WITHdoll Mini Discussion Part 8

I had looked at the color comparison by withdoll, but it doesn't have honey brown in it, and two different brown tan. So it seems too old to help me decide.
I did also look for owner pictures on Instagram before coming to the thread, but a lot of the time people don't state which color they own.
I would love to see a honey brown and brown tan doll side by side, that would definitely be the best help to decide. A recent brown tan photographed to show how it looks in real would also be great to see if it's too dark for me.

 

In Withdoll's new color chart all the browns are shot together with the exception of the brown tan. The latter being together with the greys, but they have all been shot in the same conditions likely with manual camera settings, so it's very accurate. In my comment I was referring to that color comparison specifically, sorry I didn't make it more clear. I would not recommend a computer generated sample image. The reason colors often look redder in comparisons is because they've been shot next to colors that don't have as much red, so those tones come out. Yes, the doll might not look as red by itself but that's color theory again. For owner pictures to be helpful I feel like you really need the comparison next to it, because otherwise colors look wildly different. I used to have a lot of trouble explaining rosy brown to people because it can look purple, dark grey, pale grey, brownish etc. entirely depending on the lighting. Even in my photos, I have shoots where my girl looks very purple and others where she's dark grey -even wearing the same clothes, it's just the light that's different.

Being the person that took the comparison photos you linked, I can quite confidently say that the new color chart Withdoll took is quite accurate. I'd love to do an updated comparison of my own, but I don't have samples of the new colors, so that'll have to wait until I buy something from them and ask for samples. I do have a honey brown sample, but my brown tan samples are ooold. Like 10 years old, and the urethane brown is now paler than honey brown, and the UV resin version (which they don't sell anymore) is darker. I do, however, have some newer photos with honey brown from 2021 in my blog post towards the bottom, but it's not a good comparison with brown tan, because as I said, the brown samples I have are old. Would love to see more photos of that color in general.

I was referring to Withdoll's new color chart. It's on most of the listings and it's on their instagram here. That should be more helpful than the older comparisons.

I do also have a honey brown sample and I can take any photos of it (though we're in winter and it's dark indoors) but it's only feet, so a small piece, and I can't compare it to a new brown tan as my samples of that are 10 years old (they've improved their color mix since). I linked my blog post above, and it has a few comparisons with the honey brown, but you shouldn't use those to compare it to a new brown tan.

 

Wow, I have seen some of the pictures from your blog in Google search and they are so professional looking, I thought they must be by withdoll themselves.
Do I understand correctly that withdoll can give sample pieces of the resin colors? I thought about asking for samples of the rosy browns, so that would be amazing.

I would like my Ruby in a tan darker than Sooms tawny, around Ringdoll tan would be nice.
Maybe I should skip buying her and just get Kiara in blue (the second girl I am considering) and ask for tan samples. Seems like the limited girl's come back every now and then

 

Thank you, I just attempt to take them in as natural light as possible with a neutral background and that's it. Don't have fancy studio light equipment so that I could go down that route.

And yes, you can ask, but it's not guaranteed that they will have samples for you. I maaay be able to help with that comparison though. I don't have a Soom Tawny, but I do have a bronze, which is a shade darker (unless you happen to get one of those very light ones because soom is super notorious for their skin tones being all over the place, lol). That, and my Honey Brown are both from 2020 and they're almost the exact same color. Granted the honey brown has been in storage and the headback has been out -but not in direct sunlight, I don't think it's changed colors much yet as it is quite new:


(I mean, I also have another bronze head from Soom and it's way yellower than the first one and they weren't made that many months apart, so uhh, go Soom.)

In general I'd assume honey brown is darker than Soom tawny, but I know nothing about Ringdoll colors, so can't say about those. Asking for color samples is always an option but not a guarantee.

 

Personally I think my brown tan Olivia looks very close to the sample on your old comparison picture. She's definitely not as dark as the head on Withdoll's comparison picture.
But maybe the 2023 brown tan is darker than the one from 2022. I don't really know how much Withdoll's resin colors vary between years.



And here's a comparison picture together with some resins from other companies. But I don't know if you happen to have any of these.:

Spoiler: See resin comparison

Again it's really hard to photograph and the red untertones always get eaten (that happens with white resin as well btw). I tried to manually add some red to make it look more accurate.

 

Thank you for the comparison. I have heard about Soom not being good with color consistency My boy is from 2021.

 

Thank you so much. I do not own any of those tan colors sadly, just a little Monica normal which should (more or less) be the same as Luts normal.

The Luts rosy brown looks quite similar in color to Withdoll brown tan? Maybe I can find more pictures with dolls in that color to help me get a feeling for it

 

Yes Little Monica NS is very similar to Luts NS. I have both and they work very well for hybrids. Luts rosy brown is a lot more purple than Withdoll brown tan. In real life it looks most similar to BlueFairy baked skin but it photographs rather differently.

I think @Yenna 's comparison pictures are very accurate. At least for the brown tan from 2022. Maybe it's worth it to ask Withdoll how different the 2023 colors are compared to 2022.

 

Thank you, I will try ask withdoll about the possible color difference between 2022 and 2023.

 

Withdoll answered, the 2023 tan brown is a bit different they said.
They think it's a bit darker than 2022 and the mixture a bit different because of the fact it's a new mix.
Yeah, that's not helping with the decision between tan brown and honey brown

 

You could always blush honey brown to be slightly darker if it turns out to be lighter than you'd like. Are you planning to get your doll blank or with faceup?

 

With face up, since I love Rubys company face up.

 

I decided to order Ruby in honey brown, can't wait to get her.

 

I'm looking forward a lot to seeing what the 2023 resin colours look like in real life. I did have a brown tan UV Angela from the beginning 2014 but unfortunately I made the bad decision of selling her a few years back and have regretted that choice. So during this event I decided to do something about that and purchased a new brown tan Angela and a Normal skin Emma. It's going to be wonderful to see them when they arrive.

It's been quite long since I was looking for clothing for the Withdoll JWD body and I wonder if anyone has suggestions for clothing and shoe brands that fit well on the new body type?

 

Here's my withdoll hyrbid (vampire rachel on myou v2 body). Shes like a thiccer fashion scale bjd now on this size body lol. Want to darken up her lips a bit and make her some custom eyes that are the right size but otherwise im really happy with her! Anyone else have success with good withdoll mini hybrids?

 

That's a really good looking combination. I'm obsessed with vampire rachel right now, no idea how I'm ever gonna pick my first doll

 

With 10% off in the spring event and jwd Eve being available, I'm really tempted... Does anyone else happen to have an Eve they can post pics of to help me decide?

 

I got my Emma and Angela dolls today. I really should be happy about this but after seeing the dolls I am disapointed when comparing to what my old 2014 Angela looked like. The 2014 Angela had no visible seamlines on the tan skin and the skin color was really beautiful. The 2023 Angela in tan skin is a mess of seam lines (some badly pre-sanded leaving the resin in a different color) and while I do know the sales page states that there may be seamlines this is not at all the quality I expected.

 

That's sad to hear
I don't understand why they would sand a tan doll, it's known to leave a different color. Sounds like they found the seamlines too much themselves and wanted to remove some.
I would definitely be disappointed too.

My Ruby should ship soon, she is in one of the lighter tans, now I am afraid.

 

Do you have pictures? Where are the sanded bits? And was your original doll UV resin? Their seamlines were much less noticeable and sanding them didn't make much of a colour difference either so those dolls will be much smoother. All current dolls are urethane resin and it just behaves differently and nothing can really be done to prevent that. Dolls will have seamlines.

However, in my experience Withdoll's seams are very small compared to many other companies that feel like I could cut my finger on them. My newest grey girl has seamlines and some spots where the excess was sanded off (which is absolutely normal), but they're so small that I didn't bother smoothing them out myself. Which is saying a lot as I hate seams and usually sand all my dolls that can handle it. Her seams are exactly the same as my 2012 urethane rosy brown girl: they're there but not very bothersome. All tan urethane dolls will have these issues -depending on the company some gate marks are more obvious than others.