Finished: Cass, Viv & clothing *pics*
Aug 11th, 2008 by corset_kitten
Well this last weekend has been fruitful in two senses….
Figure wise:
I got to sit down and work on Viv and Cass. Viv is the re-rooted Ice head and Cass…well Cass is Takara’s Midori Washio head.
Here’s how they came out.
I have been trying to paint Cass for literally months and it has proven to be a very frustrating experience. 
When I actually managed to paint her last time …I messed up and she looked rather wall eyed 
(you can see that version here). I liked the general feel I had then but I don’t know about her new look….or should I say looks?
I decided that I wanted one that was “frouffed-up” so that she’d look good if it were an evening out kind of scene, and one that was more plain looking — “working” aka being semi-tomboyish. So one has plucked brows and girly girl lipstick color.
I may repaint them again in the future–but for now I need Cass to start re-shooting the new episodes of the Quinlan Chronicles. So…kind of close is better than not at all I think?
Clothing wise:
I managed to pick up some reduced fabric (6 bucks for 4 meters) and a bunch of trim. I was pissed off to find that the place I got my 000 hook & eyes from has stopped carrying them (ah well, it’s a flea market, so I guess I can’t moan too much)
but I did manage to get some metallic trim that I think will work well for some medieval-esque outfits.
the first version of the repaint looks very fine as well
to me, what was wrong with it?
Oh well…I’m totally unable to do this stuff so most probably I don’t understand
Thank you for the vote of confidence Claudia! But the problem I had with the original is how much one of her eyes seemed to be looking off to the side while the other eye looked forward!
Ps. I’ll be taking clothes pictures tonight to share what I have been making
Viv looks fine, and so does Cass probably. Personally I don’t like the Midori headsculpt (which saved me some money
), so I’m not likely to agree with anything done with it.
I’m looking forward to see the new clothes.
I totally understand what you mean about the eyes. It took me three years to finally have a version of Blaze’s eyes I could live with, although nobody else did see previous incarnations as a problem. To me the eyes are the most important part of a figure’s face and my most likely choice of change. If the eyes are off, the rest can be as beautiful as possible, with the figure there will still be something fundamentally wrong.
Thanks Ursula!
I agree that the eyes are fundamental–and that if you aren’t happy with them, no matter what else you do to the figure it will still stand out and bother you.
Yea I think that when it comes to head sculpts (just like with people) it comes down to personal taste. I’m very partial to the midori sculpt although it doesn’t seem to be popular. *shrug* which is ok with me (more for me!)