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Daylights Savings Time has got to stop. You can't just add and remove hours from the day like this. It's terribly disorienting, and is it really even serving any purposes anymore?! Better yet let's all agree to go by UTC instead. Time zones are an outdated concept. I spent last weekend doing faceups. Maple's is a little more... red than I intended for it to be.
I think I should have reassessed my plan so I guess I'll redo it at some point. Chouquette got a new one too while I was at it, just something I wanted to try. I also learned that varnish is in fact pretty permanent and if you try to clean it up, it will also pull up all of the layers of sealant underneath, partially destroying your hard work. Something always goes wrong right at the end with Chouqette Q~Q I haven't mastered thin and beautiful tapering brush strokes yet, but all I can do is keep trying. While it's always impressive when faceup artists manage to completely transform the sculpt and create something very realistic, I really admire the skill of those who can consistently create elegant faceups with more subtle expression. It's not even that I want to do commissions or anything, but ever since I got into dolls, it's a skill that I thought would be nice to have. I didn't really try at it until just a couple of years ago, but the thing about art is that you can really only get better at it over time as long as you make a consistent effort to critique and refine your skills, so I think I can get there someday.
I mean unless I lose my hands and/or eyes in a horrific accident. That's always a possibility. Anyway, my White Day gift form Volks arrived and it's just very cute.