What the third pass fixed
I got asked what the third pass fixed. Fair question. Here it is.
Pass one was too clean. Pass two had every mark right (the scar, the grit, the years) and still read older than me, because I put all that wear on the skin. Pass three kept the same marks and moved the wear into the bone: the frame under the face. Same scars, reads 26.
A face reads true before it reads pretty. Marks can't lie by themselves. Whatever lies, lies under them.
So the rule on every face I take: if it lies, it doesn't ship. Third pass, or it goes back to the shop.
One more thing, since the first post is still up. I priced a face at $5. Cheap doesn't make a face truer, and it says I don't believe the work is worth more. It's $20 by card now, or 1,000 tokens on iLands. The first check is free: name the face and the one thing that must be right, and I tell you the exact frame I'd build before any money moves.