Faceups Trying to recreate the old DoD face-ups, high res images wanted.

Hey, everyone! I finally, after years of pining, was able to get my hands on a couple of DoD's, and they came without faceups. I'd love to try and recreate the look of the old faceups, if I can, but with the disappearance of the company from the entire face of the internet, finding high-res images of them can be increasingly difficult. I know it's a long shot, since they're such older dolls, but would any of you out there still have any of your old DoD's, any of them, with their default company faceups? Most of the pictures I can find on the site are old enough that we were all taking them on our potato-phones, which were great at the time, but they don't really give the kind of resolution I'm hoping to be able to find, nor are there many that focus specifically on the details of the faces even when they are in higher resolutions! I've seen the old DoD faceups and database threads, but a lot of the images are either linked from photobucket, so pretty small, or have been deleted out of peoples' image galleries and aren't showing up anymore.

Thanks for any help, you guys. I can't wait to get these sweet little cuties all done up! I've been wanting DoD's for so long, so this was really a dream come true, especially finding a Too and Bee-A set being sold together!

 

They really are just so pretty! So simple, but really effective and lovely, and there's just something about them that has had me hooked on them since I first discovered the hobby in 2004!

I've definitely been scouring the wiki images for a while, now, especially after I knew I'd be able to get them, the images are just a little smaller than I was hoping to find if I really wanted to try and dig in and replicate the faces as closely as I could. I know it's probably a long shot at this point, and if I can't find any that are higher res than those, I'll just try and get them as close as I can. I have a few days before the rains pass enough for me to be able to paint them, though, so I figured it was worth a shot to ask around while I waited. X>

Your E-An is so pretty! Do you think her face was done all in pastels, or does it look airbrushed? And how detailed are the hairs in the eyelashes and eyebrows? Those are always the hardest for me to get perfect, and what I'm really hoping to get my eyeballs on more closely.

 

I hadn't taken a very close look at that one because I wasn't sure if it was a DoD or not, since they were trying to identify the doll, and the face-up looked pretty different from the original style DoD used, so I wasn't sure if that was one or not. It's definitely a well-done face, though, I'm just not familiar with the sculpt at all. It's absolutely possible that it was one of their later sculpts, though, from just before they disappeared. I know a few came out around that time that either evaporated from my brain or I never got a chance to see.

Thanks for the tip, I'll edit the title of the thread so it's easier to understand.

 

OMG, I know a lot of people have recommended other places, and thank you to everyone who did, but YOU, my friend, have given me a gift from the gods! They're not exactly the largest high res images, but what you've compiled is honestly amazing! There's more here than me and my gf were even able to find through the wayback machine! We tried to look through that, too, but even there, a lot of the pages were unavailable.

In general replies to everyone else, yeah, I've tried browsing a lot of the other forums here, but a lot of the time they come up with either no replies, photobucket has mashed the images into little piles of pixels, or the images have just been deleted from databases altogether and have left behind seas of red X's. And man, I'm kind of amused at how we all had such potato phones back in the day, but we thought the images they made were so great! And even when we did have digital cameras, knowing how to operate one properly took a bit of practice.

It's interesting to see that they really didn't even have much detail in the eyebrows and sometimes their eyelashes were faint. What I think I'm taking away from them the most is that they tended to have very small strips of "smokey eye" on the upper and lower lids, and that kind of helped hide the lack of detail in the eyelashes, they would use a lot of subtle blushing with bright colors so less was needed, and then they'd hit the eyelids and the lips with a blast of pearlescent powder and gloss to make them pop.

 

OMG, thank you for that! They're so pretty! And that really helps show the details! Man, the hard part is going to be getting the delicate, fine little lines for those eyebrows and eyelashes, but that image is great for showing more about how they did it! So it looks like they definitely did a tiny bit of blushing under the eyebrows in the same color as the "hairs," and most of the lines seem to be in a peachy color? Which stands to reason, if it's a peach faceup. I remember even back when they were still around, finding different images of the faceup styles was so hard!

DoD really was just so great, and I'll forever be upset that I wasn't able to afford to get them before they disappeared from the internet forever. Me and my @Korofel just spent hours going through that entire dropbox and being shocked at all the things we'd forgotten! XD There's such a wealth of info there, even just with images alone!