There is something about the promise of spring that makes me want to do things. Here’s what I’ve been up to lately 🙂
Airbrushing.. Oh lord, what a headache. I’m still struggling so hard with the varnishes, and I have no idea what I’m doing wrong. I’ve had a chat with a couple of airbrush users and I did get some tips, but I’m still having issues.
With Vallejo matt varnish, I’m not getting any tooth at all, which makes me believe that it’s not actually coating the doll at all, or very little. It also flaked off down to the “skin” of the doll when I tried to erase a mistake.
I’m having more success with the Liquitex method, but the surface looks almost fuzzy, and I’m having a hard time erasing mistakes or removing excess pastels. Liquitex is still the one that works best for me, because at least it gives me some tooth. I wish Vallejo worked for me as it doesn’t need to be thinned, so I feel there is less chance of errors. I will keep trying though 🙂
I dont think I ever posted a pic of this girl:
I really like her, I’m not good at drawing eyeshapes so for this one I tried replicating a shape Andreja did on one of her dolls, an I love the result 🙂 She may be my favorite MH doll 😀
And as I’m testing varnishes, I decided to go a little wild with the faceups too! I’ve always loved soft brown and pink tones in my faceups, because I’ve always had so many issues working with crazy colors, but I figured I didn’t have too much to lose right now. I had wiped my Frankie doll’s faceup a while ago, and I tried giving her a new face, this is a WIP picture:
This was so much fun to do, even if there are so many errors 🙂 I swear her eyes looked so symmetrical when I sealed them the first time, but as I kept working on her I saw that they were in fact not symmetrical at ALL! I’m also working on a Rochelle, and I have the same issue with her. I don’t mind too much right now, since I’m just having some fun and testing things out. More photos to follow I hope, unless something goes terribly wrong and I have to remove everything XD
I was also lucky enough to go treasure hunting in my aunts attic. She had some boxes that belongs to me there, and I found all my old my little ponies. They were in worse shape than I remembered, but it felt amazing to see them all again. I brought home one small pony that I cleaned, I think her name is heart throb, and I remember I loved her so much (and it shows). All my ponies were played with, so none of them are perfect. I even found my old Megan, but she is missing a shoe :/
These are not all of them, I have 3 brothers and 3 sister ponies as well, and you can kind of see Megan in the background there. I also have 3 very tiny baby ponies 🙂
I could only find tail rust on one of them, which I believe is baby cotton candy. You can see little heart throb to the right of the bride pony, you can see her hair is standing straight up!
Her hair got a nice treatment and looks way better now 🙂 The does have a scratch on her cheek blushing, as well as some spots here and there. My favorite pony was Firefly, and this girl reminded me of her for some reason, so she has been played with so much.
I want to get more of the ponies back home so I can try and remove any spots and stuff, and I should probably help the one with tail rust too! I think it may be a good idea to open up my sea pony, because she has been in water there might be mold inside. I’m really scared of opening up the ponies, a part of me wants to inspect every pony to look for mold, but I’m not sure if it is a good idea.
Anyway, that is what I’ve been up to ^^ I hope everyone had a magical easter/holiday, I hope to have more faceups to show you soon!
Some more photos of my little cat:
