happy unoa day

my unoa lusis arrived on Friday!

I assembled her that night (couldn't wait :P) except for the faceplate - I'll be modifying it and painting it after I've finished my commission work. Here is shushu meeting her for the first time, thinking "what is this freak".

I can't wait to start making clothes!

1st task will be... socks!

click pictures to view bigger & non-blocky

playing with new lens & curves ;)

new toy

got a new toy ^.^

Pearly Dewdrops' Drops

the pictures in this entry are all pixellated for some reason :( better quality versions are on my flickr

I came joint first in DoA's 'Angelic Faceup' Contest!

My theme & inspiration was 'celestial'

I lost out to the tiebreaker of rock paper scissors though

should have chosen spock!

Also, here is the shushu I mentioned in the earlier post ~

I modified the nose and mouth - carved in the shape and teeth,

then painted her of course!

WIP

Here's a look into a picture I'm doing for a competition... very WIP at the moment! Don't have much time to work on it - currently just nights since I'm so busy with faceup commissions right now~
Need to fix the symmetry - when I've finished the linework, I mirror the image to see the mistakes easier and then fix them.

see the imaginative titles I give stuff~

And here's the original sketch - in future I'd like to work more on perfecting the drawing first before going into photoshop, might make doing the linework easier & quicker.

The finished piece won't look anything like this!

The Fin in my last post sold and has arrived at it's new home! Now I just have to wait 6-8 months for my Unoa Lusis -___-;
In between commissons I've also been working on my own dolls - I've done a different kind of mod on the little Shushu which I'll hopefully have pictures of soon~

And I've been thinking about designing & sculpting my own design for a doll head... will probably start on this in Winter when doing faceups is more difficult because of the damp, cold weather & poor light. I'm quite excited about this but don't want to talk too much about it because I know a lot of doll owners at one point try to sculpt their own and it turns out rubbish - I don't want to be one of those people!!

Domuya Fin FS

I've ordered a new doll, so this one is on the chopping block~
I just took these pictures to show her new faceup & posing abilities. She's actually good at posing, it's me that's bad at setting them up!! Stands like a rock but I'm way to paranoid to leave her standing :0

Of course after repainting and taking pictures I don't want to sell her now! But I've wanted a Lusis for years now, and the preorder only comes around every few years... so I just had to grab it while I could :)

some recent pictures...

Paris part 1

Trip to Paris - La Défense district :






Le Grande Arche :

(it was so big I should have had a wide-angle lens!!)

more at my flickr here

Akino Arai Live in Paris 2009!

I met a Goddess!
She was wonderful ~ I've written about it in my other journal here

Loved Paris so much - I have to go again someday soon! I'll be posting pictures of the places we went soon, just had to do the AA pictures first~ :)
Not ready to get back into work yet :( ...but have to if I'm going to try and go to her concerts this Summer in Japan!

photo dump

~some photos which have been sitting in unorganised folders for months... my computer is such a mess ~ I keep thinking 'there's no point sorting it out when I'm buying a new one soon'. Logic fails me :---0

I can't decide - new laptop or airbrush (for doll painting) ?_?

I love this (doll outfit perfection) so much ~ 0h to have money!

some art (full images!)

Well, here are the full images~!
I'm so rusty at this art thing since finishing uni :( So this is the first step towards my New Years resolution - to draw more! I need to totally rebuild my portfolio~

some art

A sneak peek at 2 images I'm entering into a competition!
I'm just glad to have a reason to draw again, I've been so busy with dolls I've lost focus on what I should be doing... I want to use my illustration degree for something! haha

Speaking of dolls I've updated my lj with more commissions : here

Akino Arai

My biggest inspiration...

3-4 years ago I missed out on the chance of going to her concert but I'm not missing it this time!

You know a...

A recent commission I did for a lovely lady in Canada~
These dolls in the picture are called 'Unoa' and I really want to buy my own in the next pre-order!

I'm hoping to buy a faster computer soon too, so look out for more of my illustrations!
(I have a few unfinished ones right now, but I'll never complete them because my current computer is too slow to handle anything at 300dpi!)

more doll facts

I finished my first doll modification the other day, and I've painted her too~

Her eyes were originally completely closed so I had to cut through the resin using a small sharp knife, and then sanded and refined the shape using very tiny files (games workshop) and micro-fine sandpaper. Also carved slight eyelids.

(The colours in this are supposed to be like the film 2046 ~ I think I might name her after one of the characters)


From my personal collection, I have to get as much done on my own dolls before all the January commissions come in!

new year~

I hope everyone had a happy christmas~



new shop banner~

I have been (and still am!) busy with doll commissions, as always details are on the forum Den of Angels or here for non-members :)


illustration work on etsy has been put on hold because of the above reason ^^^

and for 'casual' pictures and photography please feel free to visit my flickr page!

hopefully I'll be putting some items in my etsy shop this weekend...

if my printer and brain decide to co-operate that is

my dear...

deer