Monday, January 31, 2011

Professor

Nowadays I’ve mixed in with a big doll again. Cause my first big BJD girl had burnt quite long ago, recently I fortunately felt that I could make a new doll.
So, the new doll is already baked and right now the most complex doll making process of dressing up is going. The business of dressing up is the most intricate for me, so it will take its time while other process pics will appear here.

So, let’s start.
In the very beginning always lies a question of scale or height of a doll. Initially I’d planned for hefty 70cm (approx.27 inches). But the reality almost always differs from plans, the same way it was this time too. Thanks to numerous kind owners of big BJDs who graciously gave me the chance to check out what the big BJD really is, I’d discovered that 70cm (approx.27 inches) for the doll are really too much, so I reduced the height up to 50cm (approx.20 inches) right away and the scheme was re-drawn. Hopefully I didn’t start to carve out Styrofoam parts, otherwise they wouldn’t fit.
Here is the final (50cm=20inches) scheme.






The next step was to mark out a Styrofoam panel and to carve out the parts. Because of my little previous experience, this step was passed rapidly. The carved parts were wrapped around by food wrap and fixed with sticky tape.



Creation of the head. Actually my husband helped me with this head. He swiftly sculpted a head out of plasticine, so I sculpted from the real, three-dimensional model. The only problem was that the plasticine head was made for a 70cm doll, so I had to sculpt a decreased version for a 50cm doll, but anyway the presence of a 3D model and photos made the process much easier than just using only photos. If I didn’t have the 3D model for reference, the process would be much more continuous, I think, at least for me.









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Boreas



Title: “Boreas”
Doll Artist: Anastasia Popova
The Doll is made of Fimo Miniature polymer clay
One Of A Kind (OOAK)
June, 2008
Images: Anastasia Popova © 2010
The doll would be little higher than 4″ if he were standing
The doll is moveable because of 13 boll joints.
The fur is real fur. Eyes are hand painted.

















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Friday, January 28, 2011

Professor Severus Snape

Sometimes I draw. I don’t have a degree in Fine Art. But from time to time it’s impossible for me not to draw. There is what comes out.


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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Odysseus



Title: “Odysseus”
Doll Artist: Anastasia Popova
The Doll is made of Fimo Miniature polymer clay
One Of A Kind (OOAK)
June, 2008
Images: Anastasia Popova © 2010
The doll would be little higher than 4″ if he were standing
The doll is moveable because of 13 boll joints.
The fur is real fur. Eyes are hand painted.





















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Friday, January 21, 2011

Ares



Title: “Ares”
Doll Artist: Anastasia Popova
The Doll is made of Fimo Miniature polymer clay
One Of A Kind (OOAK)
June, 2008
Images: Anastasia Popova © 2010
The doll would be little higher than 4″ if he were standing
The doll is moveable because of 13 boll joints.
The fur is real fur. Eyes are hand painted.

















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Monday, January 17, 2011

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Penelope



Title: “Penelope”
Doll Artist: Anastasia Popova
The Doll is made of Fimo Miniature polymer clay
One Of A Kind (OOAK)
February, 2008
Images: Anastasia Popova © 2010
The doll would be 5½″ if she were standing
The doll is moveable because of 14 boll joints.
Hair is Tibetan lamb. Eyes are hand painted. Outfit is removable, hand made of silk and stretch fabric.

























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