Drawings Featuring Ball Joints - Beauty in the Artificial

If you draw on a regular basis, you’ve most likely come across or practiced drawing with a poseable mannequin before. On a doll, ball joints give them a manmade quality, but when animated characters are depicted with ball joints, they take on a mysterious air of seeming both alive and lifeless at the same time. They’re also effective in portraying a character as fragile or “broken” in some way, and their inorganic beauty can be simultaneously disturbing and mesmerizing.