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I only realised that his other eye was wonky while I was browsing through these pictures :( Some things just are more visible on camera, but the damn preview screen is too small to notice these things while actually taking the photos. Thenagain I can't imagine how I could have taken any photos back in the day of actual film cameras... I know I would have wasted so much film XD


So a lot of the pictures I took I just had to trash right away since it was just too in-your-face. These remaining photos hide it a bit, so they'll have to do while I build up a better portfolio for Phoenix. But! The thing that shows up so much better IRL about this boy, his adorable smile, I was finally able to capture on digital film :3



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I actually first cut this wig to have a more straight bang in the front, with longer sideburns. Kinda in the style Yuki has in Fruits Basket manga. But the blown-in-the-wind or Cloud-Strife style just suits him better. All my fur wigged dolls have this sort of sidepart, I just have to succumb to it... There are always slight differences (although Alex and Fyrd are very similar) that just have to do.

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I've gotten compliments on his eyes. Acrylics have their own strengths, like the visible iris pattern, but irl they look very dull. I use a lot of dodge tool in PS to get them to gleam like this. I'm still waiting for his own urethanes, which are going to be silvery-beige. Actually, I'll be waiting for them until October, I think. So good that I can fake it with these acrylics XD Although now I think that I might have ordered just ordinary 18mm eyes, I got him the wide iris type, since I really liked the look on Yuffie. But Fenny's eyes are not nearly as wide as Yuf's, who is a bulgy-eyed little girl (but adorable at that!). Well, he'll just be very doe-eyed then :D

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This doll actually has so many good angles. If Volks does something very well, it's sculpting. I can take photos from full front, half profile, full profile (it just didn't suit the rest of these photos in mood), even slightly up-the-nose, like that first photo up there. It's an angle photographers are advised to avoid and let's face it, there are plenty of horrible up-the-nose shots out there, but it's not generally the only thing amiss in those photos. Flash doesn't help.

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and this is it for Phoenix for now! He's tipping his hat for you for a goodbye and a see-ya-later :)

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