Any dolls based on book characters?

I have a favorite character, Jilly Coppercorn, from Charles De Lint's " Newford Stories", that I shelled as an iplehouse Leona, and then since I could not resist it, I also shelled her closest friend, fiddler Geordie Riddle as an Iplehouse Rex FID.

 

Not sure if it counts but I'm naming a doll I've been sculpting who is going to have a very cyberpunk theme after a William Gibson novel/character (Idoru). Aaaand I'm eventually going to make Indrid Cold (folklore).

 

I...feel like this is my thread right here, because the majority of my dolls are my versions of various book characters. Essentially, I felt the characters had some different directions left to go in, so...I took them in those directions.

I have a Dorian Gray, an Orlando, an A.J.Raffles, Artful Dodger, all four of the Musketeers, and various others, all of whom I tied into one massive storyline and play with both in doll and written form. It's become my happy place

 

Thanks!!! It's a long story. Its based around the idea that black matter is made by living things being creative, and because of that all stories and ideas are existing in space-time in a physical form! So basically magic and other things are made real by the people who believe in them! I'm going to open a kickstarter after I so some animations to advertise!

 

@Polardiepie I do, he's been with me since 2007. Here's a few pictures:
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I’d love to make a Tinker from Wen Spencer’s Elfhome series. But she would need to be a short (maybe an MSD?) tan skin elf style doll. I’d want her in a fancy, floaty fantasy dress, with jeans underneath.

 

I've never, repeat, NEVER read The Martian Chronicles, but it's on my bucket list. When I heard that Ray Bradbury pictured his Martians as being dark-skinned, golden-eyed, and red-headed I knew I wanted to make my own Bradbury-style Martian. She'll be my spin on Ylla, whom the second chapter of The Martian Chronicles focuses on. As for which doll, I need only to turn to Bobobie. One of their MSD girls has the perfect face.

 

Thanks He's SD, hybrid actually, a DIM Robel head on an old SDF1 body.

 

@rosalynmouse Oooh, I'd love to see a Sophie and Mona...also Tattersnake and probably Bones and his wife...yay another Newford fan.

In answer to the main question: yes and no, all my dolls with few exceptions are based on my stories, with the exception of Ramona, who's a little bit like Norah Stokes from The Sky Is Falling by Kit Pearson.

 

I don't know if it counts xD; but I am planning on preordering a Merry Doll Round Dango in cookie skin next month who is going to be a modern version/reincarnation of Scheherazade, the storyteller in one thousand and one nights.

 

Not shelled characters as such, but I have used favourite character's names as inspiration.
One of my favourite books has a character referred to as Wynter, but her actual name is Iseult and I named one of my dolls Isolde as a variant.

 

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who is or has made book character dolls. I'm planning to make Winter from the Lunar Chronicles, and have been looking at what will would fit the African face features, as well as dying techniques, and finally, scarring (as she has 3 major scars on her face under one eye running down to her jaw). I had wanted to make all the girls from the Lunar Chronicles, but I will need to do just one at a time.

 

If I had all the money in the world, all my dolls would end up based on book/TV characters. Multiple versions of Sherlock Holmes. A shabby little Columbo. The guys from the book I wrote. I have actually found the perfect head for one of 'em, but the body would set me back a mortgage payment.

I'm gonna need to sell another book so I can support this hobby.

 

God if I could, I totally would. Holly Black is an amazing author with some super cool characters that I really adore, and I would love to have a physical manifestation of them! Although, that doesn’t give as much freedom for personalities. I think it would still be really neat though!

 

I had such a revelation reading this because I keep looking K and thinking he reminds me of a character but I couldn't work out who. I basically read this and was like omg it's Kaz, of course it's Kaz. How could I not see it was Kaz.

 

I love Edgar Rice Burroughs's "John Carter of Mars" series. I got a doll based on Dejah Thoris, the lead heroine of the series (she's the Martian princess) and I created an original warrior character based on the Warlords of Mars. But I never got around to working on him so he has no faceup and he's not outfitted like the character should be. I want to get him tattooed or something cool some day.

 

OMG I looked up that doll and he looks exactly like Kaz! Or atleast how I imagined him to look. Although I also imagine him looking a smidge younger than the doll looks too, but that could be Kaz a few years after the series ends or something.

Does anyone have or know of people that have made Harry Potter character-themed BJDs? Even Hogwarts OCs would be awesome. I personally haven't done that but would love to see it.