Aesthetics Face up finished, critiques needed please UPDATED: new face up

I can't offer any advice how to improve, but he looks great! Just had to say so.


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First off, I want to applaud your work. This is your 4th face-up? Unbelievable.. It looks professional rated.

I'm not a face-up expert nor have I tried to do a face-up but I'm a good critic >< I love the lips. Whatever you are doing, keep doing it. I love how real they look with all the shadows. The lower lashes are fantastic too!

I'm a huge eyebrow junky (the darker, the slightly better? How do I explain haha..) I do feel the eyebrows could be a little bit darker. Also, his eyebrows come out a lot towards the middle. I can only explain this by lining up a ruler to the nostril. The end of the eyebrow should be lined up or a little bit shorter (in my opinion). Maybe it's because I'm not a boy BJD collector or I favor the more simple styles but his face would look great with no eye shadow. It makes his eyes look overpowered, "heavy and tired", especially since his sculpt's eyes look slightly closed. He has such good features to show off but my attention went straight to the eye shadow. The crease could be as light as the current eyebrows are too.

Sorry if my critique is useless.. but I do see great potential in you. Overall, you look like you have a pretty steady hand and great patience.

 

It looks wonderful, the only thing I can add is that maybe the transition from the blue to regular skin tone could be smoother? It's a bit of a sharp line going from the shading to skin, I don't know that I've seen anyone wear makeup that way (unless this was intentional!) keep up the good work

 

I think you have done a fantastic job! Hard to believe it is only your 4th face-up! I love his mouth, great color and shading on the lips. Only thing I would prefer is no eye shadow or a lot less as it becomes a focal point. I have never done a face-up; just an observer interested in BJDs. Keep up the great work!

 

Hey again, yumi! I just saw your new face-up and got serious feels of excitement. It looks excellent and very natural! I forgot to include darking of the lower lashes in my last critique but you did it anyways~ I'm very proud of you and your work so far. One thing that has my attention now are his upper eyelashes and how they fall onto his eye. I don't have a boy so I'm not sure how the eyelashes are suppose to look but that's all I can see "flaw-wise". Eyebrows are fantastic A+ for them~ As for the band-aids, I'd go with the nude colored but personally, he looks great without it.

 

Bandaids? That just blew my mind. IN a good way. Brave, fun, and well done! As for wich, I'm really not sure.

 

You give me hope(I'm going to be doing a first faceup soon) Both are absolutley stunning!!

I wanted to add, I was going across the "worst doll experiences" thread and saw your post. I know it's hard to view your own work as perfect or even good sometimes, but you truly did an amazing job!!

 

From your photos I would probably advise you to just keep doing what you're doing because the photos that you've posted show a clear, positive progression. If we look at the latest photo for example, if I purchased a doll and it came with that faceup I would be happy with that. Of course that doesn't mean that you've reached the pinnacle of faceups. Regardless of what we're doing, there's always things that we can do better. That said, you're definitely heading in the right direction. As far as critiquing your work, I would perhaps suggest that you take some time to look over other people's work (which I'm sure you've already done) and just pick out elements that you like and then try to put those into practice the next time you do a faceup. Maybe print out some pictures and have them on the wall in front of you as you work so you can refer to them directly. My personal tastes would include a stronger brow line on male dolls, but that's just my personal preference, so assess that advice accordingly.

 

If by lashes you mean the application of false eyelashes on the upper eyelid there is a tutorial that was posted on youtube a few weeks ago by a faceup artist showing how she does it. She also does some exquisite faceups which she has also posted videos for.

http://youtu.be/R8Gc_LT9thg

 

I think you did a very good job on this face-up. Some blushing on and around the nose, the jaw and the philtrum could give his face more life. The line on his eyelid looked a little harsh with the blue eyeshadow, but it looks a lot better without the blue eyeshadow!

 

That is amazing!! I really like the blue bandaid over the plain bandaid, it looks good with his eyeshadow. He is a gorgeous sculpt in general, and your face up looks great on him. I think it all looks very professional.

 

He came out sos beautiful ahh wow!! well done

 

I have to say your updated work looks very professional, you have a good eye (and hand) for that

 

Wow! He looks gorgeous! I would totally get a face-up from you!
To say the least, he looks freaking hot!

 

oh my... they're soo sexy ! What kind of acrylics did you use ?

 

He looks amazing, the new faceup looks incredibly smooth and (as everyone else is saying) professional, he looks incredibly handsome

 

Wow, really good job ! Thanks for this info !

 

As a beginner you' re really good already! And from a Switch lover, you did him justice for the cool guy he is.