Jennie's Blog Posts
pretty face sculpting
I found this pretty gem when looking at fairy sculpts today on flickr. Anyone else enchanted by fairies and mystical worlds? I especially love fairy babies- for obvious reasons, but then again who doesn’t love babies?
I digress, today’s freebie tutorial comes from Linda Smith of Linda Smith Originals. I could spend forever looking at her dolls. They are so pretty!
Her tutorial is amazingly detailed for a free tutorial- and I was surprised to see that we have the same tools! I really love her attention to detail.
This tutorial can of course be used in conjunction when you sculpt babies, especially the miniature ones!
She also has a tutorial on these magical looking cicada wings! Imagine these on a chubby baby sculpt with some fairy ears? Adorable!
Her free tutorials can be found here!
sculpting a baby- armature
I have received quite a bit of questions asking about armature- which I have talked about before, but the very best advice that I can give is to study a few infant skull images to see how a baby’s head should be formed.
Here is a couple good ones of how the fetal skull looks like:
The most important parts to note are how much skull is above and behind the baby’s face. I see a lot of beginners who sculpt such beautiful faces and the skull shapes are incorrect making it look more like a doll rather than a realistic looking baby doll.
So, my armature is built exactly to the shape of a infant skull. The shape of the head is nearly accurate. This way, I use less clay and the sculpt is more secure in strength. When you make an armature and it is too small what happens is that you have to add more clay to the parts that aren’t built in your armature and this ends up making your sculpt heavier, and unbalanced when you place it on the body.
Next time I make an armature I will show you all how it looks so you can learn by seeing. 🙂
I hope this helps some of you! 🙂
morezmore mini babies
I know quite a few of you have messaged me asking about what types of armatures I use in my sculpts. I myself use a foil armature just because my babies are baked in parts and not together. it’s easier for me. Now, when you need a sculpt to pose and hold that position you will need some type of armature to hold the sculpt up when baking.
Morezmore has a really amazing blog on sculpting a variety of different things and has a ton of freebie sculpting links to share as well!
I just found that she has made a mini baby tutorial and it’s a beauty!
You make this lovely girl:
As well as changes in varying armatures to make each of these cuties:
Pretty amazing work wouldn’t you agree?
You can find the tutorial here:
root there it is!
My clever use of blog post names cracks me up. 😛 I know, it’s silly and I am a bit lame, but otherwise all of my post headings would be “sculpting baby tutorials” or “doll rooting tutorials”. So bear with my lame blog entry names and enjoy the tutorials! 🙂
I have been posting quite a bit the past week or so, just because I have suddenly picked up some inspiration for sculpting again after quite the hiatus. Since I have been absent I have found quite a few new tutorials, and plan on posting some of my own on video format (free of course) to share with you all.
I was thinking I could do them based on requests- so if there are any specific aspects to baby doll sculpting you guys had questions about I can do them for you all to see. Just post a comment and I’ll do the best that I can!
Anyhow, today’s freebie was found when I was looking for rooting suggestions for dollmaking. Of course this can be used for your sculpted baby dolls as well as any other art dolls you may be sculpting.
Pretty little fairy right?
The only thing that I would suggest when using this tutorial on a baby doll is that an infant’s hair is sparse, so try to root the hair farther apart than when doing a full head of hair. Place each hair that you are rooting a few hairs apart rather than right next to each other.
Also, when you are looking up rooting needles there are tons of different kinds. When you are rooting in clay it doesn’t really matter the size or type of rooting needle you use. The reason those matter is if you are rooting in a vinyl doll head (reborning).
Here’s the link!
sculpting in Russian
Alright, not the best title for a blog- but the best I could think of at the moment. 🙂
I have another free baby sculpting tutorial today- this time from Russia. Hence the title. Clever eh? 🙂
This one is more of a pictorial tutorial, but still helpful nonetheless as it’s a full body sculpt. The tutorial makes this baby:
Teeny adorable thing!!
Here’s the link!
