Would you rather commission a faceup, or do it yourself?

I would love to do it myself! I haven't yet and intend to get a practice head at some point but 'do it myself' all the way even if it takes a ton of practice before its perfect!...or just buy as the company sent faceup hehe...

 

If I was talented I would rather do it myself cause I can make it exactly how I want. But I am awful with painting so I don't think I'd be good at face-ups. So I always pay someone else to do it.

 

I am used to send them for somebody else to do. However, now I started to practice by myself. It's hard to receive the dolls after several months and then send it away again for half a month...And it's a lot of fun to create own character by putting face up because nobody knows the idea of mine better than myself.

 

It would be nice to ever be talented enough to do a faceup!
I think I'll always commission them, mostly because I wouldn't want the cost/bother of keeping faceup materials on hand.

 

Do it myself. I don't have a doll yet, I plan on having her with factory makeup and then adding to it. From the pictures I have already seen of her makeup it makes her look almost exactly how I envisioned her in my head. I just need to add some extra bits for her to look perfect! ^w^

 

If it is a cartoon/anime face doll and it's not really rare I will do it myself.

 

I do my own face ups but I am by no means professional. I am still learning and I would love to get better at it. I have some dolls with professional face ups and I can only hope to be that good one day.

 

If its a doll I handle a lot, I like to do my own faceups. That way, if it wears down, I can fix it myself or just re-do it. I do like to commission dolls as well, but I save that for dolls that will be more for display and photography, the ones I wont handle as much. I have a few people on my list that I hope to get a faceup by in the future.

 

I would love to be able to do my own, but as my painting skills are not the best nor do I have a steady hand, I would have to commission someone to do them for me.

 

I prefer commission in my deep heart but the problem is the cost. So it end up i need to do it by myself (T T)

 

I would rather commission someone opposed to doing it myself. I feel like I could do a good job, but on dolls this expensive good isn't enough. Plus I know my abilities and wouldn't be able to capture what I envision. I have a lot of respect for those who do face ups on dolls

 

If I had any talent or drive, I would do it my self, but I'd rather pay someone else who knows what they're doing. Thank you, Faceup artists!!

 

I like to do face-ups myself,their okay. If I want a certain look for my doll then I would commission someone to do it.

 

i think i'd rather do it myself, i never tried it tho

 

it depends, if i really like a certain faceup i might chooses commission but i still prefer doing it on my own..

 

I usually buy dolls without faceup and does them myself but as I started to work and even started part-time studies, I can hardly find time to do faceup. I've recently turned to commission for help and it was really great! Love it. I'm already looking out for another artist for my new doll.

 

I would have to send my unpainted doll away for a face-up as I can only paint walls! lol.... My Enchanted BJD arrived as a blank and I sent her away to North Carolina for a most beautiful face-up! I was very nervous while she was in transit, but she arrived back home safely. I am in western Canada and North Carolina is very far from me! I envy all the fine doll artists out there and wish I could paint like them.

 

I prefer commission the faceup. My artistic skills are really bad. I´ve always admired people who have that artistic vein.

 

Since I'm new to the hobby I prefer to commission for now. I don't have all the material and I'm too scared to screw up, aside my skills I'm not sure about…

But in a near future I think I will order a old head and try some things on it to give me an idea. Meanwhile, I'll commission some artist - and there are so, so many great artists I want to commission !

 

I got into this hobby wanting to customize dolls with little outside help when I can, so I definitely lean towards doing them myself. I'm also a pretty impatient person generally, so I'm not sure I could stand to send out my doll's head for a while to get done when it probably already took a significantly long time just getting to me to begin with. I can also be pretty fickle, so in case I change my mind about the doll, I think I'd rather wipe and redo it myself then send it out again.