What you look for in Male dolls

Couldn't have said it better.

 

I like more masculine sculpts also. I really like all the handsome fellas but I also would like to see more weathered guys. Someone with a little age worked in. It would be fun to do an Odin some day but he cant look like 20something Odin IMO. I would prefer one thats 50. Strong healty 50 but.. a crease here or there.

 

I don't much care for the rounder, feminine faces (like young-anime-teenager faces). But I still like the ones that look 'beautiful,' or regal, like a lot of Loongsoul's guys or Angell Studio's. I also like more masuline faces, and even ones with some scars.

 

I definitely like the manlier, muscular men! A strong jaw line (with a wider point to the chin) is a must for me, and sculpt definition on the brow is a bonus! As mentioned earlier, sculpted vein details (especially on the hands, which you'll always see) turn me to jelly too.
One thing I didn't realize that I was really particular about is the definition of the throat/collarbone area -- so far I think Soom's Gem (and larger) take the cake on throat definition.

 

I usually like the older looking male sculpts, although for younger characters have a more femenine looking doll is a good option. I sometimes wish someone made a really old looking male doll, I'm looking foward to it for a particular character actually.

 

I really like the buff masculine look. Their pecs have to be high and wide with really good nipples. Funny I know to care about something like that but I really like my guys to look like they can handle themselves.
I like really wide shoulders too.

 

I tend to approach male dolls the same way I approach the female dolls.... they both must have an appealing head+body combo.
I also tend to like the beefier dolls so to speak. If I could I would indulge in many of the Iplehouse male sculpts!

 

Muscles! xD In real life I have a thing for muscular men and it's the same with dolls.
The face has to be very manly looking too. A strong jaw line and a bit of a smirk are really appealing for me.
Basically I would die for a manly and muscular MSD guy with that smile that says I'm-hot-and-I-know-it.

 

I like the boys with string chests and broad shoulders, it looks really good in a doll, but seems to be rare. I'm not at all into the male waif look that most dolls seem to have. It's just not my thing.

 

Hips- I see a lot of companies just getting them wrong? The chest needs to be in proportion to the hips, groin and legs; I also feel like female dolls can get away with non-human hips a lot easier.

 

hmmm...pretty lips are pretty important to me, as well as a good sized nose. I really dislike tiny noses on sculpts of any gender, but especially on male dolls. Eyes that are smaller and not so round/doe-eyed are another thing I look for in guys. Oh god, and bodies that don't have that vacuum-packed, totally shredded, vein-y muscle thing going...ugh...that stuff hurts to look at.

All of Ringdoll's teenage/grown boys are super gorgeous in my opinion!

 

It mostly depends on the character I am trying to get a doll for. I do tend to lean toward pretty men, I like handsome features in a lot of them, strong but nothing too overpowering. I like pretty but masculine, although I also like slightly more androgynous boys as well.

I go for something that sets the doll apart for me. Whether it's slight smirk, a toothy grin, large wide eyes, or narrowly slit eyes, I like the face to have some unique feature, although I am not always sure what they oddity is going to be until I see a doll that has the certain je ne sais quoi that stands out to me an tells me this is the doll I was looking for.

I like some muscle definition in the arms and abs, a little in the thighs, but I don't want the muscles bulging to the point that is looks distorted to me. I like the lean muscle definition in my dolls rather then bulk. Bulky dolls are also harder for me to to find clothes for, and they don't look as good in a lot of fashions, at least I feel that way.

 

Because my collection has been built from the very beginning on diversity (think of wandering through a fantasy world of unique characters, like in Tim Burton’s movie “Alice”) so I have no hard and fast rules for the males I seek out, other than they perfectly fit whatever character I’m going for. I have the super muscular but angelic-faced Barrio, my angel boy. I have the uber masculine Lord de Winter, master of the fantasy realm…huge, with gorgeous muscle definition. There’s a nature loving, mori man-of-the-forest named Hemlock. I have a delightful soft-bodied fem boy, Georgie, and a tree spirit named Willow. And I just pre-ordered an androgynous anime cat boy to round out my little smattering of male sculpts. Yep, it’s all about far-flung diversity here, so pretty much anything goes as long as it fits the character I’m going for.

 

I love a hatchet-faced boy: thin cheeks and high cheekbones (even a little bit gaunt-cheeked), thin not broad nose, long lean face with flat planes everywhere. And I seem to have a huge fondness for males with oblong-shaped eyes, where the corners are a bit downturned or drooping. This surprises me a bit because I haven't consciously gone looking for this specific eye shape. But all the male BJD faces that I'm drawn to -- and all the boys in my collection -- are melancholy around the eyes, no matter whether the mouth is smiling, frowning, etc. (While it's kind of opposite with females - I like BJD girls with long, narrow, upturned cat eyes.)

I'll add that he's got to be somewhat realistic in style: there are a lot of slim-faced males who have the stylized anime/BL/danmei type of look, but I'm not into this. And I like males that are youthful/young adult in age - not mature grown men, but not children or young teens either - so I don't mind his eyes a little bit larger, face to be a bit softer and fuller.

As for male bodies, I look for a distance runner's build -- lean, lanky, trim, not have excessive muscle definition, but not a soft body either; the kind of 'ectomorphic' body type that doesn't easily bulk up or put on weight. So - no six-pack abs, no bodybuilder arms, no gratuitous veins, and for the love of all that's holy, no dorito torsos or man boobs. Hands are pretty important and I like them "manly" - chunky and solid, with subtle bone and vein sculpting. I'm not really into male hands that are soft, fine, elegant, delicate-looking.

 

When it comes to faces I'm not sure I look for something specific in bigger male dolls, I apply the same than with female dolls, their features simply have to appeal to me independently of their specific features. But in both cases I think I tend to go with males that look somewhere in-between the two sides that are the more popular in BJDs, so I don't tend to find appealing the very square faces and the like, nor I like 1/3 dolls that look more like teens. Anything under 1/3 size the main rule that applies is cuteness

When it comes to bodies I'm also in-between. I don't want male bodies that look like a young teen nor I like muscly bodies. I don't particularly like the veins and I absolutely despise the six pack. Some muscle definition yes, but not like someone that has spent the last 5 years closed in a gym. I like bodies that look more realistic to men I have around and bodies that look like your average beefy superhero put me off, like literally I won't buy the doll, and I've had to compromise because of lack of options, I do have a body that has a six pack and I don't like that part even though compared with other bodies is minimal. Also, I wish there were chubby male bodies, I think we get so much less options these days with male bodies than female.
For visualisation, and in the pool of bodies currently available anything that looks similar to Dollshe Arsene body is my ideal, more here or less there but something around those lines.

I join this club! Dorito torsos! couldn't have said it better. I'm the same with the hands too.

 

Hmmm, just as in reality I don’t really have a type as such but what I do look for is decent proportions that are relative to the head shape and facial features.
I see too many where they’re just wrong especially in the current “moob” heavy, “oops looks like I forgot leg day” fad for over muscular bodies for example. If someone worked out to that extreme then their facial muscles would be developed too giving them a much squarer face. Long thin pointy heads just don’t realistically go with those bodies. In an animation or comics sure if they’re stylised but for realistic purposes……nope!

If the facial features are soft and youthful then a more slender, softly defined body looks appropriate.

If the face is elven, fae or angelic then again slender, svelte maybe even sinewy bodies are a better match especially if the limbs are slightly longer than average. Helps to give a more otherworldly look.

I’d even extend this to ethnicity as different peoples are shaped over time by the environment and the challenges it threw at their ancestors so this ‘one size fits all’ mentality doesn’t work.

So to summarise I like the body and face shape/features to compliment each other.

If there are muscles then ones with reasonable size and definition, sort of naturally achievable if you did a lot of manual labour or were very outdoorsy.

I also like reasonably expressive hands but (unless relevant) not with abnormally long bony figures that an Aye-aye would be jealous of!

I also like a smooth chin, always disliked cleft chins especially the ones that almost look like a butt crack!

Facially I like a relatively neutral yet flexible expression with a slight hint of something that can be brought out by the faceup. Not a fan of blank, vacant, tumbleweed between the ears looks.

 

I like realistic bodies that look good and have good mobility. I don't have many men yet, but I want them to be easy to handle and have good stability and poseability. My aesthetic requirements have to go along with that.

 

Typically I tend to get bishonen and androgynous males dolls may it be anime styled or realistic! I really like when they have mature yet delicate features, bonus point if they have a pretty curved nose or other unique traits.
For bodies I love either slender or naturally muscled builds and I'd love to see more plus sized/dad bods, balanced proportions too as I'm pretty picky with bodies I like.
Beautiful hands with claw like nails is also a plus for me!

 

For me, it's:

• No pinheads or hyperrealism – if they look weird next to my melonhead Volks girls they're not going to stay
• Stability. Lots of these big guys have surprisingly small feet, which can affect their balance. My new DZ 70cm boy body wears SD13 shoes!
  
• Extra static hand options are a plus. I don't personally like the look of jointed hands
• Something that makes the body interesting to me in either the sculpting or the expressions of posing it. It's hard to explain, but even dolls who have the same body might be different to handle. For example, my Hijikata is quite gentlemanly in how he is to handle and pose while my Claude is more stiff and formal, and they're both on the Volks SD17 body

 

I only have 2 guys so far. I guess they have something in common with my female dolls. But, it's hard finding masculine features. I don't have either of them painted yet, sooo...

Spoiler: Have a promo picture of Hajun

I don't know how he got me. I would consider him more feminine than I typically like.
I would also like to have a few androgynous sculpts, one day. Yes, I'm picky about androgyny too.