{"id":1421,"date":"2009-01-19T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2015-08-28T11:04:14","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T15:04:14","slug":"scribbling-on-my-dolls-faces-makes-everything-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2009\/01\/19\/scribbling-on-my-dolls-faces-makes-everything-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Scribbling on my dolls’ faces makes everything better!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I deplore the divergent trends in male and female action figs. Basically, the male figs have craggy faces with a variety of ages, expressions and personalities [go to War Toys and look at the nudes if you need examples], while the female figs have stylized, generic faces with a tendency toward bland neoteny.<\/a> I myself am not free from this bias, at least for female figs, but I actively fight it by scribbling on my dolls’ faces!!<\/strong>  <\/p>\n

Even though male figs may, on the whole, have more detailed sculpts than female figs, all default 1:6 figs are usually flat, lacking the idiosyncratic signs of weathering and aging that give people character and interest. To remedy this problem, I add "noise" to almost all my figs’ heads with my trusty Prismacolors and pastel chalks. <\/p>\n

There are two types of noise that I add to almost everyone: under-eye shadows and forehead wrinkles. Everyone has under-eye shadows and wrinkles, unless they’re wearing pancake makeup, and the specific darkness and depth of these shadows and lines gives some clue as to approximately how old\/tired\/anxious someone is. And almost everyone past the age of 12 has forehead wrinkles, an inevitable result of years spent making expressions. I use these lines to indicate age and\/or a stern, anxious bent of character.<\/p>\n

Some dolls do escape my additions of noise. They are usually character dolls, who come with a very specific combination of headsculpt and default paint apps that I do not wish to alter because I like the attitude that they present. Velvette, Baozha, Zinnia Pascale, Gemini, Michaela, Absinthe and Little Will are in this category. But everyone else is fair game for my pen.<\/p>\n

For example, I recently added darker shadows under Anneka’s eyes. Beforehand, she looked like this:<\/p>\n

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After I marked her up with Prismacolor, she looked like this:<\/p>\n

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Her wearier appearance accurately reflects that of someone entering her 30s, as well as someone who’s dealt with a lot of crap in the past 5 years, most notably her own death and the death of her beloved grandma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I deplore the divergent trends in male and female action figs. Basically, the male figs have craggy faces with a variety of ages, expressions and personalities [go to War Toys and look at the nudes if you need examples], while the female figs have stylized, generic faces with a tendency toward bland neoteny. I myself… Continue reading Scribbling on my dolls’ faces makes everything better!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[673],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-faceups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6097,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/6097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}