Shelling OCs vs Dolls You Like

Definitely a mix of OCs that need to be shelled, fan dolls, and dolls I just *like* where the character gets created around the sculpt!

Vince, Marigold, Party Martian, and Bambi are dolls I fell in love with for how cute they were and then created characters around-- Vince is pretty basic, he's just a living doll who will wear anything I think it's cute to put him in, whereas Marigold has a whole world and other OCs that I haven't shelled that are her family... and Party Martian and Bambi are kind of a couple even though they're not perfectly scaled to each other? But when I got the chance to bring her home, she was just one hundred percent his girlfriend. I had wanted to find a partner for him who *would* be really well suited to him in scale, and he fell in love with her just like I did even though she's a real amazon next to him.

Jack's my D&D character from a campaign that never got to finish, and I've also written about him since he didn't get his resolution at the table. With him it was ALL about finding a character who looked the most like the guy in my head and the art I've made and commissioned of him, and I struck gold. And then Deanna is heavily based on a friend's character from a different role playing game but I sort of translated her into Jack's world so *he* could have a quest buddy. And I've got a couple new super tiny mature tinies, Downfall and Istraeth, who are NPCs for a game I would love to DM who really took on such a life of their own beyond how they'd feature in said game.

Pete and Billy are sort of in a nebulous between-- they are very much *named after* characters they're styled to look like, but are also based on OCs from an old abandoned writing project, who were kind of side characters I never found something I could DO with, and then they've since kind of grown into themselves as something totally different since being shelled as dolls. So they're... all three, depending?

Eddie's a fan doll through and through, but my own *take*. And two of my floating heads are fan dolls, though one of them I'm waiting for the artist who makes his body to do another run and the other just has a bust to be displayed on...

 

I am mixture of both. Mostly because I make characters that ARE the doll I want to buy. A good example of this is my anthropomorphic fox character Force who is literally a Force Fox doll by FallinDoll that I'm planning to purchase. Two more good examples are my anthropomorphic cat character Charlotte and anthropomorphic deer character Rudy who are literally Pipos Charlotte III 2021 and Pipos Deer Rudy (27cm). Other than that, if I want one of my bajillion OCs to be a doll, I'd rather make the doll from scratch so it will look as close to my OC as possible. However, making dolls from scratch will have to wait until I can actually DO that sort of thing, lol.

 

I usually like to pick dolls with a character in mind, but sometimes I just can’t resist a sculpt even if I don’t have a character for it. Either way, I try to create a character for the doll in the end; whether it’s new or one that I already came up with.

 

The dolls I have so far are moreso dolls I picked out because I enjoyed the sculpt a lot, and then I made a character around them.

I do have OCs, but only one or two specifically I'd like to see in doll form, I just haven't found quite the right sculpt that fits them as my art style unfortunately isn't to the level of fitting the more realistic / semi-realistic offerings on the market! I know that I could still shell them despite that, but it would feel a bit off to me.

 

My ocs have facial features that arent common in bjds- and I'm too fixated on them looking right to ever consider shelling them before.

My current dolls; I just liked the sculpt and the character grew from there! I do have a few sculpts that I've loved that I thought would make great fan dolls. I think if I ever reach a point of completion with my crew that I'm happy with, I'd like to try shelling those.