Polymer clay dolls with their own hands: from a small stick to a hinged doll

Polymer clay, or plastic, is one of the most suitable materials for creating unique and beautiful dolls. Mastering the skill of making dolls with your own hands from polymer clay is not easy, but even an inexperienced novice can try to make it by mastering the technique of modeling the simplest base-bolvanchika.

Among the many firms that produce polymer clay, for beginners, Clone Deco is the most suitable. It does not stick to the hands, there are no harmful components in its composition, it resembles plasticine in its "raw form" and hardens during heat treatment, in addition, there is also a self-hardening polymer clay.

We suggest you try to make the basis for such a doll yourself.

A dummy for polymeric clay doll

In order to make a doll, we will need:

• Polymer clay
• Thick wire
• Foil
• Tools

Making dolls in stages:

Before you start modeling a doll, you must clearly indicate its future proportions. Experienced masters revealed the ideal formula by which the pupa's body( if it does not depict the child) is equal to the size of its 7 heads( for high - 8-9, for small - 6).The palm should be equal to the width of the face, the foot - 1.5 palms of this doll. In order to facilitate the work, it is possible to sketch out schematically the structure and dimensions of the future beauty on paper.

You need to start the modeling yourself from the head.

1. Using wire, we twist the frame in such a way that the loop on top is obtained. On the frame, tighten the foil tightly to the size of the future head, and then well cover the workpiece with clay, covering even the smallest cracks.

2. The most delicate and complex moment is the formation of the doll's face. To do this, you need to chart the future eyes, mouth, nose, chin and forehead on the face. To get a nose, cheeks and eyelids, you need to add pieces of clay to the right places. These facial features should be voluminous. It is necessary to attach a neck to the head.

After the head is ready, it needs to be heat treated( oven, oven).

Next stage of work: hands.

1. Pieces of polymer clay should be rolled out into "sausage", and rolled until it becomes necessary thickness.

2. The bottom of the hand needs to be flattened a little, then to form their palm( you need to cut the fingers and separate them).

3. Fingers need to be rounded, give them naturalness, mark wrinkles and phalanges.

4. The resulting hands should be put on the wire and baked.

After the hands begin to sculpt the legs of the doll.

1. From the clay we sculpt 2 figures, their shape should be as in the photo below - these are the future stops.

2. We mark the fingers, attach the natural form to the heel and toe:

3. A piece of clay is attached to the resulting limb - this is the future leg to the knee. And we put our feet on the frame of wire, bake.

It remains to make the pupa body

1. The first thing is to combine the head and hands, the wire that is left of the legs, is screwed to the resulting "skeleton".Everything superfluous is removed.

2. We attach the clay to the frame, and to get the volume of the body, the frame can be wrapped with foil and the material can be fixed on it.

3. For a doll-girl, make a breast of two balls of clay.

Where the resulting figure appears to you flat - add a little clay and gently smear. After that we bake the pig.

So, we got an excellent workpiece. With her help you can blind any doll. All further work on it - creative( to grow a doll hair, make up, dress her).

As for the hairstyle, everything here depends only on the imagination of the master. Hair can be purchased in the form of small wigs in shops for a hobby:

You can make them yourself from the same clay:

Use yarn or ribbons that can be dissolved:

As you can see, making dolls with your own hands made of polymer clay is a laborious process, but quite feasible. Clay is such a material that almost everything can be molded from it: toddlers, large puppets for older girls, role dolls, etc.

To the same skilled craftsmen who have already mastered the art of modeling dolls, the articulated doll will be interesting with their own hands made of polymer clay. It is much more difficult to manufacture and it will take more time to make it. We have prepared a selection of svideo, which tell in detail how to make a swivel doll.

Successful creativity!