Hey guys I saw this new book that is coming out soon, about making bjds. Looks to be similar to Yoshidas book. Amazon link
Thank you, Aliciea! That looks like a good book. Here is the Google translation of the above link, from Japanese into English.
Released on the 27th of this month and a pretty reasonable price as well, if only amazon uk will recognise the isbn when it's released i'll be fine, if not i'll have to shop through a service.
Here are some teaser pix from the book, grabbed from the link above. The cover. The parts. Two views of the knee joint. The finished girl doll. I had to mosaic these together from sceenshots because I couldn't figure out how to save the large images. Sorry about that.
It is not possible to shop directly from the Japanese Amazon store from the UK? If not, which service will you shop through? I do not have any experience shopping through a service.
i'd either use rinkya or crescent shop if i can't order through amazon uk or my bookshop with the isbn's
http://l-pupe.com/product here is where I've seen this book and other interesting stuff. If I have some $$$ to spend I would buy all.
This mook comes out today, 27 August 2010. 1890 Yen. ~$24USD. Maggs suggests Rinkya or Crescent Shop if you can't get it through your Amazon. ISBN-10: 4904850068 ISBN-13: 978-4904850060 Mook: 36 pages Publisher: building dragon; first edition (2010/8/27) Japanese Language
I'm not from the UK (Canada) but have ordered several movies through amazon.jp with no problem, can't see why you wouldn't be able to get a book as well. Only problem is they will only ship via express so that can be costly. Maybe hlj will pick this up eventually.
Did anyone pick up on the number of pages in this mook: 36 pages? The Yoshida Style Ball-Jointed Doll Making Guide is over 130 pages. At ~$24USD plus S&H, I wonder if that is a good buy for a 36 page booklet? How much new information could it have?
Has anyone ordered/received this book, yet, or is it too soon to ask? After looking it over, I noticed that the book only has 36 pages, and they're asking ~$24 for it, plus whatever the Shipping & Handling charges are, from Japan. I wonder if anything new about making an ABJD can be in 36 pages? Ryo Yoshida's book is ~132 pages.
Hi, If anyone is interested, I finally got this book. I found it an interesting way to build a doll but is a very short book. I don't feel to bad about the length of the book because I ordered a few dollmaking/figure sculpting books with it. Over all, if you have the Yoshida book, you really don't need this one.
Thank you so very much Tigerlily! Can you expound on the interesting way to build a doll explained in the mook? How is it different/the_same as other methods? How about the other doll_making/figure_sculpting books? Anything noteworthy? I have the Yoshida book. The thing about the Yoshida book is that it really isn't about making a resin BJD, although most of the technique could take you to the point of making silicon rubber molds. LTBADA is about making a porcelain BJD, and here again, there is a lot of that information that could get a doll maker up to the point of making silicon rubber molds for a resin BJD. What we really need is a good book about ball-jointed doll making that not only gets the doll maker up to the point of making silicon rubber molds for a RESIN BJD, but also step-by-steps the doll maker through making the silicon rubber molds, and casting them in Resin! The funny thing is, I know that such a book in dead tree form would probably be out-of-date in just a few years. A good example of that is Sculpture Casting by Dennis Kowal and Dona Z. Meilach, NY: Crown Publishers, 1972. It was already obsolete when I first saw it in 1980. That's just how plastics are.
Hi, I found the book had an interesting way to built a face, not what I'm use to. The book is very short, about 35 pages long. It goes through the making of the doll- but not in as much detail as the Yoshida book. From a reviewer on the Amazon JP website, where I brought the book, I found that the author used a clay that was specially made- it looked like and air dry clay mixed with wood to me. There is a full size picture of the actual doll in the book on graph paper with diagrams of each ball joint. You can copy the pictures, put them together and use them as a guide to sculpt from if you needed a guide. I agree that there is a need for a book that gets you up and running at casting bjd's and mold making for resin, but I don't think there is such a thing or will be for a long time. When I first saw the Yoshida book, I was amazed at the detail- I ordered it right away- I didn't care how much it cost. As far as finding a book that teaches you to cast bjd's in resin, I've never seen one. I've been making dolls for more than 15 years and I can tell you there are only a hand full of good doll sculpting books and books on making doll molds (plaster or otherwise) even fewer. Your best bet at learning casting and mold making for resin are either the people on this forum or checking out a art forum for action figures/ modelers. One of the other books I picked up at Amazon JP, was a book on sculpting models, casting and molding them. I found it interesting that the orginal model- in this case an anime girl was sculpt in paper clay, then coated with Mr.Surface and then a mold was made of the cut apart model and it was casted in resin. I don't speak/read Japanese, so I just looked at the pictures which were very detailed. I picked up 3 different book on the same subject and they all used the same techniques. I hope this helped.
I was looking at Aimi's tutorial and saw she had a link to a book she's recently published on doll making. Making the first doll
