I like that part of the hobby. I was horrible at doing face-ups, but am much better now. Now all my dolls except for one (free default face-up) were bought without face-ups.