#fantasy faceup

All 700 of my faceups in order of completion

It's been almost 15 years since I started doing faceups in August/September of 2011 on my first bjd, my Resinsoul Ai.

I've painted her 8 times so far, always 99 faceups apart so she could always be the 100th since the last time I painted her. I started this collage when I did my 50th faceup, boy was it hard to find pictures of all the previously completed faceups p until that point.

The collage used to be just one image up until I reached 500 completed faceups, but neither my computer nor photoshop could handle the file anymore, so I split it up into sections of 50.

My wife asked me to repaint her Dollzone Big Dipper in white skin from 2015. He's an old and wobbly boy, and I still don't dare take him apart because he is a huge pain to restring. So wobbly he stays. Whenever he stands, I do not breathe around him in case I knock him over. His name is Cabbage, and he is a little plant familiar.

Yes, the eyes are on purpose like that. He came out of the box that way 10 years ago, and my wife fell in love with him just like that. So now she insists that I keep his eyes like this too when I repaint or handle him. His last paint job was much less green, I honestly fel I went a bit overboard this time... But it's okay, my wife loves him.

Here's his old faceup from way back when... I liked it a lot, but it had really faded over the years, and chipped from his many escape attempts. I'm honestly amazed he never chipped the resin.

I recently painted a 3D Printed BellaBugs Acacia in tan skin, but I color matched her to Fairyland tan skin. The eyes are made by me, but they are C grade at best (bubbles over the pupil), but they are nice enough for pictures!

Let me show you how she looked before:

She was quite different from the tan the client wanted her to be.

And then here is after the successful color match and with the faceup in place. Fun times!

I managed to paint one of my own dolls, a Lost Chronicles Naris in normal skin, while I was waiting for more commissions to trickle in. I’ve wanted this head a long time, so I’m ecstatic to have one. His Faceup can’t really be appreciated in photos, so I made a video:

just look how wonderfully shiny and sparkly he is! My favorite part are his ears, I love creative elf ears.

My only sadness is that one of my mom’s cats knocked him off my desk and broke one of his ear tips and the piece is gone forever. Luckily I have all the necessary materials and tools that I could resculpt the missing ear tips and blushed it to match. Now I can barely tell where the break is even though I know that it’s there.

I will end the post soon, I just gotta gush about how nicely his ears poke out of the wig. I want to dye his wig greener, but all in due time…

More pictures can be found on my photo blog @izasbjdphoto

Here we got another little plant cutie for my wife. He is a Dream Valley Tea event doll, that I received with my DDE Black Friday order last year.

It took me a long time to start painting him with good reason, as I dreaded taking him apart for it. Finally though I did and I definitely regret taking his head apart. I had to completely unstring him to put his head back together, and an s-hook even disappeared into the ether never to be found again. I ended up having to make him a new foot s-hook out of a piece of paper clip.

And the worst part is, he's an utter brat.

Just look, he bites! Little jerk. He's now back in the doll cabinet and I glare at him any time I pass him. He is aptly named "Audrey II"

Today I get to show off all 3 of my Fairyland LTF Juri 2013 faceups. The first is normal, the dreaming and the sleeping heads are modded to create more expressions for her.

I'm happy I repainted her finally, as I last painted her in 2024 and I definitely didn't like how she turned out. I had just made the switch from watercolor to acrylic paints for detailing, and I didn't have the thinning or extending of the paint down yet.

Couple of before and afters of each faceplate:

See what I mean? The old faceups were messy and the paint was definitely too think. I love how soft she is now though, I also gave her forehead scales again.

Another comparison of all 3 faceplates together. I literally painted them assembly line style. Basically I'd paint a scale on one face, then I'd switch to the next face to paint a scale in the same spot, and then on the third as well. I did that until all 3 faceplates looked same enough.

I also have a video showing off the shimmer and shine on them:

Isn't she lovely? It looks like she fell asleep to me, which I love. In the video I made her some new resin eyes, as I wasn't happy with how lacking in depth her acrylic eyes were (featured in the still images).

Here are the two sets of purple kitty eyes I made for her, since her third face is sleeping, I didn't need eyes for it. I've been having a lot of fun making eyes, and am offering them for commission as well!

I'll be posting images of her put together on my photo blog @izasbjdphoto soon. I really need to take her outside or setup a little scene for her.

Commissions are open!

This faceup on my Resinsoul Ai in normal skin from 2011 (back then the normal color was called fleshtone) is special as it is my 700th completed faceup! I can definitely see the improvement of skill.

It's been 2,5 years since I last painted her, so I am happy with my growth. She was my first resin BJD from back in June of 2011. And she also had sported my first faceup from August/September of the same year. Let me show her with my first faceup:

I had help back then on the eyebrows and eyelashes. But I am happy with my growth since then! 15 years almost and I did 700 faceups. Damn, what a milestone!

I'll finish the post with a picture of her on her body, dressed, and wigged. I need to take full body pics of her...

Today we got a two for one! I painted both faceplates of my Magic Mirror Branwen (fairy and human versions) in quartz skin, which is a beautiful blue-grey. I decided to go super fancy with her faceups, by adding a painted circlet.

There are some small, but distinct differences between the two faceplates. The human one was rounded ears, wider eyes, and sculpted lip lines. The fairy one has pointy ears, narrower romantic eyes, and smooth lips. I still painted them the same so I can swap between them.

Here's a quick pic of her all put together! Isn't she lovely? I love that she's got super voluminous hair while herself being delicate and light.