pixivision - Illustration features tagged dolls

Drawings Featuring Ball Joints - Beauty in the Artificial

Fri, 24 May 2024 17:00:00 +0900

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.

What do these characters’ expressions tell you about their lives?

Drawings of Cyborgs - Do I See A Doctor Or A Mechanic?

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 18:00:00 +0900

The harmonious blend of human and machine has been the stuff of sci-fi for nearly the genre’s entire lifespan. The idea of perfectly blurring the lines between natural and artificial and taking our capabilities to unknown levels has inspired not only fiction, but actual science as well. Who knows? Perhaps a few decades from now, we’ll be able to optimize our bodies with all of the performance-enhancing technology as easily as we change socks.

Have any of the illustrations below got your gears grinding?

Drawings of Ball Joints - The Beauty of Man-Made

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 18:00:00 +0900

Ball joints are often seen in older, antique dolls. While ball-jointed dolls themselves are central to the BJD subculture, the aesthetic can often be seen in prosthetics depicted in illustrations. A character who looks quite normal but actually has such a prosthetic is certainly charming, isn’t it?

Do you like the ball joint aesthetic? How might you depict it in an illustration?

Drawings of Ball Jointed Dolls - Inorganic and Fleeting.

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:00:00 +0900

Their freely moving limbs are a characteristic of ball-jointed dolls. These delicate figures are like the embodiment of the ideal human.

Today we are featuring drawings of ball-jointed dolls. Enjoy.

Are you alive? Drawings of Ball-jointed Dolls

Sat, 29 Sep 2018 17:00:00 +0900

Just as its name suggests, a ball-jointed doll has spheres (balls) for joints so that we can pose them freely to look like a human being. Even though the modeling of a ball-jointed doll is elaborate and it can pose as naturally as a real person, there's still that enigmatic aura about it due to its unique shape of joints. Although a ball-jointed doll has a somewhat mysterious and bewitching air about it, it charms us with its fragile beauty.

This time we're featuring illustrations of ball-jointed dolls. Enjoy!

Beauty in Inorganic Transparency, Ball-jointed Dolls

Sat, 01 Oct 2016 18:00:00 +0900

They have smooth, translucent skin with an otherworldly, angel-like beauty. These delicately made angelic dolls are called “ball-jointed dolls” The defining feature of ball-jointed dolls is in the name. Their make allows them to move and pose like a human being due their spherical joints. They can move from their arms to their fingers and neck, and be posed in a multitude of ways. This delicate doll and its unique build is a defining addition to their mysterious charm.

This time, illustrations featuring “ball-jointed dolls” who seem capable of moving at any second have been collected today.

Puppet Controlled by Strings, Marionettes

Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:00:00 +0900

A movable puppet connected with threads and manipulated by a puppeteer - the marionette. Everyone, have you ever watched a puppet show before? While it dangles from the strings lifelessly, it may appear to be just a mere puppet, however, the moment the puppeteer gets into action, it is as if they breathe life into the puppet, as it starts moving around animatedly. Looking at the complex movements of the doll puppets and hand puppets may give you a strange feeling, leaving you enthralled. Today, let us bring to you a beautiful yet eerie feature on illustrations with marionettes.

Mecha + Girls, Cyborg Girls!

Fri, 17 Jun 2016 17:00:00 +0900

Cyborgs are sentient beings with mechanical body parts. They appear a lot in sci-fi literature and movies and some of the most famous works with a cyborg as a protagonist are “Cyborg009” and “Ghost in the Shell”. By the way, do you know the difference between a cyborg and an android? A cyborg is basically a human with artificial parts, while an android is a robot resembling a human. In other words, everything is artificial. An android looks like a person, but it’s not. Today we collected beautiful artworks portraying cyborgs - part human, part machine!