I'm excited about this little girl's progress and how she came out! I decided to give this tiny peanut my middle name since she is a portrait baby of myself. Welcome to the world, baby Shea. When I first saw Delilah by Nikki Johnston released, I immediately thought that she would make an adorable portrait baby of myself. I was born premature at 2lbs. and I had the same tiny and delicate features this sculpt has. She has been such a joy to reborn.
Surprisingly enough, the initial paint job on this doll sculpt did not turn out as I had liked so I took to stripping it down for a fresh start. I'm much happier with my results on round two. On the second go-around I tried my new Mungyo Gallery Handmade Soft pastels. I ground them up using a palette knife to create a fine powder. These powders are then applied using a small detail brush to areas like creases, nail beds, ears, and anywhere else that benefit from shading. I love these powders so much! Having this set of 60 pastels makes it easy to create some custom colors too; perfect shadow colors no matter what skin tone I am going for.
My favorite part of working on this sculpt has to be the hands. In the beginning of my reborn learning, hand details were something I dreaded because I had a hard time creating the look that I wanted with paint alone. After using the pigment powders, I am enjoying the process a lot more; dare I say it has become one of my favorite parts? I still struggle with getting the nail tips as thin as I'd like, but now I've started using light skin tone colors (instead of off-white), so they look like naturally grown out baby nails.
Somehow during this process, I had forgotten all about the belly plate! So now, I am working on that. One thing that I have learned from repeated stripping paint and starting over, is how to color match. So I am confident I will be able to match the belly plate even though I didn't paint it along with the limbs. Soon, I'll be working on her painted hair, seal/varnish and wait for her to cure before assembly!
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