Been busy busy busy, but finally some new dolly news ^^

Safe to say, after this Heliot fiasco, and subsequent weirdness with the new site, I'm pretty done with Soom. :\ They have beautiful dolls and I'm now madly in love with my Dia boy who just got home today, but uuugh the frustration of never getting a straight answer and having order histories disappear, and having shipping dates pushed back month after month after month and new dolls released and released and released when the Heliots still aren't all home. No thank you.

But they're home, and I've been so busy God knows when I'll be painting them. X__x

Meet Zillah:








And Heath <333333333333







Obviously, both need faces LOL. Heath will actually be getting some scarring... yes, I plan to scar a Dia. Not permanent, but his name and the color of his jacket should give away his inspiration--he's going to be something of an interpretation rather than a dead ringer--I'm excited to see how he's going to turn out. He's just gorgeous, God I love this mold <3 I should get him a green tie... gonna have to get on that...

Zillah I have a vision for, but he's going to be a big project because there's hooves to worry about, and after painted essenceofmalice's Sard, Cernunnos I'm rather dreading the work load atm... ironically, I ordered him because I loved the idea of a doll unicorn, but after all is said and done, I'm not a fan of the horn and the subsequent {{{ forehead of dooooooom }}}} so I have to decide if I'm even going to be using the horn, or if I will be styling a headdress to take care of the forehead length that the horn tends to give... dunno. We'll see.

In any event, Heath will probably be done first... ^^;;

Some quickie pix of Jaden and essenceofmalice's Sard, Cernunnos from the meet two weeks ago.
Poor Jaden, it's my full intention to drag the boy out to the beach for his proper shoot, but weekends are so full with other things I haven't had a chance to do it yet.





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In other news... no Heliot yet. They gave me an approx. ship date of August 20th, which came and went, so I guess he's been pushed back again.

Not having learned my lesson with Soom, I ordered a Dia a few weeks ago, I'm actually more excited for him to arrive (shss, don't tell the horny boy) because my plans for Dia sort of exploded. If all goes according to plan, he's going to be quite interesting. I don't want to say too much, because all his stuff is on the way, and I still have to find the happy medium with his planned aesthetics, but for the time being I'll say his name is going to be "Heath" and that's all the hint you get :D

Beyond is still waiting on his proper wigs to arrive, and once they do, I hope to do a creepy shoot with him and L. At present, he's nibbling on Light's shoulder up in my room.

Oh! But speaking of L, he's currently wooing our resident Misa:



I owe her a shoot as well. She's a Musedoll Re-Che girl with a faceup by DoA's *Meee* (not 'me' - lol)
Dragging the panda-monkey away from her is proving to be difficult.
He's such a perv.

And now, technically I should be prepping essenceofmalice's Vamp Miho for painting...

Because I have yet to actually get a real shoot together... and damn, I just don't photograph these guys enough anymore X__x

Not everyone is represented, just whoever decided to pop up and say hi ^_^

Meet this weekend though, so hopefully I'll have more to show for myself lol


Sybilla


Willow

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Forgive Beyond Birthday his banana curls, his real wig hasn't arrived yet and well...
they're banana curls LMAO.

Now I really need to stuff Jaden into a carrier so he can trek to Jersey tomorrow X___x
I think Taji is sneeking with him LOL

Maybe I'll actually wrestle Menna away from Andariel this weekend (he's been bunking there forever) He's going with us to New Orleans in April, and I'm so damn psyched I want to start primping him now LMAO

His face up is finished, but he's still waiting on his stuff, so in the meantime, he stole L's wig and we did some grainy shots. Beyond is a spooker XD He has his own wiki too in case anyone cares to know which Death Note spin-off character he's based on: http://deathnote.wikia.com/wiki/Beyond_Birthday

In any event, he has a tinybear wig on the way, along with marsh pants and raphael shirt. I decided to do the yin yang route for him and L, rather than the straight doppleganger (which is what I prefer in our fic for a great variety of reasons) only because it doesn't make sense to me from a doll perspective to have two dolls who look that much alike, unless I'm going for twins, which I'm not. I've always maintained that Beyond doesn't look exactly like L anyway, he's a mimic not a replicant LOL So he's got more of Marilyn Manson-esque gothy thing going on. This also comes from my great need to paint Mihael's lips--he just has one of those mouths I think *beg* to be painted, and it was part of the reason I bought the mold to begin with.

So Beyond Birthday in progress:







I still have yet to nail down the opportunity to take Jaden out for his big shoot. Damnit. But it will happen as soon as I can swing it. And speaking of Jaden, Bernard-Jaden made it safely to his new home, yay! He seems to be settling in nicely :D

Last bit of news, I took the plunge and ordered my Dia-boy X____X

It seems I have the same concept idea for the Dia and the Normal Heliot head, so I'm waiting on them all to arrive before I decide who gets the look. Though part of me is flirting with freckles for Heliot...like full body/face freckles, man I don't know, it would be something different--though he needs a body still...I heard Resinsoul was a contender, but they're so tall... The Godmaster, on the other hand, I have a really interesting vision for I think, if I pull it off. Just have to navigate the forehead of doom...lol... They're not due to ship until the 20th, so we're not there yet, though I will laugh my ass off if Dia beats the horny boys home.

So a close friend of mine has decided to move to an apartment in the Central New Jersey area, Plainsboro to be precise (yay Dr. House!), which means essenceofmalice and I will probably be frequenting the area quite a bit. Anyone on the flist from around those parts? :)



In other news, Mihael has confided in me that he is definitely *not* the character I thought he was--haha, why should he be? Instead, he's pretty certain he's Beyond Birthday--you Death Note peoples know the one--your L-alike psycho doppleganger type ;) Beyond is probably the only DN boy we cosplay that's not represented in the crew in resin form, that's about to change ^_____^

This is going to be fun :D

Pre-face piccie ^^



I love the Mihael mold, he's just not your average looker--something about him utterly fascinates me <3

It's the passing of the torch. Bernard-Jaden departed today for his long journey to his new home in Russia. It was bitter sweet but in the end, he's going to a very good home that's very very excited to have him and I couldn't be more pleased. :D I ended up sending him with much of his wardrobe, his heise pants and vest and wife beater and I stole Light's turtleneck to give to him because, well, it's Russia and I couldn't send the boy in just a tank top (don't tell Light) XD He even went with shoes and 2 wigs, his original glass eyes and of course his beanie baby kangaroo. LOL The girl who bought him said she's always been a fan of Jaden, as he appeared while Bernard these past few years, so she's getting the exact doll she'd been admiring for awhile, which was lovely to hear :D She's all set to make him a Scottish kilt too, which I love, since I'd put him in one myself awhile back LOL And I sent along a cd of photos because she plans on making a photo book of him. ^_^ I think it's wonderful he's going to have such a dedicated owner, and it made sending him off today so much easier.

So adieu dear Bernard-Jaden, I know you'll be happy in your new home <3

Okay, technically it's my birthday, but Jaden is complete, and all the work that went into him was actually a birthday (or partial birthday) present from all involved, so I need to post some piccies. Technically I'm going to wait until I can get him to a planned outdoor shoot to reveal all the details, but I have no patience. :P







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Also, Maru Jr. (who needs a new name XD) *finally* got his new face up.

Behold! The bratling prince of the House of Tenzen! (LOL) He's a DIM Sergei



In any event, birthday weekend was a BLAST! I have the best girlfriend, friends and family in the world <33333
Far too much fun was had, and waaaaaaaaay too much cake was eaten! LOL

So the next boy on the slab is Mihael aka "Adonais"... he refuses to match the body I bought him for, but I don't care :P I will make it work LOL Then I'm painting essenceofmalice's new Vamp Miho, and the question of the day remains...

To Dia or not to Dia ;)

My birthday/Bernard money says to Dia :P

After another session of people working on Jaden, a new teaser shot:



Sorry, I don't want to give too much away until he's totally done XDDD
But he's getting there :D An impressive beast if I do say so myself <33

Okay, me the queen of indecision, has decided to take Harlow off the mp and give her another chance. Even after I put her up for sale, I've been waffling. I think part of the problem, aside from her never really being in any plan, was that even after I was going to keep her (I'd painted her to sell over a year ago) I couldn't decide on her style. I thought since she had an out-there sort of face, she was naturally a gothy and mean looking chicky, when normally I'm much more attracted to the delicate, pretty, I-wear-giant-white-period-looking-dresses type.. ala Sybilla. Harlow and I just never meshed, and she never seemed to fit into a style I was happy with, so I thought I could let her go. Ironically, I came across some old pix of her in Sybilla's dollheart fer--at the time it was just for fun, and never posted them, but looking at it a year later I realized I'd been way off base with poor Harlow. She might have that gothy face, but combining it with an old feminine appeal actually seems to work for her, I think. She's always been sort of paradoxical anyway. So I took her out of her BDSM slave girl outfit, and put her into one of Sybilla's antique lace gowns my mom made. Changed her eyes to a dark olive black-green (another problem has always been her coloring, I don't think blues have a place with her, she's more of warm-hued girl) and gave her back her dark curls, which are a little worse for wear, but I think look good with her, and voila--Harlow gets a second... no third... no--oh, whatever, chance...


I still need to blush her... might give her some scarification tats down her back to match her eye scars... something I still need to do to Willow...







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Jaden is BIG project, and this weekend he had four people slaving over bringing him to life as he was always meant to be. So a few teaser-progress pix as the Aussie Beast comes into his own.

This is mainly his wardrobe production. He's a post-apocalyptic boy, a wasteland warrior, so we're doing our best to make him look like one ^^

My dearest essenceofmalice is behind much of the leather work, while my brother and our best bud are on the metalworking end, building Jaden's Mad-Maxian leg brace, his weapons and possibly some pieces of armor, including a shoulder pauldron if all goes according to plan. I'm the detail aspect, I'll be the one beating this thing up and making it look battle-worn. I also still have to blush & scar him and give him his woad tats... so he's still a ways from being finished, and then we have a special shoot planned, but for now, a peek at how he's coming along...

Photos by essenceofmalice ^_^

One-shot. Jaden got his new face lastnight, he's still undergoing body aesthetics and costuming dilemmas, but I couldn't resist, because he's just so perfect as the Jaden I've always imagined <333 Now I'm going to spend the rest of the night cursing at him as I try to put together his Mad-Maxian outfit... :/

Wish me luck.

He arrived while I was out of town, and now he's home, and OMG is he HUGE!! It takes both my hands to fit around his middle XDDDD But he's effin BEAUTIFUL even without his proper aestethics (he's presently default but will be getting a new face up, blushing, scars, tat, the works :DDD )

Of course Naioki had to immediately assert himself and remind Jaden who's Boss... >.>

Otherwise known as essenceofmalice's limited Angell Studio Vampire Elf Tan Gavin who has been sitting around faceless for nearly a year. We really did drop off the face of the doll world. But better late than never.

In any event, I think initially Gavin was supposed to be a Drow... didn't happen. He suddenly decided he was Ancient Egyptian, and well, I indulged him...

He's sort of done, I think, not sure about hair or clothes or accessories etc etc, I'm just sort of playing now that he's all painted...so some rushed late-night shots:


Not sure about the white eyelashes...


I painted the tat too--last minute decision... I could have been in bed earlier *lol*

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[EDIT: Jaden is paid for and shipping tomorrow!!]

I've bought Jaden! I'm paying for him tonight! ::DANCE:: He's an Iple Real Skin Akando I found on the marketplace and he's gonna be one meaty, manly hunk of gorgeous resin!!

*dances off*

The deed is done.





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Quickie because I'm racing my own exhaustion...

1. I'm wiping Sana tonight. Decision made and new look semi-conceived of. Whether I paint him tonight or not depends on how close I am to faceplanting by the time he's wiped.

[EDIT: Sana is wiped and it feels really damn good <3 ]

2. I bought a Leeke Mihael head. It's been a full year since I decided I wanted him, and now he's on his way, hopefully to fit on the headless domyua body floating in my room.

3. Heliot hasn't shipped...duh

4. Heliot wigs are purchased from Tinybear..speaking of heliot Does anyone know what other bodies a Heliot normal head will fit decently on??? I'm looking to make the normal boy a sort of slave/servant to the Godmaster so he must be of smaller stature.

5. And while on the subject of Gods and Masters... essenceofmalice's Soom Sard is complete, in my laziness I have yet to post pix so I will hereby pimp hers out instead. Full aesthetics done by yours truly:



More of Cernunnos here on DoA: http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=307237

6. Repainted essenceofmalice's Tender Shall as well, she is now happily back together with Xiao after having been brainwashed by the same evil force that nearly murdered Sana LOL:



Some more here: http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=309110 and more to come eventually.

7. I've decided I want a Dia boy... he's next on the saving list.

8. I may be selling Harlow... and I will be painting the blank heads I have for sale in the hopes to generate more interest.

9. Does anyone remember little Shiwoo Eiji? He liked to Explain Things. Well, I bought him. He should be home next month-ish to join Taji and Gigglebunny in their exploits to turn New-Jaden into a jungle gym.

10. Speaking of, I haven't ordered Akando yet, but I can't bloody wait <333 Oh New-Jaden, you hunk of gorgeous resin you, I heartily look forward to when your seven pounds of pure-resin manliness with break my arms <3

...And Naioki is still boss.

For the hell of it, I snapped some boring shots of the crew where they're all perched in my bedroom, just to do a little update thing on how they're all doing... and to prove they're still around LOL

Beginning with the Woos and the first girly (now one of 3 girlies)...



Taji is still pink, still loves bunnies and still plays Koalas...
Gigglebunny is still the most annoying pink imp you'll ever meet...
Sybilla is still pining for a man that will actually love her...



Gwen still has no idea why he looks like the Pillsbury Dough boy...
Aspen... is still dumb as a stump and loves his penguin...
Naioki is still BOSS... and thinks this is a dumb idea...

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I am working on him now... so a teaser :D

He belongs to my girlfriend, essenceofmalice And will be the mate to my Soom Heliot-not-yet-in-transit...LOL

God I love this boy.

Sard is Godly. <3

And this does it on the commission front, from here on in I'm going to be concentrating on my crew and my gf's crew ^^

So here they are, I painted two Lord of the Rings Viggo Mortensen minimees for jasmineskie One as the scruffy, dirty ranger Strider/Aragorn and one as the King of Men, Elessar (Aragorn as he appears at the end of Return of the King). Sybilla snuck in there as a cameo Arwen sort of appearance, LOL Forgive my non-accurate LOTR costuming, I did what I could with what I had ^^

Personally, I really like the ranger myself :P


Aragorn


Elessar


Sybila as Arwen

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So this is actually a long-overdue commission for loyaldreamer.

I've been a Brandon Lee/Crow fan for 16 years (and may be cosplaying him soonish), Brandon is the only true live action Crow as far as I'm concerned, and yeah I'm terribly biased. I was a fan of his before he died when he made Rapid Fire, so his death was extremely affecting to me when it happened. It's ancient history now, but I stay loyal ^^

Actually getting to this doll took unforgivably long, but I think the end result turned out well. I hope she likes him :D I have two last commissions to finish for another friend of mine and then I think my commissioning life is over. I just have absolutely no free time between life, love and cosplay (and commuting and never being home on the weekends) that I just can't do it anymore and would rather concentrate on my crew and my girlfriend's crew, so yeah ^^; I may paint some heads to sell, but that never works, I usually end up keeping them--but we'll see.

So anyway, here's Brandon.







( Brandon Lee as The Crow )