#BJD customization

[bunnyscribblesbjd]

tiny faceup :)

this girl is a garden of dolls nabiyette in normal resin

[beetleboyoart]

Over the past few months I’ve been OBSESSED with BJD and doll customizations and I finally did one last night!!

This is my Penny’s Box custom of Red Fox, the Last picture above was the before, and I am absolutely in love with her ahhh she is SERVING!! I’m really proud of it ahh 🥺🦊🍂

Some progress pics below! I also unstrung her to do some body blushing, I also edited her outfit to suit her new colour palette a little more! (Her original socks were also bright orange but I found these brown ones on kikagoods and liked them way more!!)

[izasfaceups]

This fancy gal is a Mystic Kids Petra in normal yellow skin and belongs to my wife. She was a fun sculpt to work on and bring to life!

Yes, she is holding a miniature working compass in her hand! I love little details like that.

She is on the V2 1/3 girl body, which is nice but hoo boy does it have a lot of locks. It almost feels over engineered with the locks in all the joints. Getting her from sitting back to a standing position is a fight! But at least the body is pretty and poses well, no idea why the feet are so small though...

Want to see more of my work or commission me? Then please check out my website at www[dot]IzasFaceUps[dot]com!

[renarys]

just a little compilation of the plethora of custom doll stuff i've been making in the past several months :D currently featuring: Rani (Soom R.Breccia), Rinshi (Soom Onyx), and Yeomra (Withdoll Margery)

and so, here's a longass detailed ramble on my current state of progress so far:

fully modeled & printed rani's new body (not shown here) and dragon parts! but still need to do sanding/clean up and reprint her forearms with adjustments. also should reeeallyyy make her custom hands and feet since i'm just using some spare super gem ones rn and they just look WAY too tiny for her lmao.....

dye job for rinshi! she still needs a faceup badly though...! also i really wanna wipe rani's face, dye her properly (she's currently airbrush tanned), and then redo it at the same time i paint rinshi, but i also like her having a face still while working on styling her wig... and i know the whole process there is gonna take me quite awhile so.... mrrrr. (continues procrastinating on it)

modeled & printed horns for rinshi and yeomra too~ still brainstorming how i wanna do rinshi's dragon tail, though, which is going to be super long and also Quite An Adventure. orz

wigs! i've been slacking a bit on putting together the part for yeomra even though she has the simplest hairstyle of the three by far. meanwhile rinshi has some partially swept back bangs with her hairline showing and i'm going to try ventilating a lace front for her and that'll be Yet Another Adventure lmao... but at least in the meantime, i DO really love how her hair streaks containing multiple shades of pink came out. it makes me think of candy... and lesbians. and I Love It. (i've also started attempting styling on rani's wig and i'm also very much procrastinating on that too, lord, help me)

and finally, my most recent work, accessories for rani's outfit!! this isn't everything, either - some things still need sanding, some reprinting, and the stuff for her shoes aren't even ready to print yet - but oh my god LOOK AT THOSE TINY CHROMED BUTTONS AND THE SUPER NEON PINK CRYSTAL PARTS. I'M OBSESSED WITH ALL THIS STUFF. SO COOL!!!!! sooo cool..... girl i just love shiny things and transparent things and pink things.... wowie. wow. i made all that......? wow............

but man. it's been years since i've been this motivated to actually make stuff for my BJDs and now that i finally have the 3d resin printer i've dreamed of for years... it's so crazy guys. it's magical. now i just want to make ALL the dolls...!!!! (whether i actually FINISH any of them is another story entirely, but hey, i'll at least MAKE them. ...maybe!)

[cryptic-forge]

some wips of my newest project!

this one will have hair, maybe a cape of some sort, and possibly mechanical wings, but i'm not quite sure how i'll approach any of those things, so i'm posting her as she currently is. i've really enjoyed doing projects that involve both making the base sculpt and a fair bit of post-printing customization, and painting & adding details to this doll was mega fun to spend my weekend on. the sculpt itself just kind of happened; couldn't exactly tell you why she is a steampunk violin demon girl, except that it was what i found fun in the moment.

[kerosen]

my little object head families 🥹

[gmanmedias]

clawdeen draculaura frankie

lagoona cleo ghoulia

[marzipanrose]

I just finished the wing dyeing/painting on this boy and ❤❤❤! So happy with how he came out.

[karkkidoesartsandcrafts]

I made a doll

After making historical doll clothing, I got this idea that what if I made a doll myself. I was coveting a doll I could sew clothes for and then pose them for the clothing, but I don't really like that much of any of the design of commercial posable dolls and I'm broke so I can't in good conscience buy an artisan ball jointed doll (and I anyway don't like how thin most of them are). So I did the reasonable thing - I bought very cheep air dry clay (I do have "normal" clay but I don't have access to ceramic oven and it takes much longer to dry it and burn it etc, and I was literally just trying this out) and just started making it myself. I didn't plan ahead because it felt very overwhelming since I have never customized dolls beyond making them clothing and repainting their faces nor have I ever even owned a ball jointed doll. I went with the learning through mistakes rather than theory. The route I most often take. So just bear with me (real doll makers I'm sorry for the cringe).

Without further ado, here's Aune, my vampire OC (from my wip Be All My Sins).

I wanted to make her look like a porcelain doll, because I love their aesthetics. I did lean towards more realism than they were historically like though. Here's all her body parts before painting. (Some of the pieces in the picture are not actually fully smoothed and sanded, but it is right before I started painting the face. My brain just works in a way, where I jump around between the working stages. I'm very much incapable of doing anything organized and straight forwardly.) I have been wanting to do clay sculpting for a long time (it was so fun, when I was a kid in afternoon art school), and this was small scale enough to be manageable so it was so much fun. I will be definitely making more.

Here's her face before and after the paint. I'm quite happy on how the face sculpt turned out, but the paint job was a bit messy. As I mentioned I have done couple of repaints of doll faces, but I'm still not very good at it. When I paint traditionally I'm not often this detail oriented and painting on a 3D surface feels very different.

Here she is before and after getting her hair. I made her hair from wool yarn just by unraveling the yarn. It's the first time I made doll hair and I didn't want to buy proper doll hair for this or learn to curl it (I don't even have any curling irons or literally any other hair shaping appliances than a hair dryer, which I don't even use for my hair but for painting with water colors). It doesn't fall down nicely, but it has roughly the look I was going for.

Because I didn't plan at all ahead, the proportions are a little wonky (her arms especially are too thin imo and he legs could have a little more shape too) and the joints are not great. Worst of the joints was the hips, which attach to the torso in a weird way. The biggest issue that I had was not taking into account how much the varnish would add to the size. It's not a visible amount, but enough to make fit of the joints very poor and basically making it very hard for her to stand. (Her index fingers already broke of when she fell from my desk after I had made her stand there djfkjds. I was able to glue them back.)

Here's couple more picture of her!

It's not perfect at all, but I do still love her if only because it's such a cool feeling to be able to just have a lump of clay and two weeks later have a posable doll. It somehow feels magical to be just able to make a real physical thing from scratch.

[coolcatsodalite]

As it turned out, i actually had some blank eyes lying around. So i quickly painted them and they came out perfect! Just the right size. So i was able to put her all together. Yay Perona! All i need to do now is make her some hair bows (i used stickers in LINE this time. Note how i forgot in one pic lol), and maybe some kind of crown.

I love her so much. I'm going to get her so many dresses.

Finally have a use for this wig

[frenzyarts]

Introducing Bibi!!! She’s not quite done but since she’s almost together I wanted to show her off :D

I did her faceup and paws myself! I also painted her some kitty ears and a tail but I’m having trouble getting the ears to attach to the head so for now she’s in a rainbow high cat headband that really doesn’t match her aesthetic at all 😅

I’m also considering changing her eyes. I kinda like the dark red look but they don’t really match my vision for her. I had other eyes that I ordered for her but they didn’t end up looking right :/ I have plans to get different eyes in the future but for now these will do!

Here’s a little before and after, plus her next to Lulu. They’re the same model but with totally different vibes!!

[bunnyscribblesbjd]

luna repaint from a while ago (last september). she needs new eyes lol

luna is a dollzone luna in yellow resin

[shrimpleasthat77]

Yes I did spend 86 dollars on a BJD just to make it orochimaru again. He is my pretty little princess and he shall get the best I can give him.

[izasfaceups]

I decided to repaint my Simply Divine Thomas in Venetian Sunrise skin to match a new DFA 70cm body cast in volks normal skin. I really love how he turned out, though his eyebrows took on a life of their own. I still like them!

His old faceup was matched to Dollzone's 2015 normal yellow skin, which looked out of place on the paler DFA body.

Yes, I got him different eyes, again. I just can't seem to settle on any specific pair. But at least he is handsome!

Want to see more of my work or commission me? Then please check out my website at www[dot]IzasFaceUps[dot]com!

[kabukiaku]

fellow doll enthusiasts....

can anyone appoint to me who takes in custom BJD doll commissions? I've been wanting to make my own Omega ghoul doll but, he has a body type that is not common in dolls sadly. Esp male dolls. And I don't have the skills for digital 3d sculpting, nor access to a resin printer.

Anytime I find an artist who makes their own BJD dolls I'm met with 'takes no custom orders'. So, I'm hoping there are doll artists out there that can do 3d custom sculpts for dolls. I'd be willing to commission and collaborate as I have a design in mind for the doll body + head. (unmasked Omega! i want my vision become real.)

reblog to spread the word to fellow dollbr enthusiasts and crafters!

[cryptic-forge]

a custom commission for @honig-bienchen! my final commission project for the year, and one of the most fun. i've been wanting to make a dragonborn doll for a while, but had not gotten around to it, and this character design was incredibly cute & a joy to work with.