Spend some time reading these tutes, and you’ll learn a lot. These guys are professionals.
Sculptor’s Corner.
An active and friendly artist on Deviantart shares her process for sculpting fairies. Notice how many bakes she does. Wow.
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Dolls and puppets aren’t that different, right? So for your continuing education, today I present a link with a bunch of pages about building stop-motion animation puppets. You might find a new kind of armature you’ve never thought of before, and there are several links to discussions of materials that are rarely used for dolls, [...]
Here’s a quick and easy tutorial from PolymerClay Express. Use your clay scraps to make adorable dragons that are functional as well — they sit on your computer and eat bugs.
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Visit this site when you have some time on your hands. Handmade Puppet Dreams is a collection of short films made by young, independent artists and featuring real-time puppetry with a focus on character. My favorite one is Harker, in Volume II, but be prepared to spend fifteen minutes or so doing nothing [...]
Here’s a new all-pictures tutorial showing Alexander Mergold’s sculpting process. People are always so impressed by set-in teeth and eyes. I guess it’s something non-dollmakers don’t think about. Anyway, check it out, and take a look at my original post on Mergold too. It’s been a while.
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Linda Smith, formerly the president of our Kansas City-based doll club, is one of the hardest-working dollmakers I know personally. Her dolls are amazingly realistic for being so tiny, and they would be elegant in any scale. So I was very pleased to see that she has a new blog which includes a lot of [...]
These have some applications to dollmaking.
Uncialle’s How to Haunt instructions for making Amon-Ratep, the mummy.
Shawn Nagle tips on sculpting a werewolf worthy of the movies.
Instructables, which is apparently a whole website full of do-it-yourself stuff (I’m bookmarking it for when I get around to reupholstering that sofa!), has this entry on a crazy franken-mad-scientist mask [...]
Here are some tips and tutes for making fairy wings and mermaid tails.
Various tips from ODACA artists.
Polymer Clay wings from Polymer Clay Central.
I may have already posted this one, but here are several that have been collected by Global Fantasy.
Since I missed my Tuesday update this week, you’re getting a double feature today.
MagicSculpture is Esther Marker van der Spek’s website with a sculpting forum and a library of digital figures you can use for photo reference. I think you have to get a paid membership to use the complete library or post, but you [...]
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