Sartoria J Design Group - Part 3

she's really beautiful, her faceup is gorgeous
the amber beige really suits her.

 

@Loganberry I would also love to see Yu return, speaking as a half-monolid Asian myself. In fact, I wish for more facial features seen in other ethnic groups in general. There is no other sculpt quite like Iplehouse's Ashanti for example, and it really saddens me that she's been discontinued.

@Quirked Thanks for sharing! Your Elf Naomi looks great — she's my favourite of the elves ngl. I prefer the newer sculpt to the original now that you say (I used to think it was the same sculpt just different makeup ).

And while we're at the discussion of makeup, I have to say I really like Leo's makeup on the pale moon resin. He looks absolutely ethereal as Dracula! Hurray for the return of pale moon and pale rose resins! I hope this means SJ will continue to offer more opportunities for special resin colours to return now bring back carob brown please.

I'm playing catch-up so please excuse my crammed post. I also thought it would be appropriate to celebrate SJ's Halloween event with Amara modelling in one of SJ's older Halloween fits:

 

@sageyufi Love that outfit on her! She really is a stunner

 

@sageyufi I would love it if SartoriaJ offered more ethnic diversity in their sculps. I want a diverse collection but that's hard to curate with SartoriaJ. Iplehouse does offer a lot more diversity. I agree Ashani is a great sculp. I also like Aaliyah and Lahela to name a few. And I like that they offer a diverse range of skintones.

Also, love the Halloween outfit on your girl!

 

@Grimalkin: Thank you!

@sageyufi: Thank you! I prefer the newer sculpt as well, but the old one was fantastic too. I think of them more like sisters. I know Iplehouse did this with the Yur sculpt a long time back. I currently have an 'original' Yur and love her to bits, but her renewed sculpt is also gorgeous. Agreed on the hope that there will be more opportunities for special resin colors! It looks like SJ has been dabbling with it at least in the last few releases? And Amara looks amazing in that dress!

 

I coped with never being able to get an Ashanti by getting a way more stylized Twigling Nkiru, because she has somewhat the features that I really liked out of Ashanti, albeit in a really stylized way. Also OG iplehouse Kamau is a good looking guy—I need to repaint mine and finish modding his body so he can be whole for the first time in awhile.

Tremendous tangent away from SJ dolls, but I would die if they did a sculpt like Ashanti. I’d probably buy it in the palest resin, because I have a beautiful dark tan dye recipe (rit chocolate brown+4 caps of violet) that gets close to the colour iplehouse’s ebony resin gets!

 

+1 on this! I feel Kamau's sculpt would be a decent fit for Amara's adoptive father, but alas also discontinued.

@Loganberry I really like Aaliyah and Lahela too! Unfortunately, I can't unsee Rihanna in Aaliyah, and if I can't have Ashanti, I would like a sculpt that's somewhere between the softness of Lahela and the austerity of SJ's Nadia. This one would be the shell of Amara's plot-relevant ex-gf.

Also on my dream list for when I have all of the monies and space: a tough girl with a smirk in cocoa brown (Cori's bff), a kind and easygoing man in carob brown (Amara's adoptive brother), IH's Asa (the prideful rival-friend), IH's Edan (younger bio brother; close facial features too!) — and if I ever stumble upon a nice elderly black man sculpt, the supportive butler as well!

 

@sageyufi yes! Aaliyah does look a lot like Rihanna! However, I've had a Aliyah in the past with an artist face up and she looked nothing like Rihanna.
Oh, I'll have to have a look at Nadia cause I can't picture what she looks like. I just buy the dolls i like the look of but I always think it must be fun finding the perfect sculp for a character!

 

My elf Leo arrived this past week. He's wonderful. I love the Leo sclupt...(I now have two )


Here's a quick shot I took before I got all his outfit on...

Elf Leo by luluna33, on Flickr

 

Omgahhh he's handsome

 

@luluna Your Leo is spectacular! I really like the elf style. He looks so ethereal.

I count myself lucky to own Ashanti as well as Kamau.Sold them years ago, bought them back a few years later and never regretted it I also own a Lahela, which I love. I often thought I would like some other ethnical sculpts from SartoriaJ. Sarah looks very Asian with some face ups, which I adore!

 

Since 2012, I've had Ashanti in every skin tone except gray. I have just 1 Ashanti now, in glow PG she's on the Raffine "Spirit" tattoo body. When I had her in the normal skin tone, she was angelic She looks beautiful in ALL skin tones.

 

I'd also adore more "different face shape" sculpts too, Iplehouse Rania has these gorgeous cheekbones I don't really see on many other dolls except maybe impldoll Mila

 

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!! (those cheekbones)
Thats exactly why I have 2 Ranias (glowPG & SRS)

(having issues posting photos from my Flickr account)

 

I would also like to see more variety in face sculpts, specifically more ethnic features traditionally associated with people of color. Its obviously a large gap for ABJDs that I've only seen getting better with smaller, independent artists usually based outside of Asia. I hope more of the larger companies start to widen their offerings.

Also, the 1/6s dropped, they're very cute! Reading the story SJ crafted for them in the newsletter made their theme a little weird for me, admittedly. seems they are actually getting married not playing pretend bride and groom?? Then I'm like are they not kids then and just extremely childlike adults? I need to not read the newsletters haha

 

I do like the new 1/6 dolls! I'm not sure about he outfits.

 

I felt the same way about their "little ones" story. I read, and reread it and thought, what?

 

I'm glad so many of us are in agreement about wanting more ethnic diversity in sculpts! I'm sure SJ must peek into their DoA threads every now and then (and I always believe they stagger their releases just so there are more discussions and buzz going around). Hopefully they hear what the people want or I will try to gently nudge them under suggestions

I'm choosing to interpret they were turned into vampires very young so they never aged through the decades / centuries like Claudia from Interview with the Vampire (the character SJ's Kate sculpt is based off). Good on them for finding their match because a visible age gap could have never worked (and would've been extremely awkward) haha

 

(or the perfect outfit)

 

@sageyufi Haha I like this interpretation, I chose to believe in this!