His hair dried and gained like an inch of lift. I’ll have to try to wrangle it into some kind of real style soon.
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ladyyatexel answered:
Well, I’ve only been doing it for a little while, so if you want basics or someone who has done a ton, I’d go here. A little thing I haven’t seen mentioned elsewhere super often is to make a sketch or mockup.
When I take the factory paint off, I take a photo of the blank face and then do some work in Photoshop so I know what I want. Of certain dolls, you can find photos of the blank heads to work with already.
I didn’t do one for Gracey because I was just aiming for what she had originally, but like, not terrible. Here’s one of the Monster High ones, though:
And here’s how that turned out:
This really helps because it’s useful to build up dolls from the blushing/hazy stuff upward to darker and more concrete things. So if you do the sketch, you already sort of know the shape and colors you’ll want your base blush stuff to be.
You could draw the sketch, but I find it useful to have the head shape to work with since you’re limited when you’re painting by the shape of the facesculpt. You can fudge some stuff, but when beginning, it’s hard to make shit up that’s not there like an extended shape of the mouth or moving the eyes closer together or whatever and really sell it well.
Other stuff is just what I hear lots of places - invest in quality tools and materials, find thrift store dolls to practice on while you get the hang of it before you go on your own collection, have patience and use thin layers with your approach, and get a proper respirator for use with the Mister Super Clear sealant because that shit is going to destroy you.
I’m fueled by just the kinds of things I want to see in dolls or the aesthetic I want for the things I own, so that’s sort of my personal idea generator since it’s just built from years of doll collecting, but as far as ideas or inspiration, Etsy and Pinterest are your friends!
I hope that’s useful? I don’t know if these are the kinds of tips you were looking for!
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This one is for phoenix-games-official who asked, “It’s been a long time since you posted Ghostbusters and you really only posted the title screen - since the new movie’s out, how about a retrospective on one of the first movie tie-ins?“
No problem! I even captured more screens than usual just for you!
Ghostbusters was a well-made and consequently very successful game for Activision, partly due to the popularity of the movie and partly because of the quality of the graphics, music, and speech in the game. In fact, it featured some of the most sophisticated game speech for its time. Interestingly, the objective of the game is not to save the city, but to end up with more than the $10,000 that you started with if you are using a new account. I didn’t realize this as a kid, and always wondered what the hell I was doing wrong that the Marshmallow Man always showed up no matter how many ghosts I captured and because of this I gave up thinking it was endlessly monotonous. When I finally figured it out years later is when I beat the game. There is a boss battle against the demons of Zuul that you can play if, by the time the city’s PK energy reaches max, you have earned more than you started with.
You start out with the aforementioned small amount of $10,000, and you have choices as to the vehicle and accessories you can purchase with this. Not all options are available right away, as the most expensive car and items are well out of your reach, but can be purchased later on if you earn enough. You have to be frugal with picking what you think will work best at first. However, there are cheats and pokes available to grant you large amounts of money from the get go.
Credit: Skye Gray Facebook
But what about vampire history teachers. Vampires who read something from a text book then proceed to light the book on fire and throw it out the window because “No. that’s not even close to what really happened. Listen up nerds I’m about to teach you what really happened in France during the revolution”
I need this as a series
Vampires sharing the recipe for Greek fire.
Vampires speaking in dead languages.
Vampires being able to translate untranslatable scripts.
Vampires who react to straightwashing historical figures like “Are you kidding me everyone knew that man was queer!”
Vampires from cultures who were once antagonistic towards each other stubbornly maintaining a friendship that’s lasted longer than their civilizations.
Vampires who honour forgotten deities you won’t find in mythology books.
Also, vampires who secretly saved stuff from the Library of Alexandra.
A vampire show that does not revolve all around sex and eternal cursed love.
nerd vampire whose knowledge of current events is terrible but they can always remember everything that’s considered “history” so they have a super-detailed knowledge of everything up to about thirty years ago and then ?????
vampire who couldn’t tell you what caravaggio was known for but duelled with him at least three times and slept with him at least ten. “cara-who OH YOU MEAN MICHAEL yeah he was cool”
vampire who spent 100 years in a convent and is still so bitter that in all that time they never made her mother superior “GODDAMMIT I HAD SENIORITY! I HAD SENIORITY!” “okay so first off janet, that was six hundred years ago, but more importantly, maybe if you didn’t always start those complaints off with blasphemy…”
vampire professor who just sort of showed up at oxford when it was founded and is still there (and nobody’s noticed because he still never actually shows up to his lectures)
vampire politician who lifts all their campaign speeches wholesale from speeches given 200 years ago and just waits for someone to catch them out (nobody ever does they’re prime minister and their approval ratings are through the roof)
WAIT I HAVE MORE
queer vampire who constantly talks about the fashion for straightness and you need to be really careful because if you tell them straight is default they WILL scream at you for five days straight about what a modern concept heterosexuality is
vampire hoarder who has an entire town where they just kept having to buy new houses to keep their stuff in and some of it’s probably worth tens of millions by now but you’ll never find it in among the 1950s kitschy kitten sculptures and boxes of newspaper (the newspaper is a wonderful mix of yesterday’s guardian and daily courants from 1725)
vampire sailor from manderville’s time who just has so many stories and some of them might even be true
vampire bluestocking girl who took to the internet like a fish to water and spends her whole unlife engaging reddit antifeminists about women’s rights because that’s one fight she’s determined to see through. also with the advent of cheap dyes she literally wears blue socks every day and hopes one day someone gets the joke
vampire doctor who just gets SO CONFUSED about the literature because do you know how hard it is to keep up with medicine kevin? when i got my doctorate we thought leeches were good and then they were bad and now they’re good again? i was published in issue one of the lancet kevin that is 387 lancets kevin how the hell am i meant to remember which one’s current kevin why are they saying cannabis is good for pain like this is news??? (but also lives in a state of wonderment every day in hospital because wow look at all this stuff we can do now look at it kevin!)
entire coven of vampires constantly quibbling over manners because they’re all from different periods: “HATS OFF AT TABLE” “SCREW YOU LEONARD ONLY PEASANTS EAT BAREHEADED” “TABITHA THAT HASN’T BEEN GOOD MANNERS SINCE THE 1500S NOBODY HAS LICE ANY MORE” “IT ISN’T ABOUT LICE LEONARD IT’S ABOUT GOOD MANNERS YOU NEED TO HAVE GOOD MANNERS WHEN YOU HAVE PEOPLE OVER FOR DINNER” “I SWEAR TO GOD TABITHA IF YOU MAKE THAT PUN ONE MORE TIME I WILL SHOVE YOUR STUPID HAT DOWN YOUR THROAT”
vampire musicians who might not have been child prodigies but goddammit 500 years of practicing an instrument is bound to get you somewhere (also knowing the composer and being the first person to start playing a song doesn’t hurt either)
my favorite will always be vampires who know fuck-all about the standard major historical events because they were always somewhere else whenever big shit was going down:
“yeah i heard about the hundred years war but i was in northern african at the time so…”
“the roman empire fell??? how did the fucking roman empire fall??? i spend a fucking handful of decades in india and i come back to this???”
“russia needs to stop having revolutions, i can’t keep them all straight…”
“when did france become a democracy?? and america’s now it’s own country??? i’ve spent the last century in a forest in wallachia scaring small children so––wHat dO yOU meAn we’re calling it romania now??? when the fuck did it become romania???”
“WE HAD A WORLD WAR??? WE HAD TWO WORLD WARS???? well obviously ‘world’ is an exaggeration because i heard nothing about it while i was lost in the amazon rainforest for the last fifty years…”
“listen i spent most of the fourteenth century as a pirate in the south china sea so someone’s gonna had to clue me in on all this ‘black plague’ nonsense.”
When the Borg Queen’s up in your grill, and you haven’t had your black coffee yet.
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enjoy some 70s lawyers while i’m working on bigger stuff
