#elf doll

He has a wonderful face up, one that I’m actually kinda proud of.

Here’s the only photo of him from a year ago. I was convinced I was over him and deleted everything.

Not gonna lie, I’ve been kinda craving a dark skinned elf man, so let’s give this mod a shot.

I used Milliput Suoerfine for this task. I didn’t bother trying to tint because I was going to blend with the airbrush. (Spoiler alert, his tone was SO FN HARD TO MATCH. I wasted so much paint.)

I mostly used a cheap synthetic brush to push and shape the ears. An abundant amount of water helped blend the ears down, but also created a mess that required careful cleaning. The amount of qtips and precision qtips I went through was almost sinful.

The ears did clean up nicely. I was pleased with the amount of blending and smoothness I achieved with the brush.

As I said before, the skin tone match was a nightmare. Dante had a warm tone with hints of mahogany/warm orange? It’s definitely lovely to stare at.

I’m not very good with colors, I’ve always struggled with them. I’m thankful for google and other people who are adept in color theory because it definitely helped.

Okay, okay, maybe a slight shade off, but I’ll take it! (I had to edit out boobs, sorry.) I was also playing with iridescent cling film because I can never do one thing at a time and now everything has to be iridescent.

This ear did not blend as well as the other, which I only noticed after the paint but I had to work fast because the apoxie was setting up. I am certainly not going to fuss over it right now because this project was difficult as is. My hands wouldn’t cooperate, the sheer amount of paint, stabbing myself (again,) and the fact that the pot of paint I was using literally flew out of my hand and somehow missed everything but me. I discovered brown paint on my chest and I have no idea how it got there since I was wearing a full tee.

I think Dante is back. He’s stolen Night’s body temporarily just so I can look at him for the evening. 😌