#modifiedheadsculpt

Just some quick crappy photos of my repainted Leon. I managed to damage the irises twice already, and once again I'll have to redo the left one. I am terrible when it comes to doming the irises. It's a pain in the gut, and at the same time the part of the repaint I "love" the most, on head sculpts with painted eyes. I feel they breathe so much life onto the sculpt. However, I suck at it! I had given him cleaner eye paint apps, but I managed to ruin both irises the first time I domed them. Then I redid them, and the paint apps turned out like sh1t. I had to redo a whole lot of the left eye, not just the iris, so it looks super sh1tty now. Still, i love the way my Leon is looking, so I wanted to keep trying and now I once again ruined the freaking left iris and already peeled the gloss off, so I know for sure it is ruined!

My Myou Bettina, wearing the first outfit I complete for him, based on Ken Kaneki, who he is supposed to be. He's a 28cm tall doll, and I am not skilled at sewing. So, I should have known making clothes for him, let alone based on anime characters, was going to be next level nightmare. I chose to recreate this one first, not because I keep forgetting to purchase size #4/#3 zippers white nylon zippers, but because I know the struggle is going to be real once I start making that outfit for him. I already made a few pieces of clothing for this doll, but finding patters that fit well is an ordeal. I also made a cloth/foam manikin, that didn't go too well. And also, an initial pattern for his awakened/battle outfit, but I am not sure it's going to go well either. I know I suck at sewing, and this doll is extremely stylized. His body is willowy and very close to skeletal-like (kind of like me, yay! Lol!). So, making anything from pre-existing fashion doll patterns needs a lot of alterations, and me making my own is an ordeal on its own.

Regardless, I am supper happy with him and how he looks with his smaller eyes! I am also liking very much how he looks as my Ken Kaneki! I knew I loved the doll, but now I love him so much more, that I know he can pull off the look, even if not anime/manga accurate (I feel maybe the manga version is more stylized, and has a larger head, but my personal preference is the anime with the smaller head, and not stubby proportions).

Unfortunately, and as I had feared. The mods I did on him are not permanent! I was fearing so, when I learned that people usually clean up mistakes when using the Vajello Plastic putty, using alcohol. I feared taht meant the product is not meant to have any kind of solvents applied to it. My fears were true. Alcohol will melt the putty right off! I was cleaning my 3D artist Leon head, and the mods came right off with the paint apps! DX Looks like I'll have to get some Aves Apoxie Sculpt Afterall! Oh, well! Live and learn, is what I keep on saying! I was actually excited about the plastic putty working for permanent mods, because I tend to not love my repaint work and rework/redo those repaints like there's no tomorrow! Now, I know! There's no substitute for Aves' Apoxie Sculpt! I kind of want to cry a little, even if it was kind of cool to find what I can and can't do, with the Vallejo filler stuff. T____T;;;

Here's my sealed work on my repainted Ken Looks number 5! I'm super happy with him. The only problem is his under-eye area turned out shinier than I was hoping. It was already like that before I sealed the repainted work with a few layers of MSC matte, and a single layer of MSC gloss. Otherwise, I am happy with all other areas of his face after sealing. I like using a light layer of gloss in-between, because it adds a nice "dewy/human-flesh-like" finish to my more "realistic-ish" repaints. However, I am not sure why it looks hyper shiny at the chin and under the eyes. Although, it was already like that before I sealed the work, as I said. I didn't expect to look like that after the layers of MSC matte. I don't mind it IRL too much, particularly the chin. But those under-eyes...

I might have to mask-off all other areas and add a layer or two of more matte fixative. I don't want to completely dull all the rest of the face, as I am happy with how it looks IRL otherwise. Just not super excited of how those two areas photograph. We'll see...

I took a lot of crappy repetitive photos of him; I am super happy with him now. Not the repaint work as I always feel I could have done a better job. I'm just in-love with how he looks in general, now. I like more realistic-ish looking repaints, and this is definitely a lot less cartoony than my last repaint work on him. So, I am happier for that reason. I do find this head sculpt extremely beautiful, otherwise I wouldn't have purchase one, let alone two (to customize one). I wasn't happy with the default chin, brow-bone and lips sculpting, so I modified the brows and chin a bit during my first repaint on him, back in 2022. I forgot about those when I repainted him a few days ago, so I just did a quick softening of the chin once again, but I thought I could have sanded even further. However, now that he is sealed and "finished," I feel like I don't mind the chin so much anymore. It is a pain to have to paint it to look the way I want it, instead of it just being the shape and size I want it to be. However, I don't mind it anymore. I am happy to leave him like this forever!

More of my Leon S. Kennedy 3D-artist, resin cast head sculpt mods and repaint. I kind of fixed his left iris, so I feel less like crap about having f-it-up a few days ago. I still managed to ruin it a bit with the doming, but I'm not too angry about it now. I was furious with myself, when I did it yet once again. However, he doesn't photograph too terribly, and I am in love with how he's looking so far, so I am okay with it for now.

I took photos this time on my DAM toys body that belongs to my repainted Looks Ken, so the body doesn't have hands, and I tried to avoid many full-shot photos for that reason. This head was also sculpted so inaccurately, that it is huge on most any bodies, and DAM bodies are freaking huge! Not as huge as Game Toys bodies probably, but I don't want to have to get a second one just to find out, if this sculpt will work on it. I could use my GT Sephy's "nude" body, but I don't really want to find out this sculpt looks well on it. That body is a pain in the gut to get now, and I don't want to spend a fortune on a body for this sculpt. As much as I love the head sculpt now, I already spent too much on it -- mental stress more than monetary or anything else.