There is a lot of information available on making human-sized wings for fairy or angel costumes. Some of these techniques won’t apply to dolls, but they might inspire you to try something you hadn’t thought of before, so here are some pages with wing instructions:
Instructables.com is a great resource with lots of costume and [...]
Patricia Buzo makes tiny terrariums out of live moss and itty bitty handmade accessories. Don’t you just want to stare at them and imagine the tiny little people who might keep these gardens?
See more at her etsy shop, Doodlebirdie.
via Folklore and Fairy
An active and friendly artist on Deviantart shares her process for sculpting fairies. Notice how many bakes she does. Wow.
Continue reading about Fairy sculpting progression by AmandaKathryn
Check out these inspirational flower wreaths and headbands by Sally Kingston. Forget the fairies, I want one of these for myself!
Found via Ullabenulla.
I’ve had enough creepy for a while, so I’m going back to sweet, and Krista Robertson’s work really fits the bill. I wish I could show her work to all those people who are in love with the tiny variety of Asian ball-jointed dolls, because Robertson’s work is just as adorable and much more [...]
Continue reading about Krista Robertson — Sweet, sweet, sweet!
Deb Wood is one of the most talented eBay fairy artists around. Her work has personality as well as realism and elegance. She’s also generous enough to have made some very good tutorials about aspects of her process that few people share in tutorials, like how to pack a fairy for shipping, how to test [...]
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 [...]
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.
Here’s what my life is like these days: I’m looking at pictures of Asian ball-jointed dolls on Flickr, and I find this artist who’s making cute little costumes for her tiny bjds. Then I look at her other gallery and start thinking “this looks familiar…” So I look up her profile, and guess what? [...]
One thing I didn’t expect about writing this blog — and I should have — is that after a while, all the dolls start to look the same. I’ll confess I’ve gotten a little bored lately, but that’s why I’m so excited to bring Candice Cinque to your attention today. This is the first artist [...]
