What kind of BJD person are you?

I'm a bit of everything^^, but formost a hobbyist.
I collect, yes, but mainly things to then be changes into other things (beads for example) or use in photografy as props. They are not rare, but the hunt is very important for me too.
And the dreamer aspect is there too. Not so much about my dollies own characters, but about the charas they are based on. But everything blures sometimes and I end up thinking up the most absurd combinations^^.
But crafting and interacting is the first and formost for me^^

 

Hobbyist and Dreamer. I LOVE photography and I enjoy using the skills I learn with my dolls. They are like models but don't require to be paid nor something else But I love giving'em personalities, stories...a life too

 

Dreamer. They are my imotos and musukos, (i know its weird, i dont know how that happened either). i am a little of a collector. i take pictures, but i dont think i qualify as a hobbyist, because i have not dyi very much yet other than sanding and other little things.

 

i'm a collector/hobbyist...i collect in the sense that i often go for limited event items or special bodies sculpt and i lack the aspect a dreamer where i characterize them. What i enjoy the most is probably displaying them and taking photo of them. I do their faceup but i commission another hobbyist friend for unique clothing items and my dolls don't interact with me emotionally at all and i really enjoy their sense of "inanimate" object. I think that dolls don't need to shell characters or feel alive or have a soul in order to be complete and resoluted, rather i found the sort of "dead" "inanimate" "object" aspect of them to be what makes me excited rather than having soulful communication with them

 

I'm pretty much half-hobbyist, half-dreamer~ Since all but one of my dolls have important characters, but I also enjoy photography and sewing for them!

 

I'm a dreamer with some hobbyist. My first bjd is going to be a character that I created for a role-playing game and played as for many years. I am hoping to use the character and write a novel or two as well. While that's my main goal with my BJD, I'm also excited to do all the crafty stuff that comes along with owning a BJD. I love to draw and paint, and have been practicing face-ups. I also just bought a sewing machine and have been trying my hand as some doll sized clothing.

 

Mostly Hobbyist. I'm a costumer, I love making costumes and outfits and my dolls make great models (and use less fabric than us big-folk!), a bit of a Collector (house full of collections, including dolls of all sorts), and a bit of a Dreamer (most of the BJD's have at least a bit of back-story to their character, some have whole stories and I've just started realizing two favourite children's book characters in resin - first time I've done this though I used to do it a bit with other types of dolls before BJD's came along).

Teddy

 

I voted collector, but I'm probably a combination like others have said.

I have always been a collector of things, so bjds is an extension of that inasmuch as I can't help myself from collecting them as well. BUT I would say I'm about 40% collector, 39% dreamer and 21% hobbyist..... I have backstories and personalities written up for all my dolls (and the dolls I'm planning). I won't just buy a new doll without it being a part of that backstory, unless I'm completely enamored by it. I try my hand at sewing every once and a while, but I'm not super confident in those skills yet. So yeah, I like to acquire, but I also like to plan and daydream.

 

I'm a hobbyist. Of course I have stories and what not for my dolls. It gives me a launching pad to create with my dolls. I sew professionally and when you do that, at least with people I work with and me, it get really hard to want to go home and sew stuff for yourself. With dolls, I feel like I can still do that for fun, the reason I got into sewing in the first place.
I also enjoy developing tattoos and doing face-ups and other customizations on my dolls. That's really what I draw joy from.

 

I'm mostly hobbyist with a dash of dreamer! I enjoy my dolls mostly for the artistic aspects

 

More into hobbyist than dreamer but sometimes I do think my child as another character XD
like making little fiction story about my child.

 

Dreamer for sure. They're the resin versions of the characters I have in my head, so yah...
But I also like to do their faceups, dress them and take photos... so a little bit of hobbyist as well.
And I really like finding and collecting tiny versions of things as their props...so a bit of collector going on there.

 

Strictly hobbyist. Most people fall in love with these dolls then go, oh dear, I have to buy it clothes and shoes and wigs. I was shown one that belonged to a friend, eyed it carefully and said ,"Say, that would be the ideal crature to make costumes for, wouldn't it?"

 

I'm a Dreamer/Hobbyist....I've been writing stories since I was nine, so my dolls are characters to me, little resin people with personalities, just like my continuing characters I write about. Making things for them is probably my favorite part of the hobby....I so love browsing Goodwill for vintage clothes I can cut up to make wee shirts with, and practicing my own faceups and wig making too? Pure bliss!

 

I think I'm mostly a hobbyist and dreamer after. ^^

 

I'd be hobbyist and dreamer. Sometimes more of a dreamer, sometimes more of a hobbyist, depending on each doll.

 

A dreamer! All of my dolls have back-stories- most of them stories that could never happen to me in my "real" life

 

I am mostly a Hobbyist, considering I got my doll for practicing my sewing, but the role of the Dreamer has been coming in little by little as I get to know him better.
Becoming a Collector is out of the question; no monies to make it possible

 

Hobbyist definitely!! I love to sew and find the cutest things to fit my doll's style

 

I think I'm definitely a hobbyist mixed in with a collector. This topic makes me really happy because before this I kind of thought that everybody had to be a dreamer to be accepted typically in the hobby... so this topic makes me really happy that you dont have to be a dreamer!! I actually don't really like having characters for my dolls at all, or stories. I like having personalities for them, but only because I like to think of them as my companions. I love looking at wigs and clothes for them too, especially cute ones!!