Other things I've worked on lately.

Here are some other Wip photos of things I've done lately.

This was supposed to be toto for Dorothy but Dorothy is no more

Wip Borg queen

I've been a bit lax of Late with my sculpting. I'm working on a new fairy taking it slow because all year dolls have been breaking on me, and this fairy has had a couple if creaks I've had to fix before baking properly.

Yesterday I decided to make a Borg queen from Star Trek for my other half.  She came out pretty well and no disasters as I was making her, unless you count the mad fluff fest that somehow got into the clay despite me washing my hands and wearing white. What is the black thing that keeps getting itself on my hands even though I just scrubbed them?

Any way here's my progress shots. She still has to be attached to the base but I'm still working on that.

Dorothy going round the twist

I seem to have been working on Dorothy forever. Mostly as I'm doing a course which has taken up most of my spare time, and now I'm out of work, and feeling a little depressed so haven't really been in the mood for doll stuff.

Anyway here is my progress along with a lot of botches along the way.

Ok so I started here but wasn't happy and started again.

Then there was this version and hey ho I wasn't happy here either.

So I made this version - not good.

And after realising that version was too big for my project, I started from scratch.

I got here with my new doll.

Only for the skirt to crumble when I put her back in the oven.

I made a basket.

And a dog.

She has hair. But still no dress. I will have to get some cloth I think.

And she has ruby slippers.

I have to paint toto and somehow attach everything to the yellow brick road I made and finish her dress.

Dorothy WIP

I've been making a new doll After receiving three blocks of clay from my other half for Christmas. The doll I'm working on is going to Dorothy gale from wizard of oz.

My first head (there are always several attempts) was this one.  After making it I decided the eyes were too close together, and after messing it up I had to work on it again.

This was version two. The mouth was too big and I needed to add more clay to the face in general.

More faffing and this is post baking.

This is where I'm at currently with the torso.  I was faffing with getting it realistic, but then realised I am going to sculpt on a blouse so I needent bother with details.  I'm using Katherine Deweys book creating lifelike figures in polymer clay to get my sizes correct, although somehow she's ended up a little bigger than the 1:8 scale I was working to.  

I love this book and can highly recommend it. I don't do my faces her way, and I piece my bodies together a bit differently, but her proportions and way of building up the body are great so I use it for that.   Out of the three sculpting books I've bought I think this one is the best and worth the money.  She goes into far more detail than other books where you have to just know to blend or already have sculpting knowledge.  

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Updating dolls again

Sometimes a doll just doesn't look right to you, and you leave it and look at it and think no it's not right. 

I've recently been updating my dolls as some were made before things I know now.  My most recent doll the ice fairy I wasn't entirely happy with. Her eyelids were too heavy and her boots too clunky. So I took a scalpel to the bits I wasn't happy with. I removed some of eyelid opening the eyes more, and shaved off some of the nose which was a little too fat. I shaved off the heaviness of the boots and did a repainted on them and the face. 

I'm now much happier with how she looks.

I also bought some modge podge which I'd heard about but wasn't really sure what it was. It is magic in a bottle. I've used it to glaze all my doll eyes and nails and it looks amazing. Eyes have more depth and nails look real.  A real gem.

Bigger eyes and slimmer nose. She has a more dreamy look now.

These boots are made for skating.