Fabric, Steiff, Germany!

Happy Tuesday!

Well I went to JoAnne fabrics last Saturday and bought some fabric and other bits and bobs to make a jacket. It was originally intended for Alain but the color doesn't match him at all but Rene rather. So it'll probably go to him instead.

I'm feeling pretty unimpressed with Rene lately so it must be new-faceup time. Well it has been for a while, I just haven't wanted to wipe it because I worked hard on it and it's not bad. But I think I want to go for a different look... and maybe widen his eyes a little more again. Although they aren't as droopy as they used to be...

I kind of think he was a lot more adorbs with his first faceup now. He was cute. He needs his own eyes. I'm wanting to get him some light grey eyes. Ones that track. And more freckles. There's this boy Supia Roda I think? That is SO CUTE. So I sort of want to replicate the look of him. It's kind of funny because I swear his wig is the same as the one Rene has (by Thereif).

I was looking at Steiff animals on ebay. Cats particularly. I want to learn how to make stuffed animals.

Alain's FACE

So I redid Alain's face woot woot! I like it a lot... it was my second try at redoing it lately... The first time was a disaster because I was using a really bad brush (why waste my time and resources? I don't know...). And since my confidence went back up, I also opened my faceup shop back up.

So lately I've been having a lot of fun thinking about what I'm going to do with his character... things have suddenly be leaning back toward speampunkish (makes me want to watch fma..) so I can dig out all the super cute mail and packages that I made for him in Hawaii. I think he is lovely as a blonde too, by the way.

I've been thinking about his clothes right? I want to make him a peaked cap. Search for it on google search... the smattering of images is pretty funny. Half of it is WW2 German military hats and swastikas and the other half is of little children in bonnets and such. Well, I was amused anyway.... *amused by weird things* Well anyway I've been trying to figure out what colors I'd want to be.. because it'll have it's main color, a black brim, and then some other color of piping... I'm sure it'll end up being.. brown or blue (I am not very creative, haha).

As for his actual clothes, some kind of overcoat (perhaps that matches the hat) and then otherwise I sort of thought his clothes might be mori-girl inspired.. but.. mori.. boy? (does that exist?). I kind of like the mori girl look... when it's done with some sense of style. I'm not too into the Japanese tendency to put the most ridiculously illsuited pieces together... I like there to be at least some sense of feng shui and proper accessories.. not just whatever you found in your local babushka's closet (ahem, I'll stop being politically incorrect now). But I like the loose sort of draping layers on top, so well, I'll see what I can come up with. And scaaaarf...

So I thought it would be a mix sort of, of starched/prim looking military type hat and coat and more ragamuffin type clothes underneath those. Okay it sounds weird, but it looks awesome in my brain. I drew a cute picture of him in my planner that I would post right now but I don't have a scanner or good enough lighting to take a photo so it will have to wait!

Now off to bed I must go!