Elderly Scuplts Anyone?

Elderly dolls are a rarety in the hobby, sadly. I own only one elderly doll, and she is no longer available, like dream high studio cuties.

She is an Otherside Dione:


She is both very massive and short, I love her. She is around 35-40 cm ? I never measured her.


Edit: there is currently The Broken Maiden making an old man sculpt but I do neither know when he will be available, nor how much he will measure or cost....

 

He's not available for sale currently (idk if he ever will be, only time will tell!) but The Broken Maiden recently showed their adorable old man doll!

 

I would love some grandma and grandpa dolls ... like the ones one can found in wooden/clay marionette variety really elderly people but till now it's mostly young looking dolls with some more "realistic" ones that can pass as 40s or 50s the most. I would love to see the elderly ones!!!!

 

Not a marionette-type doll, but JR Shick’s Arthur makes for a wonderfully gritty (and grumpy) old man.

 

When I clicked on the link for Laila she was available. Maybe try again?

I had that too, when I started out I absolutely loved those ultra cute faces of fairyland and soom (thinking erin and rico mermaids from back in the day) but then eventually grew to like more adult ish sculpts, which somehow are so hard to come by!? Like whyyy!? I also absolutely ADORED DC, but they discontinued almost all their dolls at this point and what made them stand out originally, like Elizabeth on the spider body, seems gone now sadly

 

Thats amazing!! Im glad you can get her awww and little sweaters sound fantastic.

Yeah, they were REALLY weird when I started in 2016. A bit too weird for me at first but they quickly grew on me and became my favorite companyand now? Hmm... Normal. A bit too anime fantasy ish imo. A bit too commercial. Lost their spark. I mean, that kid centaur body with the spikey legs and boney torso? AmAzing. All the youth sculpts? Amazing, Evangeling is not my favorite but still beautiful. I want one youth dc doll so badly I dont even totally care which sculpt. Their faces were very strange too to some extent and that was just amazing. I really miss those days, now sadly I think they are all getting a bit too anime, which is still great, dont get me wrong, but the mainstream arsthetic kf the hobby has shifted a bit

 

YEAHHHH I agree. Alan elf centaur was the first doll I really actually fell in love with. I obsessed over him for YEARS. Yes, YEARS. I was still in highschool back then and couldnt afford him then. I was very much in the doll needs to have a character and full story wave of that time so I fabricated a whole story and character to justify getting that doll eventand now it seems like he's taking over the whole story, although he's not the main character. Sure, Alan is far from a really crazy sculpt, but yeah. Their sculpts were too nice and I loved the weird proportions of their bodies :c

 

Haha yeah I feel the same. Although now I have him, I have a harder time bonding with the doll :/ had a bit of a breakthrough lately though, but man had him for a fee years already, life got in the way I didnt do much with any of my dolls.

Im sure you'll figure their names out! But names are hard, too many pretty names in the world!!!!
Storytelling is nice, but its a lot of work amd thinking and breaking your head over things and plots and stuff

 

I hope you have a good time, faceups are so much fun and crafting for dollies is everything!
I mean, dolls are pretty, one doesnt need stories to admire them I also love dolls just for their sake!

 

I got interested in having a an older male doll this year. I couldn't find what I wanted for the character, so I have been working on one.

Since I use dolls to have physical versions of characters I like, I like having some variety. The cast can't only be young hotties lol

 

message Lula doll about Laila she may well have one! she often has a few held back. The owner is pretty responsive on instagram lula doll

 

I wish there were more elderly-looking dragon dolls! A lot of them look quite ageless, which is lovely, but it would be nice to see some takes on older versions.

 

I have seen on Instagram Zjakazumi dolls, she has 1:12 scale grandparents, aunts, uncles, babies, kids, young slender, young chubby, both male and female. I think they are on topic.

 

One of the characters I'd love to have in doll form is an old guy... but with how hard it would be to find any sculpt that looks like him, I haven't been holding out a lot of hope of just stumbling across something and going 'oh, him!'. Still, it's always very cool whenever someone does sculpt older faces. Maybe someday I'll run across my dream guy.

 

This was not for me but I want to chime in: Have been dreaming about an elderly dragon a long time. Not thin like Chinese dragons but more like a cross between a classical Welsh dragon and cat Garfield. A bit chubby, enjoying a glass of wine and his naps on a gold horde.

Welcome!

 

I prefer actual dragons, but an anthro has potential to be really, really cool too! SpiritImprintDolls did a lovely job on their She is a Dragon!

This exactly! Not an old, wise Asian lung but a battle worn, ancient dragon with a great hoard that was hard-fought to obtain.

it’s a bit of a shame, I feel like Dream Valley may have had an opportunity to do something similar with their latest dragon, Griffon, but didn’t. Although I suppose it matches with the rider being younger as well.

 

I think there's a lot that I could do with blushing, but I'd want at least some sculpting in terms of, like... the immediate thing I think of is deep smile lines. Somewhat prominent nose and squared chin. What I should do is compile a reference sheet for each of the characters I most want to shell, that I can compare to sculpts as I find them...

 

I always go wild for a good nose! But yeah, even on a youthful face smile lines give so much-- one of my sister's dolls is a little boy with the biggest grin and the way it's sculpted is just so great.

 

So lovely to know there are elderly sculpt fans here! I'm not usually a fan of "small mature" sculpts but Laila is just something else entirely I kept watching over the last one in stock and ended up buying sooner than planned in fear of someone getting ahead of me I would've loved a fullset but oh well. At least I was able to get one. I was curious about the OB White resin color, but the only available one was in tan skin. It does fit an elderly sculpt though and I love her. I'm going to make a profile for her once I get her wig back on, the head is just on the borderline between 1/6 and 1/4 and the shape doesn't help lol.

 

Whoa! Thanks for sharing the links. It's actually nice to see more varieties of dolls and I'm all for the elderly looking ones. They have a charm to them that is different and it'll be interesting to see what other dolls are out there I'm not aware of.