How to Make Clay Dolls

1) discover a model. You'll desire a sample or a photo of a doll body that you desire ought replicate. earth dolls career best if making a Barbie-sized doll or smaller. You can drag the habitual rgeister that you desire because your doll, or you can print out a cinema of what you want. Don't receive above anything also complicated although a beginner.

2) pattern the frame. chop coarse the skin off of a pipe cleaner. neat the wires until they are neutral about a centimeter longer than each district of the body. You'll want rope pieces because the upper and lower arms, the upper and lower legs, the feet, the hands, the head, the breast and the hips. The final three pieces will want ought exist at a spin shape, with straight sections coming down where a connection will want ought exist made.

• The head, if you desire a good size neck, will want an additional desire district of straight wire. It ought exist at least 2 centimeters (0.8 in) long.

3) Pad the frame. You don't desire ought pattern the doll also heavy and waste a bunch of clay, consequently pad the frame with a inexpensive material. paper mache, aluminium foil, and tape are the most general materials. lay your substance by wrapping it about the rope frame, making the "muscles" of the figure. pattern definite ought forsake the additional rope uncovered, although this will exist used ought pattern the joints. when done, it ought appear a little comparable a snow mankind at its flat of detail.

4) Add the clay. approximately cover coarse of the padded region with clay. only anxiety about getting the major shapes at first. The finer details can exist made later. if using an air-dry clay, career above only one body separate at a time, because you don't desire ought lose the softness of the clay.

• Study how muscle groups appear and career if you desire ought obtain better at this. This will pattern because a more realistic looking doll. because example, genuine legs don't appear comparable tubes: they're curved although below the fur there are really lots and lots of different shapes that neutral obtain covered up.

5) Sculpt the details. begin adding more earth and carving other parts away ought compose details comparable eyes, nose, mouth, fingers, etc. You can apply coarse sorts of household tools ought carve the clay, comparable toothpicks, utility knives, empty pens, and other items.

• Generally, the areas where there ought exist a cavity (like a mouth) ought exist chop away ought pattern the rude shape. Areas that cane out (like a nose) ought exist shaped approximately although a divide part and then added on. apply your finger or a mechanism ought even the earth and pattern the additions and subtractions transition at a fashion that looks natural.
• Any habitual changes at topography (like cheek bones) force exist capable ought exist created by shifting the existing material, still during they can also appeal new substance ought exist laid down. neutral pattern the transition although even although you can.
• If you apply Sculpey clay, you can apply liquid Sculpey ought even transitions and compose details, still during get that you'll hold ought business with changes at the curing and coloring process.

6) medication the clay. medication the earth although described by the clay's manufacturer. It can want ought exist baked, stand dry, or other curing method.

• For stand drying, 2 or more hours are usually needed because the earth ought medication completely.
• A habitual deal with of thumb with stove baking earth is ought cook it because longer at a lower temperature than what is recommended by the manufacturer. This reduces the opportunity of burning.
• Some clays will appeal a kiln at order ought medication them. This is criterion because traditional clays. You can exist capable ought lease time with a local commercial kiln if you conduct no hold one, still during you ought receive this into clarify when you choose your clay.

7) dye details. Using copy enamel paints or nail polish (for polymer clay) or acrylic paints (if using other types of clay), you can dye details comparable the eyes and mouth, ought obtain a more life-like appearance. allow the dye dry backward you're done, ago going above ought anything else.

• If you desire ought get away the difficulty of sample the eyes, you can deceive and apply flexible doll eyes, which are embedded at the earth of the major and then a earth "eyelid" placed above them ought possess them at lay and pattern them appear realistic.
• You can if you desire ought add neutral a little, vague color, you can apply watercolor and sealant or you can flat apply makeup ought the doll.
• Avoid using the color dark because details comparable the mouth. genuine faces don't hold the color dark at the queue of the mouth, consequently your doll shouldn't either. progress because softer shades, comparable dark brown or pink.

8) Add hair. receive scraps of long-haired sheepskin or any genuine or faux skin with the "skin" however attached. chop the fur separate ought rgeister four pieces that recreate the rgeister of the head. often this will intend a square because the sumit and a rectangle because the back, with C-ish shaped pieces because the sides. Once you hold the pieces cut, sew them together ought compose a wig that can exist placed or glued onto your doll's head.

9) unite the parts together. begin wrapping the exposed rope ends ought connect the body parts together. Doing the joints at this fashion ought allow the joints ought linger flexible. cover the joints with a rubber throng if they will appear and you don't desire ought chance injury.

10) garment the doll. Now that the doll is completely assembled, you can garment them although you howl on fit! apply premade doll garment or pattern your own! if you desire ought apply premade doll clothes, pattern definite your doll is the too size although criterion dolls ago you pattern her. Making your hold may, at many ways, exist easier.

• Clothes that cover the joints are desirable, although this will fur cosmetic problems.