Better gray dress photos

The light setup was upgraded from bouncing inside an umbrella to using a collapsible soft box, which has less reflections and less harsh shadows overall, but takes a lot of space. I also traded out Neris’s eyes from the last shoot for eyes from Twin Snow, they’re darker and less reflective which is easier to…

Elf Asuka

This weeked I customized Asuka’s makeup a bit – re-did the lips, thinned and darkened the eyebrows, and add a bit more blush here and there. It was helpful to find out that I could mod the eyebrows without removing them, saving me some time and aggravation in getting them symmetrical. Elf ears are made…

Custom SQ-labs Miyuki

I happened to get my hands on SQ-labs‘s Miyuki head, which had been on my wishlist for a little while. My plan was to give her a really cute and cheerful expression, and insert a bit more smiley-ness into the sculpt by painting darker corners on the mouth. She looked quite strange on the DD3…

Erio renewal

Took advantage of the nice weather to rework Erio’s face a bit.Still not perfect, but it’s a relief to fix bits that had bothered me for months! And each time I work, my technique improves a bit. Practice and all that.Instead of removing the eyelashes, I protected them from spray sealant with a bit of…

Leo faceup fixes

Leo’s peach lipstick has been bothering me for a while, so now that the weather’s nicer I decided to edit her faceup. Her lips were re-colored with pastels and just a little bit of watered-down gloss. While I was at it, I thinned her eyebrows a bit as well. It was also an experiment to…