would like to share a few of my dolls

i haven't been to the joint in perhaps too long, but i've actually been working on my dolls - though not the ones i had originally started to share here on the forum way back when…

i've had one girl cast in a small batch of resin by donn at bishounen house, but the rest of mine have been OOAK dolls in premier/flumo. i've found that as i sculpt more and more of my own dolls, i'm interested in company made dolls less (not that they're bad - but i seem to have a very stylized aesthetic ^^;;;; ) eventually i'd love to get good enough at photography to put together books of pictures of my dolls like a lot of the japanese artists do (i think it's the only way i could "sell" my dolls ^^;;; ) in the meantime i tend to post lots of pics to my blog and occasionally to facebook.

so i thought i'd share a couple here to help get my feet wet again in the forum - i'd love to hear what people think - i have the hardest time getting dolls to actually stand so i'm really looking forward to scouring threads for advice.

um, so i guess first up would be kirin - this is the girl that donn cast in resin for me:



but before i had her fully finished, i had actually finished this girl - kame - who is 100% premier underneath a million layers of white gesso to help seal the clay (not 100% effective, but a good start) :



i also did one when i was going to NIADA last year as part of their challenge "walking on sunshine" - she was sculpted then cast in flumo and painted… i'm not 100% happy with her but for now she'll stay as is (or i may just cast another one in the future to tweak until i'm happy… )



the latest one to get finished is plague - she's made from some flumo cast parts and premier then painted fully to help seal/protect everything:

 

lol - actually my biggest problems are the hips swinging out perpendicular to the sides… i haven't figured out how i keep doing that… my other main problem are feet not being flat (though with kirin i actually sculpted her to have high heel feet, but it didn't work out 100% as i had hoped… however she's quite stable in high heel shoes! )

i try to keep my channels as straight as possible for the elastic, though i tend to have a very curvy aesthetic which is probably pulling elastic of kilter, like you say - but usually the legs don't buckle, they just swing wildly, but with the premier i'm afraid of stringing too tightly.

i use 1~1.5mm sized elastic in the bodies of my dolls and .8mm in the arms… the dolls i'm sculpting are roughly 35~40cm tall, but very thin. i actually have a picture of kirin (who is the tallest of the dolls i've finished) next to a dollzone mini girl body (the one with the wing in the back) - i have to say it was quite a shock even for me to see her next to a company doll!