Drawn and Quartered

Today I cut the sockets and joints for the semi-BJD body.  Placed by the toaster oven to quick dry

Also added a neck to the head.

Very Basic BJD

I have made a very basic body blank out of green Styrofoam.

I covered it with stone clay and sanded... still need to make the joints and refine the edges as well as the hands.

Splitting hairs

Started on a mohair wig today.  A little difficulty separating the wefts of hair.  This wig is about half finished and is a grab bag mix of various brown shades wavy mohair.

Also sanded and finished the ears of the head.  Still need to decide on facial coloring and her final hairstyle.

Also started work on a third face.

B-day Dash

After a hectic day of cake and lego I finally got a chance to put the Open face girl together.

Progression

Today I sanded the slim face and added the eyelashes from behind the eye sockets.  Instead of using pre-baked eyes I used the wet clay to make the eyes for this face.  Tomorrow I will glaze the eyes after they have dried overnight.

Considering junking the other two prototype heads since I am fairly happy with this one.. Now to be able to reproduce the results faithfully.

A New Direction

I have paused progress on the set of four heads to attempt a different technique.

The carved out faces allow more access to the eye holes for shaping.  This picture shows three different face templates.  The first face on the far left is still wet and needs to be sanded.  The second face is the prototype from yesturday's post and the third face is one that I designed.

A Tale of two faces

Here is the first + eyelash head and my new prototype face plate..

The eyes will be fitted in eyeless one after the face is finished.

Saturday Nights

Night out with the boys.............

What a sky...

The Dancing Men

Well... not really.  Trying some new armatures out of varying sizes.  Still a little unsure what scale and size im willing to make these dolls in.

Here is a picture of the Armatures on their stands.

New Recruits

Four new project kiddos.  This time working with installing eyelashes before finishing.  Since it was too difficult for me to install after the head was sculpted.

With eyelashes

Without

An awe inspired Paco

First finished doll

My latest hobby finally has a finished creation.

She has a wire frame covered with batting.  Her face is paper-clay with sheep's hair.
She is still a little rough around the edges and I still need to work on feet and hands but not bad for a start.