My Avatar like RL

[Viviana Baguier]

Boring to be a barbie, I'm trying to look like myself, I'm a middle aged woman, do you think, Did I make a good work? some suggestions?

 

[Viviana Baguier]

I have 2 skins, which is better? I use photoshop to match skin color, thank you.

 

[Raven1 Short]

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Viviana Baguier wrote:

I have 2 skins, which is better? I use photoshop to match skin color, thank you.

 

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I like the bottom. You did a really good job making you look like you.

[Peggy Paperdoll]

The bottom image is the best in my opinion.  Mostly because you somehow managed to cover the texture problem on the neck line in the bottom image plus the overall skin is softened to look more natural..........that could be the lighting settings you used for each picture (if they were the same then you did something to fix the skin problem.....if not then use that lighting setting all the time).

I got to say you have done better on a look alike skin/shape combo than many (most, actually) of the well known pro skinners in SL........you know those celebrity look alikes that don't look alike? 

Good job.

[Viviana Baguier]

Thank you, the top one is like 50 or 60 years ols, but in the pic can't see the wrinkles and expression lines, the bottom one is like 40 years. I think I'm gonna use both skins off and on.

 

Sorry for my english,

[Haruka Catteneo]

! i love the bottom one too except the nose but it looks so great~

Job well done Viv ^^

[Juicy Littlething]

You look great! Good job in the skin

[Penny Patton]

Looks fantastic so far!

 

If you want to more closely match your real world self you'll want to look closely at facial structure and body proportions.

 I notice right off from the top screenshot and photo that your avatar has a much smaller head than your real world self (SL avatar heads tend to be too small) and you'll also want to maybe take a look at arm and leg length. Leg length should be slightly less than half your overall height, give or take a couple inches. Most people have a total arm length (when measured fingertip to fingertip with arms outstretched to either side) that is equal to their height.

If you have trouble eye-balling these proportions, you can always use prims to compare, like stretching out out to your height, then making a half-size version and see if that's about the length of your legs.

 

I'd also probably spend a bit of time trying to match your RL eye shape. You have very pretty eyes in your photo, you should try to match that in your avatar. Make them a bit more narrow and lower the inner eye corner a bit.

[Melita Magic]

I'd say make your mouth just a tiny bit wider and top lip a tiny bit thinner, too, if you want to look more like your photo. And your av is younger than you, so if you want to look older, maybe age the avatar skin accordingly but that is up to you. It isn't like most of us are xeroxes of our RL selves.

[Persephone Emerald]

Wow! You've done an awesome job of matching your avatar to your RL look.

Now, if you upload these RL pictures to SL, you can look at them to adjust your face a bit more. Getting the match close to perfect is very difficult, so take your time. I don't suggest trying to match your RL body shape too closely, becaues SL clothing favors a tall, thin body that isn't realistic for 90% of real women.

I've found that if one makes an avatar with a realistic height, then a 50 head size looks ok, but if you go for a normal SL height, then you need to enlarge your head slightly. Also, I think arm length needs to be around 80 to look realistic.Look at where your hands fall in relation to your hips in a mirror to get the right proportion.

I've read that Redgrave skins look a little more mature than most good skins do, so you might want to look at their demos to see if they have any you like. I've had the same Redgrave skin for years for my main avatar, which I've tried to make look something like my RL self, & I've been very happy with it. (For my alts, I've used nice, free or inexpensive skins for the most part.)

[Viviana Baguier]

Yes, the skin are for mature woman, the first one is about 50 to  60 years old, the second one is for 40 years old, the skins are very good, but it can be apreciate it because the quality of the photos, but inworld the skins looks very realistic and closer to my age  

[Viviana Baguier]

Yes, mi head is smaller, because is the same of my thin shape, I dind't make bigger because of the hairs, eye lashes, well i'm gonna make it bigger.  

[Melita Magic]

If you are happy that's all that counts. I was being picky since it seemed that was what you had asked us to do. 

Both your photos show a beautiful woman, for what it's worth.