Greetings! This is me when I was 3. And, as you can see from the photo, I was very happy when playing with my dolls. Decades later, dolls still hold a fond place in my heart. I have created DollKind in order to publish my doll history research articles and to share my enjoyment of dolls with you.

Have a great photo of a rare or vintage doll that makes you feel nostalgic? Please, share it with me.

Mystery Solved!
Thanks to my readers, I have been able to identify this as a Bradley Doll from the 1970s. Do you remember these dolls?

If I can get enough information together, with your help, we can put up a whole article on this doll and bring back happy memories to doll collectors!

First, draw a circle with a regular pencil. It doesn't have to be perfect. Just try to keep your lines light. I drew with more pressure than normal here in order to be able to scan my drawing.

Dolly Dingle's eyes are a mounded half-circle with a slightly down-drooping lower line. The top of her eye is a little less than halfway up her face from her chin. The eyebrows are set very high on the head. The mouth is just a small line with two curved cheek marks. The nose is as shown. Draw these.

Dolly Dingle's curls follow the line of the circle you have originally drawn, and swing out from the chin line of the head in semi-bell shapes. Draw these.

Now, with your eraser, significantly lighten all of your pencil marks until they are almost invisible and will only serve as faint guides. Again, mine are heavier marks that I would normally draw. With a peach colored pencil, color in Dolly Dingle's whole face except for the whites of her eyes. Then, with a carmine colored pencil, create the circular cheeks with a small spot left unreddened for shine. The nose is a carmine oval with a spot left for a shine. The chin is shaped like a carmine comma. Try to shade carefully and lightly with the carmine pencil.

Next, with a yellow pencil, color in Dolly Dingle's entire hair area. Follow this by taking a goldenrod pencil and coloring over the yellow in all but a few places. As you can see from my illustration, I've left some of the yellow shining through in patches. This gives dimension to the hair.

Next, take a black pencil and create Dolly Dingle's eyes. I am giving you a closeup here, so that you can see the smudgy arc at the top of the eye and the colored portion of the eye having a shape resembling a Pac-Man symbol, with that little "bite" taken out of it. This is what gives the eyes their shining look. There is a bit of black in the lower corner of each eye and a hint of eyelashes at the far corners.

Continue to work with your black pencil, darkening all of the lines that you made with your regular pencil. Do the outline of the face, the hair and the other facial features as shown.

To finish your Dolly Dingle drawing, make sure your black pencil is well sharpened and sketch in all of the little details of the hair. Study how the lines at the top of the head give a slightly rippled and shining effect and the lines in the hanging curls give a sense of roundness. And that's it. You've drawn your first Dolly Dingle. You could now move on to draw the rest of the figure and design wonderful Dolly Dingle clothes for your creation.