Tag: kyrie

Not Quite There

I adjusted his eyes a little and am trying to give him a chance, but I don’t think I can get used to him. He almost looks like Jer – he has the right head sculpt, the body, the eyes, the wig, the clothes, the accessories – and yet he doesn’t feel like Jer because the faceup keeps throwing me off. Like he’s an impostor.

I’m edging closer and closer to swapping his old head back and putting this one in its box until I can send it out for repainting with a different artist.

His eyebrows and eyelashes are gorgeous. The linework is fantastic. But he just doesn’t have the darkness and contrast and intensity he needs to really be Jerolyn. The heavy orangey-yellow blushing doesn’t work for me. The skin texturing doesn’t work for me, either, and it looks so out of place next to my other dolls with their cleaner, stylized faceups. I’m devastated that I’m unhappy with the final result in-hand and I don’t know how to fix that feeling now.

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Invert the Mirror

I don’t think this is going to work…

Why Change Now?

It’s been so hot lately… between that and work ramping back up, I haven’t had the time or energy to take photos much. While most of my other dolls are in something vaguely resembling summer outfits, Dom is stubbornly dressed for fall.

I think we’re on the same wavelength. ;o;

Artificial Beliefs

Practice with artificial lighting. I feel like I used to be much better at this than I am now. (I also feel like I used to be better at photography in general, so… maybe it’s just me being gloomy.)

Anyway, I’ll keep working at it.

Soft Smoke

Little outfit test. I might mess with the ensemble a bit and do a full shoot later, but I wanted some softer shots of Dom to contrast with the darker/glam outfit V has on right now. I like that he can pull off gentle styles like this, too.

I’ve been taking a lot of photos of him lately because he makes me happy.

I feel like I have a better grasp on his character in his current incarnation than I did previously, which helps. To think, when I started rebuilding the crew in late 2014/early 2015, I had very resolutely decided not to get him, because he always seemed to cause such problems. I wasn’t able to resist very long, obviously, but I don’t regret it. Figuring out the Dom-Jer-V dynamic was a big “ah ha!” moment.