Professor Severus Snape

This is the end of my troublesome process of creation.
Now, grand totals.
Fimo Miniature polymer clay, approx.2 packs.
Hair is Tibetan lamb.
Time spend is three months, including all pauses and breaks such as preparing for New Year and Christmas celebrations and actual celebrations and all the inevitable periods of lounging.
Outfit is hand-made, removable.
The doll is moveable because of 17 boll joints.
Hands are moveable too (14 boll joints in each hand).
Total height of the doll is 50 cm (approx.20 inches)

So, for now, folks, let me introduce to you Severus Tobias Snape, a Potions Master.













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Professor

The dissected stage is over, now we have a couple of assembled hands.



I couldn’t resist the temptation to play with the new-made hands, so I’d been composing various sophisticated gestures for several days.





To make an outfit more complete I equipped the professor with a mask.





Just playing with the mask and the hands.







Today I’m posting two final pics of the creation process.
Yesterday all buttons were sewed down and a pair of boots were made of young dermatin’s skin.
I hope to shoot the professor in a full outfit and to present final pics today tonight.





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Hector

Title: “Hector”
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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Paris

Title: “Paris”
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 approx 4½″ 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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Professor

Let’s get on with the sequel.
I got the polymer clay mass on the Styrofoam parts and tried to sculpt the body as good as possible. It was quite a hard task to hold the body and to sculpt at the same time. I don’t understand how people get such a work done.



Here is the way the bean was tried on.



As I’ve previously mentioned the head was narrowed a little, cause it looked too spherical. Here is the close-up of the head.





Let’s keep going. The pics of the hands. Previously I thought a lot about what type of hands should I do for the professor. I always wanted to make them ball-jointed but was afraid to mess up. Here is the final result. Attention of faint-hearted persons, keep out of the monitor cause of dissected hands.











At last I’ve completed the professor’s clothings yesterday. Oh, what a weird costume. The professor had grumbled to my ear about my clumsiness and sluggishness all the time. Oh yes, I’m not madam Malkin, so I’m not a needle-smith.
Today I’ve tried to make a wig using real hair but wasn’t satisfied. Tomorrow I should start over from the scratch, methinks.

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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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