#myoubjd

I completed a new set of clothes for my Myou Bettina tiny BJD male. He is a 28scm tall doll. I always feel like I have to specify, or else the AI on there gets these weird thoughts in its advanced AI brain... >___>;;; Weirdly enough, there's a lot of sh1t that gets suggested to me, I wouldn't let a grown person see, yet here we are.

Going back to the subject at hand. I completed a shirt, and a new pair of white denim jeans for my Kaneki fan art doll. I sewed it all by hand, because I struggle with the sewing machine. There's something wrong with mine, since the last time I used it (more than ten years ago!). It doesn't change stitch length anymore. I don't know if it is fixable, but I am scared because the tension also seems to not work anymore. I'm scared it'll ruin anything I'm working on. I suck at sewing, I never learned how to do it properly, when I got into BJD, I was in my early twenties. No one in my family knew how to sew. I still managed to put a few pieces together and draft a few crappy patterns. Crappy is the keyword.

My very first BJD crown!!!!

My MYou Bettina male, mature tiny BJD, with his new eye mods! I had to redo those sooner than I had hoped, because I learned that the plastic putty is not a permanent solution for modding tiny heads, sadly for me. I got a new batch of Aves Apoxie Sculpt, so I want to use as much of it as I can, before it gets too old to work with. Hopefully, I will remember to put it in the freezer this time, before it does go beyond saving. DX

I am supper happy with how these mods turned out. I still could have smoothed out a lot of the shape as a whole, particularly at the corners of either side of both eyes. However, working on tiny heads, even with opened eyes, that are much larger than true 1:6 scale action figures. Is still a huge pain in the lower back! I love this tiny dude regardless; I love him so much more each time I work on him some more! I look forward to completing something else, based on Ken Kaneki for him, since he is my fan-art doll based on him. I just want to keep on taking photos of him, even in crappy clothes, or no clothes! Lol! I find him incredibly beautiful, even with my crap-fest of a repaint job and mods! (:

I took a whole bunch of equally crappy photos, because I am super in-love with this tiny doll! I already loved him enough to purchase him, but now I am over the moon! I know I love narrower eye shapes the best, but I kind of thought Bettina already had narrower eyes. I am still wondering if I should have gone with Alan, despite me loving Bettina's mouth shape better.... >___<;;; Not regretting going with Bettina, just wondering. n_n;;

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;;;

A few extra-repetitive photos of my MYou Bettina male, who's my fan-art version of Ken Kaneki. He's a 28cm-ish doll. I took a few shots of him and my BanDai Japanese bath-bombs trading figures. I got the full set of the Naruto Shippuden ones, thankfully that meant getting one Sasuke. Unfortunately, I got doubles of Sakura and Naruto... >_>;;

I am thinking about repainting this tiny, little dude. However, I am trying to figure out if I just want to “improve”, or at least attempt doing a better job. Or, if I want to paint him a bit differently. So, I was looking at old photos I’ve taken of him and found these. I never posted these, because they were in their majority, blurry as the dickens. I took more the day after, and those I did share on a few different places. But these I felt so disappointed with, I just left them be. 

A bit less than a year later, I feel less passionate about how much they suck! Lol! So, I decided to share them! DX These were taking in July 2022, so I had the fan blasting on, while taking them. I feel that might be why some of them are terribly blurry; you can kind of see the wind movement on the sleeves on some of them. The (cell phone’s) camera kept trying to focus on everything but the doll. My fault I know, but I hate, loathe with a passion, summer weather. I am a fan of winter, fall and a don’t mind spring. I absolutely love, love snow and rain! I wish I could have rain and snow all year round! Hate that wildfires are the norm now, thanks to us not giving a rotten peanut about anything but ourselves. >__>;;

I am still thinking about how to tackle his awakened outfit and also trying to make a few more wigs for him (because three are obviously not enough!), but attempting soft loose wavy curls on a tiny wig is a royal pain in the gut hole, no matter which technique I attempt. I might have to give up on that idea, and just give him boring straight hair all the time (which I love on myself, naturally straight hair, because I am lazy and don’t have to bother mainlining it but would love at least one of my tiny dolls with an optional slightly wavy wig).

I repainted my fan-art Ken Kaneki (MYou Bettina male) for the second time. I had enhanced the 1st face up I gave him previously. However, I decided to attempt painting him the way I learned to do 1:6 sculpts, form that one (15 episodes) tutorial I watched. I was impatient however, which I regret to no tomorrow. So, I was able to get most of the pigmented skin texture on there with mostly acrylics. Then I grew impatient, because I was taking too long (it was dumb of me, terribly so!). 

I am still super happy with how he looks despite using pastels and ruining the beautiful subtleness I had going on. I did take progress photos, but they ar more awful than these. I am of course heavily disappointed in my hair strokes -- my eyebrows and eyelashes are horrid. However, I am happy with how much more mature he appears, due to the heavy dark brows, so I’ll probably be keeping them for a while (before I start obsessing and repaint him again!). 

I need to get a new pointy brush, because I managed to already ruin the one I was using to paint my Sephiroth and Leon 1:6 head sculpts. Bettina has much, much larger eyes, and I was still not able to get not-so-clean, but kind of sharp lines like on Sephy. I wasn’t able to do a better job on Leon either, but he has tinier eyes and they were sculpted way off, so I kind of have to cheat with the way I shade his lower eyelid to make it look like they are a more accurate shape. Leaving me to having to pain the lashes on an area that is hard to do so (and yes, I also suck, so there’s that too!).