Yoko BJD - Simplified Submission

Yoko from Yu Yu Hakusho, customized BJD

Full collage:


Photoshoot with his significant other:


Commissioned request by kooky112 to take a ball jointed doll base (Angel of Dream brand) of the anime character Yoko as seen in the anime Yu Yu Hakusho.

Started off with the body- did some blush-up to make the toes and torso features more realistic, did full body repaint work in those areas to blend the blush.
Face-up:
All paint work is acrylic paints, same as my custom ponies.
Next up, in-setted the glass eyes. Took some model clay and coiled it around the backs of the eye balls, pushed them in and sealed the edges of the clay with Krazy glue.
Eye lashes were mailed to me with the doll base and are glued on with Krazy glue.
All paint sealed with Artists Varnish and Mod Podge in some areas.

Wig: was mailed to me originally fully white. I dyed it myself with pearl gray Rit Dye, and very cautiously pinched some purple Rit Dye between my fingers into the dye bath of the gray while it was boiling on my stove top in a large pot. I did approximately 3 pinches of purple, with half a bag of the gray.
Fox ears are hand-sewn from a scrap of real fox fur, the under-belly portion. Inner ears are lined with hand-sewn thin beige real leather.

Tail is the same exact fur from the scrap piece I used for the ears. The Tail is sewn to the removable sash that fastens around the waist of his outfit via Velcro.

Rest of outfit:
Started off with the shoes. They are hand-sewn from real thin beige leather, lined with faux snake skin piping along the tops.
Next up, drew out a pattern for the pants. Hand-sewed them as well, with elastic running through the bottoms of the pant legs where I scrunched up the material to make the pants appear slightly baggy like the real deal.
Pants slide off easily.
Used some large lengths of the fabric for his torso/train pieces for the outfit, planned all of that out as well and sewed it all together. Main torso piece of the outfit slides over his head to be removed.

Sash is approximately 4 layers of two different widths of white bias tape all sewn together with the tail sewn underneath it, then with Velcro stuck to the ends to finish.