Making resin eyes for DD

Sweet, will you be selling any?

Thanks guys! Glad it's helpful

 

Sweet, will you be selling any?

Probably if I can get the quality more consistent, there are still some tiny bubbles in most of them.

jadepixel, they look great! I like seeing your pics showing the process, too. The glass stones look like they work really well for the molds.

 

The oval green pair is my favorite, but they all turned out really pretty. Hope to see some in person soon!

 

Linda S.

galatia9

Sweet, will you be selling any?

Probably if I can get the quality more consistent, there are still some tiny bubbles in most of them.

 

Would you accept custom designs as long as they were the proper size? I have something specific I want for Kiyoteru's eyes, and Naiomi needs some really good green ones, but I can't seem to find the time to start yet another project. I have another eventual girl who will be an 04 who needs some really specific eyes because she's going to be a DDdy version of my favorite Barbie as a kid. I could easily save the designs as JPG, PNG, Tiff, or as a vector (I use Adobe Illustrator) if that would make a difference. I really love how the resin eyes don't have the arbitrary circle line around them that the plastic ones do. Sometimes it just drives me nuts.

 

I figured it wouldn't hurt to ask.

 

~Sister Kyoya

I really love how the resin eyes don't have the arbitrary circle line around them that the plastic ones do. Sometimes it just drives me nuts.

Yeah, I hate that too. Makes the eyes look less clear and focused.

 

Linda S.

galatia9

Thanks! I can definitely offer custom designs once I get the process perfected. I've got a PSD template that I'm using for most of mine, which I can share when I get a chance.

I love your resin eyes

 

I want to try making it with resin too but I don't have the example of eyes that I can do on silicon what did you used for it? and what size?

 

Thank yous

Thank you for posting this!! I want to have a go at customizing my own DD.

And would love to try making my own Resin eyes.

I fell in love with Beatrice style eyes. but i need them to be brighter blue. It's bad when you can't find exactly what you want >.<

I love your resin eyes! So thankful you posted this. I've been looking for more deep brown eyes but alas it seems that isn't a popular colour.

I've been working on more custom designs lately. Any favorites? I'm also curious which colors, styles or characters folks might be interested in getting

 

7 styles in jade green

I really like 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7!! Really pretty designs and I love the color. Green eyes are awesome. -actually has green eyes IRL- ^__^

Ooh pretty! I like 2 and 5! :>

1 is my personal favorite Beautiful work!!

Pretty. I like 2, 3, 4, and 5, though I particularly like the shade of green in 3.

Lately I've been wanting eyes that have less detail in them like this:

 

I only seem to see eyes like that in custom DDs on YJ and Flickr, but not just for sale (or I don't know where to look maybe)

Thanks guys! That's great feedback.

I like those custom eyes Yukamina, they don't have a lot of lines in them, more of a watercolor texture. I'll have to try something like that, too

I think #1 & #6 would be the ones I like best, but they all look awesome. Superb job! Seeing so many great colors of green reminded me of these eyes:

 

 

These are hands down the ones I originally wanted for Naiomi, but the ones I have for her now are the nearest I could find. I have never been happy with the wimpy green that Volks used. Naiomi's eyes are very hard to replace because the way her faceup was done, it is really dependent on having a lot of black in the upper part of the eyes. I really wanted her to have very green eyes and the ones she has just aren't. If you were able to make these I'd buy them in a heartbeat.

 

~Sister Kyoya

I've been working on more custom designs lately. Any favorites? I'm also curious which colors, styles or characters folks might be interested in getting

 

7 styles in jade green

 

 

I love 1, 4 and 6!

Such a hard decision because all of those designs look great! For my top three I'd have to pick #2, #4, & #6 because they appeal to me the most, but all of the designs are great for different personalities

I like 2 4 and 5!

I really like 1 & 4

 

I'd also love eyes with small pupils like the ones Nekopon's pretty girl has.

Winter Breeze Set by Miss Nekopon, on Flickr

I like 1; 5

I so and so like 6

I LOVE 2, i would be thrilled to have this style in various colors!!

jadepixel, I love all your eye designs!! I'd be happy to have any of them. And they look stunning in your dolls, so vivid. I'm drawn slightly more to 1, 2, 3 and 5, but that is because I generally prefer a darker pupil. I like larger pupils in most of my dolls, especially girls.

 

I am SO bad at choosing eye colors! Not that I make bad choices, but I never know what colors I want to buy. I end up getting the right eyes in most of my dolls by trial and error, not by conscious choice! If I actually CHOSE what I liked and not what looks best in my dolls, they would all have brown, green or hazel eyes!

 

Linda S.

galatia9

I know what you mean Linda, I always have to try a bunch to figure out what looks right. I like the dark eyes myself

 

Had to pack up my arts/crafts stuff for some remodeling, but I hope to get back to working on these soon. Got a lot of great feedback, and some ideas for another trick to try!

I'm looking forward to seeing what the next batch looks like.

 

~Sister Kyoya