Increased art skill?

a bit i use them as models to draw so it helps me.

 

My skills in the face-up medium sure have! I've also found that such intense studying of sculpt shapes, features, and shadows, and where to place darker color in face-ups have seriously upped my semi-realism skills. I didn't think they'd help that at all, but after all it is studying different kinds of faces. Details and different forms of light I wouldn't have even thought of before to place in my drawings are becoming more and more apparent, and easier to pull off.

 

If you consider photography art (some people do, some don't), I'd say yes. I can't draw to save my life, but since owning BJDs my photography skills have increased ten fold.

 

Interesting topic.

Like Yimmit said, I think having dolls (not to mention such exquisite dolls as these) encourages us to observe things we may not have otherwise. There are many ways having a BJD can inspire us artistically, because the dolls themselves are works of art.

Anyway, I think since I got into BJDs, a lot of new forms of expression have opened up to me and consequently my basic art skills have probably improved a little.

 

Yes I did. I learned how to paint face-ups, how to make pretty and artistic photographs like I've always seen and wished I could take too, how to bead, how to sew clothes and they help a great deal with the anatomy in drawings. So far, it's a definite yes for me

 

My sewing has definitely progressed, as I hope my photography will someday.

 

I have never sewn before I owned a BJD, now I can made deccent clothes. Same for taking pictures, never have an interest in taking pics before having a BJD XD Now I can say I also take decent pictures ;3 I have totally zero art skills though :I

 

By doing faceups, I've gotten better at painting faces too (as in, 2D paintings ^^). Like before, I would rarely bother to paint individual hairs on eyebrows, lip lines, and sometimes I would get confused about where eye lashes fell. It sounds silly but I just never thought about it! Now my attention has been drawn to it and I pay much more attention to the tiny details.

 

Dooon't care for the opinion that photography isn't art so I will say that yes, they have inspired me to improve my art in photography.

 

I've definitely been too scared to work with paint mediums before or anything non-digital so I would say that yes, it has increased my art skills to nonexsistant to slightly okay skills. Lol But all in all, having my BJDs has also allowed me to dive back into my interest in photography. I am so loving it.

 

Having BJD's has increased my artistic skills tenfold!
It pushes me to be a better photographer, seamstress, jewelry crafter....constantly....
Pushed me into learning how to do face up work that didn't make me embarrassed, lmao. And it pushed towards improving my creative writing skills since I am constantly writing/re-writing perfecting the long story-like profiles/background stories attached to my dolls. My fiction writing has improved as well. My hubby and friends joke that's its the unifying field theory of all my artistic hobbies and I have to agree....to a certain extent since many of my talents merge when it comes to BJD's.

 

I wasn't exactly sure which vote to choose.
My painting or drawing has not improved but because of this hobby I have learned new ways to be creative. I can crochet and knit now for example and I am just now learning how to use a sewing machine!

 

I've found that sewing and knitting for my dolls and needing to modify patterns to fit my ideas of their traditional clothes (they're all created species of mine) has helped me to slowly regain the pattern making ability I lost due to a TIA stroke. So yes, the dolls have certainly helped and in a way are a type of therapy to help me re-learn stuff I used to know how to do.

 

Photography has definitely improved.

 

Before I started becoming interested in bjd's, I've been in a HUGE art block since I graduated from high school (so about 2 years now)
I'm hoping that once I get my doll in, he'll kind of push me out of this block I'm in lol

 

I've been studying art for five years now, and I've always been really good. The only thing I'd say has gotten better is my photography, but since I'd never done photography before I got a doll, I guess the only way to go was up... I draw and paint consistently, even before my boys came, so if I have been getting better in those it's probably just because I'm always practicing, doll or no.

 

Kinda, I have learnt (and still learning) new stuff especially faceups and sewing~ tho I am still considered new to BJDs so I have a LOT more to learn~ including photography, sewing and face ups. As for drawing BJDs, I haven't tried though I'd love to one day. ^^

 

In terms of specific bjd related skills, yes. My faceups are definitely better than when I started out.

 

These dolls actually motivated me to work on my portraiture. I may have only used my boy Robin for my first drawing in September '09, but it still helped me evolve my technique over these past months. So I have to say yes. ^^