Doll and head making

[DollyKim]

Are you mad?

Know this, you will not save one thin dime by making your own doll, you will only loose at least the amount of money you would spend on a "cheap" doll and hopefully gain some valuable experience. The first of which is be familiar with drawing the human form, and modeling clay. Making practice parts out of modeling clay is very helpful. So are these blog posts. Feel free to ask questions! I've worked with all of this stuff at one time or another.

http://dolfielittles.typepad.com/blog/2 ... stuff.html
http://dolfielittles.typepad.com/blog/2 ... cases.html
http://dolfielittles.typepad.com/blog/2 ... g-kit.html
http://dolfielittles.typepad.com/blog/2 ... sting.html

[DollyKim]

A year later and a new thing to consider. First, the very useful book titled Pop Sculpture http://www.amazon.com/Pop-Sculpture-Fig ... 400&sr=8-1 Not for making ball joint dolls but making action figures and dolls with joints, what I consider Littles, but it can go along with other doll making books.

Biggest tip, if you intend to go the clay-wax-resin route, and a wax stage is highly recommended in the book, you will need to take shrinkage in to consideration. Wax shrinks 3-5% and resin a further 4-7%. Roughly the original sculpt may need to be 10% bigger than the final product will be. Correct me if I figured wrong. Now to do some math how big I'd need to make the initial sculpts of my heads...