Little Will 3.0 with faceup

[modernwizard]

Now I know why Will has his eyebrows painted into such exaggeratedly happy upward curves. He's compensating for a childhood during which during which his eyebrows were exaggeratedly depressed downward curves.

I did the faceup with chalk pastels, sealed in matte and satin varnish. To prepare the surfaces I wanted to paint, I gave them some tooth by laying down an initial coat of matte varnish. I know that my results do not achieve the delicately applied, gauzy, symmetrical, subtle effect idealized by so many painters of Asian BJDs, but I don't paint my dolls for perfection. I paint them for character, in all its asymmetrical, messy, uneven, unpredictable forms. My stylized paint job quickly communicates personality and expression, which is what I want it to do. Why should I waste time with meticulously presented layering if I can achieve my desired effect my way?

Little Will is my saddest doll ever. 

Comments

[arahitogami.livejournal.com]

.....Yikes. :( Good job. I want to give him cocoa.

[bozobrain.livejournal.com]

Poor little thing. Let's give him a hug! (((((((((((hugs)))))))))) There, there, Willy. It will be alright. Cheer up, little dude.