I really didn't post for that long, did I? Shame on me. Yet I wasn't dead, but away for work - and was plotting some new bjd project plots as well.
But I don't think these were meant to be.
See, I'm kinda stuck at a dead end right now,  I'd like to have some brand new raw resin to play around with and try something new, but it seems as if none of what actually exists on the market suits my purpose. Although that last one looks pretty plain simple:
a white skin 50-55cm boy or a 35cm young boy/girl, in white skin as well.

The problem?
50cm guys are rare and those that do exist (Soul-vito, Soom Ide51 and Glorydoll as far as I know) just don't match my anathomy criteria :/
35cm girls with a cute chibi-like style and chubby curvy legs would be Narsha, Chibi Unoa and SaintBloom.
Narsha do not come in white, unless you want to pay 1.5 as much for a full-set that ain't worth it,  the chibi unoas pose like lego-figures while they cost like a house, and the SaintBloom could do if I could change their breasts and switch head.

Would you know any other options?^^
I'd even go for an oversized MSD as long as it looks organic and can stick to simple poses well.
pretty please?

Is any of  you going to be attending the Ldoll convention this week end in France?
I'll be there, just like last year, I hope it's going to be just as neat   And I'll bring Ezekiel with me.

Cheers!

Hello everyone,
Wow once again deviant art grants me with a lot of attention, I feel weird about it, but I'm happy people like Rei and my pictures.
It's akward to see a lot of "wow"- "creepy" - "oh she looks so sad!" recurring reactions to Rei, I really fell like everyone agreed on this, while I have a very different vision of that doll
I also saw many of you asking questions, please fell free to have a look at the FAQ: [link]
Feel free to post other questions, I'll ty to maintain it and update it with other possibly useful information

Have a great day,
Blu~

Hello, deviant people there
I've got three things to say, and that deserves a jounral entry!

First things first, I'm scared of DA statistics rush even though I've been through it before. Maybe it's because I've been through it before. I don't like saying popularity rush because I don't like the whole notion of someone being popular, it's a twisted concept, so I say it's just statistics.

Second thing, an important one: many thanks to =theshazerin for my subscription! I do not know what brought me the honor, but that's really damn nice of you!

And thirdly, thank you for the DD, fellow deviants! I've been there before as well and I often tent to disagree with the overall DD choice, so I won't say it's an honor - it looks more like luck, definetly luck. It's my second photo DD and my umm 5th DD overall with my former drawings account? I think there are 3 or 4 of them there. Buuut still, I'm still very pleased - and  - yay for BJD photography and customization getting some more space as a form of art That's a really good point, I think.
I'm not quite sure that it really is art myself, since I do not make the dolls. I hope you all do know it. I only paint them, resculpt them, make something different with what they look like, pick stuff for them; and I take pictures and photoshop the pictures (too much). I don't even make eyes, wigs, clothes or shoes for the dolls. But hell, even if it isn't just my work, but many things from many various artists that, combined the right way, may end up as something neat - so let's say it's a collaborative form of art, shall we? ^^

Just wanted to greet my new (and not so new) watchers, since I didn't take time to do this earlier, I'm very glad to see all of you people around, and I'm grateful for the attention you give to my pictures and doll-work
If you have any questions, feel free to speak up, I'll be making a F.A.Q if there are a certain number of those

Cheers!
Blu~

Hi everyone ~
So next week end there will be a BJD convention going on in France, does any one of you plan to drop by? I'll be around of course, it seems like it's going to be much fun
I hope to see many familiar and unfamiliar faces, both people and resin! As for me I'm going to bring Réï (my white Zaoll Luv) with me, for the Saturday's contest, I'll probably be carying him around on Sunday. So...feel free to come along and say hi

Cheers!
~Blu

Freshly Updated F.A.Q

What are these dolls?
^{Asian Ball-joined-dolls or BJD for short, they are hand-made, highy-expensive, fully-customisable dolls articulated better then action figures and often used as a support for painting/resculpting/esthetics and photography. They are made in Japan, Korea and China.
Now for the rest, you can google it of course.}

My BJD collection:

Daniel Vice - Dreaming  Zaoll Luv Dreaming[source]

<sup>Gender: male
Species: Alien (Iridäe)
Customisation: lips and eyes modded, mouth opened, teeth sculpted, chest sanded, and body modded with epoxy exoskeleton. The arms were replaced with Dollstown Elf body arms, claws added.

Note: this doll is meant to represent a character of mine I've been working on for quite a long time so that it was quite a challenge to handle. I usually do not like dark dolls too much, and it's a real pain in terms of photography. But it was the first doll I've attempted to modify in such an overwhelming and somewhat violent way, and it  means a lot to me.</sup>

Kiraï Réi -White Zaoll Luv [source]

^{Gender: none
Species: Robot
Customisation: lips and eyes modded, chest sanded, robot parts added, patterns and chest hole carved in the resin, hands changed.
Note: it's a very decorative doll, that unexpectedly inspired me a whole universe, drawings and a story that goes with those. I love taking pictures of it because of it's whiteness and flower-decorated silhouette.}

Ezekiel - Zaoll White dreaming/Dollstown Elf hybrid [source]

^{Gender: male
Species: deity
Customisation: legs customized into prosthetic limbs, back and chest plates added, scars carved. Chest sands flat, nose and chin re-shaped. Eyes and lips modded.}


Seth - MD Teenie gem Bygg [source]

^{Species: Sahdowraith
Gender: Male
Customisation: Eyes closed into dreaming.
Note: I never take pictures of him, it is my only tiny doll and works as a decoration for the living room. It's also the oldest of my dolls and a precious gift.}

Claimer

^{I do my dolls' faceups myself, as well as for the possible modifications.
Wigs, eyes and clothes are generally bought from the BJD companies or commission from various artists.
Photography and photo-edits are made by myself and photoshop of course.}

Feel free to ask any possible questions about those here

I haven't been updating that journal for aaaages
At first, thank you for all the attention my pictures got recently, I appreciate it.
I'm sort of going though a doubty period in terms of bjd dolls. I have mostly finished my second Zaoll's customisation, sold my unoa (again?) and got myself a floating head (I wonder what for). What I would like is get a complete sd of small size, that would fit nicely with my Zaoll boys to complete my "collection" and allow me to get some very colorful pictures I have been lacking lately.
A little bottomline:

Currently in my posession:
- Vice, the alien Zaoll boy that is now 1 year old, need a good wash and probably a repaint of his body markings, but that I totally appreciate.
- Réi, the robot Zaoll that still need heeled feet but that is mostly done; that's the most decorative of my dolls, looking very nice of my nightstand^^
- Seth, Soom Bygg, a tiny grey skinned cute little monster, lives in a jewelry box, I never take pictures of him, but it's a precious little thing.
- aaaand Deekay which is no more but a floating head and I don't quite know what will become of it.

Currently Wanted:
- A small sd boy, probably a hybrid on the Dollstown elf body that I would modify.
I have a painful trouble finding a head for him, I have been searching for months and I don't really like the onfew  ones that would fit...
any ideas please?

What I like but most probably won't ever get :
- MyDolling Heeah
- Dollmore Narsha sleepy
- Alchemic labo Chibi Unoa
- legende de temps ludwig

And I suppose I need to update my FAQ as well ><

Happy Holidays, everyone
I hope you all get snow, fun and presents.

This last year made me open this DA account, and spend a lot of time on my BJD, most of which were swapped and changed, and swapped again.
I end up with a Zaoll and a Unoa (and a tiny thing I keep for my own). I'm pretty happy with that turn, although I'd want to take more intellingent and more creative pictures along with taking much less of them.
I also have a couple more dolls I'd want to add to that list, but I'm gonna take it slow.

I wish you all to have your wishlists completed and much fun

Sort of back
I've been away for a little while putting together some new ideas and bjd projects.
First of all, no more Unoa stuff for me for the moment - I really had a lof of fun with those boys, and I'm happy about having owned those, but it's time to move on to something else. Besides, the characters I gave them are more of a real characters of mine then actually dolls anyway.

For those that wonder about Vice (my Zaoll boy), the only decent picture I have drawn of him is here : [link] with him wearing almost the whole of his exoskeleton. I'd probably be writing a piece of his story in my resin-blog sometime.
Somehow I don't feel like exposing that doll online, with  all those oh-too-many-Zaoll-dolls around, I almost felt like keeping him to myself alone. But playing around with pictures is so much fun, I must admit, especially since I have a good camera now for my own use Agh - need to stop thinking about taking pictures and do some drawing!
There's still some work to do on the doll anyway, since I'm not done with hands,feet, arms and legs yet. Unfortunately it seems like I'm out of MSC and the finishing tuches will have to wait >.>

I'ts nice to be back, anyway.
Cheers!

I haven't been writing anything about my recent BJD updates, just mostly spaming pictures, I thought it deserevd a couple of words too. Or even a whole page of rambling

I have sold my Minifee Karsh (head only) - my first BJD and the first BJD that I have ever seen in person. And unlike what I would have expected - it didn't move me or anything. As I could have expected - what really matters is the character that I have switeched to another mold, not the sculpt itself. Although the Karsh sculpt will always be somewhat special to me - I don't need to own one myself anymore

And I gave in to the Unoa. I mean I love seing pictures of them, I love painting them,I loe taking pictures of them, so why in the world would I resist?
Moreover, I just can't consider any other company's sculpt for my dolls anymore (Except the CP/FL Shushu I will mention a little bit later on) because the MSD sculpts just generally don't appeal to me, and I can't consider owning an SD for the moment. So both Ash and Blyss Are unoa hybrids on minifee body now.

And... I also own a tiny that I usually do not take pictures of, and that I can hardly paint but that I really appreciate. A SOOM MD, believe it. In other circumstances I wouldn't stand owning a BJD that I can't paint nor shoot, but here's the thing, it's also a character of mine that I really like keeping. Besides, I have sold some parts of it's set (you know, those famous and limited Soom Fairy parts...) so that I just don't feel guilty about it's price anymore. It ended up being cheaper then a tiny from Fairyland for example
BTW I am still selling the Unicorn Bygg head with dreamy eyes that I do not use...

And finally, there's the Shushu boy I am waiting for.
I have been (secretly?) dreaming about an asian-typed black-haired resin boy for ages! And Vice, my alien larva character is exacty of that type (what a strange *coincidence*, I know). So that guy is gonna be both the kinda type I like and a very interesting character to develop. But that is only if I can get his eyes opened right, and get his faceup done properly - and that is more than uncertain.
I guess only time will tell, but as much as I like the Shushu sculpt I am afraied that painting unoa, and then painting SD-sized faceups would just spoil me too much to appreciate it
In that case I could just give each of my unoa hybrids their own body and QUIT.
Because having 3 complete BJD of my own already seems faaaar toooo much.

... but hey we all know that's not gonna happen -_-"
I wish I could just get a BJD for me to paint and mod, and then just resell it with no remorse, just for the pure fun of it. But somehow that doesn't exactly seem right.
Maybe I should just stick to drawing stuff umm yeah.

Well, resin and cookies for all!
Bluo~

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Well, happy New Year, everyone! w00t!:
The past year was somewhat special : I've got into the BJD-trap and resin-addiction in early 2009, and I ain't gettig out of it I got my first BJD - Ash - somewhere around April, and I now have three of those (2 and a half, to put it properly). I hope I can get the 4 (or rather, three and a half XD) of them together completed and fully-developed by the end of 2010^^
I wish all of you much fun and more resin!


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[Edit:]
Thank you so much for reading, supporting and helping me with links! Special thanks to ~schigera
For I have found my Unoa "O"</u> faceplate I was looking for, it should be on the way soon! A kind of a Xmass present for meh :3
Now I just have to get my hand on the last faceplate for Blyss, and he'll be all set! With a madoromi face I've modded into a smiley/cutsey face, the Akubi fp for a sad/painful/blissful expression, and a Bully or another Madoromi for a meanie/baddie-boy face ^^ Money-saving time for now

for everyone!


[Original Journal entry:]
I'm looking for a couple of unoa faceplates for my hybrid boy, and it's turning out pretty aweful - those faceplates are uber-rare and super-expensive so that I can't even get my hand on one
I need a yawning/orgasmic Lusis and either a Sist Bully either another Madoromi Lusis for modding. But I gotta first get the yawninig one, I've always wanted one, and Blyss totally needs one that face of suffering and face of bliss is totally his. *sigh*
If you ever happen to get your eyes on one that doesn't cost 200 bucks, feel free to pinch me
*sigh again*
I suppose I'm out of luck, I'm happy I could get my hand on the lusus madoromi faceplate for my boy so fast and neat. But I happen to be obsessed with those option faces
While I can't handle having floating heads shareing the same body, I do want several faceplates! Because these are like different expressions of the same face, not different faces.
And moreover, Blyss is a boy of several personalitites (schysophrenia that is ) so different faces is a kind of must.

wish me luck :

Self-promotionFTW -_-"
Well i'm kinda tired of not being able to post pictures in my journal here, and a DA sub has always been too expensive. Sooo I got myself a BJD Blog, to post thoughts and pictures without making too much spamming around.

RawResin at blogspot: [link]

Feel free to drop by and wave
It's gonna be written in english, but also french and perhaps russian if I feel like it
cheers!
~Blu

I've decided to put together a BJD F.A.Q., because you just have to have one

What are those?
^{Asian Ball-joined-dolls or BJD for short, they are hand-made, highy-expensive, fully-customisable and often used as a support for painting/resculpting/esthetics and photography. They are made in Japan, Korea and China.}

My BJD group:

<sup>Ash - Minifee Karsh from Fairyland
Link to his Deviant Art gallery
Ash is a dragon-boy, he has lost his left arm during a hunt, and it has grown anew green and scaley. He also has dragon-horns, tail and a wing on the right side of the back.

Seth - MD Teenie gem Bygg from SoOm
Link to his Deviant Art gallery
Seth is a Sahdowraith, a little ghostly creature that haunts desert ruins and ancient places where people don't live. He is ghastly sarcastic and always bored. He doesn't want to be your friend.

Blyss - Unoa Lusis madoromi mod boy from Alchemic Labo
Link to his Deviant Art gallery
Blyss is a divinity that believed it was human until the day he was killed and reborn anew. From that point he was slowly driven to madness that has split his mind into several personnalities. The main personnalities are Redox, Azrael and Sirion.</sup>

The BJD I have owned previously:

^{Kurenai - White skin Minifee Lishe boy from Fairyland
Mello - pukifee Zoe mod from Fairyland
Lou - Minifee Breakaway scar mod from Fairyland}

Coming soon :

^{Vice - Minifee Shushu mod boy from Fairyland
Daniel Vice or the subject D. VI C.E. is an alien creature, from the Iridien race that ended up in the Earthian air-forces during a strange conflict that raged between Earthien colonies and another alien race that came to envade and exploit those.}

Claimer
^{I do my dolls' faceups myself, as well as for the possible modifications.
Wigs, eyes and clothes are generally bought from the BJD companies.
Photography and photo-edits are made by myself and my Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ10}

Feel free to ask any possible questions about those here

Ouch! I have forgotten about this DA account of mine, since I have been drawing a lot lately (so that my head aches ) thus I didn't get to manage the new messages, nor reply properly to comments or such...So, hello and welcome to any newcommers around :]

I though I would post a piece of the Story that concearns Ash (my Fairyland Karsh) but it seems that even in 3 (!) years I never took time to write it down in english! Or - and that is a possible option - I have lost any texts in english concearning this project. What a mess
I did write a bit of general description and a piece of a story in french, but that's not quite whet we need here, is it? I have also started writing THE story itself in russian, but that won't help either.

Let's start from the basics: Ash to ash is a comic book/webcomic project of mine, started early 2006. It is based on a weird dream I had, and was never really completed. I have done a piece of concept art work, a dozen of sketched pages, some colored pages attemps, pink-ups and posters. And got Ash as a BJD, and am still working on him.
In the meantime (three years, oh gosh.) I have developed the characters, the universe, and the plot. but most of it remains in my god damnes head! I used to write a lot, before I got into drawing. I now lack motivation and habits of a writer, and moreover, started having language-choice-related troubles that don't help at all.

That is to say, that Ahs has a hell of a background, but I still lack the words to tell more about it.
And it's mainly the same with my BJD-to-come. While Eito is more of a concept to have fun with, Seth belongs to a pretty complex universe, related to my beloved Legacy of Kain series, and Vice is a character of it's own. *sigh*

So, who ate my writing muse? giveitback!

That's it, folks. There has been some changes in my BJD-plans, mostly unexpected they are.
I don't think I will be keeping Ku - the minifee Lishe head I have and the character. i.e. I don't plan to get another mold nor size for him.
I am waiting for a little grey-skinned nasty little creature that I have just payed, and that should arrive early 2010.
That makes one MSD and one tiny for me.
I am planning to get another MSD head for Vice, since I can't imagine him as a tiny anymore, and moreover I have discovered that a Shushu sculpt looks totally like his face >w<
I somehow DO feel lie getting another tiny, since the Soom one will take ages to arrive, and I'd totally want a mobile doll lol.
The thing is that I already have 3 characters planned, all from different stories and worlds. No ideas for any other one -_- How the hell am I going to deal with those? :/

This is about BJD.
For the moment I have 1.5 of them: Ash, my minifee Karsh and my first doll, and Ku - a floating minifee Lishe head, whiich isn't compatible with Ash'es body because of the skin color. That's why they are one and a half... The point is I can not stand floating heads - it makes the character inexistent and kinda pointless and I can't afford a second minifee body right now (damn pretty expensive things!) mostly because I really want a tiny - a Littlefee. To be honest, I used not to care about yo-sd/tinies at all. They seemed to be so simillar to any barbie*cough*-like-doll*cough* but somehow an idea of having a chibi character with a cute face and nasty manners just won me over. And I am keeping a friend's Luts Honey Delf at home right now, and made me realize those little things are as delicate and well-made as larger BJD, and there are so many things you can do with those!
Anyway. Littlefee is what I have planned. And then maybe a body for my white-skinned minifee.

But - *drumdrumd* in the meantimes I seem to be a fairyland*cough* addict and wish for another minifee normal skin head that could share Ash'es body and  I could experiment with. Ku's head should have been my experimental head, but there's only one type of make up I can imagine for that white-skinned face >.< No choice left: keep him red-eyed and pink-blushed as he should be or sell him.
Sell Ku's head? That's one tough question *sigh*
Anyone for a beautiful-white minifee Lishe Head with a gently sanded nose and pinkish soft faceup?...-_-

On the same matter - of doubt - I do seem to be still lurking around pictures of mature-looking and SD-sized BJD with detailed and realistic faces. WTH? I don't think I can manipulate an SD properly, but goddmanthosefaces!! I want a Zaol Luv boy or a Supia Rosy/Lina boy. And no sanding.
Not that I am unable to sand out breasts completely (a huge work) - although I think it's such a waste of female prettyness - I also find girl-to-boy mods unsufficient and well...they aren't boy bodies, no matter how you sand them - it's a matter of waist-hips proportions and pecs/breasts positionning: it's different!!!
Now. What would really doom me into getting an SD is fairyland (or some other company) releasing pretty AND flexible 60cm guy bodies. I would die for one of those And the only ones I quite like are the very HUGE Soom Mecha Angel or Luts SSDF bodies I totally don't wanna deal with. I'm picky. Very picky. That's why my hopes/fears lay in Fairyland, and oh, my money as well.

SO here we are, doubts all the way%) The only thing I'm pretty sure about is keeping Ash, he makes me go "awww" every time I happen to glance over him. I just need to re-blush and re-string him, oh god so much work, I'd better be going!

Cheers~