Does asymmetry in your doll's sculpt delight or bother you?

Asymmetry bothers me, but I can deal with it unless it's something "obvious". For example, I was in love with Souldoll's Gisele until I saw owner pictures of her. Her eyes were WAY too much for me.

 

Asymmetry doesn't bother me a whole lot. I see a lot of people's faces every day, and the natural range of human facial asymmetry goes from 'barely noticeable' to 'are you sure that's not two people under there?'. It's interesting in humans, and I think it makes the dolls more interesting, too. I can see why it would really bother a faceup artist, though; it must be hard to deal with making what amounts to two different half-faces look the same.

 

asymmetry doesn't really bother me normally, except when i'm doing a faceup. but then again, i'm not good at doing faceups, so the result of the faceup bothers me more than the asymmetry.

 

I don't have my first doll yet, but tiny differences usually tend to catch my eye. I guess all I'd end up doing is making sure it's not obvious. Either way I would love him/her!

 

As an artist and sculptor, symmetry I understand can be incredibly hard to attain. While I know this, in simultaneously increases my appreciation for symmetrical sculpts as well as increases my tolerance of asymmetry.

I do like my sculpts to be as symmetrical as possible, unless of course it's like a winking plate or something like that. If it's just a tiny fractional thing, I don't mind. But I believe it to be the quality of sculptor and their dedication to excellence if it is as symmetrical as possible.

 

Assymmetry delights me to an extent. A little bit of imperfection makes the doll feel all the more real, however, too much imperfection ( like one eye open, the other closed and winking) would annoy me very much. Perhaps its just because dolls cant change facial expression except with modding, but an imperfect assymmetrical expression that would be there forever would not make me a happy owner.

 

Real people are actually never symmetrical. That's why it never bothers me, and if it's something very obviously visible I think I'd rather accentuate it (raised eyebrow, one-sided smirk) than try to hide. Oh-so-human!

 

i notice it. it annoys me very much, so i mod it! 8D
i'm really perfectionnist. it takes me 10mintes just to put eyes xD

 

I say its fine, adds uniqueness

 

I'm with Sahoma. I'm kinda a perfectionist too, so it will really bugs me if my dolls has any asymmetricalness[is that a word? o____O] I'll probably try to ignore it cause I'm no modder.

 

I wouldn't mind them being asymmetrical, the human face isn't completely symmetrical and I think it would make the doll more unique and beautiful.

 

I have to agree with this. I think I am the minority here. What made dolls so appealing to me is the perfection they could have that humans could never have. To me dolls are dolls, and an escape from reality for me, so I don't need them to have imperfections that reminds me of the real world. But that's just me.

Edit: I am a perfectionist for something I am passionate about, and in this case, dolls.

 

Normally it doesn't bother me much, because, as plenty of people have already said, real people's faces aren't symmetrical either. But I find it can be frustrating when you do a face-up on an asymmetrical sculpt. I'm not a great face-up artist though, so maybe it's just me - and I do know that my own frustration goes away once I have got used to a new face-up .

 

I once had a BBB Tiah and that doll had one eye much higher on her face than the other, she looked like she was having a family guy level stroke >.< not attractive. Slightly asymetrical, or winking, or smirking are all fine but when it's extreme like the doll I had (caused by lack of sculpting ability) then definitely not.

 

I didn't notice anything really asymetrical about their faces. I do have a doll with one leg slightly longer than the other, though. And no, it's not due to bad stringing or wrong knee joints. It doesn't bother me that much.

 

Normally I think it would bother me, but in cases like the new Supia boys, I kind of love it. Again, it's usually very subtle or asymmetrical in a natural looking way.

 

if it is noticeable enough for me to notice it, then yes it will bother me.
I had an event head and the eyeholes were not at all the same size. it made it very difficult to position eyes ^^;

edits: oops I had already made a comment! (on the same page on top of that)

I agree completely with this!
dolls are dolls, and to me, they exist to reach a kind of perfection humans could not have.

and somehow, asymmetry is really not as noticeable on a real person as on a piece of plastic! maybe in part because humans' faces are always at least a tiny bit in movement (facial expressions)

 

Little differences don't usually bother me, those are the things that make them special, after all.

 

I pretty much hate symmetry. It has its uses, I'll give it that, but it bothers me. I find that small degrees of asymmetry give dolls more life since people aren't perfectly symmetrical anyway. It's also the reason I never measure when drawing/sculpting/doing face ups.

With faces especially, if they're too symmetrical it ends up falling into the uncanny valley range for me. It freaks me out and makes them look unreal. This is also the reason I'm a huge fan of side parted hair. Center parts bother me for the same reason (and it's great with dolls because it helps hide the excessive symmetry!)

 

It depends on the degree of Asymmetry. In most cases, I don't mind a subtle mismatch in my dolls' faces. Nothing in the world is truly perfect, and like others have said it can bring a bit of charm to a doll. &#9829; On the other hand, if a sculpt was so asymmetric that a faceup couldn't even hide it, then I would probably find it quite frustrating.