So I decided to paint heavy browed Daisy, thought I would make her ethnic, then she turned orange, then she turned grey, then purple, then chalky…wanted to give up.
I was thinking, “damn I am not good at this, I should be good at this, I am an artist, it’s a doll, this is not rocket science…but I may need to admit defeat”
Then I started thinking maybe I would join the Zombie squad make cute scary dolls.
When I started this I was “whoot, whoot, I love babies, I love dolls, I am creative, how hard can this be lets buy everything and do this!”
Today I was less confident.
The harder I try the more odd it gets. I have nothing to compare to. The photos online don’t show the details, the real details people who are making these dolls are interested in, like the red way-up-close on fingertips and are the creases in feet suppose to be messy under a magnifier, is this chalky, blue, too orange?
I sure wish we all lived closer and could do some serious critique.
Seven bake-that-baby later I think she is coming together, I think, under the ott light she looks a little more brown and not so uneven (thank goddess for blue wash). She’s beautiful or a hot mess, can’t tell, may have inhaled too much thinner and hot vinyl.
I want to be good at this if only to to be good at this, (my type A may be showing a little).
To you ladies who have been doing this for years and do it well hats-off-to-ya. This is hard work and it requires so much skill and patients. If i hopped on this forum with too much attitude I apologize, I have been humbled.