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4 years ago
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Making a doll consists of many completely different processes. You need to be able to work with wire and plastic parts to make a skeleton. You need to be able to make patterns for bodies that are completely different in shape - because my dolls are completely different. These two stages take a lot of time, and their results look, as a rule, not at all impressive. After all, the most interesting is ahead.
Then you need to sew the body and limbs from auxiliary fabric, fill them with filler, clarify their shape. Make a trial build.
Make a head, take care of its mobility (most of my dolls are able to raise and lower their faces, turn and tilt their heads quite naturally, and some are able to open and close their mouths).
Then you need to make claws, teeth, nose out of polymer clay, cover them with varnish, dry them. Sculpt, paint and cover the eyes with several layers of varnish. Fix the nose, eyes and teeth, cover the head with fur, check its mobility.
Then sew pieces of multicolored fur to make a fur skin (often of a rather complex design). To fit the body, limbs and make another trial assembly. Disassemble the doll again.
Then fix the claws and make pads of paws or hooves.
Reassemble the doll.
Make other details (tails, ears, combs, wings, horns, etc.)
And in between think a lot (again, because all dolls are different), glue, paint, dry for a long time, trim the fur, etc. This is a very complex and interesting job! And there are always some new tasks, because all the characters are different.
There is another point that distinguishes digital creativity from the creation of a doll: a doll needs materials! And sometimes you have to search for them for quite a long time or wait for delivery.
I think these moments, as well as the fact that the first stages of creating a doll look unassuming in the photo, initially make customers nervous. But when the doll moves on, it becomes very interesting to watch how it comes to life. I always strive to make the doll as similar as possible to a live character. And when she comes to life, I myself am delighted. At one of the last stages, the doll has a heart...
Technological pauses in work allow me to make two dolls in parallel, and sometimes even three.
And now I'm creating two at once. Interestingly, these dolls are very different in size, shape and design, but have similar functionality: both have fully movable and capable of grasping five-fingered hands, pads on their paws, are able to open and close a toothy mouth.
One of them is the standard size for me, but has a complex fur design. The other one has a not particularly complicated fur design, but the size is huge: a little more than 80 cm, besides with enlarged hands. In the photo, her huge hand is next to mine.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45347096/
Then you need to sew the body and limbs from auxiliary fabric, fill them with filler, clarify their shape. Make a trial build.
Make a head, take care of its mobility (most of my dolls are able to raise and lower their faces, turn and tilt their heads quite naturally, and some are able to open and close their mouths).
Then you need to make claws, teeth, nose out of polymer clay, cover them with varnish, dry them. Sculpt, paint and cover the eyes with several layers of varnish. Fix the nose, eyes and teeth, cover the head with fur, check its mobility.
Then sew pieces of multicolored fur to make a fur skin (often of a rather complex design). To fit the body, limbs and make another trial assembly. Disassemble the doll again.
Then fix the claws and make pads of paws or hooves.
Reassemble the doll.
Make other details (tails, ears, combs, wings, horns, etc.)
And in between think a lot (again, because all dolls are different), glue, paint, dry for a long time, trim the fur, etc. This is a very complex and interesting job! And there are always some new tasks, because all the characters are different.
There is another point that distinguishes digital creativity from the creation of a doll: a doll needs materials! And sometimes you have to search for them for quite a long time or wait for delivery.
I think these moments, as well as the fact that the first stages of creating a doll look unassuming in the photo, initially make customers nervous. But when the doll moves on, it becomes very interesting to watch how it comes to life. I always strive to make the doll as similar as possible to a live character. And when she comes to life, I myself am delighted. At one of the last stages, the doll has a heart...
Technological pauses in work allow me to make two dolls in parallel, and sometimes even three.
And now I'm creating two at once. Interestingly, these dolls are very different in size, shape and design, but have similar functionality: both have fully movable and capable of grasping five-fingered hands, pads on their paws, are able to open and close a toothy mouth.
One of them is the standard size for me, but has a complex fur design. The other one has a not particularly complicated fur design, but the size is huge: a little more than 80 cm, besides with enlarged hands. In the photo, her huge hand is next to mine.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45347096/
I think there is a lot in common with making a suit, especially when it comes to finishing!