Obitsu Doll Update II

My lovely 27cm Obitsu doll has undergone many changes...

CAUTION - DOLL PORN

I tried a second face up, which I am not pleased with for obvious reasons. Unlike the first one, this face up is not so horribly botched that I am afraid to post it. As you can see, her dang skin shines more than her glass eyes. She also looks harsh like a tart ready to sell her wares on the street, something I really don't like in a doll. I also didn't like the eyelashes I applied and I am not sure that I will use applied eyelashes on my small dolls. The painted eyelashes actually looked better alone than the "insects" I glued to her lids later.

I still need to work a bit on my eye positioning skills, but they are not as mispositioned as they appear - the flash makes it look more off. I swear that I'll have them perfect and look hours or days later and they've moved. (Could be ghosts?)

I worked on her while working on a SD BJD head that was much larger. The larger head did come out better, but this was more due to the fact that it was resin than to its size. The matte finish was truly matte on the resin doll. I gave them both the same number of sealant coatings, but the Obitsu head was the only one that shined afterwards. I've seen other pics of shiny Obitsu doll heads posted online, so I think it is possible that it is a problem caused by the softness of the vinyl and I will alter my spraying technique for the next face up.

Nonetheless, she still looks decent enough to display as she waits for her new face up. She is shown above wearing a special addition Barbie fairy costume. The wig is a Monique wig which is far more beautiful than it looks in my photograph. 

Her breasts are pretty much bursting from the Barbie dress. I am so jealous! I did have to have at least one doll with a huge bust line.

I now have a "Spirit" resin doll head mounted on this body. She had a more finely featured face, but isn't quite as pretty. Spirit is manufactured by Illusion Spirit and has normal sized eyes on a fairly-like face; the Obitsu girl has abnormally large eyes on a human like face. I have received feedback from people who overwhelmingly like the Spirit head over the Obitisu head, primarily because she doesn't have the large eyes. However, I do like the Obitsu head myself and plan to put her on a less curvaceous Obitsu body after I finally have a face up I like.

Until I had done the second face up on the Obitsu head and had installed the Illusion Spirit head on the Obitsu body, I had a strong preference for the Illusion Spirit head. Now that I have had time to "live with" both heads and evaluate their potential, my opinion of the appearance of the Obitsu head is far more favorable. I do hope that my next face up is closer to the ideal I have visualized.

The doll head shown to the left is the bare Aildoll/Custom House Ceebee I gave a face up to at the same time I worked on the Obitisu doll. Although, the matte finish came out better on her, she was just as difficult to paint as the much smaller Obitsu doll head. I purchased her new without one of those pairs of random eyes they all seem to come with preinstalled. I wasn't sure I'd actually liked her until I bought her eyes and tried them out. Although she will not be one of my favorites because she's an adult female with a somewhat infantile face, she is still very cute...with the eyes installed! 

I don't think the face up is better on this doll, the fact that it does not shines makes all the difference. She looks good enough to display as she waits for next face up. I will glue on her eyelashes after I have a face up that is satisfactory, which may take a couple more attempts.

I've had considerable experience painting with both acrylics and oils on canvas, so I already possessed all of the materials and the basic skill set long before I ever thought of purchasing a doll. However, my years of working two dimensionally on a radically different surface mean that I have to make adjustments in my approach and technique. Therefore, even though I have an advantage in that I can actually work without my hand shaking and know how to blend paints, I am still a beginner.

The wig shown on CeeBee is a D.U.C.K. wig purchased from the Doll Peddlar. It works well on round faced dolls with large eyes like CeeBee, but isn't very flattering on dolls with more normal faces. It is very well constructed and the hair is exceptionally nice and had virtually no fly aways.

Future Planned Updates on the Obitsu Lady:

• Clothing & Shoes - What fits, what needs to be altered, quality issues, pitfalls of Barbie clothing, etc.
• The face up of the new Illusion Spirit resin head
• The face up of the Obitsu head and new body purchase
• A body comparison of Obitsu with recently purchased J-Doll complete with "doll porn"