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

I only have one doll that has a faceup by anyone else, and it's a vinyl dollfie dream with a factory faceup. And I only settled for that because I had to!

NGL, even if the faceup process wasn't fun and a creative outlet for me I'd be way too nervous to send one of my precious heads to some rando. This hobby doesn't exactly have the best reputation for upstanding, trustworthy individuals.

 

I have one doll that has no faceup. I have been debating trying to do her faceup myself, but I'm so worried I'll ruin her somehow. With the cost of products to do it, and then with my shaky hands, I just feel like it's more worth it for me to get someone else to do it.

 

I have always liked to do the faceups myself. Learning them was a process but I enjoyed it and made faceups I was happy with pretty soon out of the gate. It was not a big investment for me. I am a portrait painter and had pastels left over from art school at the time.
But that being said I'm not rigid about it anymore. I can also enjoy having company faceups or I would think I would enjoy good work by someone else or another artist friend. But I cannot afford to commission anyone and it's very low cost to just replace what I need as I go (mostly respirator things and sealant, everything else lasts me basically forever). So I'm happy to keep doing it myself. I really enjoyed it as well. It's a specific art!

 

Designing faceups is one of my favorite aspects of this hobby. I'm not very skilled at it, but I do enjoy the process. I also worry that I wouldn't be completely satisfied with a commission. I'd feel bad if I had to ask for revisions.

 

At this point in time, it would have to be commision. There are so many talented face-up artists that I would like to support. At one point, I would like to learn how to do face-ups and body blushings.

 

Commission. I can do a lot of creative things but faceups isn’t one of them.

 

I would rather commission someone. I don’t have the skills to do it myself, even if I did, I think I would be horrible at actually getting it done, lol!

 

I've been team commission someone for a long time! Almost all of my dolls were painted by someone else. Although, I do have a small stable of floating heads I like to paint. I can see myself moving toward painting my own once I improve to the level of quality I want.

 

I prefer doing my own because I already have a lot of the necessary materials from other art projects and there are not a lot of opportunities to casually paint on such a 3D surface otherwise - I've found it to be a really good way to develop a steady hand for any kind of brushwork so it's been also useful when looping back into 2D artwork. I never fully enjoyed commissioning custom artwork and find it much easier to make decisions as I go along so in the end I'd probably only truly be happy DIYing it anyway. I do really enjoy looking at other faceup artists' work and I think I'd consider buying an already-painted head, though!

 

Commission, always. I'm not artistic in any sense and I know if I tried and it didn't turn out how it did in my head, I'd be so dejected. Plus, I love seeing true artists bringing my dolls to life with their own style and expression. It just makes even more special than it already is.

 

I bought everything I need for makeup, but I continue to order makeup from professionals. Probably over time I will do makeup for my dolls myself, but so far I'm not ready)))

 

I totally understand how you feel! I've heard horror stories about resin getting permanently damaged when someone removed a faceup, and that's the biggest inhibitor to me giving it a shot...

 

I’d love to try my hand at a faceup someday! The entire process looks relaxing, in a way.

 

I do it myself, but I get angry when the result doesn't match my idea.
The reason for this is that I am too afraid to separate from my dolls. The second reason is that every thing I do for my dolls strengthens the bonding. Really.
But the frustration is all the more when I can't get the face out of my mind into the world.

 

I prefer to do the faceup myself since I find it comforting that if I don't like it, I can always redo it since I'm the one that originally painted it. Also, I'm not the greatest at expressing what I want in a commission since my ideas change very quickly and I prefer to be able to adjust the face multiple times. I feel like this would be too big of a hassle for a commissioner.

 

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I'm going to have to learn myself, because I doubt there are many faceup artists in my country (Australia) and I've heard too many artists stealing heads horror stories.
Though I do have a close friend with a background in special effects makeup, so I have someone to help me learn how to shade parts of a face!

 

Making my own dolls face up got me interested in this hobby. So yes i do all my dolls face up‘s myself

 

I absolutely want to start doing my own face-ups. I paint 28-32mm gaming miniatures, and I think some of those skills might translate over ok.

 

I would absolutely be down to commission a faceup if I didn't have to mail my doll out to someone else and have the possibility of it getting lost in post. I'm no really worried about being scammed, moreso about my horrible luck with postage!