What's Your Doll Style?

I really love big eyed sort of sleepy looking sculpts with natural looking face ups because I really love the contrast of such an innocent looking face vs the darker sort of characters I tend to create! I've been interested in sculpts that have more mature/sinister looking faces but they never seem to give me the same sort of feeling of love a cherubic face does for my characters. There's something really beautiful about an incredibly manipulative or dark character having a cherubic appearance to me.

As for clothes, anything simple and sort of mori-girl looking or bookish always sits well with me! Simple and elegant is nice too but I think anything that sort of sits in the modern country girl setting really grabs me. Again I think the contrast between the simple clothing and a complex character is super charming to me.

 

I lik more natural styles (although I'd love to go full fantasy on one!). I also like more realistic faces and not very stylised ones. My favourites are the ones that're quite individual: I've even gone as far as commissioning sculpts and asking the sculptor to keep in all those little human traits, like wrinkles and mismatched ears! I promised I'd add a disclaimer that the sculpting was great but I asked for him to have ears that didn't match. I do like elves as well... I blame Thranduil.

Ah yes, cherubic but evil. I have a character who is pretty but nasty, even as a six year old child. For some reason, people who read the books more often than not pick him as their favourite!

 

I've forgotten exactly! $600/700 or so. Obviously that's just heads, no body. He did turn out exactly as I wanted! He has one ear sticking out and one folded back slightly like the guy he was modelled on. I love that little quirk. ^_^ I'm about to comission another one who's going to be even more off kilter.

 

when shelling characters, I tend to gravitate towards more stylized dolls, just because it would make me uncomfortable to see one of my characters looking too realistic. I've also noticed that most of the dolls that I like for characters look happy/ are smiling.

when not shelling characters, I like super stylized/quirky dolls. I like the unusual exaggerated facial proportions.

I like sewing rustic, simple clothing that is worn in layers, so that's what my dolls wear haha. lots of browns and reds.

 

aaaaaaaa yeah I do the same thing when I shell characters! I originally wanted a unoa lusis for one of them but it was several years ago when they were wayyyy harder to obtain. I managed to find another sculpt I liked more though, thank goodness.

there are a few companies that have dolls cast by the artist (harucasting sculpts and casts their own dolls- I can't think of any more off the top of my head but if I come up with any more I might add them). there are also artist dolls (like popovy sister, kayke knadle, freakstyle bjd, akhmel, lillycat, etc) that are dolls that come from an artist that sends out their doll to be cast by a casting company in small batches. neither are really cheaper or more expensive than bjds from companies, it just depends on which artist you buy from (unless that artist only cast a small amount of dolls- then they can get really expensive).

 

That was done by Namonaki for me. Though I'm afraid prices may have changed since then, however it was excellent: I was very involved in the process all the way through and got to make suggestions ans the sculpt progressed. It was great fun!

I'm now into sculpting myself, and working on setting up my casting room. (Personal work, not commercial! I'm not good enough to sell anything.)

 

I like over the shoulder bags too! Also I tend to like necklaces as long as they're pretty loose. I don't think I could imagine chokers on any dolls I would own unless they're ribbon chokers.

Mine's quite a bit older (18) but people do tend to like those sort of characters no matter their age! I think it's because it's sort of funny but interesting in a way.

 

I use paperclay, but sometimes sculpey (the firm grey stuff). Well. I have a shed with resins, silicone, Lego (mould box), vacuum chamber for degassing silicone and resins and the last piece in the puzzle is the pressure tank and compressor which remove any bubbles during casting (actually, it compresses them to the point where they're invisible). I've requested the pressure pot for Christmas and I've been good this year... *crosses fingers*

 

Most of my dolls are mature tinies, I don't know if that's a style really, but there aren't many companies who make them. Mine range from more realistic to between realistic and stylized. About half of them are fantasy dolls with pointy ears, and three of them have wings. I really love the variations in tan resin, and have a lot of tan dolls.

Some of my dolls are from Lumedoll, and as far as I know Eva the artist casts them herself.

 

I love the realistic, natural faceups with the blotchy skin and freckles. My dolls are semi-realistic and all except one are teenaged SDs. I like historical and mori styles, along with certain street fashions. I am actually kind of bad at fashion stuff, so I created a style folder for each of my dolls so I could grab pictures of stuff I like for reference later.

 

Mine are just folders on my computer, I don't have a Pintrest. Just waiting for the day I actually have enough money to spare on some clothes. But that day comes after everyone has a body.