Serafina

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I’m soooo tired!!! I’ve been running all over for weeks, work has been the busiest and every free minute I have I’ve used it to do face ups. Today is Serafina‘s turn and I hope you like the result, I’m really proud of this one!

serafinafullShe has body blushing and a fantasy themed face up, it’s also my first try at fantasy.

I think I’m getting better at doing the lower eyelashes and eyebrows and that makes me so happy! Also, gluing eyelashes doesn’t stress me that much anymore, and I got better at it too.

I was not sure about the green and blue eyeshadow in her faceup at first, but I think it works nicely with her eyes. I had to re do the bottom part of the centaur body because I tried blushing it with pastels and it started to look dirty, since the area to paint was so big, so I did my first try at painting with airbrush. Not too shabby if I say so myself.

I also did the face twice because the color in the ears didn’t convince me, so after a few days of thinking about it, I just cleaned her and started over. I never finished the first face up, but this turned a thousand times better.

I did screw up a few things: one of the lines in the eyelids it’s not as fine as it could have because I passed with the brush twice. Big mistake. I also forgot to put bubble wrap in the belly area and when I closed the box (that it was VERY tight), I ruined the blushing of the area (2 tiny white spots). At first I thought my sealing sucked and it was all my fault (even if I did TONS of sealant layers), but after the accident I used the magic eraser in the zone (since I had to fix it anyways) and even when I passed with it strongly, I couldn’t take any color off. So I don’t know what happened. Now I have the box unclosed with a lot of bubble wrap everywhere. I fixed the white spots by wrapping the entire doll to focus only in sealing and painting the area, so now you can’t tell it had an accident. I don’t recommend doing this, but stringing this doll was so hard!

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Before and after the fix.

I still need to re do my SOOM Onyx face up, but I think I’ll take a break from face ups, at least for this week. It’s been too tiring to paint non stop, I want to do nothing next time I’m free.

So let me know what you think about Serafina, I’d love to hear your thoughts!

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13 thoughts on “Serafina

  1. Fyrd

    You did a god job! The lashes and brows look very neat and the overall blushing suits her wig so well. Also I think you made the right choice with the contrast eyeshadow, it really makes the eyes pop. The hooves do actually look nice all strung up and don’t necessarily need a darker tone at all. But if you want to add to them later, maybe try airbrushing them to get the smoother look?

    It seems like you have the same problem I tend to have though, with the corners of the mouth 😀 I struggle getting them to look neat if I add those spots to the corner. Doesn’t look bad from a bit afar, but shows up in close-ups. If you figure out a solution for that, I’m all ears! I just usually have to redo them a dozen times…

    All in all though, loving her attitude and natural shades. She looks like a true fantasy forest creature 🙂

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    1. Fantasywoods Post author

      Stupid corners right??? This was my first time trying to darken them and it didn’t turn out that great up close, you are right. I tried to fix it, but it’s so deep that I couldn’t do much x.x!!! I’ll appreciate any tips if you find too :D!!!
      Your eye sight is amazing, what are you, a hawk? the mistake isn’t THAT notoriuous or is it? XD! I knew you would notice anyways :P! I don’t mind my mistakes showing up in close ups though, I think it makes a nice documentation on how my skills progress 😀

      I’m so happy you like it and noticed some progress too ^^

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      1. Fyrd

        No it’s not that prominent, don’t worry. It’s just something my eye draws to, since it is a hard part for me too. 😛 I’ve only seen a few artist who can always do clean corners. Even my favourite artist who did Nuu’s face-up messed up the corners in that face-up! XD And really, it doesn’t show up in anything but a very tight close-up, so it doesn’t bother me irl. But whenever I see close-ups of my own face-ups, where there are messed up corners, it makes me cringe… 😛

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  2. Lise

    She honestly looks amazing! The face-up is stunning. Makes her look mischievous. :3
    The body-blushing is really awesome too! You have a nice talent for this. 😀

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    1. Fantasywoods Post author

      Thank you!! I’ll try to keep practicing so I don’t lose anything that I have learned so far!
      Serafina is the hardest paint job I’ve made so far and I’m happy you like it!I worked really hard X)

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  3. Musume

    She is so cute, OMG! I love her face expression, I told you I think of her as mischievious and perspicacious, but also cute and adorable. I really like her, and I think you managed the white-spots issue really nice. I love the result!

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    1. Fantasywoods Post author

      Thank you! I did the white spots with acrylics and then I made a few streaks in each spot with a white pencil, so it would look more like its “hairy”, but It doesn’t show too well in pictures X(!!!

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  4. KirstyKittens

    I think she looks amazing 😮 I love the little dots! And her devious face is so pretty <3 I really like the blue <3 And I'm so so jelly of how well you can do eyebrows and lower lashes as thats where I really struggle lol But she's lovly <3 Its amazing how the sculpt has told both of us that she's mischievous! My Tona is obsessed with fire, need I say more? lol

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    1. Fantasywoods Post author

      Thank you!!! I started doing really bad eyebrows and lashes. Have you seen Xhanti’s video about how diluted should be the paint for lower lashes? that helped me a lot :D!
      I love your Tona! I always thought Serafina would be cute and serious, but I guess the sculpt is not for that XD!

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  5. Xanadu

    I think you have done a terrific job of Serafina. Love the cheeky look and the airbrushing has come up well, especially as it was your first attempt.

    Practice makes perfect. 🙂 So keep up the good work!
    Hugs,
    X

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  6. Kurisu

    Aw she looks so nice. Good job! Especially with the airbrush. I need to learn that as well, but first I’ll need to conquer my fears of it XD’
    I really like the colors you chose they look great together and her blue eyeshadow gives a lot of life to her. ^^

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    1. Fantasywoods Post author

      Thank you! I still need to learn how to control the airbrush for tiny areas, but it’s fun!!! You should try it too, I know it’s scary at first, but it’s not that terrible, you’ll have loads of fun in the end X)!!

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