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Last set of doll meet photos from my backlog, horray!
Mini Bodies Comparison
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Took some photos as a height reference for myself. I never noticed before that the MSD body is shorter than the SDM body. It was interesting to see all the skin tones are different too.
Auburn Botanic Gardens
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Went to a mini meet yesterday at the Auburn Botanic Gardens with 4 Lieselottes! We have even more Lieselottes in Sydney so hopefully we can organise an even bigger meet next time.
Initially I had dressed my girls in a style to match the cherry blossoms that are blooming right now, however it was so crowded my motivation to take cherry blossom photos quickly drained away. They were very beautiful though.
In the end I took some photos in a quiet area in the garden, and then again outside the entrance with the camellias.
Galaxy eyes~
One of the things I knew I wanted to try making is galaxy themed eyes. In particular I wanted to see if I could make the “stars” float in the eye so that it looks 3D, which I’m very happy to say I’ve succeeded.
This was the first version I made. I’m very happy with the colours, they change a bit depending on the angle you are looking at the eyes from, so for example the red colour is only visible from the side and not from the front. However, I wanted to make the dots smaller and neater next time, and the iris lines are almost invisible so I wanted to make those thicker as well:
This was the second version. I tried a few more colours which all came out nicely, but I think the iris lines are a bit too thick this time:
This was the third version. I wanted to try copper coloured dots, I didn’t expect them to be almost invisible in the pink pair. Looks like white is the best after all:
Since the last update I’m improving on getting those pupils in the centre, and I’ve managed to avoid big bubbles (although I still can’t get rid of all the small bubbles).
The white part of the resin I’m using currently yellows pretty quickly, so reducing that will be my next experiment :)
Doll meet
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It’s strange to say these are photos from the meet I attended at the end of last year, because it’s actually only a couple of days ago. At the meet there were twins of Little Alice with Little Lorina, and Papi x2. For some reason Momiji looked so mischievous, like she wanted to smack somebody! Maybe she was mad because I stuffed her in a bear suit, or maybe it’s because the bear suit makes her look much taller and bigger than all other YoSDs. I tried painting a monster high doll there, the faceup is actually pretty messy close up so I only took a whole body shot. I also made the bear she is carrying, I think maybe I overstuffed him, his shoulders and arms look too fat.
As for those dolls I have not yet had a chance to take a photo of, last year I traded my Pipos Rosie partially for Pipos Dark Rabbit, and purchased the Volks standard Mako.
Happy New Year
My Miku who arrived on Christmas Eve :). Her outfit is a bit difficult, the shirt in particular has very delicate fabric and has already snagged on my hands, I don’t have long nails. The arm covers as well closes with velcro and has snagged her body suit. The plastic tie and arm cover decorations I will leave to another day when I am more patient. And the giant long wig, well it was surprisingly ok compared to everything else.
I recently bought a new camera. My old one started to give me error messages around mid last year and has been unreliable. I’ve also been wanting a smaller camera since I never take my old one anywhere because it’s so big. The image quality seems a little bit worse but if I actually take it around, it will be better than having one I don’t take anywhere. An unexpected discovery about my new camera is that all the packaging, the camera box, lens boxes, camera box inserts and lens box inserts, absolutely everything folds flat. I have never encountered this with any other product and cannot believe how amazing this is. Usually packaging is glued together so that you cannot take it apart without ripping something, but this company uses various slots and folds so that it can almost be completely disassembled.
It seems like most photos I see nowadays are bigger than what I resize to. I’m aiming to work on a wider theme to accommodate bigger photos. However right now I will just use the img code to resize, you can always right click and view to see it a bit bigger :)
Happy New Year!