Your true reason for having a doll?

hmmm I wanted to get a doll because they are so beautiful to look at. I wanted to make clothes for them and then take pictures of them.

 

My true reasons? I'm sorry but the NDA I've signed prevents discussion of that. I've already said too much. *looks around furtively*

 

Well, originally, I didn't like dolls very much... but BJD's won me over. I had to have one. Then I had to have another. Then I decided to sell a previous collection, and purchase more dolls. I purchased them for a combination of reasons. Some were characters from stories I've written, some were because they were just so beautiful that I wanted to be able to just look at them, and one of my favorites is a companion - a therapy doll if you will. He travels with me many places so I don't have to go "alone"!

 

I started out buying one because I thought it was pretty, but I didn't really bond with it, and probably would have sold it in the end and dropped out of the hobby if I had not started drawing the doll into stories I wrote and since I have only bought dolls in order for them to be 3D representations of the characters in my stories so I can hug them if I need to

 

for my reason...

in my country many many people plays blyths but i don't like them caz it's big head and cannot stand my themself.

so i find many thing about doll until i found BJD, i love it since first time that i saw the BJD photoes.

after that i aim to have BJD at least one, my dream come through in last year, my first BJD is coming from peakswood and i am very happy!

so the true reason for having a doll is make the dolls like me and make a dress like me and get a doll to anywhere that i travel and photo with my doll for make a memory that in the future will rethink about those happy days.

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For me, I want BJD's to bring my characters to life. I've been making OCs and perfecting them as much as I can drawing-wise and storyline-wise. But once I stumbled onto the world of BJDs, I realized that I could actually bring them into a physical existence! And not only that, but I can take pictures of them doing things in character and make photo-stories! As soon as these thoughts hit me, I knew that I wanted to recreate all my original characters into a BJD ^ ^

 

I think one thing all BJD owners have in common is... they are perfectionists! Well perhaps not, but it's definitely one reason why I love BJDs. They are pure symbols of perfection! For me, they are the ideal means to artistic expression. I draw and use BJDs as my models. I am also planning to attempt crafting my own BJD clothing. So for me, the reason for loving BJDs is that they bring perfection + creativity + beauty into my life.

 

I love most dolls and BJDs are just another kind of doll I love. I bought my Pukipuki, however, to be the fairy I always wanted as a pet/companion/familiar. I love that she is a common scale (1/12) as the miniature house I'm making for her is easy to decorate exactly the way I want. And I plan on getting several anthros to be her friends. It's really quite fun!

 

My main reason for my interest in BJDs was the customization of them--specifically, the ability to create dolls in the likeness of my original characters (though I've since branched out into some favorite existing characters, as well). I'd previously explored information on "kitbashing" but hadn't really gotten anywhere with that (this was back in the earlier days of the internet, when there was less information overall), so when I discovered that BJDs were actually meant to be customized the way I wanted, I became more interested, and took the plunge when I found a sculpt that could become my main OC. I have far more dolls now than just that one, but almost all have been bought with the intent of shelling a known character, and that remains my drive for having them.

 

Honestly it was pretty much entirely the cute factor. It felt special somehow and I knew I had to have it. The quality and just how nice the doll felt in my hands when I got him made me love him even more than I thought I would and gave me many more reasons to enjoy having one.

 

just one of the little joys in life..if it makes you happy..right

 

I was definitely taken in by how pretty they could be. Before I bought one, I would spend hours just looking through company sites admiring the photos. As for true reasons, I think it's in part how much work goes into creating them. A doll may pass through multiple artists' hands before being "complete" and they become canvases of someone's (or multiple individual's) creativity. No doll is truly alike, even fullsets, and that is certainly part of the appeal for me. For me, personally, it may also be a way I can express myself. I'm pretty shy and prefer not to step outside of my comfort zone. So, in a way, I kind of live out styles of clothing I might like (but wouldn't wear) by putting my dolls in those clothes.

 

For me it's because they are the perfect art piece, a sculpture, a canvas, a model and muse.. everything at once... what more could you ask for? And also because I won't be the only one having fun with it.. I would be doing faceups and tattoos and piercings and such, my friends in the fashion major in college could test clothes on it, my dear photographer friends could practice so much with it, and for all my artsy friends it would be the most perfect model~ The dolls are an experience

 

I love beautiful, cute things. Idealized, perfect things.

I like the maternal aspect that comes of finding a cute outfit for your doll, brushing her hair, taking a sweet photo...but I'm in no way maternal enough to handle a human baby and all the grossness that comes with them. So yeah - dolls are great for someone like me! Haha.

 

I just wanted something beautiful, but she has become something a lot more- we've really bonded in a way I didn't expect. Now knowing how much I love her, I'm buying my second doll because 1) Aya needs a friend and 2) I want more precious doll friends!

 

Some time ago I was making felted sculptures, and once I wanted to make felted doll with joints. I started to look in the internet a variety of techniques how to make jointed hands and legs. I also decided to buy for example something plain, such as Monster High doll. But I couldn't forget these BJDs, that I saw in the internet, they not gave me a rest. And as more I looked at them, as more I wanted to have such a beauty at home. Once I saw the unearthly beauty of DC Lydia, I thought - why not. And order has been done. Now I hardly wait for her.

 

i guess it's like 'i have what i wanted to have!' for me buying dolls. i don't know why i feel so attractive from dolls but i just love to have them. maybe one kind of collecting job?

 

I have dolls because it's like actually having a real life representation of your Original characters... And those mean the world to me. They represent all that I find precious and beautiful, all that I love, my fears, my dreams, the things that have haunted me, for better or for worst. Up until before dolls my only way of becoming close to them was via drawing and roleplaying them but their doll shells feel real... They can be changed, photographed, their stories communicated to others via their mere existence and they occupy actual 3d space rather than being only figments of the imagination.

 

The only reason I have these dolls is because I like them, that's it.^^; art and photography came second and I can say now that I love BJDs because of it but the only reason I decided to enter into this hobby is simply because "I like them" and I always want to have every little thing that catches my attention.

 

I suffer from depression, and I find the dolls therapeutic. Doing faceups and taking photos gives me somewhere to aim my lost sense of creativity, and it makes me feel a bit better at what I can accomplish. It gave me something to focus on and devote time to that wasn't just wallowing in my own pit of despair.