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Yeah she looks like a cow,
sorry bout that.
Missing one arm in some of the shots.

How i made the doll:

1.Concept,
i drew up a concept one on a2 in real size..
which i redid after her torso was done...
[she was ment as a SD but her torso was too small]
Redrew the concept again on A2 using my Unoa and Iris as refs.
Her upper body is about the same sizes as Unoa..
and.. her legs don't match anything anymore i'm afraid.

Make notes for yourself of how you want the headcap and ankle/wrist systems.

2.I used the ends of brushes to hallow out my previous
bjd's limbs. But learned this isn't the best system in the world. So i bought a pack of chinese chop sticks.
And put the clay around it.
When it's completely dried you can simply pull the clay off the sticks because their slightly polished and the clay wont bind to it.

3. I used the sketch to measure the sizes of the beads i might wanna use.
After that i sprayed the beads, or else the clay won't bind to it. For my sd and Tiny i simply sanded the beads.

4.With a drill i drilled in the shapes of the joint openings in the beads, and drilled the elastic tunnels bigger.

5. Attached the beads to the limbs.
And put clay on the sockets, and pressed the beads into it.
To get a perfect fitted joint socket.

-If you want double joints,
Use a bead to make an inprint of the joint sockets.
Let this dry.
Then put a bit of tape over the Elastic tunnels and put a chunk of clay in between the limbs where the double joint should be. And press them together.
And you will end up with an almost perfect base for your double joint part.
[just cut of the remaining clay chunks and drill it hallow]

--Detaild for the head.
I used a big bead for the head...
but i spend 2 days carving it hallow x3.
And added clay at the bottom to shape the chin scheeks,
and well lower facial features.

Put a bit of tape over the neck elastic tunnel,
and pressed the ball of clay on it to create the neck joint socket.
And then added details and shape to it.
Rubbed it a bit smooth with water, but that doesnt work that well on heads.

6.I used a big chuncky bead for my girls lower torso.
[But i would advice you to just make some sort of a oval shaped bead yourself with clay.
i ended up having to sand the back flat or else her body was to round]
Made a underpants like shape and pressed both the legs in there, making the joint inprint.
Let it dry and then attached it to the bead/oval shape that is the lower rib joint base.
Drilled holes in the hip joint sockets.
And there you have a rough base for the lower torso.

7. Made the upper torso part.
Press the shoulder beads into the shoulder cap places.
Use fabric packed in plastic[tape] to keep this part hallow.
This gives a quite smooth finish on the inside of the torso.

8.put the doll together for the first time to checked if all the measurements were right.

9.Detailed the limbs and body.
Curves, muscles, fluffy tummy things and breastes x3
Rubbed it with water after it had dried, giving a smooth finish.[with premier it does <___>]
Attempted to cast the torso but the should sockets,
rib joint edges and details were lost. [even the boobies]
And sprayed her head base,and legs with spray putty.
Bought at think pink on the Rijswijk Fair.

10. Put the doll together again.
Put chopsticks in her limbs to keep them from bending and sanded the body to get a smooth looking body.
[that looks like one body]
One of her arms broke from the elastic,
so had to be remade.
Took pictures after that in case more of her parts broke ;3;

11. Sprayed the doll with spray putty.

12. Made the hands and feet.
Simply made rough shapes and the carved out the fingers and toes.
Discovered i'm not that good at nails :'D

13. Sprayed the dolls body.
But her bum fell of it's support.
And i had to sand the lower torso completely.
Sanded her on some more parts because i didn't
think the looked smooth enough.
Accidently damaged on of her shoulder ball joints >__<
[her arms hated me]
And redid them

thats when this picture was taken.

14.
Detailed some more, changed her lips,
smoothened some of the joints and made her lower legs a bit thinner.
Made her back smoother and her bum slightly smaller.
And her neck a tiny bit thinner.

Sprayed her after this..look the last pictures..
sanded her some more because the spray didn't go smooth because of the weather.
Then sprayed her again, and then she was send out to the caster.

I will try to update the concept drawings i made for her.
But the a2 one was send with her too the caster =3='

Edit:
replaced the picture with a higher saturation version.
Because dA desaturated the picture for some silly reason.
[does it more often]

Ive spotted what people seem to think is a seam line on her arm.
But...it's probably from the primer spray...
i first sprayed one side of the parts and then the other side.
And this arm part was the first in line so it probably dried along the edges before the other side was sprayed.

i'm simply horrible at putty spraying x3
But i had to te keep the surface of the soft primier clay from scratching every time i put the parts in a box.

Description
Yeah she looks like a cow,
sorry bout that.
Missing one arm in some of the shots.

How i made the doll:

1.Concept,
i drew up a concept one on a2 in real size..
which i redid after her torso was done...
[she was ment as a SD but her torso was too small]
Redrew the concept again on A2 using my Unoa and Iris as refs.
Her upper body is about the same sizes as Unoa..
and.. her legs don't match anything anymore i'm afraid.

Make notes for yourself of how you want the headcap and ankle/wrist systems.

2.I used the ends of brushes to hallow out my previous
bjd's limbs. But learned this isn't the best system in the world. So i bought a pack of chinese chop sticks.
And put the clay around it.
When it's completely dried you can simply pull the clay off the sticks because their slightly polished and the clay wont bind to it.

3. I used the sketch to measure the sizes of the beads i might wanna use.
After that i sprayed the beads, or else the clay won't bind to it. For my sd and Tiny i simply sanded the beads.

4.With a drill i drilled in the shapes of the joint openings in the beads, and drilled the elastic tunnels bigger.

5. Attached the beads to the limbs.
And put clay on the sockets, and pressed the beads into it.
To get a perfect fitted joint socket.

-If you want double joints,
Use a bead to make an inprint of the joint sockets.
Let this dry.
Then put a bit of tape over the Elastic tunnels and put a chunk of clay in between the limbs where the double joint should be. And press them together.
And you will end up with an almost perfect base for your double joint part.
[just cut of the remaining clay chunks and drill it hallow]

--Detaild for the head.
I used a big bead for the head...
but i spend 2 days carving it hallow x3.
And added clay at the bottom to shape the chin scheeks,
and well lower facial features.

Put a bit of tape over the neck elastic tunnel,
and pressed the ball of clay on it to create the neck joint socket.
And then added details and shape to it.
Rubbed it a bit smooth with water, but that doesnt work that well on heads.

6.I used a big chuncky bead for my girls lower torso.
[But i would advice you to just make some sort of a oval shaped bead yourself with clay.
i ended up having to sand the back flat or else her body was to round]
Made a underpants like shape and pressed both the legs in there, making the joint inprint.
Let it dry and then attached it to the bead/oval shape that is the lower rib joint base.
Drilled holes in the hip joint sockets.
And there you have a rough base for the lower torso.

7. Made the upper torso part.
Press the shoulder beads into the shoulder cap places.
Use fabric packed in plastic[tape] to keep this part hallow.
This gives a quite smooth finish on the inside of the torso.

8.put the doll together for the first time to checked if all the measurements were right.

9.Detailed the limbs and body.
Curves, muscles, fluffy tummy things and breastes x3
Rubbed it with water after it had dried, giving a smooth finish.[with premier it does <___>]
Attempted to cast the torso but the should sockets,
rib joint edges and details were lost. [even the boobies]
And sprayed her head base,and legs with spray putty.
Bought at think pink on the Rijswijk Fair.

10. Put the doll together again.
Put chopsticks in her limbs to keep them from bending and sanded the body to get a smooth looking body.
[that looks like one body]
One of her arms broke from the elastic,
so had to be remade.
Took pictures after that in case more of her parts broke ;3;

11. Sprayed the doll with spray putty.

12. Made the hands and feet.
Simply made rough shapes and the carved out the fingers and toes.
Discovered i'm not that good at nails :'D

13. Sprayed the dolls body.
But her bum fell of it's support.
And i had to sand the lower torso completely.
Sanded her on some more parts because i didn't
think the looked smooth enough.
Accidently damaged on of her shoulder ball joints >__<
[her arms hated me]
And redid them

thats when this picture was taken.

14.
Detailed some more, changed her lips,
smoothened some of the joints and made her lower legs a bit thinner.
Made her back smoother and her bum slightly smaller.
And her neck a tiny bit thinner.

Sprayed her after this..look the last pictures..
sanded her some more because the spray didn't go smooth because of the weather.
Then sprayed her again, and then she was send out to the caster.

I will try to update the concept drawings i made for her.
But the a2 one was send with her too the caster =3='

Edit:
replaced the picture with a higher saturation version.
Because dA desaturated the picture for some silly reason.
[does it more often]

Ive spotted what people seem to think is a seam line on her arm.
But...it's probably from the primer spray...
i first sprayed one side of the parts and then the other side.
And this arm part was the first in line so it probably dried along the edges before the other side was sprayed.

i'm simply horrible at putty spraying x3
But i had to te keep the surface of the soft primier clay from scratching every time i put the parts in a box.