Hey, guys. How are you?
I'm Vale and I welcome you once again
to my channel: Valkitty's world.
Today we have a very special video,
since we'll be having a new collaboration
which we called "Solar System".
Guess what it could be about?
Well, we'll be working nothing more and nothing less
than aliens from each of the planets in our solar system,
and not only that,
we'll also be including in our customs
the precious stones that represent each of the planets.
I'm extremely excited to have had the opportunity
to work with these extremely talented artists,
who of course are my source of inspiration.
So you can't forget to stop by to see their creations
after watching this video.
For now, how about we start?
As a planet I selected Venus,
which is the second planet in our solar system.
And the precious stone that represents it is the emerald.
And I must admit that this is the main reason
I selected this planet.
So, with this in mind, I decided to use Scarah Screams,
as her skin tone seems more than perfect
and, of course, I love the mold of her face.
Once the doll was selected,
I proceeded to make the conceptual sketch.
As you can see, there will be some body modifications,
a third eye and an exposed heart.
As always, I start by removing the head from the body.
This time around, I decided to work
on the body modifications first,
which basically consists of giving her a more curvy body
and some alien features.
So first I start by removing the toes
and poking a hole in her chest
for her future exposed heart.
I put some paper on the inside of the doll
to prevent her heart from going inward.
And yes, her heart is an emerald.
Now, with my epoxy clay,
I'll start making the modifications.
And we started the streak of days and days of sculpting,
starting with her abdomen and her chest.
It's important to sculpt in layers,
first so as not to spoil the previous work
and second to add volume as we want.
For her hand modifications, I cut off the fingers first,
I swear to you doesn't sound creepy at all.
I inserted pins according to the fingers I want to make,
cut them to the approximate desired size
and began to sculpt the new fingers.
With all the modifications done,
I continue with my least favorite part:
sanding.
Fortunately I was able to help myself
with my drill to do most of it.
And to refine I use finer sandpaper and nail files.
And this is how the modified body looks
already sanded.
In some parts of the legs there were some holes
that give the sensation of cellulite,
but I decided to leave them to give it a special touch.
And now I prepare my acrylic paint
to match her skin tone as closely as possible.
It's important to lower it with water
to make cleaner brush strokes.
To protect the paint on her legs,
I decided to apply a coat of super glue,
which worked quite well in my opinion.
Once the body is completely painted,
I protect it with a few coats of my liquid matte varnish
and let it dry completely between coats.
And now I can continue with the head.
As always I cut the hair as short as possible,
remove it from the inside of the head
and remove the factory paint with acetone.
Now that my canvas is clean,
I start with the modifications.
First I remove the ears with a cutter
Then, with these pieces of my drill
that I'd never known what they were for until I saw
Enchanterium's Tritannus video,
I'm going to refine the cuts that were left
as much as possible.
And I also helped myself with a fine sandpaper.
Now that it's ready, I continue with the reroot.
I bought this beautiful gray color
precisely for this custom.
I measure an approximate length that I want and I cut it.
And I reroot the same as always.
The difference's that I left
the holes in the forehead empty,
this in order to make space for future modifications.
To secure the hair, I put universal glue
on the inside of the head.
I let it dry completely,
and I wash it with boiling water to straight it.
Once it dried, this is the result.
And now, for the modifications I'm going to insert wire.
I cut three pieces of the same length
and, folded in half, inserted them
into the holes in the head.
To secure them, I made a kind of knot at the ends
and tangled the wire from the outside
until I got something like this.
I did it three times.
Later, I decided to protect the hair with a plastic bag
and held it to her head with a few pins.
To prevent the structure from moving and damaging
the modifications in the future,
I used the Dolls Brand New Look method
in which we filled the part of the head
where the structure is with hot silicone.
An excellent method that I highly recommend.
Now is the time to return the head to the body.
I protect the doll to avoid staining or damaging her
and again prepare my epoxy clay to apply on the head.
I think this was the most stressful part
of all the modifications I made.
And again I sand and refine.
And I also go back to painting
and varnishing.
We're finally ready to begin our repaint,
so I sprayed a layer of Mr. Super Clear on it
and let it dry for 30 minutes.
Not without first protecting the hair, of course,
and protecting ourselves with a mask.
Just the day I was going to do the repaint,
I received my new box of these
Coloré watercolor pencils,
so let's give them a try.
While I'm working, how about
putting ourselves in context?
Venus is the second planet in the solar system
in order of distance from the sun
and the sixth in terms of size
ordered from largest to smallest.
It's named in honor of Venus,
the Roman goddess of love.
As I mentioned earlier,
its representative gemstone is emerald.
The emerald is a stone that encourages patience,
love and friendship, that is why on many occasions
this precious stone is spoken of
as that of success in love.
So here we find the concept of 'love' as a coincidence
and the way I'm representing it
is by the exposed heart.
Other important concepts that
I'm trying to represent in this custom
are 'The Birth of Venus' and the Paleolithic Venuses.
This is why I decided to do her body modifications.
And as you can see, I made this doll thinking more
about how a Venusian could be
and not so much about a character,
but the end result made me think a lot
about a royal character and I decided that she would be
the Empress of Venus.
Mainly because I think she looks very elegant.
Once finished, I seal the repaint
with three layers of Mr. Super Clear.
Now we continue with... clothes?
Actually the only garment she has is a long skirt,
so I don't know if calling it clothes is the right thing to do
but it is what it is.
To make it, I used a quarter circle of white shiffon.
I burned the entire edge of the piece
to prevent the threads from running.
Especially for this custom I got
a hot fix tool and rhinestones,
this means that the stones already include glue
and you just have to stick them on the desired surface
with the tool from heat.
First I decided to do a test on the skirt.
And the result is very good, so I proceeded to do it
with the whole body.
I applied stones mainly in her private parts
and some others as a simple decoration.
Then I decided to glue the skirt directly to her back
and finished decorating it with more stones.
And this was the result.
To finish our custom like cherry on the cake,
I decided to add eyelashes.
First I glued them directly onto her three eyes,
cut them out a bit, and painted them white.
And also, I enhanced the eyes with gloss varnish.
And finally we can say that
the Empress of Venus is finished.
I decided to name her Smarágdi,
which literally means 'emerald' in Greek.
I must admit that I had a hard time coming up
with the final concept for this doll.
Even during the process,
I wasn't completely sure what I was doing,
but when I saw her all together and complete
I fell in love with her.
Although I have to admit that there are one or two
little things that do not make me completely happy,
but I just love her elegant and serious profile.
But what do you think?
Don't hesitate to leave me your comments.
I want to thank all the other artists
for giving me the opportunity to work together.
I was speechless when I saw all of their creations
and it was extremely exciting to see the whole process
that we go through together, and I am looking forward
to repeating it again.
Don't forget to watch the videos
of the other artists of this collaboration:
Blank Space Dolls,
Doll Mill,
Enchanterium,
His Name is Akin,
Kyro's Workshop,
Ooak Nara,
Séléne
and The Dolly Geek.
And don't forget to like and subscribe
if you want to see more of our work.
Well, this is it for today, guys.
See you in the next video. Bye bye.
