Mother, artist or collector

Mom and artist. I feel very bad if I don´t do stuff with my doll for a while. I want to do many clothes to my doll and continue a rp journey. Photoshoots of course!

 

I'm definitely all three. My biggest love always has been art so learning that there was a beautiful style of doll that you were expected to create yourself was just a 'wow!' moment for me. I get unpainted and do my own faceups - with varying degrees of success. I'd say I qualify under 'mum' as I have a great imagination and can spend hours chatting with friends over my characters, I love creating storylines (unfortunately I don't nowadays get a lot of time to do this and photo stories like I used to do) I'd also throw the photography into the 'artist' section since I truly love taking pictures. Never been that good at it but I do enjoy it immensely.

As for collector - I have more than one bjd therefore I collect lol. I don't go after a specific type or mould or company - I just buy what I like when I can afford to.

I don't mind categorising so much - I do a myriad of other things with my dolls both BJD and others - I am just 'me' but I understand your angle for asking so hope my comment helps

 

I don't think I'm any of these really. I give my dolls characters because I'm a writer, and I am attached to the physical entities themselves, though I can recognize that they are dolls and not human beings. I'm very socially motivated so I do write stories about them, imagine how they would interact with each other, and give them all a distinct 'voice'. They're personified an awful lot, but I don't treat them like I treated baby dolls when I was very young - nor am I an 'artist' in practical sense, or a 'collector'.

 

Dolls are a way for me to do a lot of the things I love at once. I love to write stories and come up with the characters, design what I want them to look like, paint their faces with face-ups, tattoos, and body blush them, and I love to sew. I am a costume designer by trade so it lets me do what I love on a smaller scale with more immediate results. Plus, I get to keep what I make afterwards. It's all good for me.

 

I'd love to consider myself an artis, but I don't do much of the "artisty" things myself. I am pretty mediocre at face ups and don't have the patience to sew clothes, though I've just gotten myself a new and improved camera so I can get back into photographing :3

I don't put my dolls to sleep. I do change their outfits from time to time and make sure their wigs are always tidy, brush off any dust or so but... I never take them out! Don't really know where that would of been.

So I guess I am somewhere inbetween an "artist" and a collector. I collect them and enjoy the developement into making them unique, though I have to send them off for face ups and buy them clothes :P

 

I consider myself a combo Collector and Artist, or maybe more of a Stylist rather than Artist, because I don't often to much customization on my dolls other than changing out wigs and eyes. Unless I fall for a doll's entire look, including their outfit, I don't buy them. You wouldn't think my being that picky many dolls would've made the cut, but you'd be surprised! LOL!

 

I think I am a combination of mother and artist. I am so protective of my doll, I don't let just anyone touch her or her clothes, I always keeps her away from sun, children and animals, I even make her special clothes for her to sleep so it doesn't stain or scratch her. I also love to make her face ups and clothes, it's just so fun to make her look different every time.

 

I never got to be a mom, and my artistic days are over (left the theatre world a few years ago) now I am just doing the 'collecting' thing. ^^ If I can learn to sew and/or learn decent pictures despite my vision maybe I will find a new 'artist' me?

 

I like to photograph my dollies... and they all have backstories and whatnot, but I don't think of them as human/children anymore (i did in the beginning)

 

I'mma go with collector. I will take my dolls out and such but I don't treat them as people. I can feel "bonded" to a doll, but at the end of the day it is an expensive toy that I use for entertainment. owo

I'm not talented enough at this time to consider myself an artist though I'd like to be.

 

Perhaps companion... It is difficult to choose. Although...
I think the best description is that I am a collector for whom dolls are not just a collection, but something more...

 

I'm a mix. Some of my dolls have well developed characters and those that don't still have personalities, and I do respect those things. I would find it very unsettling to dress a doll in a way that seemed at odds with what they are like. I do consider them to be more than just beautiful objects, and yet ... aesthetics are important, and I do enjoy just looking at them too. When I first got into the hobby it was all about the doll body, then for awhile it was all about the character, and now I'm striking a balance between the two. Character is important, but I am more flexible about tweaking that character's appearance in order to be happier with the physical doll that represents them. I also consider the hobby a major creative outlet and do tinker with my girls and guys.

 

I'd consider myself a "creator." They're evolving works of art, and also evolving people, and I look at them as the physical representation of the characters I write. So I will fuss over them like they're "real people," the same way I treat nebulous fictional characters as real people. I don't exactly expect my dolls to get up and start walking around, but they do sort of have an energy to them that I want to make sure I protect, since it's my beloved character's energy. If that makes any sense?

 

For me, I'm either a seamstress or a friend. Honestly, I have better conversations with some of my dolls than people who I actually know. I hang out with my dolls, I'll sit them with me when I watch tv or a movie, I chat with them (I'm really rather odd, I know haha). I'd never say I mother them, I'm just friends with them. Except my tinies, I think then I'm more like a babysitter, just cause of their personalities hah

 

I am admittedly all 3. Primarily I am a collector but I'm also a graphic artist/photographer who often uses dolls in her photographs. I'm also a caretaker person who "mommies" my pets, my dolls, my family, my friends, pretty much everyone I know. I probably have a strong maternal instinct but I actually do not want children of my own. I'm too busy taking care of the people and animals I already have in my life to add my own kids to the mix. Also, I am not physically up to that. I can give the nieces back when I get tired. It makes a difference. I can barely handle the furball most days let alone kids 24/7. I'm wise enough fortunately to know that.

I don't think of my dolls so much as real persons. I mean they are DOLLS, but I'm fond of them, tend to fuss over them like I do anything else. But I'm not nearly as bad with them as I am with my animals and my nieces and such. The dolls I take decent care of but the kids and cats I spoil totally rotten. My nieces fortunately have a pair of very strict parents to counteract my influence otherwise they'd be entitled little brats!

The cat, well, she IS, but that's okay. She's a feline and I don't expect her not to be. The little wanna be Goddess is sitting on her comfy plush pillow bed on the file cabinet watching birds in the yard as I type. She's already had $1 for a freaking tiny can cat food this morning, a long play session with my Dad, and some lactaid milk this morning from my cereal bowl. I have two pork chops and a couple of baked potatoes in the oven baking right now for me and Dad who is in my back room watching TV until lunch is done.

I have no plans for giving her any but you can bet Dad will likely slip her some of his under the table anyway, and yes, she will eat it because unlike most cats she actually does love pork in a big way. I try to limit that. Pork isn't great for cats, but she does like her bit of bacon, ham or pork chop with applesauce once in a while and Dad usually sees to that she gets it even when I tell him not to go there, lol. :P

 

I think I'm a mix of the artist and the collector. XD

In my point of view, each and every doll I have is a beautiful piece of art that I will always treasure and cherish. I don't do face up or sew clothes for them, but I enjoy photographing my dolls. I create a background story for each of my dolls. I enjoy role-playing them with my friends whom doll owner as well.

 

I'm a collector. The doll is a beautiful object, and not much more. I give them names and backstories and I take pictures and change their clothes and wigs and such, but that's about the extent of it. Or maybe I'm a bit of an artist, as well. I do write, and many of their characters do end up in the stories I write. So...

 

Mother for sure. I'm never going to have a real daughter :c but Yui is my baby.

 

I wouldn't exactly fit in the Mother role, but I definitely don't fit the other too. I almost feel more like a "creator" or "care-taker". Each of my dolls has names and personalities but I know they're still dolls, even when I personify them. To me, they are an embodiment of the character I've played and I'm their creator who keeps them. Each is dear to me and when I take time to play with them, it brings back memories while making new ones.

 

Definitely not a mother, my gender is male. I don't regard myself as an Artist although I appreciate art. I do collect things, but I've learned to let go and not hoard. My (our) doll collection is probably nearing it's peak; I like to keep my interests balanced after the initial obsession wears off. I want to enjoy things, not have them own me. At this point in my life, I'm beginning my gradual divesting of things so that others can acquire & enjoy them for a time. Things are becoming less important; God, my wife, family, & friendships are the most rewarding of what I've been blessed with. The dolls are playing their part in this as a means to discover what people enjoy & think about life while we converse & play. The dolls will be among the last things to go. They're something my wife & I can be together doing, and they're always good for starting conversations.