ALRIGHT Heres a rundown/how to for dollmaking
What I Used to make the Kayden doll is this:
*16 Gauge picture hanging wire
*Aluminum foil (To ball up for the head)
*Sandpaper (sorta optional, it just helps with smoothing out bumps in your sculpt and getting paint to stick)
*a variety of cheap ugly acrylic paints and cheap brushes
*Super Sculpey. Firm is best to use for keeping shape in the oven and as you are working, but my hands are weak and it was cold the day I made the doll, so it was practically impossible to mold, and I reverted back to Regular Sculpey.
*Duct tape (For Kayden's legs/pants)
*Masking Tape (For Kayden's Arms/hands)
*1 lost sock (for filling the body out)
*1 blue glove (for Kayden's Tank Top)
* I used a grocery bag shredded up for Kayden's hair because the duct tape I was trying to use refused to stick to the sculpey.
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Basically, you make a skeleton, a base frame for the doll you're making with the wire, and note what parts you want made out of sculpey. Then you form most of it with aluminum foil because Sculpey is precious material and it would take 20000 years in your oven to bake if you went solid with it. Small details (Like Kayden's nose) are pure sculpey.
Once kayden's beautiful head and ugly shoes came out of the oven (you gotta read the box and hope it doesn't burn. It doesn't really matter if it burns because you'll be painting over it anyway, its just annoying and smell horrible and breaks a little easier) I sanded the heck out of them and made the body out of a loner sock and a magic glove.
It was really annoying getting the magic glove to look like a tank top but with sewing powers I did it, sorta.
Once I was happy with how the clothes looked I sloppily gave Kayden arms out of masking tape and painted his head and arms and ugly ugly shoes with really cheap acrylic paint. (also boy my room is messy)
Then it was shirt decoration time. It's just crayon on paper taped to his shirt. pfpffpffp. Theres so many other deer back there because I kept drawing them too big for the shirt. Oh and also second coat of paint time.
After the second coat of paint dried, it was time for detail paint.
FUN FACT: Kayden has no mouth so i can just slap on stick on mouths for talking in stop motion. Cheap and quick ala early South Park and Robot Chicken
Originally I was going to use Black Ducttape for Kayden's hair like his pants, but it refused to stick to the black sorta still wet paint because I'm really impatient. SO INSTEAD I wandered into the living room, found a black grocery back, and cut it up to use with the bits of tape that did stick.
then BAM. Kayden's ready for the pin up calendar.
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sorry for this being so long oh mannnnnnnn