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...

( Click to find out what everyone else is up to... )

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

( More Aragorn x2 )

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 )

I got a few before the battery died!

But long story short, in trying to get myself back into the swing of painting, I decided to make Mallory, my SDF Bliss/B&G/Souldoll hybrid completely over. He's never clicked the way he should, and I was flirting with selling him, but instead decided to give him a shot by redoing him completely. I reshaped his eyes with apoxy and sanded them open a bit more, and sanded his cheeks down a tad before giving him an entirely new face. I'm not sure who he is now, but I'm pretty happy with the results ^^

Next up, Sana.





( A few more under cut ^^ )

Another doll who suffered some ill effects of personal drama, however, my issue is more that the character of Jaden just doesn't fit this mold. He's a warrior, he's robust, he's built like a brickhouse... he's an Iplehouse Akando.

Instead of keeping my Bernard and having him suffer yet another unfair identity crisis, I'd rather the boy goes to a good home where he will be treasured. I've been out of the doll loop for a bit--okay almost a year--and it's my understanding that original Dollshe Bernards are hard to come by and are going for like $1000 and up in some cases. I don't have a set price on him, but I want an offer I can't refuse.

He's on DoA at present with my floating sale heads.

Thread here --> http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=299900

(Another question, what is the going rate for a blank modded Nanuri 2007? I was under the impression it was circa $120ish, but I was told they could be $150 - $200. Anyone know?)

In any event, Bernard sale details under the cut.

( NS Iple Dollshe Bernard FS )

It's all over my Flist, but needs to be repeated as often as possible:

From hotaustinnights and essenceofmalice and wherever else it's appearing:


"When was plagiarism ever okay, and where does one draw the line between reference and tracing? There is a huge debate on the internet discussing these very points in conjunction with an up and coming artist, Mijn Schatje.

Mijn is an international artist who has received much acclaim for her digital vector art, with some of her prints retailing for upwards of $1700 each. It has come to light over the course of the past week that she has in fact been tracing over original photography, and claiming the whole completed image as a product of her own imagination. The photographs that she has been pilfering are from a very small, but growing community of collectors and manufacturers of Asian Ball Jointed Dolls. When first confronted with these accusations, she claimed to have never seen a photo of these dolls that looked like her art, but later recanted and claimed to have used some pictures from personal friends with permission. This claim has been proven to be false, by way of a great collaborative effort on the part of the BJD community to track down the original pictures and create overlays of those along with her art so that others can make a decision for themselves.

Austin Texas has been one of the fore-front cities in the US for introducing BJDs to the mass public thanks to Kerbey Lane Doll Shoppe and the Japanese doll company Volks partnering in 2004 for the Super Dollfie Convention. At that convention, Volks saw the mass demand for their unique fine art quality dolls, and opened their eyes to bringing their products to the US.

More information as well as the overlays can be found at: http://www.radiotrash.org/mijn/

Join the discussion at: http://netdiver.net/it-is-or-it-is-not-plagiarism

Written for and submitted to the Austin American Statesman, the Austin Chronicle and NPR.org."

Okay, these are sort of quick because I didn't have much time tonight, but I wanted to get them up because I said I would.



( More Leggy under cut )

It's been nearly two years since his conception I believe, and now at last he's complete.

His glorious Diabolos (aka Genesis) outfit arrived today from the amazing shiroi_yukiko and I couldn't be happier :D





( Moar Gackt )

Oh my god. I just bought a Soom Heliot on layaway... oh my god... I don't think I've bought a doll in over 6 months... if even... He shall be the partner in crime for essenceofmalice's Soom Sard... yay.

yeah... 0___0

I suppose it's obvious I'm on Team Kira, huh? But yeah, so here we go with the first of the fanservice Death Note pix (dollwise). This is the tamer of the two so far (other one still needs formatting), but features disheveled Light snogging shirtless L, so what more is there to say really? Cameo by essenceofmalice's Mello...









( Death Note YAOI Ahead... )

Just got back from VT, but technically still out of town as I'm not home yet. Utterly toasted and still behind in replies (thanks everyone who commented on the last few entries!) I saw Andariel aka essenceofmalice posted part of our giant fanservice Death Note shoot tonight, which gives me an excuse to pimp her by posting my fave shots of Light she took >.> Or gives me an excuse to post my fave shots of Light she took by pimping her XD

So Mello x Light is our secret guilty pleasure, and we had to feed it with some really smexy pix.
This part of the shoot was all done by Andariel aka essenceofmalice with her super-awesome borrowed SLR XD The second half of the shoot (done by me) will be featuring Light x L, my not-so-guilty pleasure XDDD

Obviously these Death Note shoots have become a joint effort between us XD







Whole shoot HERE: http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=230249

Pimping essenceofmalice aka Andariel's Death Note shoot from this past weekend cuz I'm too lazy to upload mine and her pix were made of WIN XD Especially the Omake... :P

This is our GQ version of Death Note, wherein Light attacks L with a hairbrush and a wardrobe from Banana Republic XD (or his own closet, whichever comes first :P)


A few of my faves ^^







WHOLE SHOOT HERE BY ANDARIEL --- http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3456520

(we forgot NaiNai!! Oh noes!! T.T) And afterwards the incredible DN orgy shoot of doom happened where Light got done on all fronts XDD (By Mello and L >.>) Keep yer eyes peeled for those posts eventually XDD

Obviously I'm almost completely MIA lately, haven't had time to scratch my head, but I have lots of pix waiting for posting and lots of dolls waiting for painting... so yeah, it's all just a streaming WIP...

Death Note has devoured my soul XD Between cosplay, rp, fic and dolls, the current bases are covered (just need to get back to doing artwork & manips one of these days and we'll call it a clean sweep XD) Spent this weekend doing all of the above over at the_chibi & essencofmalice's place. We had an awesome cosplay photoshoot at a warehouse in Jersey courtesy of la_reine_rien (pix soon!!! and they rock!!) and Sunday was the giant Dolly Photoshoot of Doom day [read: night/early morning] I don't know how many shots in all I got, but I know it's at least 3-4 posts unto itself (more if I wanted, but I tried to throw a bunch together.) So here's the first of them, X-post on DOA of course XD Yaoi ones to follow some other night, then a few others besides down the line ^^

The cast run-down, (and it occurred to me while formatting that I painted everyone in this shoot but NaiNai):

Light (MD Ryu), L (MD Miho), Near (NaiNai, Elf Chiwoo), Takada (Sybilla, Limhwa Half Elf), Mikami (Maru, Msdoll #3) - belong to me^^
Misa (Saya, CP Miyu) & Matt (Angell Studio Cain)- belongs to ChibiInuTsuzuki
Mello (Angell Studio Adam) - belongs to Andariel
Ryuk (DIM Minimee on Buddydoll Body) - belongs to loyaldreamer







( Death Note Full Cast Photoshoot - SUPER IMAGE HEAVY )

So I finished him in the nick of time for the con the other night, scars and all.
Now for the pimpage XDDD Mello from Death Note.



He belongs to essenceofmalice and this is her photo ;)
The rest of the shoot can be seen over here on DOA:

http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=224690


Aaaaand, back to the other commissions at hand...

This is the pre-Anext post, currently scrambling to finish some commissions and get my act together :P

First up, the L checklist:

--New body? Yup
--New eyes? Yup
--Smexy Raito? Hell yes.





( More of the DN boys with their new bods... )

So now that Light has traded in his Souldoll for the Domuya, there was only one painted floating head waiting around for a body... and that was Timmeh. He was always a smexy beast, but the unplanned combination of Timmorne + Souldoll body has made him one heck of a mountable *animal* ;) Damn. You'd think I knew what I was doing XDD





And then back again to Death Note--wherein you get a sneak peek at the Work-in-progress Mello (belonging to essenceofmalice ....

( Mello - Scars and unpainted Angell Studio Adam )

So now I get ready for Anext, and hopefully it will be a blast--cause if it isn't, I have my own Death Note damnit XD

Because they're a sudden, fascinating, beautiful and morbid couple... ah Maru, you literal split personality, and Harlow--you woman trapped in a man's body...there's so much that could be done here if I had about 5 more of myself handy to pay everyone the necessary attention they deserve...eventually, all things in due time.







And because I'm overtired, overworked, and functioning on a brain that doesn't seem to belong to me anymore--there's 2 people who'll get that most likely--I refuse to make any sense at this hour, and instead just pop up a few shots of Gwen, who would also like to do something more than look like a porcelain doll...but being as how he actually likes to talk to the dead while playing with his toys, I feel like October is a better time to spend some more time with him and his family.

No cuts, I'm too tired.










And eventually in the somewhat nearer future than the above, you'll get to see Naioki's weekend getaway with Light and L... yeah.
And that's my nonsensical doll ramblings for tonight.
Adieu...or something.

Wow. I feel bad for you guys who just read that.
Funny that I'm actually not going to bed yet... *sigh*

So I sold the B&G body! YAY <33 Now just to finish a commission (working on tonight) and L can get his body 8DDDD I'm silly-happy ^_^

In the meanwhile - any one out there in Death Note-dom have any fave fic recs they could throw my way? I've been reading Serria's fics along with several she rec'd, but I'd love to hear of any others. Light/L is a plus (and much desired), AU is fine, the more complex the better, but I'm just really looking for some good entertaining stuff cause I'm too busy to write my own ^^

The evolution of L in this house has been somewhat mystifying as I look back on the original designs/metamorphosis of my Miho. And he continues to change, for the better as far as L is concerned. True to form for the boys, Light's new (3rd) body arrived--a NS Domuya Perennial--and finally I've got a working resin match (as far as I can tell.) But I'm still waiting on the neck extender--so Light doesn't want to show his face on the body until he has that...L on the other hand, hunches on a daily basis and didn't mind modeling the body...which essentially means I will be buying one for him in WS ASAP... I love him on it. It poses well and he looks all sort of smexy now--no more cutesie L, he can't battle Light that way... :)

So my darling Lawliet is finally beginning to come into his own as a doll--and I'm still laughing at how this was never in the plan XDDD







( L gets Sex Appeal... )

I have it in my head that I'm going to do a pretty nifty Death Note shoot soon that involves some fun with photoshop, and possibly some series spoilers... it's in my head, not quite a reality yet. ATM, despite the severe smexiness of the Souldoll body, Light has a *third* bod on the way for his approval, because I'm being ridiculously anal with choosing a vessel for this boy. We'll see if this new one is the one--it's a Domuya Perennial, already I had to buy a separate neck piece to help with proportion, but I'm obviously withholding judgment until it gets here. L too needs a new body--he's cute on the little B&G, but it's nowhere near flexible enough to accommodate his characteristic positions, and besides, I actually want an L that's a bit more...on the masculine side? At least one who can match Light tit-for-tat. So if the perennial works for him too, he'll end up getting one in BW...if not, I'm flirting with an AOD...

I'm also hoping the eyes I have my brain set on for him come back into stock one of these days... my eye collection over here is seriously lacking >,< At least however, I butchered a better wig for him ^^ I'm not a fan of fur wigs really, they don't like me, and the one he had was shedding like my long haired cat all over his shirt...and Light's expensive clothes...so he says...so yeah--new hair for L, and we're sorta happy about it.







( A few more, and one rare Sybilla shot )