In honor of 2024 being the year of the dragon in the Chinese zodiac, it felt appropriate to repaint my own noodle dragon girl Dollzone Po in white skin. I had absolutely hated the previous Faceup I’d put on her for many reasons, so I was happy to redo her. Also who can resist shimmer freckles?

See for yourself in the before and after below!

The new Faceup is much much cuter in my opinion. I opted for no applied eyelashes this time because her eyes are just so dang small!

The redo was prompted by her new wig, which was the first wig I’d ever sewn like this. The part is messy, but acceptable to me and not bad for my first time working with sewn wefts!

She’s just so adorable, I’m glad I finally bonded with her

Iplehouse JID Amy painted by me

Guys I forgot to update the queue for the gallery but I had a very good reason

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I thought I was over the bug-eyed anime-adjacent charm of the Luts/CP Dark Elf Soo that held me enthralled when I was 14 and I had just discovered BJDs

look at this weirdo. I want to put her in 2007 Renaissance Faire GothTM clothes

I’ve heard/read WAY too many horror stories about sending one’s doll away to get blushed and face painted. So after about 7.5 years of biting my lip, hyperventilating into a paper bag and watching and rewatching easily about a thousand tutorial videos… I finally decided to test my skills on one of my dolls. Simply started with her nails. Not 100% perfect, but way better than I thought they would turn out! This gives me to the confidence to just breathe, take my time, and do my dolls the way I want them.

~Anonymous

2016 BJD paint, scar, tattoo, blemish & wig work. i enjoyed figuring out how to make the shitty scratcher tats look like shitty scratcher tats.

BEHOLD! Garbage photos. We actually had a pretty successful run! I am very pleased with the results of the Liquitex Matte Medium alone. As suggested I used a cheap cosmetic sponge to dab the texture on. I did three layers before I was fairly satisfied, then I tried my luck on Little Enya and it was awesome! It was over an already completed paint job, though the test over raw pastel did well and it barely pulled up any color. (Using PanPastels)

This will be a regular technique from now on. I’m very, VERY curious how a whole body blush/texture would look. I scraped my nail over the tester parts pretty roughly and was impressed with how they held up.

reviewing 2023: dolls finished this year!

WIP ROUND UP!

NOT FOR SALE!

To do:

Fix her hand (oopsie I broke it.)

Finish sewing her bloomers.

Finish sewing her blazer.

Finish her stockings (including a stump cover for her leg.)

Make her wig.

Make a hat (bowler or bonnet? Still undecided.)

Make her shoes (booties? Slippers?)

Make her umbrella gun (inspired by the real life Bulgarian Umbrella.)

Here's my thicc, steampunk, WW1 black-and-white, vaguely Silent-Era cartoon, one armed, one legged prostitute-assasine Smart Doll WIP. If that seems like a dense concept, you need to get on my level of neurodivergency, clearly.

The idea behind her is she's like, this "exotic entertainer" in a vaguely turn-of-the-century WW1 steampunk setting. She officially employed under the ruse of being something like an all-in-one, singer, dancer, conversationalist, "professional company and party attendant for high-powered men and women" escort. Soft, feminine, "silly," and physically disabled, she's actually a highly effective contract killer who gets away with it by acting like a helpless empty headed bimbo who uses people's own mysogyny and people's prejudice against her being obviously disabled and a sex worker to her advantage.

The kind of backstory I had in mind was that she managed to survive a bombing of her hometown when she was little that took both her right limbs and caused severe nerve damage. Due to an error in message decoding, her town was reported to be taken by enemy forces. The monarchy, taken by spurise by this development and panicking due to the geographic advantage of the localtion for attack on the capital, opted to hastily bomb it without any other evidence or confirming how the opposition's army could have taken the town without them knowing until now. They didn't know until after the whole area had been leveled they just blew up their own citizens over a mistake. It left her (pun not intended, but welcomed, ha) fighting to balance chronic pain and addiction to painkillers for the rest of her life, and surviving on sheer spite for authoritarian incompetence. She loves destroying the lives of high powered figures as much as she loves being paid for it. Because her ability to feel pain had been altered so drastically, she can take a hit, stabbing, and even a gunshot like it's nothing so long as it isn't lethal. The extreme sports of "when life gives you lemons." Her go-to weapon is her parasole that fires small poison pellets at close range, that can also be converted into a disguised sniper rifle by swapping out attachments. Her signature trick to things going tits up is letting herself get battered up a bit, than crying on command like a helpless girl. Pitiful as possible. She can hold her own in a brawl, but it's often more effective to let her targets attack her and make a big scene. Have them die slow painful deaths hours later when their organs give out seemingly out of nowhere in the company of witnesses after she's long been "saved" by her handlers. Assault being common for escorts in her line of work, no one thinks the wiser. Even if they do, she's just a "poor, simple, crippled girl" who just got beaten up by a client, how would that make them look if they accused her of fowl play?

I'm not really writing a story persay in mind for this character, it's more so just the fun of character development and narrative through character design, but maybe I'll use the idea somewhere someday. Really I just love that contrast of innocently dangerous, and wanted her to physically embody that. As an animator, obviously, that Silent Era aesthetic is something I'm living for. Osamu Tezuka is post-WW2 obviously, but the vibes I'm kind of going for is if he worked for Fleischer Studios. Blackjack, but make it Out of the Inkwell.

Her eyes are handmade and hand painted out of acrylic, and her body's obviously very heavily moded. I gave her much more generous cleavage, and tried to give her the chubbyiest thighs, tummy and butt I thought I could get away with, but, looking at her I think I might have been able to give her some more pudge. For anyone unfamiliar with the issues with trying to mod base dolls into plus sizes, the joints can pose problems when making it look right. I prefer dolls with more extreme figures and bodies and like the challenge and look of making dolls with different body types and fat distributions, so I'm experimenting more and more with doll "mid-sizifying" I suppose you could call it. Eventually I'd like to get to trying to do a full like, proper "plusizification." Taking a thin doll and trying to put like, an approximate 100 lbs on her if nothing for the joy of the logistics of it alone. It'd be cool to try it with a Smart Doll or Dollfie Dream, something with an interior skeleton. I think that'd be the best results. I think I might as well make body parts to fit over those endo skeletons from scratch, though. I only have Smart dolls at the moment to work off of, but if anyone is interested in commissioning some chubby to full plus-size Smart Doll custom option parts, let me know. I'll happily give you a discount while I'm just experimenting with all this.

Her head is of course also moded. I wanted her to look like she was punched, so her cheek is swelling a bit. She's a Smart Doll Journey if I remember correctly.

Her leg is a mixed media. Fabric, wire, metal, a pen. Those interior skeletons make Smart Dolls fantastic to put robotic limbs on--- extremely easy to attach. I wanted it big and cartoonish, the foot looking like a big heavy oversized metal boot, and also to look like a highly engenieered peg leg instead of a proper prostetic. Vaguely inspired by Hiccup from How To Train Your Dragon's leg, which the suggestion it's spring operated. You know, antiquated but advanced as most fantasy steampunk is.

Her tattoos are all flowers that have some meaning in Victorian flower code. The big one on her chest being an anemone. It represents a warning or notes something as "forsaken." Used to ward off evil spirits, disease, death, and bad luck. So it's kind of an omen of bad shit happening. A protection and a bad sign. Because I'm trash I'm tempted to name her "Anne Amie." "Amie" is the feminine word for "friend." It also sounds both like "anemone" and "an enemy" when run together out loud. That might be a play on words, punny name so loaded it might rip a fabric in the universe, haven't decided yet, but there you go. I might just decided I accept my crimes against the English, French, and flower-based languages. We'll see.

MY FIRST FULLY MADE FROM SRATCH BJD 🌟 S T A R L A 🌟

Doing this spooky inspired skull faceup on this Faewoods Dolls Dahlia in lavender skin was fun and a challenge! The skull part is mostly acrylic with some pastel blushing.

Want to see more of my work or commission me? Then please check out my website at www[dot]IzasFaceUps[dot]com!

Yara - she is a Bom Art Doll Byeol.

Face up, dress, accessories made by me.

need 2 show u guys my doll sons <3

Vane (custom DD) | Alucard (Birdcube Fuguir) | Lotos (DFH Takumi Kazama)

Kagami (Aimerai Don) | Orion (Aimerai Kiriya) | Zero (Luts Diez)

Some close up shots of Kira’s doll Kah! Faceup and wig by Kira~

My favorite thing I’ve noticed about my own faceups and other beginner faceup artists is eventually you discover your own quirk and you start adding it to every faceup and it may not be for everyone but YOU love it :)

~Anonymous

2018 BJD paint work. it's damaged and in need of a refresh. maybe soon. the gloves are a different color now, but The Operator still Performs.