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Hello, this is Sea Hedgehog, and you're here again on

my channel, A Jest in Sober Earnest, and I thought I

would do another 1 of the BJD Addicts prompts. The

reason I'm doing these [so many now] is because I'm

slowly getting the hang of the YouTube

subtitling/closed captions.

--[to cat:] do you want to leave?—

system, and I need more practice to be a little bit better

at it. I think I actually like it better than doing it through

iMovie, which is what I was doing before. It was

definitely not made for that.

But, I don't know if I've quite figured out how to do it

right. So I thought you could save your progress; you

actually can't [have to hope it autosaves] and it also

doesn't seem that you can go in and edit them if you

screw up, so I guess the same as iMovie…slightly…With

iMovie so long as you save the iMovie you can go in and

edit, but I usually delete them because my computer

doesn't have very much storage.

But with this, you can't even access them at all. So that's

a little interesting. But I think what it does do is it opens

up the possibility that the subtitles can be put through

Google Translate and translated into other languages,

so hopefully this makes my videos a little bit more

accessible than they currently are.

Not necessarily that everybody needs to watch my

videos. But just like it's really frustrating when you want

to watch something but you can't understand what

they're saying. And you know, I talk funny sometimes

too, so a little explanation across the bottom of the

screen can only help.

So I thought, just because it seemed like a fun topic and

I think it's cheerful and encouraging and positive, that

I'm going to do the Prompt #43, which is "What inspires

you in the BJD hobby?"

But I'm going to do it a little bit differently. I want to say

before I start the movie that there are a lot of people

here on YouTube that inspire me. I don't know that I

want to name people specifically because I'm actually

subbed to like over…Oh, yeah. So I'm subscribed to 735

people on YouTube. Not all of them are doll people, but

a significant proportion of them are doll people.

So I don't want to name anybody specifically on

YouTube because I'm going to f*ck it up and I'm going

to miss somebody, and that would be really sad. So

we're just not going to do it at all.

I will say, 3 things, 1) I really do value the people here on

YouTube and I try to comment on all of your videos and

express that appreciation. 2) If I haven't commented on

your video, odds are I've liked it, and 3) if I haven't liked it

or commented on your video, it probably means that I

don't know that you exist.

So if you have made BJD videos and you want to post

something down below and say that, I would be happy

to subscribe to you and comment on your videos

because I love watching more BJD videos and lately

there have been only 1 or 2 or 3 videos a day from the

people that I'm subscribed to, even thought I'm

subscribed to 735 people. So yeah, if you could give me

more BJD videos, I will love watching them.

So instead, what I thought I would do it talk about my

progression and tastes in the doll hobby in general, so

it's not even necessarily the BJD hobby, although most

of it is.

And so what I'm going to try to do is, because I don't

want to get in terrible trouble with these people because

I'm using their photos. I'm going to talk about them, try

to link their name on the screen—I think you can do this

on YouTube—and then I will maybe show a photo, like

their icon, so you can get an idea of who they are, but

then at least, they've chosen the photo to represent

themselves in public, so hopefully they'll be OK with

me doing that.

So I tried to choose inspiration that I felt like summed

up who I was at the moment. So when I started out in

the doll hobby, I guess, I was in the doll hobby as a kid,

kind of, I had dolls and I played with dolls, but I was

never like "into" into dolls.

And I think an aspect of that is lack of customizability.

And I think I talk about this in one of my intros, so I'm

sorry if this is a repeat. I do this all the time, I'm like, "I

already talked about this, but I'm going to keep going."

Pullips were my 1st experience with being able to

customize a doll. So an artist who was really

influential in my first exposure to Pullip dolls was an

artist named Bee. I don't know what her last name is [or

even if "Bee" is her real [nick]name], but she's the creator

of Zombuki.

And it's a very graphic, colorful, kind of abstract faceup

[style] on Pullip dolls that's not particularly realistic. It

relies a lot on color blocking and I think it was originally

inspired by America's Next Top Model [and Harajuku

fashion].

So here's the information here, hopefully. But I think

she's since stopped customizing Pullips.

So there's this artist and another artist called RequiemArt. This artist was older, and I think she'd been

in the Pullip hobby for longer and she posted doll

customization videos. So her tutorials were the tutorials

that I used. I think at the beginning there's a disclaimer

that says "all of these customization techniques have

the potential to damage your doll beyond repair," like,

"proceed with caution," and I was like "Yes! This is me!

I'm so excited about this! 'Damage your doll,' this

sounds legit and so I followed those tutorials and never

looked back and took a Dremel to other larger, more

expensive dolls in the future.

So a combination of this very interesting artistic style

with the freedom and permission to go ahead and

customize dolls however you like I think was really

influential in my early exposure to the doll hobby. So

RequiemArt, hopefully there's a link here. We'll find out.

And then, I was exposed to BJDs. I guess, technically I

was exposed to BJDs before. I didn't know what they

were, and I didn't fully appreciate what they were until I

got into Pullips because some Pullip collectors also

collected BJDs.

So I think I knew what they were, but it only really ever

cemented that this was something that I had to have

—not had to have, but I would really like to pursue after

getting involved with Pullip collectors and customizers.

So the 1st artist that I was exposed to whose dolls

really drew me in was this artist called TanyaStyle, and I

think she's from Indonesia [Thailand]

I did manage to find a picture of the 1st version of the

BJD that was really inspiring to me when I was first

exposed to them, and that's a doll named Reina.

And Reina had a boyfriend named Yu. They were both

MSD Bimong Narae and Narin, and she has this

photoset that I can't find now that was like—well, 2

photosets really—1 they were laying on top of eachother

and the doll was stroking her boyfriend's hair. And that

really illustrated to me how much emotion you could get

into these dolls and this doll could be posed in slight

changes, like slight changes in wrist flexion and slight

head tilts and the feeling of the photograph would be

totally different. Which I felt like was sort of unique to

BJDs.

Yeah, I can't find that photoset now and then there was

another photoset where they were seated in a

photobooth. Like, I think Reina was on Yu's lap and she

kisses his cheek, and the series of photos looked so

candid and real that if you didn't know that you were

looking at a doll, like you couldn't recognize from the

sculpt, you would think that they were real. And so I

think that was really influential to me.

I don't know, for the longest time, I was like, "I'm going

to get a Bimong Narae!" Clearly that's not what

happened, but yeah. And this was when French resin

was super popular and so I think eventually Reina was

replaced with a urethane resin doll because the other 1

had horribly yellowed and she chose a new faceup, the

new 1 had bright red lipstick and cat eyes and a very

geometric bob.

And I think, I don't know if it represented a transition for

me in the hobby or if it was just such a change in this

artist's style, but the replacement that she chose for

that doll was never as compelling to me as my initial

exposure to Reina.

And I think a component of that is the emotional

attachment you have to your initial introduction to

something, and so that's why I think this artist is

significant [for me] because, for whatever reason, I have

such an attachment to this Reina.

Another 1 was DomaDoll and she has also I think since

left the hobby. It looks like now she's a porcelain artist.

She does a lot of interesting sculpting where she

merges the characteristics of Bisque dolls with pottery,

like teacups, and stuff like that. I think this artist really

bridged the gap between Pullips and BJDs for me

because her dolls were the first that had very bizarre

proportions.

Her 1st doll Olga [Okja], and I'll hopefully link her

Instagram here. I don't know if you'll be able to find

photos of Olga [Okja] [in it]. I didn't look very hard, but I

couldn't find her original website, but I know that doll

kind of made waves in the BJD community because it

was 1 of the 1st ones that was actually kind of chubby

and they [dolls] weren't particularly traditionally

attractive dolls, like Olga [Okja] had really puffy cheeks

and then she had this sister, Cookie, that had very

widely spaced eyes and massive hips, and I don't know

if she was the first artist to do it, I think Dust of Dolls

might have been, but she kind of built upon the initial big

hips/super small bust, pear-shaped silhouette that so

many companies have kind of spoofed on and now this

proportion is seen as kind of trite and overdone in the

BJD hobby by some, which I think it super interesting,

especially because it was seen as so different when it

initially came out [sips tea].

And I'm going to butcher this name because I can't find

it now, but she had this centaur doll, which is super

strange because, you know, I don't have any fantasy

dolls—well, it sort of depends. I don't have any explicitly

fantasy dolls. I don't have dolls with fantasy parts. I

have a doll with quartz stuck into it's body, but no wings,

centaur parts, no mermaid tails, anything like that—and I

think it was called kkomatu [kkotmu] or something, like

2 "Ks." And it's going to be wrong. I don't know, I could

"WayBackMachine" the website, but I didn't.

I think what happened to this artist is she had a baby,

and she was so very clearly obsessed with this baby,

and she disappeared, and I assume, or I hope that she's

just having an unbelievable time with what is now

probably a 6 or 7 year old. [More tea.]

But yeah, I still have a weakness for the Cookie sculpt

—Domadoll Cookie. I don't know that I'll ever acquire it

because it's not really high on my list right now.

And now we move on to artists that I think influenced

my styles for BJDs. And I'm sure I'm forgetting some,

but the 1st one that I can think of is an artist called

CandyGears, so hopefully I'll have her Flickr here. And

she had a photo series and I can't find it now. I found the

doll. I found the doll wearing an outfit that I thought she

was wearing in the photoseries, but I cannot find the

specific photo that I'm looking for.

[Throws up hands in surrender.] The internet!

But it's a Dollstown sculpt. I think it's an Elysia. I don't

know how it's pronounced. But she was wearing a cage

crinoline with a skirt over the top of it that was

ruched/bustled so you could see the cage crinoline. And

I think she was sort of done up to look like a marionette.

And this doll is actually—so she's beautiful; she's done in

all white and grey and her outfits are usually in a white

and pastel pink—but this doll is super creepy. She's got

no pupils, and there's something about her that's very

disturbing.

I think that was appealing to me, which perhaps tells

you something about me as a person, or my deepest,

darkest heart of hearts! I don't know.

But yeah, that's probably why some of my dolls are kind

of creepy.

But I don't know that she's involved in the hobby

anymore either. And now we're sort of transitioning to

random artists I find compelling now, but I tried to

choose ones that I haven't bought anything from or

specifically used for inspiration because I don't know

how many videos I've made now, but I feel like I'm

overlapping, like the last 2 videos I made, I talked about

the same thing twice [Morga], so hopefully, this is a little

bit of a change.

And also, I could go on and on about random people I

stalk online forever. So in particular, I'm obsessed with

this faceup artist called KingNut. And I hope this isn't

some slightly inappropriate joke [the name], but I don't

know. I guess you could tell me below.

They have a co-Flickr with someone else, but I

specifically like KingNut. And I think they're why I was

initially interested in Dream Realm sculpts because they

do faceups on so many Dream Realm dolls; I don't know

why.

I think they're Chinese. It says they're Chinese.

But I don't know. I think they were the first artist that I

saw that did skin texturing and I think, by comparison,

their skin texturing is fairly mild compared to other people.

And I don't know, just their photos are really inspiring,

they're kind of creepy, they're kind of done like

Renaissance portraits, which is perhaps why they are

so compelling because the style of a Renaissance

portrait is that the background is black, and then it

makes whatever is in the forefront kind of glow and so

there is a compelling aspect to that photography style

that I'm not sure that you can get any other way.

But yeah, anytime they post photos on Instagram or

Flickr, I'm like, "YES! I have more photos to stalk!"

And then recently, Rainmain, the artist behind Elfdoll, is

back. Now he's sort of splitting of and making his own

company called R&R, and he's been advertising this

doll—well, really I think it's the faceup artist—but, I'm

seeing this doll all over Instagram, and it's the Rainman

Blina.

I think it's inspired by a fashion model who has lots of

freckles on her face. You know, it's like she stole all the

ones that disappeared off of my face. I have a couple

that left my face and went to my elbows, but I used to

have freckles.

So anyway, I found this doll kind of compelling. It's got

something about it that's very appealing to me; it's

probably like the cheekbones and the eyebrow

ridge/browbone, and the jaw, or something, and I don't

know exactly what it is, and there are parts of it where

I'm like, "I don't know if I need this doll," but I'm like, "it's

super interesting!" But I thought that would be a good

one to mention for current artists that are actually

active.

I think KingNut's still active, but I'm not totally sure. I

was definitely exposed to them ages ago. So I'm trying

to choose, for the current current artists, I'm trying to

choose ones where something about them is

compelling, but I haven't, yeah—I think I already said

this—I haven't bought anything from them for whatever

reason.

And there's this other 1. This 1 is super interesting

because I have no idea who they are, but I think they're

affiliated with…So I think they are affiliated in some way

with Miracle Doll, but I'm not totally sure.

But what's especially frustrating is that either 1) their

photos are nonsequential or 2) their dolls are coming to

MiracleDoll—are being casted in a nonsequential way.

Especially because—so, the problem with this doll is

that I don't actually have a need for anything about this

doll, but it's super interesting to me because the male

body is not the MiracleDoll body.

I mean, it's clearly a new body, but the MiracleDoll

bodies have that below the ribcage joint in their male

bodies and this one is under the pecs. This is supposed

to be the pecs, not boobs. But they have this vampire

doll that has these weird lightning bolt or barbed wire

wings, or something

And it's super interesting. I don't like vampire dolls. I

don't like fantasy parts. But this doll is very interesting. I

think part of it is that it's very different from

MiracleDoll's aesthetic and I want it to come out (be

sold) so that I can creep on it.

I don't know about you—so this is another reason why I

chose these artists that I haven't bought from—does

anybody have artists, where they like their aesthetic, but

they don't like their product?

Does that make sense? So you're like, "I like the way that

you have created X, Y, Z. That is not for me, but you have

the potential to make something for me in the future,"

and that potential is so tantalizing because you're like,

"It's almost here: I can feel it!" And then they keep

spitting out things that aren't quite right.

That's how I feel about this captain160626. So hopefully

that's up here. We shall see.

But anyway, and then halfway through, I lost my doll

motivation. So now we've moved to part 2.