Josephine Baker Finished
I’ve been away for a week due to life, let’s catch up!
Last I talked about problem solving Josephine Baker was here.
She had her new dress and looked like this:
I did later hand stitch that hem. You’ll see.
In the above picture she still has her head opened in back as I worked on her face.
I didn’t take pictures of the face-up, sorry.
I will say that I bought more Pan Pastels in brown hues for this month.
Pan Pastels continue to provide the most pigmentation bang of any chalk pastels I’ve worked with for face-ups.
Not being able to visit well stocked stores/seeing items in person has been a HUGE culture shock for me in my transition back to America. It’s not just that I have to drive to places, or that Madison isn’t as diverse as the greater Tokyo Area, it’s that Japan is still hugely a brick-and-mortar shopping land that doesn’t rely on people ordering online or to pick-up …and America isn’t.
I used to be able to just pop over to Kashiwa (two train stops from my place) and buy it in person. Now the closest place with Pan Pastels is in Milwaukee.
Such pigmenty goodness
Her face-up finished it was time to put her new eyes in and sculpt her head shut.
I used black Apoxie Sculpt to reduce how much I’d have to paint the hair. I also find the texture of the black a bit easier to work with than the neutral in a way I cant quite define.
Her Eton Crop, but it’s more wavy than her would have been. I’ve made it more in keeping with modern Black hair styles than the full plastic sheen it would have have.
Because the head is now sculpted shut I won’t be able to alter the eyes, which I feel were the weak point of this doll.
In the future the ideal cheap eye swap for her or for any other Snapstar doll would be to get 10mm acrylic eyes for BJD and other dolls and use those instead of going the cabochon/photo route.
The cabochons didn’t have the same profile shape of the eyes and thus sit inside the head a little deeper.
Also, because my photoshop is busted I didn’t carefully make perfectly centered irises, which would have made the cabochons swap better.
It was hard to eyeball if the irises were completely centered when I glued the photos to the glass cabochons. They looked fine until they were in the head and then they looked just a tad cross eyed in some angles.
But, as one of my favorite odd sculpture content creators says, it’s time for the glamor shots.
