Marlowe's Memoirs of Second Life: May 2006

Sunday, May 28, 2006

The People's Brow Finale

So here is my fine skin. LMAO...

I'll note the brow settings in a future edit, I need to get these posted and vacate the PC so my son can do what he needs to do here. Keep watching.

For a hint one is set the same as all the others. 0/0/0/50/50/50 and for the rest, all the first three settings are 0 with the last three being the only ones listed.
One of them was set to 100/100/100, one to 75/25/35, one to 0/0/0 and another that I'll to have to log in and wear to remember.

So, tell me Creator's of skins, I am really wanting to learn...I am of the opinion that the scribbles I placed are in the right place with the most freedom of movement. But many of the skins I am wearing further down the blogposts don't give me that kind of variety. I know faces are different shapes and all that may affect it, I am just wondering if there might be a universal placement for eyebrows that work best on all faces. Discuss...

And one more thing to consider when drawing your brows, when shaping your brow (RL) hold a pencil beside your nostril and follow the line of the pencil that touches your nostril to line up with the inner corner of your eye. Where the line hits your brow is where the brow should begin. Do the same at the outer corner, holding the pencil against your nostril, follow the line to the outer corner and beyond to see where the brow should end. Of course...every face is different and that's why we try the demo's on...so I guess I'll just keep buying skins and finding ones that fit the way I want them to.

Keep making those lovely skins!!!

The People's Brow

I'll admit it, I'm a skin whore...trying desperately to keep up with Willow Zander, I've bought my fair share of skins, been given quite a few from dear friends who create them and checked out a million demos for skins I've yet to purchase. I love the way you can look like an entirely different person just by changing skins, and I love the skins that make my SL av look most like my RL av. :) I also love the skins that maintain the features I've given my avatar. So, basically, I love skins. :)

I know creators of items in SL create what they like, and I fully support that, it's that diversity that makes the wares in SL so fun to shop for! I can try on different looks that I would NEVER wear in RL, due to work/society/figure constraints and play in them, I can find things I would wear in RL, and I can be a total fantasy character like a faerie or a dragon or a tiny critter or even my favorite Penguin - Feathers McGraw.

But let's talk about eyebrows. I notice that for every skin I buy, I have to create a different bald wig and adjust the eyebrows...ok, that's cool...but some can't be adjusted much and I'm not sure if it's because the brows were created to fit the creator's avatar or if the placement isn't right, sooooo

I experimented. I made a bald wig with eyebrows set at 0/0/0/50/50/50 to get the absolute middle setting for a brow. Then I took pics of each of the maker’s skins I have and I'll post them here without naming them, you who wear skins will know them anyway. Then I created (this is where is becomes HILARIOUS) my own face skin, I used Chip Midnight's Template to create it, and I drew the brows just a bit higher than is recommended on Robin Sojourner's Template. (If anyone wants a copy of the jpg to see where I placed the brows, just IM me, I'll make it downloadable.)

After I wore the face I created, I took a pic of it set the same as the others, but then I wanted to show the variety of movement one gets with brows created at this range. I'll tell you what settings as I go along...