#Clay ball

[banicraft]

Clay

[kayden-valcourt]

Character Icon Batch #5

Don't think for a second I'm running out of ocs cuz I'm nowhere near done.

I can't stop now, there's no stopping.

[elggow]

found the time to draw these douchebags

[claitea]

friends :)

[karkkidoesartsandcrafts]

I made a doll

After making historical doll clothing, I got this idea that what if I made a doll myself. I was coveting a doll I could sew clothes for and then pose them for the clothing, but I don't really like that much of any of the design of commercial posable dolls and I'm broke so I can't in good conscience buy an artisan ball jointed doll (and I anyway don't like how thin most of them are). So I did the reasonable thing - I bought very cheep air dry clay (I do have "normal" clay but I don't have access to ceramic oven and it takes much longer to dry it and burn it etc, and I was literally just trying this out) and just started making it myself. I didn't plan ahead because it felt very overwhelming since I have never customized dolls beyond making them clothing and repainting their faces nor have I ever even owned a ball jointed doll. I went with the learning through mistakes rather than theory. The route I most often take. So just bear with me (real doll makers I'm sorry for the cringe).

Without further ado, here's Aune, my vampire OC (from my wip Be All My Sins).

I wanted to make her look like a porcelain doll, because I love their aesthetics. I did lean towards more realism than they were historically like though. Here's all her body parts before painting. (Some of the pieces in the picture are not actually fully smoothed and sanded, but it is right before I started painting the face. My brain just works in a way, where I jump around between the working stages. I'm very much incapable of doing anything organized and straight forwardly.) I have been wanting to do clay sculpting for a long time (it was so fun, when I was a kid in afternoon art school), and this was small scale enough to be manageable so it was so much fun. I will be definitely making more.

Here's her face before and after the paint. I'm quite happy on how the face sculpt turned out, but the paint job was a bit messy. As I mentioned I have done couple of repaints of doll faces, but I'm still not very good at it. When I paint traditionally I'm not often this detail oriented and painting on a 3D surface feels very different.

Here she is before and after getting her hair. I made her hair from wool yarn just by unraveling the yarn. It's the first time I made doll hair and I didn't want to buy proper doll hair for this or learn to curl it (I don't even have any curling irons or literally any other hair shaping appliances than a hair dryer, which I don't even use for my hair but for painting with water colors). It doesn't fall down nicely, but it has roughly the look I was going for.

Because I didn't plan at all ahead, the proportions are a little wonky (her arms especially are too thin imo and he legs could have a little more shape too) and the joints are not great. Worst of the joints was the hips, which attach to the torso in a weird way. The biggest issue that I had was not taking into account how much the varnish would add to the size. It's not a visible amount, but enough to make fit of the joints very poor and basically making it very hard for her to stand. (Her index fingers already broke of when she fell from my desk after I had made her stand there djfkjds. I was able to glue them back.)

Here's couple more picture of her!

It's not perfect at all, but I do still love her if only because it's such a cool feeling to be able to just have a lump of clay and two weeks later have a posable doll. It somehow feels magical to be just able to make a real physical thing from scratch.

[webdiggerxxx]

꧁★꧂

[solarpunkani]

*poke poke*

*nudge*

You wanna guerrilla garden some swamp milkweed around a retention pond so bad.

[prestonmonterey]

silly catgirl robot doll!!!!!!! :DDDD

guys i thought this would take me a week

i started this like. a couple hours ago

TwT

its hard to see in the photo but she is *very* glittery so shes done and im not painting her bc itd be hell tryin to make sure the paint doesnt chip on any of the itty bitty little parts

you also cant really see bc my hands covering it but her tail is a cable :)

anyway i have *so* much sparkly grey clay that i dont know what to do with so i might be making more ball jointed dolls this week :3

(also i need a name for this gal if yall have any ideas)

[snake-named-silas]

Not the least bit fazed by me putting pie on his head

(behind the scenes of his fall pictures)

[vestzmc]

PABLO IN A FEM UNIFORM IM GONNA CRYYY HE'S SO BABYGIRL

[annyo-d]

Pretty proud of this one ball jointed figurine!!

Also had fun editing photos)👏

[etherealarte]

[twidiam]

little doodle from a magma board I decided to clean up

[elggow]

prince(ss) of heart

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bonus adam sandler strider:

[the-leech-lord]

🔮Deanna Troi Stimboard🔮

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Part 5/7 of my Star Trek TNG stimboards

[pafyna]

latest project: lil Rulie

it's absolutely no secret who's my favorite character in @ageless-soul-au ; but if it wasn't obvious, now it is 😂 I'm trying to find what sparked the idea of making them into a teeny tiny doll... but I haven't found it yet. though it probably had to do with a chapter update

I have plans to make their canon clothes one day, but for now: here they are, the blorbo <3

bts takes under the cut (CW: doll missing head and some limbs, stay safe!)