I love this and it was literally the best way to show it. By starting with the practice you get to see how hard they worked on this and that it isn’t like edited or visual effects, plus you get the satisfaction of seeing the finished product at the end
so ive had this concept in the back of my mind for a while, here goes: how were pokeballs created? how did they figure out how to translate living beings into energy, store that energy, and then give it back? weren’t there tests? if so, how many tests failed? this is going to be the list of all the failed tests. Yes, many pikachus were sacrificed, but it’s a small price to pay for 10y/o to be able to store monsters in their pockets.
My mom found her in a box of other old related goodies at an auction or something and I’m trying to decide what to do with her.
She is a vintage Bubblecut Barbie, and man, I have just never been able to see bubblecut as anything but grandma.
However, one of the things that really interests me is different perceptions of hairstyles and looks through different eras, especially after all of the family photo history I inherited. At some point, this was trendy as hell and definitely would have been on teenagers, and it would be cool to be able to see it that way. I think illustrations of the time come really close to capturing the vibe.
I’m also interested in finding a way to make the vintage Barbie sculpt look more like the really lively and energetic illustrations they made of her, rather than bored and aloof. I have looked at a lot of alternate painting jobs on this face and have done a couple sketches over faces myself digitally that I think I have a good idea of what I need to do.
She has a loose arm and dirt in tiny cracks all over her legs that I can only describe as crazing on an oil painting. A lot of it has washed away with an initial visit from dish soap and a toothbrush, so she doesn’t feel gross to touch anymore, but it’s still very in there. The inner ring in her neck is also mostly completely detached meaning she would probably transfer onto a new body fairly well…
I cannot decide if her being kind of in a rough shape makes her the ideal candidate for me to try to enjoy how this hair and sculpt combo looks or if I would be better off just making her into something new entirely and waiting for a reproduction bubble cut to show up for a very low to normal amount of money. I think I might have some stray bubble cut heads in my stash even, but that this one was attached to a body and that my mom had spent a lot of time looking at it anticipating that I would bring it back from the brink kind of makes me want to do something with it in particular.
Reproduction dolls also historically have so much more hair than their vintage counterparts so I wonder if I would be somehow doing it wrong hahaha.
A pro to doing this kind of experimenting on a reproduction doll also means that the vinyl is a lot more stable and less likely to turn into like a surprise sticky mess like the other vintage bubble cut that I transformed. She still looks good but she’s got the sticky face now and it is a Bummer.
Because she’s missing some hair while the rest of it looks nice and even in original curl, I would have to find a way to root and style fractions of a bubble cut? Not to mention trying to match hair color and fiber.
She’s also missing a finger but I do love the coral color nail polish. I keep thinking it would be fun to match the color for her lip paint.
Maybe the solution is like a hybrid of my normal approaches where I just fill in all of the chopped off hair plugs with some funky color I like and then do some traditional matching coral on her lips and most of the experimenting on her eyes, which was where I was intending to do most of that anyway.
It’s possible I just needed to talk out loud and type all of this to come to some kind of conclusion.
Here is a picture of Onyx playing hard and causing a mess for your trouble.
Got these insert for my boots- just lace them in, and your boots are now zip ups! Excellent for people like me with weak joints that struggle with laces but love boots!!
All jokes aside I feel very resistant to any theory that posits that Kul Elna was magically special or more than what it was because the fact that it is precisely what it was–a village of artisans for kings whose work dried up because the kings didn’t need them anymore, and were then forced into poverty and driven to rob the very tombs they built just to feed themselves, and as punishment for this crime were senselessly massacred for the benefit of the same monarchy that drove them there–feels very important. It feels like the lynchpin of the entire thing! Making them anything besides ordinary poor people seems to be taking something away from the impact.
You are a divinely-ordained king beloved by your people who is facing the end of the world and the wrath of a god because you treated a village of ordinary people as disposables and now an ordinary, scruffy village boy of no rank or notice is going to make you pay for it. They don’t need to be “special” or “sacred” or “important” to matter. They mattered to him.
Impressionist animation depicting the 56 ethnic groups of China.
Using of the imagery of the 56 ethnic groups in China, clothing and other elements to describe the cultural diversity and national unity of the Chinese nation.
I would like to express my gratitude to my family for their support during the graduation period. I would also like to express my gratitude to every classmate and teacher who helped me.
I would like to thank Mr. Wu Guanying for guidance and instruction in the graduation project creation.
On the occasion of the centenary celebration of the Party, I wish the Motherland national unity and prosperity.
