Granado Tiny Doll Discussion II

I received a notice from Granado that they have sent the wrong head for my Bayou's faceup.
Instead of the closed-eye one that I wanted from the promo picture, they sent the open-eye face to the makeup artist.
They asked if I want the open-eye version instead.
But I found that there seemed to be different feeling from the closed-eye promo photo, the open-eye official photo, and the head they reserved for me.



I am not sure about whether it was because of the photo touch-up or the photo angles/lighting, or if there really are differences?
Could anyone please see and let me know?

Because at this moment, I wanted to insist for them to make the closed-eye head's faceup for me. This probably would take another year or so. On the other hand, I am not sure the result for a closed-eye head's faceup would actually be as good as the promo picture's....

 

I edited the eyes

 

I don't own any Granado sculpts (yet), but just by looking at the photos you shared, the main difference between all heads is the irises and overall eye size. They painted the eyes on the sculpted eyed head a lot smaller, with irises that are more human-proportioned, vs the eyes the opened eyed head sculpt has. Which appear to be a though larger than the actual eye opening on the sculpted eyed head. The eyes in the opened eyed head also have very large average-doll-eyed-sized iris. Perhaps getting eyes with smaller irises will help get a similar feeling to the sculpted eyes head sculpt, but even then, the eyes appear to be just larger than the sculpted eyed head sculpt. Hope that helps. (:

 

I have both heads. I'll try to compare them with your pictures later today. What color skin did you get? The painting actually looks quite similar.

 

Yeah, I agree--the eyes that are painted on the sealed-eye version are a bit smaller. But like Enzyme said, probably using eyes with a smaller iris will get you a lot closer to that feeling. The faceup itself, eyes aside, actually looks very, very similar to me--as similar as one can get when trying to hand-paint something, honestly! So it's definitely I think the eye size. I personally prefer inset eyes, but if you love the sealed eye version more and are willing to wait, then that's probably what you should do!

 

Does anyone happen to know what size eyes work best with these dolls? I know granado has 6.5mm eyes they sell, but I found a pair for 6mm I really liked off Etsy..but I don't know if it would be a tad too small?

 

I have 6mm eyes in all of mine! Specifically 6/2.5 or 6/2--the small iris makes a huge difference in how well they fit.

 

Thank you! And also for indicating the iris size too--the ones I want are 6/2!

If you don't mind, would you also be able to share some pictures of how the 6mm eyes look in your dolls?

 

I don't mind at all! Here's all 4 of my Granado dolls with the eyes they currently have in.

Spoiler: Pics under the cut!

These are the Granado eyes in my Bonnie, which I'm mostly including here for comparison.


Des has 6/2 Heart of a Fairy eyes


These are 6mm but may not be small iris... I actually don't remember, the person who made these doesn't make eyes anymore. I could check the iris size though.


And these are 6mm eyes from Dreamingtree, with the small iris size. Not sure of exact iris sizes on these either, but I think somewhere in the realm of 2-2.5mm. Again I'd have to get out the calipers to check, but I could.

Let me know if you want exact numbers for those last 2. I will note that both of those boys have relatively larger heads (by like, a very small proportion, but still) than any dolls to come out after them.

 

Always love seeing your Granados The dreamingtree eyes are so pretty!

 

I see, I see, so different iris' sizes would be the key

 

Yes, please do help compare!
I thought there was only 2 skin colours? I asked for the same skin colour as their promo picture.
Then when they sent me the photo I asked again about it as it looked like a different colour. They said it was the same colour, just under different lighting conditions.

 

I do prefer inset eyes too!

 

@Idoru OMG what great photos for comparison. Thank you for these photos, they looked so good.

 

Hi all!! So glad I found this thread! I recently got my tan Abel on a 31Vigor body and, as many people also stated, I'm SO DESPERATE for clothing and shoes!! I managed to find some cute sneakers on Etsy but I really wanted to go for more of a formal look. I'll keep looking through the thread for answers, but just wanted to ask in case anyone has any suggestions top of mind.

SO happy mature minis are gaining some traction!!!

 

First of all: congratulations! Second of all, with the Vigor body you're going to be in mildly dire straits, I regret to say. At least on the shoe front—unless the foot shape has been updated for the Vigor bodies, they have a lot of volume at the back of the heel that can make buying shoes a bit challenging. My usual first go-to is Black Ops Toys lately, but make sure what you're looking at says "foot type". Uniforms

For clothing, I've had pretty good luck with things that are stated to fit FR Homme--Clear Lan is good for this. Generally it's easier to work with things that are oversized or stretchy, since the measurements aren't too terribly off most of the time. I've made a few things myself, as well. The kicker with pants is, again, those dang heels. These are the two I can think of off the top of my head, but there's definitely more in this thread! Check the Mature Tiny discussion thread, too, I think some things don't necessarily get x-posted between them.

 

I just got my first Granado doll, does anyone know where in his box his eyes might be hiding? I’m not finding them anywhere….do they come with eyes?

also I’m cracking up, I never realized the hand holding “modesty” part wasn’t his own hand doing the holding!

 

None of the Granado tines I've bought came with eyes. Mine wear 6mms.

The "handy" part is a spare floating modesty hand, which is pretty odd.

 

They have an separate section for eyes, faceups, etc.