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Hey lovely people! Here are the dates for my small run of werewolf Violet dolls. I am limiting spaces to only five, and will not be printing any more unless my sandblaster radically changes my life lol. Stay tuned!
(I made the second graphic because her pose was so fun, but being horizontal, most people aren't gonna see it well on socials 🥲)
Some screenshots of my finished sphinx bjd! I'm going to start the process of prototyping this tomorrow (and start my most hated process of doing supports and text labels on the different pieces). But, I'm excited to have this doll in irl form soon!
Psst, I'm gonna do a short run of three Violetta spots tomorrow to help me get more resin and go towards travel expenses for NYC Doll Con. They should be finished before the con! I will offer shipping OR con pickup; you don't have to be attending the con to get one.
These orders will be the very first Violettas to exist! If you support this earlybird order, you'll be one of the first people to have one.
I'm prioritizing PIF orders, but will open to layaway in two days (Feb 1st) if the spots aren't filled by then.
I'll post a form here tomorrow and other socials for anyone who's interested. Aiming to do 11am Pacific US time.
Hey all, here's a preview of what the finished Violettas will look like! This one is in ResiOne's TH-BJD cream pink. I'll have her at my booth at NYC Doll Con next month.
I have six others whose parts I'm processing, and I'm still printing a few more! I'm kinda in printing hell right now tbh, but assembling this girl as a test has encouraged me a bit.
All four of the first earlybird orders are printed and I'll be processing their parts with the others.
A lil pic of the assembled Violetta prototype 💛
I'll have some more news for these soon, going to wait till I have her magnets next week and make a small revision to the inside of the tail base, and a version with slightly resized hands to see if I want to change it.
My next doll will by my sphinx, but as I'm currently printing big Violet orders as well as con prepping, I won't be doing an official release of this doll yet (or the sphinx!). But, I will be making some for the two cons this year. After the summer, when things are more settled, I'll be looking ahead to the sphinx and Violetta--in that order.
I do want a little less stress with my travel expenses, though, so I will likely have like... four or fewer of these available for a limited ordering period. I have to decide whether they'll be con pickup or whether I will just ship them out early to save on my luggage space lol. But I'll keep yall updated on that.
Proto-were-Violet had a little adventure yesterday
The tail works but I'm trying a third glue that I hope will be strong enough for the magnets this time.
Still aiming for October for the preorder, just fyi. I will print a V2 before then so she'll be at the proper scale and with the proper resin so I can make sure everything still functions as I want it.
Lil Harold photo dump from yesterday! These are the two full set gray/clear Harolds I just finished.
100% don't mean to vaguepost because I promise you multiple people have said this to me so, this is more like an FAQ but
I don't have "in stock" dolls. I can't afford that. TH-BJD is almost $50 per bottle and it takes several bottles for me to print a doll. I want to be really transparent with people because I don't like the sort of mystique people seem to have around artists. Making dolls is money- and time-intensive
In order for me to make a few dolls, I need to float that money, and I need to sell other dolls to fund that. So like, for the five dolls I made for NYC con, I sold four of them so I could cover (SOME OF) my travel expenses and the cost of making dolls to have at my booth there. People seemed to think that I just live in a house surrounded by dolls I generated (I kinda do tbh but I mean, of "in stock" dolls I am intending to sell at some point), which is nottttt the case and probably never will be the case except for VERY small handfuls of them for cons.
Because I print my dolls, I'm doing everything. I'm not complaining. I'm not overwhelmed. I do what I can within my means and capabilities. I see artists complain about being burnt out and stuff and I suspect it's because they don't properly plan/budget/have self-care? idk. I'm not burnt out. I just don't have like, the capacity that a larger company has because I don't have employees. I'm not a casting company. I print shit. I sculpt a doll for literally a year as I print other dolls. I have to clean and sand everything and do all the packaging and marketing shit myself so basically my time gets divided between several disciplines rather than me having an employee doing each different thing.
I think in the future I'm gonna be more clear with people and say I'm not going to re-release a doll, because after making like four different sculpts, I legit have no interest in going back to a previous sculpt, printing more of them, re-releasing them, or (when applicable) having more cast. So, I don't want to give people false hope by saying I will do something in the future. It sounds kinda lame like I'm trying to instill fomo by being like "this will be the only release! idk if I'll do this again!" but um. I lose interest like CRAZY because to me, the project is "finished" once I make a few, and my brain just like, moves on.
I'm not trying to sound like I hate my own work or something, because that isn't true, but after a few months of doing the same thing--like printing the same doll--I'm ready to do something else lmao. And because I am my own boss, and I haven't yet run out of ideas, I can! And I'm gonna
