Polymer Doll Making, Craft and Sculpting Character Art Doll. 69.99 €

1) Instructor's works

The dolls in this clip are one part of my work.After you learn the principles and techniques of how to make the doll with polymer clay from this course,You can create your own dolls, various character ...

2) Introductions and overview information of this course

This course teaches you about the fundamentals of kneading and techniques how to make doll with polymer clay.  - Clay kneading - How to create new colors clay.- How to make separated part of legs, bo ...

3) Recommendation of materials and tools kit

Recommend the main materials and tool kits for doll making.- Soft polymer clay- Foil- Wire 1 -2 mm- Wire cutting pliers- Acrylic Roller (Clay roller)- Silicone sheet (Kneading pad)- Dotting tool- Sili ...

4) Overview of how to create doll figures and sculpt dolls

Brief description of sculpting techniques for how to create figures and sculpt dolls. The figures created by starting from the bottom till the top part of doll body. Sculpting each piece of the body, ...

5) Example of clay kneading - Light Pink color

Kneading polymer clay, roll the clay on acrylic sheet (kneading pad) to soften the clay and malleable before making doll.If polymer clay is relatively new, you can simply move the clay back and forth ...

6) Example of clay kneading - Skin color

Example for how to create a cream color by mixing 3 colors of polymer clay; peach, beige and white colors mixed together. If you want dark skin, add more peach or brown color.

7) Example of clay kneading - Jean color

This example is mixing the clay to make denim color by using blue, purple, white, and black. Jeans do not need to be mixed well, then the color will come out like denim.

8) How to keep polymer clay in good condition

The clay should be kept at room temperature. Not store the clay in hot place or too cold.

9) Doll legs

Start making doll legs by using 1-2 mm wire, depending on the doll size.The foil should be covered with another layer of wire for strength and saving clay.After foiled doll legs, then covered with pol ...

10) Doll shoes - Part 1

Rolling and flattening polymer clay into a thinnest flat sheet and long.Cut the clay into strip to wrap around the doll's ankle.Smooth the clay, make it the same surface with socks and feet.Dry t ...

11) Doll shoes - Part 2

Flattening the chunks of white clay into sheets.Cut the flat clay into long strips.Before wrapping around the feet, we do tongue of sneaker first.Press a small piece of white clay on instep of doll� ...

12) Doll shoes - Part 3

Make a shoe stripe in white and red.Flattening the chunks of white clay into long thin sheet.Cut the clay into long strip.And flatting the red clay into long thin sheet as well.Cut the red clay to be ...

13) How to plug doll legs into body

The body of the doll should has the wrapped foil inside of the body.This will save your polymer clay and make your doll hard and solid.Except when you make a tiny doll, you will then use purely polyme ...

14) Doll skirt

Make a skirt for doll before sculpt doll's body.Dry the surface of clay piece at low temperature about 110 degree Celsius for 7 minutes.

15) Doll body

The body is inside the outfit and it will not be seen.Wrap the body with clay sheet.The size of upper body doen not need to be in a good shape as it's invisible.So, make the body shape to be a st ...

16) Doll head

The doll head must have aluminum foil filled inside.Make foil into a sphere for the doll's head.Sculpt the doll's head into an oval shape.Press the clay in the eye area and push the clay for ...

17) How to plug the head into doll body

Drill the doll's head at the neck position.Put the polymer clay glue into the hole that is drilled.Add more clay into the hole.Connect doll's body and head by pierce the wire into the doll&# ...

18) Graduation gown

Make a shirt with collar by using white color clay.Flattening the brown clay into wider and long sheet for ruffle dress.Wide enough to be wrapped around the doll.Stretch the clay at the end of doll� ...

19) Strip on gown

Use gold or cream colors clay for making strip.Make two strips and stick on the front gown with glue.Paint two strips with gold acrylic color after baked.Dry the surface of clay piece at low temperatu ...

20) Making a Camera

If the doll will hold anything, must finish it first.Make that thing to dry before being stick to the doll.This lesson, the doll hold a camera, so sculpt it before stick.And also painting camera befor ...

21) Doll arms

Sculpt two doll arms without having to make sleeves.Knead the pair skin color clay, roll and sculpt into shape of doll's arms.Sculpt the doll's hands, make only the thumb.Or if you want to c ...

22) Sleeve of Graduation gown

Flattening the chunks of clay into sheets.Be careful for air bubbles when you flatten the clay.Fold the clay on the side that will stick to the upper arm.Stretch the sleeves slightly.Slice the clay fo ...

23) Blue Hood

There are two colors hood, blue and purple.Have to make the blue hood first because it is under the purple one.Strip for hood edge, the clay must be thin, because stick the other layer on blue hood.Ot ...

24) Purple Hood

After completed the blue hood, continue with the purple hood.This purple color comes from a mixture of two clay colors: violet and fuchsia pink.It's depend on the pattern of each institution how ...

25) Eye and eyebrows

Make up the doll, starting in the eyes first by using dark brown acrylic color.Or light brown or black depending on the doll's face.Put a dark brown color in the eye socket.After finished, then d ...

26) Doll hair

Doll hair makingShould have a bit of clay on the back of the neck, otherwise, you will see a hole in the neck.After finished the hair at doll's neck, started sculpting doll's hair at back fi ...

27) Details on Graduation gown

This dress has details about the institution's brooch.Decorate the details dress according to the institute's gown.And make two strips on each sleevesDry the surface of clay piece at low tem ...

28) Painting lips with acrylic color

Painting the doll's lips with acrylic color after baking the doll in the final step.The heat causes the acrylic paint to spread out, the mouth will look sloppy.Therefore, recommend to paint the a ...

29) Painting lips with polymer clay

Making doll lips with polymer clay.When sculpting the doll's face, should make smaller lips.If not make it smaller, the doll's lips will become too thick.

30) Thin base for doll standing

Thin base molding for dolls standing on the base.Sculpt the thin base by using light pink color clay (for this tutorial).Sculpt the clay into a round and flat shape.You also can use cookie cutter to c ...

31) Sticking a doll on thin base

After finished thin base, setting the doll on the base.Apply baking glue under the doll's feet.Put a bit more clay spread out under the doll's feet.If using only baking glue without clay und ...

32) Thick base

Making a thick base, using foam inside the clay.The clay that is cover the foam, use Air Dry Clay in this tutorial.Put the acrylic colors into air dry clay.Knead the clay and acrylic colors together.R ...

33) Put the letter at the base

Use the same Air Dry Clay that is made of a thick base.Mixed together with acrylic paintsUse silicone molds for making the letters, English alphabet.Or you can sculpt the letters by your hands.Press t ...

34) How to stand the doll on thick base

Setting the dolls on base by apply super glue on the thick base.Apply super glue on top of base on the area that your dolls going to stand.Be careful of the glue that will mess off.Put the dolls on th ...

35) Drying the surface of clay pieces

After finished sculpting each clay piece, you must baked in order to dry surface of claly every time at low temperature about 110 degree Celsius for 7 minutes.

36) Baking doll by standing

For a flared dress like Graduate's dress or wedding dress, when you oven, you have to use a blowl with a fine fabric and the put a doll inside.Put the doll in a vertical way so your doll will not ...

37) Bake the final step after completing the doll

When you finished completely your doll sculpting, the temperature of final baking 125-130 degree Celsius for 20-25 minutes.

38) Additional techniques for final baking

Suggest to oven at low termperature first for the clay parts which never been oven before, but the other parts already oven.To make that parts become harder first.Then final baking by high temperature ...

39) Be careful of broken pieces.

During the process of doll making and using low temperature for dry the clay pieces.Do not touch or press it so hard. Otherwise, you may break it and it is hard to fix the doll.

40) Using the dryer to dry the clay

For some parts which is very small like teeth, that you place it after you oven the whold doll.You can use a hair dryer instead of oven to make that part hard and solid.

41) Polishing the rough surface

To remove the excess clay from the doll by using sandpaper.

42) Additional clay on some area of doll

After the oven and found that it's not yet right shape, Add more clay by using that same clay color on the missing area.Then, smooth it into the same surface.

43) Varnishing the doll

44) Putting the wire on doll’s arm

In case that the doll put his arms out, recommend to put a wire insert into the doll's body.

45) Packing the doll for transportation

Wrap the bubble in many layers around the dolls without space inside.The buble can support the doll's weight, then can reduce the defect.