{"id":2563,"date":"2012-08-23T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2015-07-15T11:29:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T15:29:23","slug":"my-jareth-faceup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/08\/23\/my-jareth-faceup\/","title":{"rendered":"My Jareth: faceup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meggilu has an extremely detailed tutorial<\/a> about how to paint eyebrows on BJDs. I may use it, or I might squint and say, "Okay…the eyebrows go about there…" *scribble*<\/p>\n

Naiara's general faceup tutorial<\/a> on DOA.<\/p>\n

Cifr's general faceup tutorial<\/a> on DOA.<\/p>\n

Elisa_maza's tutorial<\/a> on DOA.<\/p>\n

Leechy's tutorial<\/a> on DOA.
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Of course, knowing me and my combination of impatience + laziness, I'll probably read these all and ignore them in favor of my tried and true method involving pencil, Prismacolors, acrylics, matte varnish, high gloss varnish, X-acto knives, paintbrushes, paint remover, Q-tips, a hair dryer and lots of swearing. I have absolutely no patience for the mainstream method of doing BJD faceups, which involves waiting for a dry day with low humidity, spraying Mister Super Clear [a fixative] before you start, waiting for it to dry, blocking out the general colors, spraying more MSC, letting it dry, doing greater detail with each layer and about 5 different paint brushes and colors, sealing with MSC after each layer, waiting for it to dry, until you're using a brush with a head smaller than a pinpoint to paint individual lines on lips or individual hairs on eyebrows. Too much time! Too many details! Hell, I can't even wait for paint to dry. [That's why I have a hair dryer.] That's why all the dolls I paint end up looking like this:<\/p>\n

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I put so much sealant on that faceup that it could probably withstand a direct nuclear hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meggilu has an extremely detailed tutorial about how to paint eyebrows on BJDs. I may use it, or I might squint and say, "Okay…the eyebrows go about there…" *scribble* Naiara's general faceup tutorial on DOA. Cifr's general faceup tutorial on DOA. Elisa_maza's tutorial on DOA. Leechy's tutorial on DOA.<\/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":[673,720],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-faceups","tag-jareth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","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=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5255,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions\/5255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}