Eye Alignment and Human Expressions

This was SUPER helpful as well as funny! Thanks so much for the advice! I will defiantly apply this

 

I enjoyed the tutorial. It made me exam the eyes of my dolls to see if the placement was correct. I feel that more confident about placing eyes.

 

Great tutorial, eye placement makes a huge difference.

 

This is a such a wonderful and helpful explanation! Honestly, I had never thought about the reasoning behind the eyes' positioning, it makes complete sense! Thanks for the information, and help.

 

I'm reading this now for probably the third time over a few years. Such a helpful tutorial. Thank you!

 

Its amazing just how much eye position can make or break the whole look/demeanor of your doll. I'm not even close to kiddin, I nearly ran away from the computer when the murderous photo happened

 

I never knew this! I'll deff keep it as reference now for my dolls, as well as drawing

 

This is so useful!!!! Immediately gives my doll more character!! THANK YOU

 

THank you this was really helpful I had no idea how to do this and my doll just wasn't looking right to me (Srry for pun) I got it after the second try! Thank you!

 

These are awesome pointers Rosslyn, everyone should read this

 

I found this really helpful... thanks!

I also wonder about tips for setting the eye back from the socket, because when my girl arrived her eyes were really sunk back but i prefer them closer to her eyelids... I don't know which is considered more realistic

 

I always wondered why some dolls looked a bit funny. I guess it really is all in the eyes. Thanks for all the tips! Now that I know the eyes are one of the most important features, which eyes do you prefer for a more realistic lookl? Glass, acrylic ect.

 

hehe this is a fun tutorial

 

Ah! Very nicely done. Thank you for clarifying these different aspects ^^

 

Thanks! I just looked at the Soom eyes and oh my! They are beautiful. Is it the double dome or the single dome that tracks?

 

Thank you so much Rosslyn for taking time to explain all this to a "newbie". I really appreciate your advice!

 

wow this is a great tip, thank you so much. I'm looking forward to photographing my girl when she arrives and this helps so much.

 

Great tutorial, I don't want my dolls to look "murderous "! Thanks

 

Great tip and explanation

 

Hi, I'm a bjd dolly newbie and I just want to say thank you, this clears up one very important aspect of bjd customization!

 

Excellent tutorial, it will helping me to improve on my dolls photo shoot. Thank you

 

Great tips. Thanks!

 

Thanks for the tutorial and tips! Stella's a cutie even when she's looking murderous or psychotic XD

 

thank you, great tips.

 

Thank you so much! This is super helpful!!

 

I've been here a while and this is the first time that I actually see this tutorial. I usually just wing it when aligning my doll's eyes. I keep turning and twisting them until they look natural (enough), I never really searched for a logic behind the whole eye thing. But low and behold, here it is! Thank you very much for pointing out the obvious that I failed to see. I'll be sure to use your tutorial when I obtain new eyes for my girl.

Do you have any tips for sculpts that have sleepy or droopy eyes? I assume it's the same principle but I'd rather ask more experienced dolly owners.

 

Great Graphics! Thanks a lot for this tutorial. The comment section is also worthy of looking at as well

 

Nice tutorial. *runs off to check dolls' eyes*

 

This was so, so helpful, thank you!! I'm reading and doing it as we speak ^^

 

Thanks for sharing your enlightening info! The eyes are the windows to the soul and it can sometimes be hard to get the look right! Definitely bookmarking this for quick reference!

 

This is a very well made tutorial! Thanks a million!

 

Some really useful tips! Thanks a bunch

 

This was super helpful. I'd love to try different things in a photostory !

 

This was a really great tutorial. My doll always looks like her eyes are going off in different places. Lol. I will definetly try this out!

 

Thanks for this great tutorial, it's really helpful.

 

lol, im so glad i found this tutorial because my doll looks like she's going to slay me anytime now hahaha! thanks for this! awesome! trying now!

 

Nice tutorial very useful !

 

Thank you so much for your time to share this. insightful explanations.

 

Ahhh this is helpful even as I've always placed the eyes this way (a whole lot upper behind the eyelids for it's actually my personal interest), but most people don't notice this and like you said it makes the dolls become creepy somehow. I definitely need to show my friends this tutorial. Thank you.

 

I laughed pretty hard at the "murderous" look, mostly because I find myself doing that when I'm about to scold my friends haha. This tutorial is definitely helpful and informative since it gives the "why" we move the eyes a certain way.

One thing I noticed someone else do with their dolls was that they placed the eyes so they almost appeared cross-eyed. I thought it was fascinating since the owner clearly had a good eye for realistic photo shots, and the more I stared at the doll, the more it seemed to actually have a focused look. It seemed like the owner purposely placed the dolls eyes like that in the chance that should you stand in a certain spot in front of the doll, the dolls line of view intersected and focused on you. But other from that spot, the doll seemed to be endearingly cross-eyed.

 

I'll have to try moving the eyes around in my dolls when I finally get the chance to place them it. It should be fun making them have strange expressions with just their eyes!

 

Thank you for this thread! the "murder eyes" tip has solved a LOT of problems for one of my dolls now, oh my gosh XD

 

Thank you! It was very helpful! Now I know why dolls with a pupil under the upper eyelids give me creeps.

 

Great tips, thanks

 

I'm like 2.5 years into the hobby now and this is STILL my biggest struggle, I haven't even started playing with side-eye or anything other than just trying to get a straight-ahead, non-murderous, non-wall-eyed look in all my dolls. For a long time I'd just wait til I was at a meet and make other people position them for me xD

I'd love to eventually see a tutorial on other eye positions =D

 

This is a really helpful tutorial! While my dolls now have less creepy expressions,I'm having trouble not making them cross-eyed! Would it be possible to do a quicky tutorial on focusing the dolls eyes?

UPDATE:
Yesterday I was trying to get the eyes right in my sister's peaks woods girl... But her iris is too big to not tough both top and bottom eyelid! She still looks pretty startled... but I guess it's less manic than she was...

 

Thank you so much for all this help. I have my first BJD and the thing that i struggle with is eye placement. by the time i push them in the back it's hard to get that perfect setting. Sometimes she looks like she is scared! I want that dreamy look.

 

Thanks for this! Very helpful for my first doll