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I love this sculpt, I agree with sage about the lips, nice job can't wait to see her finished.

You want to take clear crisp pics. To take them indoors, use a more natural daylight bulb or you might get a yellow cast to your pics. Try putting the baby by a north-facing window. Take the pic with no shadow showing on the baby and you not casting a shadow by standing in between the light source and the baby. Also try with and without flash. Some cameras will wash out the subject if you use the flash too closely.

To take outside, make sure it's bright sunlight but do not put the doll in the sunshiine. Put it in some indirect sunlight so there are again, no shadows. Try it also in bright shade but not dark shade.

To work with a lightbox, take some white foam-board and make a semi box with 3 sides. Cut square windows in each of the sides. Then take a white sheet and drape over the sides. Put some lights on the outside of the box with the sheet over it and shine them directly in. Pose your subject carefully, put your camera on a tripod if possible, point, and shoot. Again, try it with and with out flash.

What I teach my students on AA baby lips is to make the outer rim darker and have the inner section lighter, using at least 2 colors of a lighter hue. Too solid a lip makes the baby look more like a doll and usually gives the AA's burgundy looking lips. If you want to leave them the way they are, you can just put in some highlight strokes with a lighter color. Darker in the lines and crevaces, lighter in the raised areas. :)

Hope this helps :)

-- Edited by Buffington on Monday 4th of October 2010 11:17:06 PM

If it's the Aleenes' paperglaze, it's kinda too late. but if it's Genesis, nope, you can still do it.
And she can still be considered an AA, just with the lighter skin. So she's still an AA then, especially with the lips that color. And of course she can still be a bi-racial too with the skin that color as they are all tones. so it's up to you what you call her. :)