Chimera-Dolls

✦ Kery | 31 | 🇭🇲 | ♿ | She/Her | ⚢ ✦ Just a weird ND lesbian with wierd-goth energy who will cry about cute plushies and dolls. Unwitting Rainbow High collector, artist-turned-doll-customiser and BJD enjoyer. This is the doll containment side-blog, I follow from @chipped-chimera! Art main @Kerynean. { Notice: This blog is BJD Recast Neutral. Anti-crusaders do me a favour and block me. Thank you. }

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Hey, I'm Kery and welcome to my doll-containment zone! I'm a 31 y/o Lesbian and disabled artist based in Australia whose recently regained her passion for dolls and doll customising! I follow from my main @chipped-chimera. You can find my Art Blog @kerynean.

What I Collect - Primarily interested in the Rainbow High doll line for its beautiful sculpt, great articulation (well, for the older ones) and inset eyes allowing for huge customisation potential.

Current pet project plans for Rainbow/Shadow High:

Recasting eyes to possibly create a custom resin mold for detailed eyes with depth.

Last Unicorn inspired doll (Base: Margot De Pearla)

Forever slot for a custom Rainbow High doll for @theviridianbunny for awakening the doll brainworm from slumber. 💖

Other planned projects:

Doll clothes (micro-crochet/sewing patterns) in 1/6 and 1/3 scale.

3D modelling for printing (doll accessories to scale + maybe a ball jointed doll project).

Resin Eyes

Doll Jewellery

Various faceups (Rainbow High, BJD, maybe a Monster High G3 Draculara)

Blythe Doll??

Venatrix (Personal multi-fandom OC) doll.

PSA for BJD Collectors / DNI ↓

This blog is a BJD Recast Friendly/Neutral space. My official stance on recast BJD is highly nuanced and I'm not going to waste my time explaining myself repeatedly to people interested in creating drama. If you want my full statement on recasts you can read it here. I'm here to enjoy dolls, not to please everyone or join your crusades. Do me a favour and just block me. If you have any variation of 'pro-artist' or 'anti-recast' in your profile, try to provoke unsolicited arguments with me about this or I see you sending nasty comments about this topic to anyone online or offline I'm probably blocking you. This is for the protection of my mental health. This toxic attitude I've been seeing in the community is what made me recast friendly in the first place. You are not welcome here, please respect my space. I am not here to please you. To anyone with recast dolls - you are safe around me.

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cozy cozy armchair noodles.

these are just fun to make, and i love the pink petal one especially. regardless, they must go; i'll be posting both for sale on my ko-fi momentarily.

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Welcome 🛁🫧Soapy Bathwater🫧🛁

⭐️after 3 long months since the start of their creation they are finally complete⭐️

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Draculaura and Count Fabulous on a hunt... for some good shots. 😁

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a golden harpy, with their abundance of wings.

i've been vibing with warm, earthy color palettes lately, and have a couple of other brown & gold projects in progress. this one started as a sphinx, but i was not feeling it & pivoted to a harpy. i'm quite happy with the feathers; i always seem to fuck up projects that use real feathers and end up with a messy result, but this one works.

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emmy, weary from her wandering, found comfort in a bed of autumn leaves, where the gentle murmurs of the forest and the rustling wind lulled her to sleep 🍂

[santanielworkshop]

We were surprised to find that Tumblr's algorithms apparently recognize our work as AI-generated images. This is very upsetting, because each of our dolls is made entirely by hand. We make our dolls in mixed media. The body is sewn from artificial fur, and then connected to acrylic-painted plastic parts (head and limbs). We hope that over time, the algorithms here will stop recognizing the sculpture and the art doll as something generated.

[cryptic-forge]

Hello! Do you have any tips or tutorials you could direct to on how to make 3d sculpting for dolls? I have some 3d sculpting knowledge, but I wouldn't know how to tackle joints for printing

no tutorials unfortunately, since i figured this stuff out for myself. but i can do a quick rundown on how i do it.

firstly, i sculpt my dolls in pieces from the start. i find it easier to keep the joint locations & shapes in mind during the whole process, rather than making a solid statue and chopping it up later. when i'm almost done with sculpting, i add spheres to all round parts of the joints and blend them in; this way i don't need to worry about masking them off during sculpting, or accidentally deforming them.

next, i use the boolean modifier to cut the sockets, as demonstrated on this random wip file.

in the case of this shoulder, i would put a boolean difference modifier on the torso, and then pick the upper arm as the object to cut with, and apply.

which creates a socket. because 3d printing isn't always 100% accurate, i leave 1% of tolerance so the ball can actually fit the socket even if both of them warp ever so slightly in printing.

after the sockets, everything else is quite similar. i cut the elastic channels, magnet holes, and hollows inside large parts using a variety of stock shapes and tools i've pre-made to speed things up.

this, for example, is a tool i use for cutting channels into upper arms and thighs. just position the tool in the middle [unlike in this one, where i've accidentally placed it crooked], put a boolean modifier on the part you are cutting, and select the shape as the cutting tool.

i don't know about how anyone else does these things, but this way has worked well for me.

[unniedolls1]

Lucie is a little ghost 👻 inspired by the autumn season, including the warm colors of September and October, the Halloween season, and the grey and foggy days in November. You can buy her for €350 + shipping cost🥰 http://unniedolls.com

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Rainbow High doll leaks

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🎒 My Trendy Doll 🎒

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[ur-daily-inspiration]

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[horrorfag420]

HAPPY FAGTOBER EVERYBODY

[prometheus-adam]

Finally, the long awaited sequel to

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Posted by 你猜我是火柴人吗

Doll by Telesthesia Doll

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Finally getting started!

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Moreee. Now with sparkles. Of course I did this on a windy/rainy day so gonna have to wait a bit to do another MSC layer. Eyelashes coming soon, probably.

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Posted by 你猜我是火柴人吗

Doll by Telesthesia Doll (Muranzhi / 牧染之)

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Posted by 浅秋澜依

Doll by XAGADOLL (Mini Ash) Clothing by 神乐面面 Makeup by 水月沉迷少年记 Shamisen by 神奇的Emma