Getting Old

Happy Birthday to me~

Lol did a small shoot~ Not gona say much hahaha~

Jatz: ... What the...

 

 Jatz: Hmmm....

Jatz: Couldn't he have at least put it into a neat pile?

Jatz: Awww Dedums~ He's forgiven~

Jatz: Re Re~
Recco: ...mmmm...

Recco: Go...away...

 

Recco: Eugh!! Why? I was up late working!! Why?

Recco: I'm going to kill you...

Recco: Why me?
Jatz: Cause everyone else will kill me T^T
Recco: What makes you think I wouldn't?? 

You're forgetting what I work as!!

Recco: Waking up a hitman... You really have some guts.

Jatz: Pffttt! You have bed head 
Recco: Leave it!

Recco: Hand me my pants!

Recco: Hand it!

Recco: No! Not that!

Recco: You could have woken someone else up! 

But you chose me! You stupid human!
Jatz: T^T 
 Recco: Where's Toki?

Jatz: Upstairs sleeping.
Recco: Good.

Jatz: Are you leaving me?
Recco: Yes. I won't get disturbed if I'm with Toki.
Jatz: T^T

Recco: Jatz.
Jatz: Yes~?
Recco: Happy Stinking Birthday...
Jatz: =D

Jatz: Need any help?
Recoo: No. I can do human stairs just fine.
Jatz: Kekekeke~

These last three pictures are of the LLT Roderich head I got yesterday =D He is absolutely lovely~ I really like the whole I don't really care look hahahaha~ All my dolls are going to start looking like that XD

Busying It Down

Wow, it has been busy round here. Got a load of commissions which I'm happy about =D Been doing OT at work to cover for a colleague whose been on holiday, and working on some mini personal projects. I've been thinking of revamping my online portfolio, but I need to plan it a bit more hahaha, and I've been thinking of renaming myself XD I'd still be Jatzu, just giving myself a more company/studio based name. I dunno yet, I'm considering it.

Anyway, this post is about my recent commissions n_n
First off would be a Dollshe Bernard, which I keep calling Bermann.... haven't worked on a Bermann yet, so that's something to look forward to maybe XD I'd like to work on all the Dollshe sculpts. I used to not like them very much, they were creepy in my eyes, but now I just can't get enough of them XD I can't ever own one though, cause I've tried, and it just doesn't work. They're not for me unfortunately. But I think they are very expressive sculpts, so I will admire them instead hehehe.

I like working with tanned dolls, however this boy's tan was hard to work with cause it's dark but not as dark? I know I'm not making much sense, but it wasn't dark enough to not add colour to, but it was too dark to use bright colours on. Skin tones like this really make me consider buying an airbrush, but it's not too often that I will get dolls of this tone, and it's also not very often that I will get fantasy parts to work on. I don't know XD Maybe I should, another thing to consider about hahaha.

Next commission would be one that I was uber excited about, I dunno if people will remember. In my last post I mentioned BulletsBanq [Flickr . Tumblr] well~ She came to me for a few commissions, and OMG was I happy or what??!! Hahahaha~ I was smiling the whole day, and not able to comprehend that -she- was asking me, to work for her! XD But anyway I worked on a few tattoos for her and a face up n_n I had fun, and I got to up my skills on tattoos~!

These are all done on a Fairyland Minifee body, so imagine just how small it is. There are no WIP for the whale because I actually struggled to figure out how I was going to do this one without any line work. I mean I lined it out with pencil, but then I had to colour it in and everything. And even then I didn't line it out. The whale really tested me and my blending skills. All these tattoos are done with water colours and pastels. I used water colours as a colour base, and then enhanced it with pastels. I think the one I like most would be the whale hahahaha, I poured way more heart into it compared to the others. Not saying I didn't do my best for the other ones, but I personally enjoyed the challenge more XD

Finally this DIM Larina boy for Bullets as well~ He is so cute XD The eyebrows were hard to get right, cause he has some eyebrow arches which pushes for cutesy sad eyebrows, and I had to ignore those to give him angry ones. I originally did them too high which meant that he looked more cute then angry. But I've done them better in the final version. He is very blue and yellow~ Had to be careful not to mix the two colours too much LOL! Cause he could have turned out green XD

So all those are done~ I have more commissions that I'm currently working on n_n so once those are done I shall update again =D Hopefully it won't be too long.

Something good and bad at the same time has happened to me recently on the dollie side of things. I set myself up ready to buy in a Switch tan Soseo, but I totally missed out on getting one... it sold out in less then an hour!! That is totally crazy!! I feel completely gutted that I missed out. I was so ready and prepared for it as well, however, I've come to settle with the thought that maybe I don't need one. I already have Soseo in normal skin, maybe I should just get him a better body and just deal with it. I honestly would have loved him as my first tanned doll, but as it is. I don't think I will be able to get one, and the 2nd hand market is pathetic right at this moment. I can't stand how slow it is and at how people are all selling nothing but Andreja face ups, don't get me wrong. I absolutely adore Andreja, she is one of my face up idols. But the only things that are even selling quick on the market are dolls with her work on them and for ridiculous prices. Maybe it's time to rethink my dollie plans XD We shall see~

Behind

Yes, yes I know. Jatzu has been a very bad person, with the lack of updates. I am sorry, truly. Just yeah, I'd be lying if I said I was really busy. I mean yes I have been busy, but not enough to excuse myself from updating. So what have I been up to? I've been getting quite busy on the dollie side of things, new incomings and more face up work~ *heart*

I need a soppy moment here hahaha~ I wanna say thank you to the peeps who have been watching and supporting me, because it's been great getting such good feedback and I'm really a low self esteem artist. So yush~ Thank you and I LOVE YOU ALL *throws hearts out*

So yush, what is it that I've been working on? Well funnily enough I've been working on some very different dolls~

I don't think I have gotten these in the right order, but I think I worked on this lovely Crobidoll Ho Bin first~ I love Crobidoll n_n even though I sold my Yeon Ho, they are still one of my favourite companies, I just think their sculpts are very prettiful~ And maybe in the near future I'll own one again, but for now I shall stick to oogling @_@

Just a very natural up n_n was referencing off of G-Dragon XD I know it looks nothing like him but yeah, it gave me a good idea of what the owner wanted~

Next would be the DIM Sweet Aria *heart* she has such lovely lips, so it was a nice surprise when she arrived to me, I had so much fun working on her and I think I've pretty much fallen for the sculpt hahahaha~

The owner had actually sent me a drawing to work from and that made things very easy for me, as I could see what she wanted and all I had to do was translate it onto the doll, and in my opinion it worked very well n_n and the purple was not a bad choice at all either~

For the same owner I also worked on some hands~ I really like working on hands XD cause of all the details that I can put into them~ Just makes it all worth while, I think I have way too much fun with this hahahahaha~!

Very delicate and elegant~

Next I worked on a pair of very cute girls~ Both for the same owner =3 an Angell Studio Leira and a CP Luts Juri 06. For the Leira girl, the owner wanted the same as the factory up but wanted less pink on the lips, because that was what she didn't like about the original. Which I can understand because I'm not too big on overdone lips =3= as for the Juri 06, her name was Nuppu which means Flower Bud, so she wanted a bright face up which was nice =D because I haven't done those in a while hahahah~!

I didn't mention I was asked to blush match the Juri girl, but it was hard without a reference, so instead I lightened her skin tone a bit, which took almost forever. I feel sorry for whoever has to take that face up off cause there is probably around 20 gazillion layers XD

And lastly I have a Doll Leaves Dora~ She was my first Pierrot style, and I think it was interesting to work with =D She's also the first that I did a mock drawing for, I've only done that for tattoos just to get an idea of where to place it, I also have a better idea of how to work it as well once I've done it once =P

So that's all the face ups so far, currently working on a tanned Bernard, but I'm not actually very happy with how he's turned out so I think I will be re-doing him *sighs* he's not too dark a tan but it's still a very hard tone to work with. *sigh* Hopefully I'll be able to get it right, my brain is just trying to figure out how to go about it XD I also have a whole load coming in for me to work on as well, one I'm especially excited about because... well... I'll just say because it's bulletsbanq [Flickr . Tumblr] hahahaha that's it! That's all I'm saying XD

Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ~!!!! Did you think that was it?? LOL oh no~ You lucky things get to see more XD I recently got a new boy =x he wasn't really intentional but it was a should I? Should I not? and I went with the I should XD So bad, oh so so so so bad. But, as most will know I sold Recco, and decided to replace him with a different shell, and I think I'm in love XD

Phwaor! Would you look at that?? I had these up as teaser pictures, but since then I've let the cat out of the bag XD My new boy is a Volks F38~ *hearts* He actually came with a lovely face up, but it was too innocent for my liking, and it didn't really suit Recco's personality. So unfortunately I had to redo it, I played around with eyebrows for this one, and well it came out really well and I'm actually fairly proud with it =3

I changed the placement of the scars I think it works better this way for this sculpt, but I was worried that I wasn't going to get it right~ Luckily it didn't come out too bad =D Some serious hearts going on here XD but yush I have one final image tis a a low res one unfortunately, but will do the trick for now until I can get better pictures of him~