Elbow Joints!

Finished elbow joints. Took a few days.  I call it the "magic bean" or the "bicep bean". ON TO HANDS! 

Working on arms.

Face, face, face.

Added hair, eyebrows, refined ears and worked on facial symmetry. I foresee it will be easier to do the rest of his parts with an inspiring face and body.

Much, much BJD progress!

A day and a half worth of refining details at my fellow artist/friend Megan (♥) and Astor Place Starbucks. Crafting outside my house took away major distractions and this was literally the product of 10-12 hours of labor. Took note of one of my favorite sculptors (art-iculated.tumblr.com) and focused on torso then head then on to limbs. Now that I have a good idea on the joint mechanics I can now comfortably focus on details. Details these past two days were muscle work and face refinement. Originally had a face model but now letting the project gain an identity on it's own. Anatomy from memory. Also thanks to inspiration from Den of Angels forum and Hanano, took away underwear like pelvis joint that REALLY bothered me and replaced with pelvis joint that preserves the beauty of the male hip V bone among other things.

Unloaded another $30+ at the Compleat Sculptor today but after taking my time browsing everything I usually get there I end up using A LOT. I think on my next post I'd like to share my tools that I use mostly. Thanks for stopping by, keep in touch! Ciao.

BJD Update

After much research finally added working double jointed knees and elbows. Also cut pelvis as separate piece for extra poses. While the always straight back poses I have seen a lot in female BJDs looks attractive I am personally attracted to slouchy boys/slouchy male figures. Emo-chic, lol. I have spent the greater part of the month doing research (largely in this forum LOL) and learning which at first seemed futile but now I'm glad I've read and learned all the things I did I'll need to know in the future for this art genre. His hands are still a sketch among other things please excuse them. My next things to do are make locking grooves. Does anyone else make lock grooves to hold poses? I think I saw the technique on DollShe. I also want to change the ball look on his hips into a smoother one part form like the shoulders. I find myself getting ahead of myself and buying materials I don't immediately need but will eventually lol. What I'm most excited about is reading about Flumo Casting Slip. Porcelain quality finish without a kiln? Ugh, excitement. So much more to do, all the more excitement. Thanks for looking.  Cheers!

EDIT/ADD:

The College called YouTube.

Hey all, still quiet on the frontier here. I recently did an overhaul of my room to make it crafting friendly. And when I'm home, though I have not really been crafting, I am always watching a tutorial on YouTube or reading the forums learning new things. Right now watching these two:

Catch you all later, I'll update more when I can.