have mostly been working on her jointed hands (this is one of those times when i really wish i had more time to work on sculpts….) but also tried to make a wig for her (if anyone knows of a really good tutorial for making removeable wigs with stretch caps, i would love to hear about it)
and starting to detail her torso, lips and eyes…. gave her half closed eyes just to see how it looks…

added some more steps to the process I’m using to make ball jointed hands.

the tutorial continues with information about sculpting palms and fingers

I’m posting pics and notes as I make the hands for the white lady - here :
sculpting jointed BJD hands

this figure needed articulated hands… I’ve done one before, and they are incredibly time consuming and nitpicky - but I love them. As I’ve been working on this one i’m realizing that i’d never tried to connect the hand i did before, to a figure …. so i’m having to rethink some things.

But anyway - here are pics of her with her first hand roughed in. now comes the painful finishing of each individual joint so that the hand works well and looks ok. I think there are about 15 joints per hand, or thereabouts. next pair i’m going to make a little differently.

spent today watching the pelicans, elephant seals and gulls along the California coast near Santa Cruz…

its always interesting to see how pieces evolve - changes always jump in, sometimes its a good thing - sometimes not…. when i started this one, she had arms and jointed hands so she could move around, point, cradle her face in her hand etc… but now as i rough in her arms…. i think i’d rather that she just have the shoulder balls.

going to have to think about this….

and trying to get myself back to sculpting…

here are a few pics of the very large torso…

havent started her arms and hands yet - but have been working on her face because from certain angles it really, really bugged me….

starting to like her quite a bit. need to work on her neck, it looks very awkward, and fix the base because she is getting top heavy. need to think more about how her lower torso/hips will be - i’m starting to lean more towards the full functional hip base with partial hip balls… but i don’t know if that will be hard to make stable…

its interesting - i think that i need to curve in (make more concave before curving out to the ball of the rest of the skull) the section of her skull just above each eyebrow ridge — from full in front, it looks heavy there and masculine. I love “patrician” noses, but they make it more difficult for the face to read as feminine, and you have to pay more attention to all the little details.

I ordered a piece of tibetan lambskin for her wig from Susan Doyon at mohairwig.com and draped it over her head — and it changes the way she looks too…

got an electric sander and worked on her legs - masses faster than sanding by hand - but it does make your hand ache! this kato clay mix sands well - and is strong - i’m liking it a lot once it gets mixed up.