ABOUT

Hi!
Our site is about "How to make ball jointed dolls and other things for them".
Firstly you should understand that you'll need to spend money and time to get good materials, learn basic info, find good instruments and care about protection your health, cos some materials can be dangerous for your skin, lungs and etc.
Our command is little but we'll try to post here helpful information, if you are a cool author and you make ball jonted dolls, make up, wigs, dolls' cloth/shoes and etc. you're welcome. We'll be glad to take in our command artists who'll be ready to help the project. We'll try to set all author's contact if we can find. If you see somebody's master class, please, contact us and we'll set the authour's contact.

So, what you'll need?

ANATOMY:
Even if you're going to make only stylized dolls, you should understand that without knowledges about anatomy, you won't get good results. Even very strange dolls have proportions. Really, it's not so difficult to understand, you just need to find good easily understood materials and practice on sculpture putty(photo).
Sculpture putty is very cheap material for training, you can find different sorts of it: hard or soft. You won't spend lots of money for training and you can use this material many times.
We decided not to make special theme about anatomy cos there are lots of good material in the Internet. For example, Gottfried Bammes Anatomy. You also can find good examples on Pinterest. I want to recommend you to registrate here and make boards for your work:"anatomy", "what inspires me" and others. This resourse is really useful, cos you can save picture into your board from anywhere. Also look at "topology" head/body(example), it will help you to understand the principal of body construction.

• Protraction and why you should do it.
  For better understanding of joints work you'll need to make a Protraction/Scheme of you doll. Face-forward and side-face. Here you can look at smart dolly schems (Pinterest link board).
  Please, don't copy these schems. Don't steal anyone's work. Use this files as examples.

we are going to make special theme about morality in bjd making

MATERIALS:

types and link to materials theme

INSTRUMENTS:

types and link to the theme

SAFETY ARRANGEMENTS

BALL JOINTS' TYPES

FOR DOLLS (wigs, clothes...)