Face update, feeling better

I put my last post on some needlefelting pages I am a member of on facebook. And the result? Lots of advice and encouragement, just what I needed.

She is looking now much more like I wanted her to.

What do you think? 

Faces!!

Faces, real looking faces elude me.

I am always scared to start them and when I am happy with my result, one pops up on a needle felting page and I want to give up felting completely. I am my own worst enemy. I have a vision of what I want the faces to look like but making that happen is another story.

I like to take photos of my work as it progresses as I think you can see mistakes on a photo that you don't see in the 'flesh'. 

So today, as I have a quiet,peaceful, no one in the house but me (and the dogs, the cat, with an occasional duck wandering past) day.

 I sat in the conservatory plucking up the courage to start. 

I had been doing my research and had images round me to help, so with no other obstacles in the way, I began.

After two hours and much mumbling to myself here was the progress ( no laughing) 

At this point I stopped.

Im not happy with the lips nose or eyes as yet. The temptation to rip it all off is like trying not to eat chocolate whilst dieting, but I'm not giving up quite yet. Or the diet. 

Does anyone else have this problem? Why I don't just stick to character faces and leave realistic faces to the ones that can, I don't know? 

Todays progress

Todays work in progress.

Can you guess what it's going to be?

Neatest hands to date ☺️

I always put off doing hands and faces, I always think they are going to be a disaster and never look the way I want them too. Well today after making 32 fingers (some blooded ones, my poor fingers) I managed to choose 10 that I decided were the right size for what I wanted.

The results? I'm happy and think these are the neatest hands I have done to date. 

I'm such a wimp!

Making it up as I go along and constantly putting off felting the hands and face.

I'm such a wimp!

Ch ch ch changes and embrace the strange.

Needle felting never ceases to amaze me. You start off with an idea in your head and as you stab the idea changes constantly.

Now even with my ventures into wet felting my ideas have changed. What started out as a cloak is now being made into a dress. 

I got so carried away I forgot she was still flat chested! 

So today, I made boobies.

I've added grapes!

What do you think?