I kind of suspected there would be the occasional RESTYLE ICONS project that would bear a second pass. And wouldn't ya know, it's my first RESTYLE that's the first retake!
In the initial post about Billy, I reviewed the doll as sold and turned him from a dated 2000s emo boy with little referencing his film progenitor...
...into an artsier alternative kid with more costuming derived from his dad (by way of a Mego figure directly licensed from the 1943 picture and a Barbie Extra Mini).
...but this still wasn't it for me. The primary issue I was having with Billy was the hair. I'd made it short and messy to reference the weird hair that the Invisible Man, Jack Griffin, had when bandaged up, but this hairstyle was a little too tidy (and too Slo Mo), plus it really didn't flatter his face. I discovered when taking couple photos with my Scarah that Billy really didn't look too good at all, to detrimental effect. His face is odd and possibly not printed correctly, but surely there was something better than this:
No, the hood being large enough to truly fit over his head wouldn't help here. |
I realized when thinking about the Jack Griffin hairdo reference I posted, that the hair seen in it was vaguely like the popular (quite bizarrely so) nineties center-part haircut worn by many young men, and which has seen a resurgence thanks to K-pop idols wearing it. If I could get Billy's hair into that silhouette, he'd be much closer to Dad. And maybe it'd make him look good without shades.
!!! His face works for me now! |
He just feels so much more. He doesn't feel flat now. He feels intense, stylish, weird. He feels like the son of a mad scientist that he is! I can display his face now because his hair works with it and he matches his inspiration character, and he's way more interesting.
That haircut is such a blast from the past for me, that must have been on the heads of at least a quarter of my male classmates at some point. And you're right, it does suit Billy's face.
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