Workshop Diary: My First Doll

Everything has been incredibly busy with moving and all of the work that goes into that. But the other day I took some time to hang out with a friend and actually do some sculpting. A particular project I've been wanting to really dive into for a long time now.

Doll making is something I've been interested in dipping my toes into and have definitely done some planning and research as well as getting materials. But I've never had the chance to have sustained craft time to dedicate to it. Last Thursday that's what I did. I worked on making my very first attempt at an Animal Crossing character doll. 

I'd done research for quite some time and had to come to the decision, based on the range of colors available, to try the Cernit doll clay. I was looking for a good medium tone and so I chose the caramel color. Some of the reviews that I've seen mentioned that some of Cernit’s colors look darker after they've been baked and this holds true for the caramel color doll clay. This is actually much to my delight. It's not the color I wanted, however if this color turned out this dark that means that the color range for this clay goes much darker than I had originally thought. I love the idea that there are more flesh tone colors to choose from. And there isn’t any reason you couldn’t mix these colors to get even more. 

I was at first nervous about committing to the time of sculpting out and shaping a doll, something I hadn't done yet. But my friend pointed out to me that like the first pancake the first doll is going to look awful anyway so I might as well do it. Which I think is great advice for lots of different things. 

I think the doll I made turned out pretty well for a first pancake. I need to paint a face on them and figure out how I want to add hair and clothes, but that's a future adventure.