Supia Girls Discussion Thread Part IX

I don't have any other dolls to photograph him with- he was my first! He also has their brand new normal skin tone (peach), so I think that might be helpful for others, too. I'm just so rotten at photography. I have to do some reading on how to get the colors accurate.

Its cold here now, so I probably have months before I can do a faceup anyway. There's no rush.

I wonder if I asked Supia to recommend eye sizes? The DoA users that have dolls seem to be from long ago, so I don't know how active they still are.

I might be able to post or ask around on the internetz somewhere. She won't ship for months, so there's no rush there either, you know?

 

Hello

My Supia Lina's currently wearing 16mm small iris eyes from Safrin Doll. Here are a couple photos of her with them:

Spoiler: Supia Lina image 2

Hope this helps!

 

I like to look at the doll profiles on DoA to find examples of different eye sizes for a sculpt because people often list them there. I see a few Linas with 12mm eyes and one with 14mm listed. Honestly, I've found that the company sites almost universally list an eye size that is too large, at least for my taste.

 

Thanks for these pics! She's so pretty! My boy, Jacob, was done with small irises and I think I will probably do hers the same. Can I see a closeup of the detail in the eye itself? I need a darker, almost hunter green, but these are lovely.

Can I search by sculpt? I was digging through some sub sections of the forum, but I haven't quite figured out this navigation thing yet.

 

Glad the photos were helpful.

I snapped a quick photo with my smartphone cam of a closeup on my Lina. Hopefully the details were be clear enough for you (the irises have a slightly darker green ring around the edge of the iris, a slightly lighter shade in the middle, and a brownish ring around the pupil).

Also, if you need to see her with different eye sizes, I can grab some quick photos for reference for you.

 

Oh my goodness, that would be so helpful!

Thanks SO MUCH!

My pair of blue eyes has a grey ring around the iris. I'm wondering what color they would choose to go with that darker green. I left that up to the artist because I have no idea what I'm doing, and I'm generally happy with whatever I'm given, you know?

I actually wonder if she has different size eyes in some of the pictures on the Supia website. I was looking through Supia's Photobucket album and there's another set that also looks different. The website just said that it would come with 16mm eyes, so I was afraid to deviate and have it be wrong. Custom eyes aren't cheap, and my superpower is being an overthinker and super agonizer.

 

Yes, in the Doll Profiles section (under "Community") you can do a custom search by Maker and Head Sculpt. It's a really nice resource! I never remember to try adding my dolls though...

Also I love the green hair on your girl jade-eyed-cat!

 

I managed to get some photos of Lina with a few pairs of eyes in a variety of size and irises. Below is a reference photo of the eyes on their own:

From left to right: blue 14/5mm iris, hazel blue 14/7mm iris, violet 12/6mm iris, green and brown (original pair) 16/8mm iris.

The photos of each pair will be under the spoiler tag:

Spoiler: Lina with various eyes

(Don't mind the awkward angling of the irises. They were giving me a bit of a time.

With the 14mm, there's some slight gapping. For the 12mm ones it's more obvious. It appears that the 16mm fit most flush to the eye-hole, but 14mm might be workable depending how picky you are about fit.

Thanks!

 

That really is very helpful! Thank you! So 16 is the best choice, overall. I just have to decide on what reference photos to send the artist. Time for my overthinking superpower to kick in!

I don't know how you got those in so easy! It takes burnt sacrifice for me to even attempt to get the eyes in a good placement on Jacob. I would imagine a lot of it is just practice though.

 

Glad to hear the photos were helpful. As for expedient eye changes—it could be from practice. I do also create a ring of poster tack round the back edge at the base of the eye, press the tack against the outer rims once placed in the eye socket, and guide the eyes into the proper position with my finger on the exposed eye backing. I’ve had the best luck with with white sticky poster tack for this.

 

Is anyone able to compare the light tan and the original tan with the current beige and milk brown skin tones? I like the promo photos with the tans and want to order a doll that will come out similar, but I don't know what will be the closest match.

 

I have a few photos that I was sent by Supia themselves, comparing a few different skintones. It may not have all of the ones you're looking for, but it should have at least a couple. I will dig for them when I get home tonight, as they're deeply wedged in my email.

 

thanks!

 

Okay, let's see if I get this posting images thing right!

Spoiler

This is what Supia said regarding the skin tones that I had asked about.

I really hope that helps a little.

 

I'll try to find some different eyes and pop them in my lina!

 

There's a supiadoll boy doll discussion thread floating around somewhere. c: That'd probably be a good place! /edit - whoops sorry -- I don't know how I missed the responses to this, haha.

 

/edit - lol sorry I didn't realize someone had already responded, but more lina eye pics I guess, haha.

16mm is what I think fits the eye well the best (smaller sizes may have gapping, larger sizes may not sit within the eye well), but the actual size of the iris/pupil is just what you prefer. I personally prefer lina with 14mm eyes but I like smaller eyes in general.

Lina with 12mm eyes - There's significant gapping. If someone wanted 12mm you might want to look for those wide style eye shapes. The ones here are standard:


Lina with 14mm eyes - I was trying to get a picture where you could see the pupil difference, the brown has a smaller pupil, but I'm not sure you can tell...:


Lina with 14mm eyes and black sclera:


Lina with 16mm eyes:

 

Thank you very, very much for this. I'm definitely going to go with the 16mm. I did small iris on my boy, and I'm going to do it for my girl. I noticed that they had different sizes of iris in the 16mm, so I just have to navigate that chasm, I guess.

 

I'm really digging her green hair

I'm looking for jointed hands for my (2019) NS supia. Specifically eyeing heydoll. Does anyone know whether yellow or pink would be closest?

 

I don't own anything from Heydoll, but if you don't find an answer here, a dealer (I think cloversinging is a dealer for them) might have experience with supiadoll resin colors and could give you an answer?