I've just enroled for my BA illustration course at Camberwell college of Art & Design and my first assignment is to "Find 10 images and upload them to your blog".

This grabbed my attention all summer;


I've been sculpting and trying to create Ball Jointed Dolls. (BJDs) Commercial BJDs are usually 60cm tall (SD sized) and sell from $250 for the less well known or poorer quality sculpts to $1000 for the rarer ones.

The picture above is a doll created by Hanano, a japanese BJD artist, who's blog you can see at the side panel of this page.  Hanano seems to make them for sport rather than having any intention of selling them which is the same reason I've not been getting any drawing practice this holiday.
My interest in sculpting was reignited by my 3D/Spatial rotation at Foundation course Art but my fascination lies with trying to balance aesthetics and flexibility in a sculpture.





Her understanding of the human form is astounding. She's stuck to a purely Asian identity in her sculpts whereas other artist tend to stray by Western influences. The quality of her home-made doll exceeds that of many commercial brands' dolls available on the market. Her sculpting ability and her eye for creating complex jointing systems is incredible and there is nothing else I've seen like it. You can also see how she sculpts her heads and faces on Youtube:


ps: I have been too shy to ask for permission for these pictures and they all belong to Hanano's blog.