~20cm Dolls 1:12 dolls, sample casts Sept 10 '14

Oh, she's beautiful! I really love her proportions and the detail you've put into that tiny little body. Her torso reminds me of some kind of classical statue somehow - really lovely tummy and hips. And her face is gorgeous, very realistic. Excellent work!

 

omg your work is wonderful. her bum is lovely!!!! what material do you sculpt in?

 

Wow, she looks amazing! Her proportions and details are beautiful, and she's so tiny. XD You are very talented! Can't wait to see the results with her wrists.

 

She's so delicate! And she does look like a sculpture. I think it's the fluidity of her lines. Lovely work :-) Just one little thing... perhaps it's because of the angle in the photos or that's the way you wanted it, but may be her head cap area could be a tinsy bit larger?

 

She is so pretty and real-looking. Just awesome, want to see more

 

wow!!! so tiny and magnific!!!

 

gorgeous! I would love to have this doll in my desk :p

 

Would doing a small closed loop, instead of elastic, be an option? Like this: http://www.favecrafts.com/Techniques/How-to-Wire-Wrap-Head-Pins ... you can use a short length of wire and make a wrap on either end.

 

I can't believe how much detail you got into such a tiny figure! She's gorgeous. I love her!

 

wow thats really interesting - so fantastic! the detail and realism. So it looks like you are carving away the apoxie from a general form? Then how do youget it so smooth ? after the carving? (the rest of your doll looks so blissfully smooth!)

 

She is lovely! I tried apoxie sculpt once but it was terrible. I must have gotten a bad batch because I could barely even smash the stuff in my hands. There is only one thing bothering me about this and that is where the side of the breast connects to her rib cage. It is naturally not such an abrupt angle. Since breasts are mostly fat they connect to the side smoothly.



Besides that, her proportions are lovely and I love how smooth she looks. Very nice, can't wait to see her finished.

 

i think this might be true for a lot of women, but in my case (my figure is much like this doll: fairly wide shoulders and wide set breasts with nipples pointing slightly outward instead of forward) i DO have this significant crease along the side of my breasts... i think with the proportions and figure of this doll, it is very suitable n.n

 

What material are you going to cast her in?

 

beautiful feet! Do you plan to open her eyes? or you plan to paint them.
I love your girl, and that size is perfect

 

I love her aesthetics, I found her breasts quite refreshing as they look unique. You did a wonderful job on her. As far as the wrist joint issue... The only thing I can say is that to me it looks like your ball joint there is larger then you would have sculpted it due to the need for the groove needed for the elastic. Martha Armstrong-Hand, the author of 'Learning to be a Doll Artist' a book I find so very educational, would put a bar in the forearm before the elbow and at the wrist and then put a small spring from one to the other. I realize this is an antiquated and complicated system, but she used a lot of fishing type wires, things that came on lures and weights for her metal hooks, maybe you can find something there that could help? The Composimold sounds interesting. I look forward to hearing your investigation of it.

 

Pity that casting material didn't work out. I looked into it after you linked it and it looked so interesting!

Your heads are wonderful! I love how much detail and realism you can manage to pack into such a TINY space. The head on the left seems -ever- so slightly masculine to me somehow though - maybe it's just the lighting, but (covering half of it with my thumb on my screen) I think it's mainly the line of the brow and forehead that gives that impression, possibly also a little bit of the hollowness of the cheekbone area? It's hard to pinpoint exactly what it is.

 

Wow, that's 1/12?? How did you ever get so much detail in something this small?

Your girl looks fantastic!

 

all those heads and pieces of body are so gorgeous. I want it all! XD

 

What a lovely little doll! I hope casting goes well for you!

 

That's a odd looking cast, thank goodness you thought ahead to try out different silicon molds! "Bubbly" is a new description... LOL

I like the new head! The lips are fuller and the jaw line is more feminine.
imo, more cheek fat is prettier. I think a high cheekbone + round cheeks in a woman's face indicates a curvaceous body! Like Jennifer Lawrence.

 

Woah, looks amazing and so tiny!

All the details in her makes me woah! Awesome

 

Nice Sailor. I am looking forward to see her produced and completed. Let me know about the casting service when it is done.

By the way, you can always tape cracks on the floor. Can you at least see it?

 

Fantastic work!!!

 

She is so stunningly beautiful, the smooth transitions over the joints is really remarkable at her size. Her hands and face are divine, I can't believe the detail you've managed to achieve. Crossing my fingers that your sample cast comes back perfect so that we can see the whole doll cast soon, you must be so excited!
I'm sorry to hear you lost one of her heads, I hope it finds its way back to you somehow.

 

She is immaculate! Your torsos are works of art in themselves - I just love how you sculpt them so much! )

 

Oh WOW! You are my hero. I want tiny dolls like this, and that is what got me pointed in the direction of BJDs.

Your doll is just stunning though, and if I had seen it 2 months ago, I probably wouldn't have even started trying to make my own if you said you were going to start selling them. Now I kind of like the process of sculpting. I hope to be half as good as you someday.

 

This is where I'm at right now. Finally managed to get some beads and circle templates, but I feel like not having an actual manufactured BJD in my possession is needlessly hindering my efforts at understanding the process. I understand it pretty well in theory, but I'm still pretty fuzzy in terms of the reality.

My first pair of bjds are 1/12 scale and the details are just so finnicky. I've been thinking about getting back to work on them, but I'm going to need to completely reengineer most of their joints and I just haven't been able to muster the enthusiasm for that.

It's an immense relief to me to see other people's work and learning how their processes are going.

Your dolls are lovely and I've been admiring them on your flickr since I started finding people to follow there.

I'm so glad that there are so many other people working on this art form, it really helps inspire me to figure out where I fit in.

 

her face is stunning! I'm never usually a fan of double joints, but on your doll they just, work! It may sound weird but it makes my eyes feel good XD

 

Oh I've hardly posted anything on flickr(I was rather surprised to learn I had one in the first place, a hold-over from years ago when Yahoo absorbed Flickr), most of my progress has been uploaded to my art blog or the AnthroAddicts BJD forum.

Here's the most current picture of the smallest bjd I'm working on Tanya can wear barbie clothes!. She was originally going to be 8-inches tall, but I very quickly realized that that was way too small for my stubby fingers, so I increased her proportions another inch. Here she is with her mate. I have a lot more pictures of them, and I might get around to putting those up on flickr one of these days. I just got them sorted out into their own bags and finished their eyes, but I'm rebuilding their heads a bit.

Here are the mid size dolls I'm working on before I tore them apart again. The Kits. I'm debating taking a break on them and working on the MSD/Mature versions of them while I redesign their kit/cub bodies to be chubbier and more childlike.

And here is the hybrid bjd-plush I'm building. Spooksie Ragbearer Those are the first pictures I took of her, presently I've cut apart her torso joints, begun sculpting her teeth and the first 'bones' of her limbs. Waiting on the present layers to dry before I start bulking and smoothing the joints. After the mache is as smooth as I can get it I plan on painting several coats of wood glue to seal and reinforce the structure, then I'll probably start working on the soft parts of her.

I don't think I'm going to have too much trouble with the joints, I've had a very clear idea of what I want from them since I first started designing them, I was just having difficulty primarily with trying to form perfectly round balls freehand. The biggest change will be that I'm going to cut free most of the joints from the limbs so that I can turn them into double joints.

But yeah, it's really great to be here, and I'm beside myself with joy at all the new things I'm learning and seeing all the niches I will fit into.

 

I gotta say, this is the first I've heard of a dapping block, and it has been added to my wishlist for future reference. I think my beads and plastic circle template will let me get by in the meantime. I was basically thinking of either making my own version of a dapping block out of one of my other types of clay, if not just forming them freehand and then running them through the circle template.

I'm probably going to post here once I get my things more organized and a bit more presentable. I mean, I know that the point is to post things in progress, but I want my threads to be fairly neat, I'm not sure that showing every layer is all that necessary. Though I might put up Spooksie soon, I feel like she's coming together more quickly than the smaller dolls were.

 

Don't leave me behind, Sailor....
Damn you are cranking up like a mochiiiine!

 

Gorgeous! And I'm excited about this new fellow as well.

 

Oh my goodness these little ladies are just SO absolutely amazing. I really cannot tell you how impressed (read as: Jealous!) with how much detail you got into dolls so very tiny! I love seeing the progress of them.

 

How absolutely lovely they are!

 

It's so great to come here and see the steps, I had only seen bits and pieces on Tumblr uvu haha She's a darling from start to finish.

 

Super happy that you were able to get successful sample casts of this doll. I know that you really wanted her home before you headed out.

 

ahh i have been stalking your progress from afar but your work so incredible !