Sculpt or your vision?

I definitely choose dolls based on the character I have in mind previously, since I write my own fiction. ^^ Sometimes I've toyed with the idea of just buying a doll and making a character from that, but I just can't get fully behind it just yet. xD

 

For me, it would be the sculpt meeting the needs of the character...sometimes I look at a sculpt and think *that would make the perfect XYZ character*. I don't think I would ever mod a sculpt....except for maybe elf ears. I think you can change the look so much with just the hair and the faceup.

 

I dont usually create a character untill AFTER i found a mold i like. I don't want to be constricted to a certain persona you see~ So i look for molds first, then build a character around that. This way i can change it later =D

Though i do look for dolls that would suit the mold of my existing characters too xD sometimes.

 

Both I think. First I have a character in my head and I'm looking for a sculpt that matches that character. Sometimes that works out and I find a sculpt that I adore and matches the person I'm about to create perfectly, and sometimes there are things I need to change before he's perfect.

I still have a few characters in my mind that need to be translated into resin-form, but I haven't found the sculpt for them, or one that's close enough. So they'll just have to wait.

 

For me, it's both. I'm attracted to the mold and then I start thinking of ways I could make it MORE beautiful by modding/painting it.

 

Most of the time, I try to find a mold that fits closest with my vision for a character. I don't mod (I'd screw it up, anyway), so it's what I have to do.

 

For me its a little bit of both. I'm personally a Luts fan so yeah I'd go for them even if another doll matches the character I have in mind better. Its like....I really adore the chiwoo mold, so I'd buy it and just modify him until he fit my character well enough.

 

For me I need to like the facial mold (reason number 2 why I'm selling Frellian) then it's what I can do with it to make her/him look the way I want her to. The only mold I want to permantly mold is my sleeping eyed girl other then that, I'm not big on modding.

 

For me, it's always the sculpt. I create most of my characters after I've already decided a doll for them, which means I can allow the character to organically grow to 'fit' the sculpt itself. In the rare occasions where I have a character who I'm trying to match with a doll, I've intentionally not specified/thought too much about how the character looks. This means I rarely find that a sculpt 'doesn't work' with a character I've matched with it. It probably helps that I'm one of very few people with no visual imagination, so it's actually impossible for me to 'picture' a character of mine before I have a doll that embodies it

 

I would say the sculpt/mold. I always find the doll and then make a character. Because in past experience, making a character then getting a doll doesn't work.
My Karsh was supposed to be the bad ass, ladies man and he got here and he's such a sweet, loving family man!

 

For me, at least so far, it is definitely the sculpt and sometimes default face up. My dolls develop their own characters as I get to know them, I've never developed a pre-existing character into a doll. So I chose dolls based on my love of the way they look and then go from there. This might change in the future since I don't like to say never since that's when everything always changes on me.