Failed Attempts at Face-ups and How They Make You Feel

I once used up a whole can of MSC on a face up I couldn't get right. I'm a perfectionist and the fact that his eyebrows right now aren't perfectly even is bugging me. but I think from that last attempt I'm gonna start paying some one T_T;;; It would be so much easier. but so much more expensive ;_; but sometimes the MSC doesn't stick right so neither does the pastels and the cat goes crazy and it gets dusty and after a month of trying you just get really sick of staying up until one in the morning trying to get it right. but don't worry you're not the only one.

 

In one sense, I wouldnt say I've failed with the face ups ive completed on my boy. Although I've yet to do one that is exactly how i want it, I've been pleased none the less with the out come and I've learnt from each of them. I've recently done his 4th face-up and still not where i want to be for him.

I did screw many times while attemping the recent face up though >.< the MSC looking dry and even though having PLENTY of time to dry.... was not dry and ended up going blotchy. What really drives me mad is getting that one spec of fluff or something along those lines just as you've come to the final stages of the face up. (at that point i dont give a damn and just continue XD).

Neiko, if you have some low tac tape... why not make stencils for the eyebrows? my boys eyebrows arent exactly even but they are not too far off either (ie. bareable)

I think theres a tutorial lying around for it... but if you cant find it i can type up a quick guide if ya want. its so handy using this method XD save me plenty of ARGH-ing XD

 

Face-ups are frustrating and hard. : ( The worst feeling is after you've removed a default face-up that you love, and replaced it with your own... thing. It's a very big, "Oh man, what have I done? What the hell was I thinking?!" situation and the disappointment I felt towards myself as an artist was extremely crushing. Especially since I draw. A lot of people told me that since I know how to draw, it should be no problem since I'm already used to using my hands for fine things such as delicate paint strokes and so on. And that I should recognize what makes a face-up look good.

But doing face-ups was a completely different skill, and it took me ages to get used to painting on such a doll's face. I think what was really hard to adjust to is that the surface doesn't suck the paint in. It's just sealer, it's not a thirsty piece of paper. I would have too much paint and end up with thick, dark globs on the face. Eventually I learned how to thin my paints just right and so on. Brushwork started out as the most stressful part of a face-up for me.

But I just tried to keep my chin up and remembered that as long as I practice, I'll get better. And to keep experimenting-- I tried not to get too caught up on what people were telling me was the "right way" to do face-ups. I tried a lot of techniques to find which one worked best for me, and kept messing with materials to see what was easy for me. Now, brushwork is my favorite part of the face-up to do. : )

This was my first face-up, done over a year ago.



And that's a face-up I did two days ago. : ) I hope to continue getting better, despite my failures in the past and even now. Just gotta keep moving forward.

 

i dont have my dolls yet but im planning on paying someone to do their face ups and buying an extra floating head to practice doing a face up, but im really not artistic at all so im really worried about this, im especially worried about doing lower lashes and eyebrows

but ive seen some uh.. well lets say less than perfect first face ups and everyone improves with time, i feel there is hope for anyone who is willing to practice and keep trying! so keep it up!

 

When I got my first doll, I deseamed him, coated him, blushed him, and did his faceup. By the light of the fairly awful lamp in my dorm. In the morning, when I looked at him in natural light, he looked like a hot-pink hooker. Eeek! I wiped him and redid him in natural light and the result was much better... but still not great! I think I was more annoyed than anything... I had expected that since i could draw and paint on paper, I would be able to paint a doll head. It really wasn't the case at all. The skillset is markedly different!

I don't have any pics of the first faceup (though I wish I did for comparison!)... but here is the second:


This is my most second most recent faceup.

I still have days where I just do a crap faceup. It's really frustrating because I just can't leave a bad faceup. Usually some swearing while I wipe the head for the redo!

 

GRAH
I was doing my boy's most recent face-up and it was PERFECT.
I was SO happy with it, and I was going to test glossing the lower eyelashes.
When the gloss. chipped. them. OFF.
I freaked and was SO upset because they were SO perfect ;_;
I just fixed them (badly) and that was that.
>_<
I so didn't want to do that face-up any more.
Oh well, y'know?

 

Mmm.... my worst was a female head I painted once for a friend... I made the eyebrows much much too high (whoops), and the lower eyelashes were so grainy looking... It was late at night, but I won't blame it on that! I just felt so bad. I kept apologizing, and I do believe I cried on the way home.
Mostly, it's a frustrated feeling if it's my own doll. But when it's someone elses' doll, I get to thinking "I've ruined the poor thing!" even though it can be wiped off with a bit of work.

 

I'm happy with most of Davey's face, the eyelashes aren't good and I know it. The color is wrong for both them and the eyebrows. But the 'brows have good strokes and shape, if that makes sense. But I do utterly love her lips, so pretty!

~Chaos

 

Oh I know the feeling now! I did my first face-up on a resin doll last night now that my boy is, well, mine. And last night I rather liked most of it. In the light from the lamp I was using, the blushing on his cheeks and over the bridge of his nose looked good, barely darker and pinker than the resin itself. The eye-liner looked good, the lips were a nice, natural pink...only things I didn't like were the eyebrows (too bushy and thick) and the painted lower lashes (my thinest brush wasn't thin enough, so they were too thick)...but I deemed it good enough to be livable for now until I have time for a re-do in a few days...maybe even leave until I have his new eyes and wig to see how it looked with them...

Then I got up this morning...the 'nice light blushing' was BRIGHT red. And no wonder the poor boy was so embarrassed, his lips were a pinky PURPLE! Suddenly, those brows and lashes I hated last night were the best part of the attempt! I took photos to post to the critique section, to get advice on how to do better, spent most of the day wiping (I got a little...over-zelous when I sealed last night) and then re-did it...the re-do took 3-ish hours...the blushing was AWEFUL, and everything ELSE looked like it belonged on a girl...Ken's girly...but he's not THAT girly! So I again took photos, and wiped. Now I'm waiting for daylight tomorrow to try AGAIN, as I do NOT trust that lamp!

At least his 3 tattoos turned out nice enough, though. I like how they look, at least...when I've more experience, and am better at it, I'll likely re-do them, but for now I like how they look. So it wasn't a TOTAL waste!

 

My first face up was a bit of a failure, but that didn't bother me much because it was my first try... I just went out and got things like watercolour pencils so eyelashes and brows wouldn't look like blobs. With the second I figured out my main techniques for realistic faces that I'm still working with a year later, though I've refined them a lot. Third face was so bad it got erased less than 24 hours after I completed it, there was a red blob instead of a gentle blush on one cheek and his lips were anything but nicely shaped (and I'm pretty sure I didn't take a picture of that) and actually slightly purple... yet i used absolutely no purple one the face up at all. Tanal is now on his 6th face up, and it somehow acquired a funny arched streak on one cheek, but I can live with it because it's in the base shading colour (thus faint) and on the cheek his hair falls across... I think everything else is better than ever, even though I was doubtful of the eyebrows at first.

Christopher has somehow only had acceptable/good face ups. His first face up was a little darker than I wanted, but nothing was actually wrong, so it lasted until I had some time to kill.

Gamrut... first try was okay. Second try was horrific... so horrible Tanal, his boyfriend, kept trying to get away from him, it was kind of like Kabuki gone way wrong and also got erased less than 24 hours after I finished.

Ayas-Shadow, I totally understand, the really bad face ups for Tanal and Gamrut, and the too dark one that I lived with for Christopher were all done with non-natural lighting. Natural daylight definitely works better (though Christopher's was done at a friend's art table, so it had better lighting than the others).

Basically, the bad failures just irritated me into forcing myself to have time to fix them immediately. I don't get discouraged on things like this because I'm certain I can do it.

 

I was under the same erroneous impression -- because I can paint/draw
on flat surfaces, and digitally, I thought doing a face-up wouldn't be a problem! XD
Boy, was I surprised (and still am) of how hard it is to paint on a miniature 3D
uneven surface! More so when you have the pulse of a drunken, dying-man, on drugs. ^____^;;;

I'm on my 12th face up on my Mano (provided it has been less than a year, since I painted
him for the first time), and I still feel very disappointed in my outcomes. I'll probably never
get it right, but I'll keep trying, even if it kills me...XD


I like your eyebrows on the linked image -- those are what I struggle with the most,
can't get the tiny hairs right. U_U;; Probably shouldn't try doing such dramatic face-ups
for my first tries...


- Enzyme ^-^

 

Well I'm still in the early stages of learning the face up art. I know as of right now things aren't going to be perfect. I may never get it just right. For me, that's the enjoyment of the whole process. It's that I don't ever really give up. When I went to buy the supplies for my first face up, I looked at my very kind boyfriend at the time and said, "Do not allow me to send that face for a face up until either all my pastel is used up or eight months occur and I'm crying." It's been several months at this point. I am not crying yet. However, I'm not ready to send the face in the judgment arena. I am about on face up #5. I will show you face up like number three... only because I still find it funny that a DOI Crush managed to look like Jem.




Here he is now:



Not perfect, but a lot of fun.

 

I currently have an anime head that has been nothing but failure after failure!
I am using those decal eyes, and they either bubble or they tear.
So far I have used 4 sets of eyes on it, and it looks like I have finally succeeded!
I came so close to giving up on it.... But, persistence is they key.

 

Well my Arwen doll's face isn't right yet, but I just see it as a challenge, and the great thing about Face ups is that you can wipe them and start again.
When I get time, I'll have another go at it.
I find that all face ups are different to do. Some come very easily,some change direction half way through, and others take a bit more work,( almost like the doll's own character/personality is coming through in a chunk of resin).

 

I've only have done two so far, though due to my perfectionist nature I haven't finished either, but I get better the more I try. So I don't look at it as failing, I look at it as learning, just another step.

So if I keep at it I know I'll just keep getting better. :3.

 

I lost track of the number of times I redid the eyebrows on my first (so far) face-up. I finally got them to at least acceptable if not exactly symetrical. The lips aren't quite right either, but they will do for the moment. On the other hand, I did good getting the eyelashes right and putting the eyes in on her. Shoyo that is. And I had fun. So I settled for now because I didn't want to get burned out. I can always decide to send her out after the pocketbook recovers from the dolly expenditures this year.

 

took me like 4 years of 'failure' until I finally figured it all out. I wouldn't stress over one or two. For real...I was extremely frustrated at a few different points and finally got something that didn't utterly suck in 2007.

 

I'm disappointed with my faceups still because even though I must've done about 40, I feel like I've never really improved. The vast majority of people do get a LOT better the more they practice, but I seem to be stuck in a rut which is very frustrating.

I keep thinking I really should have bought an airbrush by now, but I'm too chicken to spend that much on something I might not be able to work! Plus, I have so many dolls and I'd have to re-do everybody's faceup with the airbrush. The thought of changing everyone's faceups makes my heart sink. If I mess them up and they're not themselves anymore I'd be gutted. I really REALLY should've bought one sooner - like 15+ dolls sooner.

 

so my lovelies are coming without face-ups
i'm going to try my hand
and if that doesn't go over a friend of mine
who's actually moving down here in a half a week
can do really nice face-ups
so i'm going to bring them to her XD

hopefully it won't come to that
i really wanna do it myself
i'll be sure to post pictures when they get here XD

 

I get easily frustrated so when i mess up I get so angry. But I never want to leave my doll with an ugly face, so I just stop for a little bit, then I start all over. It's time consuming but I can't stand having my babies be without faces for too long. I just get mad because I know that I can and Have done so much better, so I can never figure out why I do so badly other times.

 

Phew! I have been out of the loop for quite a while when it comes to face-ups, I used to find myself pretty decent at painting dolls, but lack of MSC and time made it so that I didn't paint any at all for a couple of months. And then when I dove in again after all that time, I can't believe how much I failed! I was almost at the point of quitting completely, having messed up not one or two, but 7 face-ups on 4 different dolls! DX

But! I didn't give up. I decided I needed to get over this, and today I managed to redo one of the faces that I'd been pretty happy with, but crafted badly. I sat down in natural light (I had done the other one in the middle of the night in worse than poor lighting), and not only did I manage to get everything I had liked in the old faceup back, but also fix everything I had thought was wrong! So now I am full of confidence, have MSC and am ready to improve even more! *flex*

 

Thought I'd post my three Arwen attemps.( At least third time lucky). Now she's gone from looking like Alanis Morissette to Liv Tyler.:lolNewest one to oldest one:

 

I wanted to post to this thread as encouragement to keep going and keep practicing.

After almost a year of more than a few wipe-offs, my girl has a face that I am pleased with. It is not entirely the look I thought I wanted, but when it was done? It *was* what I wanted.

I guess if I had any advice:

A). If you enjoy creating faces, (or have a vision of what you have mentally created), then keep at it.

B). There are so many beautiful dolls created by very talented artists in this field, but don't let that discourage you. Allow that beauty to inspire you, not cripple you.

C). Find *your* own way of doing a face. Everyone has a different way of holding a brush, everyone has their own way of seeing colour, etc. Only through *doing*, can you find *your* expression.

I guess this sounds like a peptalk, and I suppose it is. I struggled, and I feel I have succeeded, and you know what? It is a *good feeling*. Sometimes we need to take a step back and not worry so much about how others perceive what we are/do, and just like the Nike ad states:

"Just do it".

So, pick up those brushes, and create some faces

-Seeker

PS Thothep, say Hello to Gamrut for me.

 

You are definitely not alone! If there's anyone out there who is able to do a really nice face up on their first few goes, then I'm insanely jealous of them. xP It took me 7+ face ups to get something acceptable and even now I'm still learning.

I still get face ups that turn out crap and it's soo frustrating, but.. I guess we have to learn from it and move on with the next one, otherwise it'll drive us nuts. xD

 

I think unless you are a born prodigy eveyrthing takes practice. Dont get discourage though!

I am pretty easily discouraged when it comes to things so I never finish them ! Dont be like me!

 

Bwaahh ;_;
I tried out my first face-up and it was a nightmare. I was so discouraged I wanted to cry. (.....I had a single tear in the middle of the night while I was thinking about it, but that's not crying, is it? ...maybe.) I'll have to try again though, I want Lien-Hua to have a nice face-up. *gloomy*

 

How do I feel? Well, right now, like crap.
I love to practice and I love to try and try again (using the eraser or the undo key liberally) until it looks at least halfway right. But I can't do that without wasting MSC, and I feel like I've used too much already on just one faceup.
I don't have a camera for half decent pics, but my one main pic is up on my Deviantart- even without eyes in he looks horrid. Not like, a sharpie-and-crayon faceup (the ancient ones of myth) but still, I see where I can improve and I just want to tear my hair out.

 

I have done some truly awful faceups. I don't have many photos of them, because I usually realize they're atrocious before I take pics. It can be a very frustrating business, especially when you're finally all finished, then you take a step back to realize that the eyebrows are uneven, or there's a little fleck of dust sealed under all those layers of MSC right on the tip of the nose.

I'm still learning, almost two years after my first faceup (and with dozens of faceups under my belt, both good and bad)... but practice and experimentation with new techniques does help me to improve. Sometimes an experiment will turn out badly, but sometimes I discover a new and better way of doing things. That's how I avoid the "rut" of everything looking the same... I'll pick up one of my floating heads and try something completely different from what I've done before, and see if it works.

And just to share in the "now and then"...

My first faceup:


One of my more recent ones:

 

my first 5 trys failed hardcore XD i'm averge now, not bad, not too good. i've been trading to get faceups from a girlytattoos now XD i'm not into faceups enough to spend big money on all the supplies to get a 'professional' look. and proper supplies always help

 

failures..? What failures..? *throws towel over pile of shockingly transvestite-ish heads on desk* LOL, each one is a learning curve and I honestly thing no-matter how long you have been doing them even the experts have bugger-ups we just dont get to hear about them..... (it would make them seem too human so IMHO... I don't want to know LOL)

That and sometimes you have a good day, sometimes you should NOT have picked up that brush.... I am having a week of the second

 

It is hard at first, it seems like there is so much to learn. I get close to getting what I want, but am still not quite where I'd like to be. I get solace after making a huge mistake, that it was worth it because I learned something with each one. I came so close to getting a really good result on a redo tonight, but for some reason the MSC chipped and I had to wipe the entire face off. I will start over fresh another day.

 

Ehhh ... my first effort went so wrong near the beginning that I wiped it without finishing. That made me feel a bit rubbish, but it was the first time I touched pastel to resin, and really I think it was the waste of MSC that made me irritated ^^;

Second go was ... well actually, I'm laughing at it now! XD I expected it to be quite challenging. (And it is). But I know that I'll improve ^_^ I can just start again. It's frustrating to not get it right and I'm honestly as impatient as hell (not good in the doll hobby!), but I find the process fun, so I don't mind

 

Well, this was my first real face-up (not just touching up on factory face-up)


Hahaha, gawds no!


My newest face-up, did it last friday :3

 

Well I think I failed as an artist in all ways I can fail. I can't draw, I can't paint and I finally figured out that I can't do faceups either. Every time I did a faceup I was brutally disappointed in them. I seemed to get worse and worse each try! That seemed to happen with my hand drawings, etc so I finally decided to give up.

I don't have anymore supplies (will be selling them) but I think I'll leave the faceups to the people who love doing them. I can't stand taking my doll apart every time! I felt like giving her the faceup she deserved so I am sending her somewhere to get it done.

I don't have a very good self-image or self-confidence so that also may be why I don't appreciate myself. XD I often let other's beautiful work cripple me.

I admire/envy all the great faceup artists >w<

 

I don't have any pictures of a failed face up, cause well as soon as it fails i erase it, but when i mess up at a faceup, i get mad.
nuff said

 

I just tried my first face-up, and it turned out great! UNTIL I put the finishing layer of MSC on it, the stuff chipped off half her face! I'm so upset! I had to rub the whole thing off, and now I'm wondering if there's any way of preventing that? Maybe it's too cold for the msc to set?

 

Did you shake the can thoroughly before spraying? The coating is a very fickle thing. You have to shake it right, and spray from a careful distance. Spray in thin layers, letting each one dry throughly. And don't spray until you're sure the face-up is dry.

Sometimes, it will still do odd things though. =/ I had a pinky hair piece I was painting, and the pink hair got white blotches in it from the MSC.

 

ok... I'll try it again... I think it might have been how close I was when I sprayed it... how close should you be?

 

My faceup's chipping off too, :/ Then again, I did use pencils and probably didn't shake the can enough.

 

It seems like most of the people who've responded to this thread interpret a "failed attempt" as making a mistake or just being a beginner. I liked my first faceup, but I knew I could do better, and that didn't frustrate me. Needing practice and making technical mistakes isn't the same as a failed attempt, in my opinion.

My failed attempts are usually well-executed, but don't have the expression I was going for. I was having so much trouble conveying the right kind of personality on one of my dolls that I had all but convinced myself I didn't even want him anymore. It took three tries before I finally got it right and now I adore him. I find it interesting because even though the previous attempts had no mistakes, I just absolutely hated them. Even looking back at my first faceup, which wasn't done very well, I still like it because it had the right expression.

 

Hee hee, welcome to the world of creative art! Where you can labor for hours, days, years and have {not nearly enough} to show for it!! -_-

I'm very often terribly frustrated with my painting, and I do it for a living. Sometimes things turn out, often they don't!! It's enough to make me wish I had a 'real' job, where whether things turn out or not I at least still get paid the same amount for hours worked!

I've often wished for a thread to come and whine with my fellow frustrated artists. Is this it?

All I can say is commiserations and good luck, I know just how you feel, but keep at it. Sometimes magic happens. ^_^

Raven

 

I had a perfect face up on my little honey delf and then... my cat jumped into my lap. Because he loves me oh so much. Uuurgh.

...other than that, yes I understand how everyone feels! *Pouts* I feel so frustrated! I can draw! I can paint! I WIN COMPETITIONS, DAMN IT! ...WHY CAN'T I PAINT A DOLL FACE?! WHY NOT?!

Stupid 3D surface...

 

okay so,
i tried my first face up finally XP
and it went fine
despite the fact that my eyebrows looked like shit
and i was too intimidated to try bottom lashes

and it was all going so smoothly until the last coat of testors
(yes testors i didn't wanna waste any msc in bad face-ups
did i mention i'm a cheap ass)
i didn't know you were supposed to turn the can upside down
and spray until air came out
so some of the stuff dried in the tube
and when i went to spray him again
it came out all at once T^T
and one word is all i have to describe it:
ruined
so the next day i took some acetone to him T^T
time to try again before my msc arrives TT^TT
i have pictures but they're on my phone and a pain to get too

i made myself sad now........v.v

 

My first one was okay, but not that great. I had painted porcelain dolls and fashion dolls, but I had never used pastels--didn't even know about them. So, the second was better--but it took a while, at least 20 faces, before I got to the point where the face wasn't a bit of a surprise and I was able to achieve something very close to what I had in mind.

What I've learned--try color combinations on paper first, do a mock up of the face colors in colored pencil--include an eye color in this too.

Draw the eyebrows in very lightly with a sharp no. 2 pencil. Really helps to keep them even and the stroke of the hairs at mirror image angles. That can be tough, getting the brow hairs going the right way, usually one side is easier to do than the other. I also pencil in the lashes, make little lines as markers to keep the spacing right and the swing symmetrical on both sides.

Also, I use Golden paints, the fluid acrylics. I like them for lash and brow work. I also use extender and retarder in my paint as well. It flows so much better. Flow additive is very nice too, especially for shadow work.

Liquitex glossies are great for lips. I like a little shine and this paint is available in so many colors.

Also, study the faceups of dolls you love. Really study them and then practice on paper and then on your doll.

 

this is an interesting topic yeah ... I'm a 2D artist and I was rather suprised that the doll I was working on (mind you its a porcelaine , not a BJD as of yet ^^; ) was comming as sutch a gaint fail . I'm blaming my failing know how one how to put on make up rather then 'how to draw' I have absolutly no idea how make up sould go on any face, let stand that of a doll ... I think that before I go experimenting on my own doll I'll get a head, this treath sure makes it worth thinking about that x_x;;;

 

I've been playing with my practice head today. Aside from still failing hard in some areas I've gotten better in many, many others.

However, if you paint on all your eyelashes right, make one WAY too fat and then make the rest fat to match, like I did today. You're an idiot. lol. I looked back after I "Fixed" it and went "Wow. I'm incredibly stupid. I could have just removed the one and been fine!" Ah well. Live, learn... Then don't be so bad at face ups? lol

 

Where does the taupe color come from under the lashes Armelia?

 

I think faceups came rather naturally to me. I'm not saying I'm GOOD at it. But I'm not horrible, either.

So far I've given my BBB Sprite's head one faceup, which was the first faceup I had ever made and I still love it. I have a problem with the lips, but they'll do for now. My DZ Shoyo I've given two faceups, and I've had to reshape her nose when it met the tile floor at a convention during the summer. DX!!

First Faceup
Second Faceup
Third - most recent Faceup

I'd like to think that I'm pretty good at making faceups, though I know I still have a lot to learn.

 

i deceided to do the face up of my very first doll!! it came with a SP head so i started with this one. it was almost perfect to my taste! i mean, it wasnt what i planned it to look like, but it was still nice ^^ juste that theres a bit of black pastel on his ear 0o
then i did the non-sleeping head. its still not THAT bad, but the eyebrows are bigger than the SP head, the lips are not the same color also and i couldnt fix it since i ran out of clear. also, theres a messed up under one of his eyes and the line on the lips looks really weird on the non-sleeping head.
also i realized that one of his leg is only halfly sealed and it feels weird (i did the body blushing) and beacause of the clear, his feet are whiter and one of his knee did not take well the clear. there are also some messed up in the tan i made him (it was made with rit)

so i try not to stare at those things or ill start crying. im super perfectionnist

sorry if we cant see clearly the SP head pic, it was taken by my crappy camera while the other was taken by someone else at a meet but at least i believe u can see well enough the difference of colors and how its not equal :/


and in this pic by isenn, you can see pretty well the fail of his lips! and under his right eyes

 

I can't paint, I can't draw, I can not even write with nice hand writing. BUT i can do a killer makeup job on any male or female human model. I can makeup my 43 yr old face magazine cover ready and 10 yrs younger in 20 minutes. So... I was thinking... If I can do that with makeup but not with paint... MAYBE just MAYBE i need to try my faceup with real makeup. GUESS WHAT.... That was almost 5 yrs ago. I have been doing face ups for others all this time using my own makeup, charcoal, color chalk and some paint. (and a #2 pencil) I still get mad and start over, but usually because I didnt get the look i was going for not because it was horrible. That was refreshing to get off my chest. Thanks, De

 

I've just recently start practicing... the first one wasn't all that bad..

This is my first face-up with lashes (human)

And this is my 3rd one, the photo isn't the greatest, it's a little blurry, but it was 3am.



still need a lot of work, so I'm settling in for a long practice.

 

Seriously, all of those pictures of "first face-ups" were still amazing!

I'm sure I'll be posting here in about a month when my first face-up causes AoD Jimi to end up looking like Bozo the Clown.

 

I'm not very good at painting on a 3d surface, but my first faceup went pretty well considering the head was still attached to the doll because I was too weak to stretch the elastic. I didn't have a thin enough brush at the time so her eyelashes and brows were a little thick, but I redid them after I got a thinner brush.

Hopefully my next faceup will be easier - because I'm ordering the head and body seperately.

My only problem is that I can't find MSC anywhere so it isn't fixed - I have to re-blush her quite often xD

 

I have never done face-up before, but have done touch ups when the lashes or brows would fade.
Unfortunatly I might have to do a face-up no sooner than to-day since I've botched up a few things. *sweats*