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Been absent from pony customizing for a lot longer than anticipated.... because I took on a massive commissioned project, to customize some BJD's! (Ball jointed dolls).
The customer owns a couple custom ponies from me, and wanted her dolls done up in my style. She special-ordered doll bases to be hand-crafted over in Japan, through the Angel of Dream business. Even had them sand off the ears of the male doll since that character has fox ears~
She ordered up the doll bases, 3 wigs and 2 sets of eyes all carefully selected for her characters. I ended up with 2 plain white wigs for me to dye with Rit Dye, and one aqua/white wig that was to keep its original colors but to be trimmed up and styled.
The characters/designs that the dolls were turned into, are a anime fox demon character named Yoko from the anime Yu Yu Hakusho, created from the 24 inch male BJD.
Second character, is a original concept created by the customer, the character's name is Ocean Mist, and she is created from a 18 inch BJD.
Ocean has two removable hand-sewn outfits, and two alternate wigs, the aqua wig and a dyed brown wig.
So, now for the dolls~
They first arrived to me...
It was so exciting, I just stared at them for a long time almost afraid to even touch them. ^////^
I started off with the painting, body blush up and face-ups~
I then in-set their glass eyes~
After those processes, I was able to go to town on working on the wigs, then hand-sewing their outfits.
After several weeks of completing all that hard work, it got to time to craft the finishing product, their leather hand-sewn plushie companion accessories.
Yoko's plushie is of his full fox demon form, and Ocean's plush is her dragon companion, Aquarius. He is the dragon that has left that scar that wraps around her arm~ he wrapped her tail around her arm so they'd combine souls. (There's a whole wonderful story behind these two, written by the customer)~
And now, this completes this long project~ I started the project I think the beginning of March. It's taken me approximately a month and a half to do this project.
Now, Ocean and Yoko bid farewell~
Ocean may be getting a full-sized realistic horse custom of her dragon for her to perch up on, so this may not the end of people seeing these~
It's been an honor to have the opportunity to work on such fine dolls. Not sure if I'll ever get this chance again~ so this has been highly cherished.
My next line of work may include a commission for a outfit for someone else's BJD, just an outfit. I won't have the honor of handling their doll, but with shipping complications, I can live with that.
The style of outfit is Japanese punk~
I will say, I miss the custom ponies. I have a partially done Final Fantasy V custom sitting on top of my craft tower, all painted and hair rooted, waiting for its outfit and hair to be styled. It'll be waiting a while longer it looks like~ but I'll go wherever the money and inquiries take me~
The customer owns a couple custom ponies from me, and wanted her dolls done up in my style. She special-ordered doll bases to be hand-crafted over in Japan, through the Angel of Dream business. Even had them sand off the ears of the male doll since that character has fox ears~
She ordered up the doll bases, 3 wigs and 2 sets of eyes all carefully selected for her characters. I ended up with 2 plain white wigs for me to dye with Rit Dye, and one aqua/white wig that was to keep its original colors but to be trimmed up and styled.
The characters/designs that the dolls were turned into, are a anime fox demon character named Yoko from the anime Yu Yu Hakusho, created from the 24 inch male BJD.
Second character, is a original concept created by the customer, the character's name is Ocean Mist, and she is created from a 18 inch BJD.
Ocean has two removable hand-sewn outfits, and two alternate wigs, the aqua wig and a dyed brown wig.
So, now for the dolls~
They first arrived to me...
It was so exciting, I just stared at them for a long time almost afraid to even touch them. ^////^
I started off with the painting, body blush up and face-ups~
I then in-set their glass eyes~
After those processes, I was able to go to town on working on the wigs, then hand-sewing their outfits.
After several weeks of completing all that hard work, it got to time to craft the finishing product, their leather hand-sewn plushie companion accessories.
Yoko's plushie is of his full fox demon form, and Ocean's plush is her dragon companion, Aquarius. He is the dragon that has left that scar that wraps around her arm~ he wrapped her tail around her arm so they'd combine souls. (There's a whole wonderful story behind these two, written by the customer)~
And now, this completes this long project~ I started the project I think the beginning of March. It's taken me approximately a month and a half to do this project.
Now, Ocean and Yoko bid farewell~
Ocean may be getting a full-sized realistic horse custom of her dragon for her to perch up on, so this may not the end of people seeing these~
It's been an honor to have the opportunity to work on such fine dolls. Not sure if I'll ever get this chance again~ so this has been highly cherished.
My next line of work may include a commission for a outfit for someone else's BJD, just an outfit. I won't have the honor of handling their doll, but with shipping complications, I can live with that.
The style of outfit is Japanese punk~
I will say, I miss the custom ponies. I have a partially done Final Fantasy V custom sitting on top of my craft tower, all painted and hair rooted, waiting for its outfit and hair to be styled. It'll be waiting a while longer it looks like~ but I'll go wherever the money and inquiries take me~