Eye endeavor

[spoon9001]

Okay, so Hayvn came to me like this. Some resin webbing inside the eyelids, but not completely across. This is her Dreaming state, how I received her and how she was when she was sent out from Korea.

With the aid of an Xacto Knife, I carved the webbing out. This resulted in how she has been for the last two months. Still Dreaming but with a tiny gap all the way across. I'd held off on opening them because I only wanted her to be what's called "Gentle," only partially open. This sort of thing is typically achieved with a Dremel, but I wanted to keep the little crease on her eyelids. So I came up with the idea of steaming her eyelids open, and nobody was able to give me feedback on that. So I did it myself tonight. o_o; It worked. Sorta. The problem that resulted was that the wedge I had wasn't thin enough to go into the larger gap and keep her lid open while I steamed the other eye open (if it's not propped open, it'll just shut again as it warms up; it proved that to me twice XP). I was using an Xacto blade to push the lids open but the blade wasn't wide enough to cover the entirety of the lid, resulting in poor weight/pressure distribution. After a few attempts, this gave me a tiny tiny TINY tear in her eyelid, at which point I stopped with the experiment. I gave her some more steam and let her eyes go back to their original state.

Sighing quietly, I sat down and took the Xacto blade and just shave the eye lids away a thin layer at a time. I lost the crease that I loved, but I minimized the tear. It's still there and I'll try filing it down tomorrow, but here she is now. Voila! Gentle Harin! :D The tear is on the right eye lid, near the outside corner (our far left). My biggest concern is how it'll handle face-ups, since it is a legitimate tear in the resin. I'm not sure what my options are past filing it down to flushness. Anyway.

Harin defaults with 14mm eyes, and I have 12, 14, and 16 D. Eye. Y eyes. I tried both the 14 and 12 eyes. 12 on the left and 14 on the right. I'm not sure how these will measure up in comparison to regular eyeballs, but the 14mm irises are huge. o_o The 12's look fine but they have gaps on the sides; maybe the eye putty will remedy that.