Do all your dolls "go together?"

I just buy the sculpts that I like so some of them look good together and some are obviously very different. It only matters for the ones I want to display together and not so much for the overall group.

 

I am kinda boring. And so is my crew. They are all in the same scale (1:2.5) and rather realistic. All part of the same universe.

 

I've intentionally limited my collection to dolls that are in the same scale and aesthetically similar to each other. I've skipped out on dolls that I really liked, because they wouldn't match my current crew. Since they're all part of the same story, it's important for me that no one looks out of place.

 

For the most part, most of my dolls are in scale: 60cm SDs, immature MSD, and YO sized. There are a handful of exceptions, but they are all anthros, so who is to say if they are in scale or not.

 

I only have SDs I think I tend to go for dolls on the realistic side: Dollshe, Iplehouse... saying that I am ridiculously in love with Soom so I feel like for my dolls fantasy and reality most often overlap.

 

No, they don't really go together. I have 70cm SD dolls and tiny animal dolls. I am currently more interested in tiny dolls, so probably not going to buy much bigger dolls anymore. I used buy only SD dolls before, but recently I realized the smaller dolls are more my style. They have different stories and "universes", so it's fine that the dolls don't "match".

 

Mine are all tiny sized. I'll have three the size of yosd and one pukipuki. And the pukipuki I wanted to come up to their knees. Mostly it's a size preferance.
Aestheticly their all over the map. I've got a volks Rinon, a soom Alk(bird baby), a pukisha(cat puki), and soon Batchix mini machina(robot girl). They'll all go together size wise, other wise they're all pretty differnet from each other.
It's more fun to play with looks and time periods! My Rinon is currently a witch, my Alk is greek/roman inspired, my puki is The Baron from The Cat Returns, and my robot will be kit kat themed.
To each their own, I love looking at dolls that are all similarly themed. But I'm too scattered to have a uniform look lol

 

My dolls are all over the board in style and looks. I like what I like and they often don't match. Although I do have a sore spot for dolls with sad expressions with a few on the wish list having similar key features. As for my current collection, I'm phasing out of my little dolls and moving more towards big dolls that fit what I enjoy better. Its crazy to think about how your collection is an extension of yourself, what does are collection truly show about us? That I'm not sure of.

 

While there’s a lot of different sculpts that I think would be super neat to have, it would absolutely drive me UP the wall if all my dolls didn’t match. Organization and consistency are two things that keep me sane and having a cluster of dolls that didn’t match might actually drive me nuts. It’s a good thing that I’ve got a good and consistent sense of what features I like on a face. It also helps that all of the dolls I end up being drawn to are about 63-73 cm in the first place. ...doesn’t help my wallet so much but my sense of aesthetics are satisfied at least.

 

My dolls range between 62cm -70cm, and are a realistic style, as they represent OC's of mine that reside in the same world.

I used to have more variety in doll styling in my previous doll collections, but no more. Due to space and funding constraints, I find it best to keep my crew relatively sparse and "matching" stylistically.

 

I use to buy molds that I like. Often, they are by the same doll maker. So most of my dolls look great together.

 

I have 3 broad groups. My medieval fantasy lot who i'm pretty much done with now are all aesthetically in keeping with one another and the majority are the same company's sculpts for cohesion. There are two yosd dolls and 1 sd but the rest are MSD. This is explained in universe though. The sd doll is a giantkin and the two yosd are a gnome and a halfling.

The second group is my macabre monster circus group where I decided scale could bite me and i'd have all scales together because screw it, they're monsters lol.
I have no real aesthetic for the DOLLS in that group beyond their styling tying them together as the whole group is intentionally supposed to look a bit hodgepodge. The only real stipulation there is they should all look in some way inhuman. Right now they have a spider person, a bird man, a dark elf, an antlered woman, a pumpkinhead, some sort of strange horned alien creature and poor Leif who's the lone human of the crew hahah.

And my final group currently consists of ONE doll. He's my traditional style bjd (he's a blue fairy) and supposed to wear modern clothing to scratch that itch.
I intend to get him a couple of companions at some point who match aesthetically so will likely be either more blue fairys or Luts or something similar.

Now that said, I do have sculpts I LOVE but I know wouldn't fit regardless. Small cute animals just don't fit anything I have going on and I know i'd rather spend the money on a doll that inspired me to create a character and continue world building. As my crew expands i'm trying to be stricter about what I do and do not allow myself to fall in love with.

Right now the rule is "you must have an idea for what you'll do with this doll before you can buy it"
In terms of the circus, that means I need to know what role they'll play. Are they a ringmaster? A tumbler? A clown?
If I can't answer that question then the doll goes to the bottom of my wishlist.

I tend to drift in my interests so having little groups that fit together works best for me rather than one huge cohesive group.

 

I don't think a single one of my dolls matches another, even the two from the same company : p Currently, on the same shelf, I have two 1/4 girls sitting next to each other, one a relatively stylized souldoll girl with "demon" eyes, painted similarly to my dragon. Next to her is a very realistically proportioned Iplehouse FID, who currently has no face up. That about sums up my taste in dolls, really.

 

Nope! I have a bunch of different aesthetics and sizes, and the sizes don’t represent certain ages (SDs adult, MSDs teens, etc.), so they’re just all over the place. They don’t work together proportionally either, like...Lacey is a bit more realistically proportioned, while Ilya sort of has a big head and wide hips. If I was going to take pictures of dolls together, like if they were in the same story or something, then I’d probably try a bit harder to get them to match, but otherwise I just get what I like.

 

I typically stick to MSDs out of personal preference, and I like the idea of my dolls being able to interact on a more uh... natural level, I guess? So yeah, they all kind of go together in a sense. I've definitely been tempted by a few SDs for a particular character who doesn't really go with the normal crew, though, so... ~

 

Yes. I choose all my BJDs to look good with my first one, a Volks SD13 Link. At first, it wasn't a conscious decision, but as newer types of BJDs became available, it became one. I prefer anime style, less realistic dolls. My doll world is also 1/3 scale. The teens and adults range from 57-80cm, but I do have three little boys at around 43cm.

Occasionally I am tempted by a doll out of my preferred style or size, but so far I have been able to talk myself out of them. I know they won't fit in my doll universe.

I do have a small herd of Dollfie Dreams and DD hybrids, but they live in their own world. They could possibly cross over, though. They wouldn't look too out of place.

Linda S.
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My crew is pretty diverse these days... But my one-and-only, hard-and-fast rule for the collection has ALWAYS been that the dolls who were meant to 'go together' (That is to say, dolls I intended to photograph or display together... partners, family members, groups of friends and co-workers... Members of the same "cast" of characters, in other words-) absolutely have to match each other in scale and sculptural style. They don't necessarily all have to come from the same company or sculptor, and the various "casts" do NOT have to match any of the other groups, but they do have to have internal consistency. Members of the same cast need to look like they belong in the same world.

In practical terms, that's often meant that the members of any particular group within the collection DO all tend to come from the same company, but it's not universal. Gaia and Fate, for instance, are a couple. But one is an old Cerberus Project Delf (an Elf Lishe) and the other is an older Iple sculpt (a Cocori). It just depends on the individual sculpts involved and how they look side by side.

 

No. I used to care about that. Now I don't I just have them displayed in different areas. Also sometimes tiny ones look cute with SD size :-) oddities can be interesting depends on the dolls though. I like to play around with them all and how they are displayed.

 

Of course they go together, they all have the same home, mine, so they are all semi related. The only thing I do when looking is to only do human, not supernatural. That is simply a matter of taste.

 

My dolls are a very matched group. They're all SD, they're all more or less realistic/not heavily stylized, I have them all painted by the same artist, and I make 95% of their clothing myself....there is definitely a very cohesive aesthetic to the whole collection. I think it would really bother me otherwise.