Neon's A Doll A Day Challenge 2018

[Alliecat]

Dolls are great therapy for broken hearts in many cases, aren't they. I have never heard of this line of dolls. It was a nice gesture from your mom to cheer you up.

I'm actually using small flashlight, too, wrapped the same cloth I'm using for the 'swamp', but I haven't been able to make my phone cooperate - either it's all too dark or the lights get awfully over-eosed while everything else stays black....The thing is, I want the dolls to be only partially visible, and I have no idea how to achieve it

Try "light painting". This is lots of fun outdoors at night with long eosures; you use a flashlight to light only certain parts of the scene. It might work on a small scale... Make your set mostly dark, (can you do a long eosure?), and shine your flashlight briefly over the areas you want to be visible. If you have a small enough beam, and go fast enough, the unlit part of the doll might stay dark. You'll have to tinker with eosure times and the amount of light you use.