How important is having your dolls all be proportionate to each other to you?

I realllllly prefer to stick to one size/type, but I am also really bad and following it. It doesn't help that there are so many dolls I love! The bulk of my collection right now is 1/6th scale as they are the cheapest/easiest to find clothing options for. But, I do have a Minifee and a slim 1/4 scale on the way (if customs ever releases her )
Minifees are 1/4 scale but the doll coming will not be in scale with her, the one coming is very slender and taller going by the measurements. I probably won't display them close to each other because not only are they not proportional, even though they are the same "scale", but their stylization is very different as well.
The dolls being proportional is important to me, but not important enough that I won't buy a doll if I feel I really love it.

 

I prefer the more cartoony style, with oversized heads. Regular sized heads just don't appeal to me for some reason.

 

It's only really important to me if the dolls are meant to be associated with each other in some way. Other than that I don't really care.

 

Ehh I prefer 65cm+ But that's because I'm blind as a bat and have trouble painting and sewing for anything small. It won't stop me.

As for the actual proportions. It just depends. I have a lot of fantasy styled dolls so having a 1/4th elf doll painted to look kinda like a gremlin isn't too weird to have next to a 1/3rd adult looking human lol. Beyond that if it looks off, I just dont take pics of them. if I like the doll ill buy it.

 

I'm at the beginning of my hobby journey, but so far it is a consideration for me. Part of what appeals to me is photography, and it feels like dolls with different proportions would be a missed opportunity for interactions in photos in addition to having them hang out around the house. So even if they're relatively the same scale, I'm also looking at, for example, do Granado mini boys have heads that would look mismatched next to Myou mature 1/6? Or would these dolls always need to live in alternate realities?

 

I'm still pretty new to the hobby, but both my girls are 1/4 scale and I think I want to try to keep my dolls all around the same height. I would love a variety of body types, however! I just think a gargantuan 60+ doll or an itty bitty tiny would look too out of place (unless I decide to make a giant or dwarf character. )

 

I thought it was important, but then my collection ended up looking like this


I thought I’d posted this already by draw-my-heart-on, sur Flickr


heads by drawmyheartonbjd, sur Flickr

Massive egg-head Soony. Teenie realistic head Ichigo. Big-eyed Limhwa. Somewhat realisting Supia.
It would be a problem for me if I wanted them to date or be siblings because it looks really silly, but I am still taking pictures of them together. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Honestly I don't mind mixing it up a bit in my collection. But I tend to have a larger collection of let's say more realistic dolls and then there are a few anime dolls that lurk around.

 

I have this issue, I love smartdolls and have wanted to get one forever but it would bug me how badly she would fit in with a realistic crew. Someday I'd like to have both a decent sized resin crew and a decent sized vinyl anime crew.

 

How well the dolls look next to each other has like 0% input in my choices

I rotate them for display, and even then each is in a different place. While a lot of the sculpts tend to go between stylized-realistic style, so some of them by default would look well next to each other, I choose each by their own merit and look, no matter size or proportions. This is of course a bit of a problem, when each has their own wig/eye/outfit size to cater to, but I make do somehow...

At the same time, if someone likes to do photo stories, I can totally understand they would prefer for the couples or friends to look believable next to each other in the shot.

 

Quite important, I'd say. All of my characters have defined height so I'd love my dolls to have more or less correct height difference.

Similar body proportions are important for me as well and I prefer more realistic dolls in this sense. However I don't mind stylisation to some degree, but the key is that one doll shouldn't look like an alien next to other one.

 

Proportion is only somewhat important to me, not with uniformity across my entire collection, but rather mostly within a few ‘groups’ I have. ‘The Celestials’, ‘the Punkin heads’ ‘Tenshi Unoa Gang’....the majority of my resin dolls fall into one of these groups. I do have a few singular dolls and one pair of dolls that do not ‘fit’ with any other dolls’ proportions at all though, and I really like them, a 90cm boy, a 1/6 cat baby, 2 Playscale mature resin girls that really fit in better with the 11-inch fashion dolls. Several of my ‘maybe someday’ dolls won’t fit into any of my current collection’s proportion categories either, Popovy, Trinity, Lusion. I think it depends a lot on how you wish to photograph or display them, and how you play with them.

The Volks group displays contain everything from SD17 to YoSD and they always look so nice - so proportion, scale and size really can be successfully combined if a really strongly style aesthetic is the unifying factor. That’s just one example.
I don’t keep all my dolls ‘out’ at once on display nor do I ever want a ‘doll wall’ or doll room, none of those fit my aesthetic or fit in with my decor plans, even in the larger new house so I’ve decided to try a dedicated space for a seasonally rotating display once we get moved, I’ll have a sideboard area free in my new dining room/office so I can display a group together there in a small scene, 3-7 dolls is likely what I’ll want for it - so across my whole collection, I’ll look for style and thematic elements to tie each display together.

 

A lot of my dolls are "semi-anime" in that they have fully formed noses and lips, but they're small with large eyes. I also have "Idealized realistic" that have more normally sized mouths and somewhat larger noses, but still have large eyes and smooth faces. It didn't take too long to get used to how they all look together, even with the couple of "hard anime" girls I have. I only have one "hyper-realistic" face, a Demiurge Dolls Mustang. In his promotion photos, he looks 18-25. But when compared to the rest of my crew, he looks 40-50. As long as the short dolls have short characters and the apparent age is right, it doesn't bother me much anymore.

 

I just got back into the hobby recently, and now it has become important to me that all my dolls maintain the same proportion/aesthetic. Before though, I had dolls of literally every size and they were all mismatched, and that didn't bother me much. But as I discovered and owned a variety of dolls, I found out about the sculpts that really stole my heart, and decided to just stick to that style and size. So now I'm only adding those ones to my collection (and sold off all the others which didn't *spark joy* anymore.) That turned out to be YoSD/30cm dolls with the big-head style. So I guess I could say it became important in the long run, only because I was able to coin my style and find the dolls that fit my needs better ^^

 

It doesn't matter to me at all LOL. I just buy what dolls I like, regardless of scale (though I guess I won't go higher than like, 75cm) and fit them into whatever size group they belong into. Or just have them doing their own thing off to the side. My collection isn't really cohesive at all.

 

It's not something I take into consideration when adding to and culling my wishlist, but I generally prefer for my dolls to be able to share certain things (like clothes/shoes), which is much easier if they're within 5-10 cm of each other's height measurements.

 

I'm happy for my overall collection to be all over the place so long as certain dolls work together, and I do like having a collection that's scaled so they can use the same furniture and some props.

My more stylistic and fantasy dolls can exist more in one 'universe' while more realistic dolls occupy another, and that doesn't bother me. When I do eventually shell Jack's husband, I'll want them to 'match', but in the meantime, if I fall in love with a more cartoony/cute doll, that's fine.

 

it is very important to my pet dolls not so much for my human dolls

 

Most of my dolls are in proportion to each other. The exception is the two newest. One is meant to be a short character, but the 65cm doll I found had the absolutely perfect face for him and so I threw proportion out the window just this once.

 

It's pretty important that my dolls be mostly proportionate. Since they're displayed together in the same case, I want them to look like they come from the same universe, if that makes sense. I'm good with dolls in varying scales, from 1/8 tinies to MSDs, but the tinies should look like toddlers, and the MSDs should look like older kids/teenagers. I also prefer them to all have similar aesthetics, with the semi-stylized faces with big doe eyes. So no super realistic nor anime dolls in my collection.