Do you worry about the size of your doll family? Whether it is balanced? =S

I actually really do! I currently have three dolls. Two are 72 cm males and the third is a girl MSD. She is the slightly evil controlling one and the boys are the main part of my story. They are a fun and entertaining group as they are and so I hate to just start adding dolls willy-nilly. I know that I will be adding one more large boy and a 65cm girl. I may add more but I feel that this group of five would be well balanced and diverse enough that I could be happy with just those

 

Yes I do and I definitely try to keep my sizes uniform or with an ability to share clothing. That's an important thing for me because I come to the art of dolls from a clothing and fashion aspect... as well as wanting to connect to individual dolls more meaningfully.

 

My entire collections looks like it's thrown together. I have an EID, I have two very stylized dolls, I have one girl, two bobbleheads and an MSD. But for me, the only doll that looks off is my EID and he's part of another story.

I'm more worried that my crew is getting too large. Right now I have five and two floating heads that need to have a body. I also have two dolls I made myself that I want to be a part of my crew. At what point does a collection loose the ability to set the spotlight on an individual doll and become a blur of resin? That's what I worry about the most. I want them to look beautiful, not dusty.

 

Initially I was sure he will be a sinle one. But on arrival he didn't agree, and today we have our family of his wife and a bofriend. And are thinking it over to get our twins soon. *Lol*

 

Myeh. I'm thinking about that too... I was going to have three, maybe four dolls... Now I'm looking at seven, five of which will be SDs. So far, I don't mind concentrating on one doll at the time (for clothes, photos etc.), or taking all the time I need to finish a look/outfit, but I'm not sure what it will be like when I have seven dolls. I do want to take good care of all of them, and make new things for everyone now and then...

Also, I'm feeling increasingly tempted to consider dolls that aren't part of my storyline, just because I like how they look. So far, my dolls are all characters from my comic (well, except my only tiny, who is a bit of a whim :p), but I find that I am enough of a doll lover for dolls' sake that I'd really like to have dolls of all sizes, or dolls that I just find aesthetically pleasing... And that I'm thinking that I'd really like some more guys, seeing as all the characters lining up to be shelled are women...

So... yeah... size and balance of my doll family do worry me. I just don't know how to solve my own questions...

 

I'm not really picky about balance. The only time I was a little weird about it was when I had my SD boy and he had nobody to match his scale and it looked a bit odd since I don't like SDs as a whole. I always knew the SD girl I'd get to go with him so it worked out in the end.

I go more for looks than "balance" so it doesn't matter to me if my next doll is a boy or girl, as long as I like how they look, and how well they mesh into my current brood.

 

I don't really put much thought into balancing my crew...I go with whatever sculpt I can't go to sleep without thinking about. ^w^~
My two boys couldn't be more opposite. Peeta is an SD, more yellow-ish skin, non-human, very sweet face, "uke" type. Lucca is MSD, extremely pale, human, looks pissed most of the time (XD), and more the "seme" although he's straight. I think the only thing they have in common is dark hair, dark eyes (for now, I may change Peeta's), and similar styles.
I sometimes wish I had either another MSD or another SD so that I could take couple photos, but I really don't want to have too many more dolls. I'm quite happy with my two right now. Besides, I literally don't have room for another in the room I'm in now, and like you said, liarakon, I don't want to begin to forget about the others if I got a new one. </3

 

I am not worried about keeping them all in the same Univers so to speak. I don't have any dolls as of yet but when I do, They really wont be proportional to each other. I am more interested in collecting them and customizing them for display and such.

 

So..Last night as I was admiring my dolls an SD girl & MSD girl, I realized something... I realized because of their size/proportion difference they probly won't look good together!! At first I was thinking maybe they could be sisters but it just didn't look right...

I'm also ordering another doll next week and 2 more during the sales/events this year and I am concerned as to how they would fit into my family

 

I obsess over the size of my doll family. I LOVE even numbers, particularly the number 8, so whatever the final number of dolls in my collection, it will be a multiple of 8, or preferably, it will end in an 8. I also want an even number of dolls because then everyone will have a paired love interest. However, I also group them by head size and facial style, which means that it's not as simple as buying half girls and half boys. Add to that the fact that I'm overly critical of female sculpts, while under critical of male sculpts and you get a very very frustrating issue. Right now my collection is still majority male which irks me to no end. However, my MSDs are mostly girls, while my SDs are all boys except for two (and two female floating heads to 5 male ones =__+)


I'm probably going to expand on this significantly in my livejournal now...

 

I don't think it was by conscious effort that both my dolls are from the same company and both MSDs but it certainly means that they'll match very well. They're both white skinned because I love pale resin, and I really hope that they look nice together as a couple. I initially only wanted to get Cesavier, but I began to feel like he looked really lonely, so at Christmas I ordered his lady. Now I have my eyes set on a 70cm SD, which I'd like to do up as Ces' big brother, so they'll probably look similar although the height difference will be comical (Ces' character is 19, so he's meant to be an adult). It'd mean my SD being some kind of giant.. ah well, I really want a big guy

Matching isn't really important to me. Numbers wise I'd love a huge BJD collection, but I could never afford it.

 

I'm sorry to bump this thread out of the pits of the forum, but I was actually gonna make a thread similar to this one and figured I might as well just post it here.

I am someone who immensely stresses over numbers, to the point where I feel like I'd loose interest in the hobby if it got over a certain point! I have a cut-off at 6, and that makes it so I have roughly 5-6 other dolls I'd totally love to have, but never will find space for in my collection. Is anyone else like this?

 

I had a limit when I started as well, because I know from my other dolly collections that if I have too many I can't give them all enough attention, and BJD's are very demanding creatures! My current predicament is if I should size up my collection (I have 3 MSD sized girls, and then have room for just 2-3 more - six seems to be a good number!) but all my dolls are girls. I was thinking of trying the SD size, and getting a couple (boy and girl) and husband was like "It'll be like a harem in here, all your other dolls are girls!) (non BJD dolls are 30 in number, all female haha!).

Getting that balance is really hard! I know the next decision I make will really shape my family, so I've been umming and ah-ing for weeks >.<

 

I have never even thought of balancing my dolls I have. I just get whoever is a must have, and then have that newcomer join the crowd I have.

 

I've never really thought about balancing by gender, it is more important to me that the dolls are balanced by size. My msd crew fits together well and they look good with the yosd and pukifee size. I also have a large group of tinies who run the place.... but at this point my SD size just feels off. It may come to the point that I restructure and downsize to have the group be more cohesive

 

Yes! I'm particular about my dolls having SO's. Unfortunately, I steer towards the larger dolls (though I do have some smaller ones) and they take up a lot of room D:

 

I seem to be more focused on an un-balanced collection. I have one SD, one msd, four yosd, four anthros and many tinies. All with different skin tones. Like others have said, I'm more concerned with having too many. I like variety and one offs, so don't see my collcection ever being balanced.

 

I didn't start out with a top number in mind, and have picked the narrower range of mature tinies and in-scale children as my size limit. I have off-topic dolls in a bigger scale, and they're a little too big for my preference. I like having them in a with range of resin colors and varied styles from different companies. I'm trying to have a balance in numbers between boys and girls. I'm starting to worry about having too many, since there are now 17, with one pre-ordered, and a floating head.