Its a Pretty Good Work!

You can also get a smoother finish if you apply your paint in extremely thin layers, though it usually takes 3-4 to build up the desired opacity. At least, it has when I've done full body repaints to My Little Ponies. =)

I think the problem I ran into with the tan/brown markings is that the paint isn't all that good and just refused to go on as smoothly as the black acrylic did. I may attempt to carefully sand at the lumps, but I'm not too upset by them and i'll likely re-paint her in the future anyhow, after I get more practice in.

Yeah, that can be a problem with cheap paints. I tend to use student-grade acrylics for customizing work. They're not as awesome as pro-artist quality paints, but they're a couple steps up from craft paint. Even having used the cheap stuff, it looks awesome!

Thank you! It's been trial and error so far, but I've been patient with my attempts. X3

I used just basic Americana brand for the black markings, but I had also picked up a cheap set of those little pots of acrylic paints because I didn't want to buy all the colors in the big bottles just yet and waste them. Turns out, they're fine for mixing with the craft acrylics (the black on her face is actually black plus some of the cheap brown mixed in), but the brown/tan and white is strictly the cheap little pots.

Yup, you can mix pretty much any acrylic with any other, provided they're both acrylic and not oils or based on some other solvent. The main difference is going to be in the quality (and even quantity) of pigment and binder. Cheaper acrylics sometimes 'break' when you thin them because there's less pigment in them. They go all streaky and weird if you add too much water. Higher quality paints are less prone to that, but they tend to cost an arm and a leg, which isn't feasible if you're just trying to do a test project. c.c Sorry, I spent several years working in an art supply store after I got my BFA and I tend to get lecture-y when it comes to different types of paints because I had to explain them to people all the time. XDD

Haha, no no, it's helpful! It's been a long time since I've worked with any acrylics or paints, and even then it was doing simple craft stuff. It's nice to have reference for the future, when I can invest in some nicer paints and all that!

Yay, I helped! XDDD If you're looking for something a little nicer that isn't TOO pricy, look for Liquitex Basics or Amsterdam paints. Both of these are considered 'student' grade paints, so they're not hideously expensive, but still pretty nice, and they're not usually hard to find in most art and hobby stores. I actually bought myself the Basics 24 tube set of 22 mL paints to give myself a fair amount of variety when I wanted to play with acrylics awhile ago. I think it cost me about $30 at the time, and I'm still using them years later. c.c Though that's the danger of being an artist working in an art store. So much of my paychecks went right back into my work.

I do have a few colors of the Liquitex brand, bought back when I took a 2D Comp class a few semesters ago, I just haven't cracked them open to use for any doll painting yet. I'm always really worried about diluting them and all that, even though I've done it before just fine. I'll probably wait to mess around with them when I get one of those nice stay wet palettes, since I tend to work on things a little at a time and loathe having to re-mix paints.

Oh yeah, I know how that is. I have to keep myself away from the craft/art stores here because all I want to do us buy up everything, even if it's not going to get used anytime soon. It's a serious problem!

Ooo yeah, those palettes are really nice. Oh, and if you want an acrylic with a REALLY long drying time, Golden makes a line of paints called "Open" that are acrylics but dry like oils. They're super expensive, though, and I dunno how they'd work for doll painting.

Art/craft/hobby and even fabric stores are my bane. c.c; It's like they feed the creative juices and make you buy things for all sorts of hypothetical projects you might one day attempt.

Wow, such a lovely sculpt!