How to use air-dry clay to sculpt dolls - sharing my trade secrets

For years, I have been sculpting with air-dry clays and accumulated several tips and tricks that make the process easier and more enjoyable. I believe that air-dry clays are beginner-friendly and even magical in experienced hands, but it takes a few tricks to make them work better.

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[rhissannadollmaker]

Beautiful doll hands! I love how you get paper clay to stick to the armature wire smoothly. Thank you!

[recreepy]

I am amazed by the level of detail and realism in your doll and puppet creations. They look like they could come to life any moment. You have a remarkable talent and skill!

[kilodeltawhisky]

It's nice to find current content on making bjd from air dry clay, and from scratch! The information about carving dry clay makes sense... This is awesome! Thanks for posting!!

[emilyjohnson]

I also love using air dry clay, just wanted to say you are incredibly talented and love when you post a new video!

[lasssary]

Thanks! Your English is so easy listening for a foreigner. That was very useful. ❤

[goblin]

This was incredibly helpful. Thank you so much! 👍🏻 i've only just started with sculpting dolls, but it's a lot of fun and i always feel like i'm bringing a little creature to life haha 😀

[annettegreen]

It's been so hard for me to find a good tutorial on doll making with air dry clay! Thank you so much, this was brilliant! And I love your dolls. ❤

[DaLareira]

thank you so much!! I follow your dolls since a lot of years, you are an really good artist! good luck and kisses from Spain

[jeanmarie]

You´ve got a great talent there, thanks for the tips im suscribed from now and its my first video.

[ayaalnasan]

can you tell me how you leave them to dry without cracking? mine always cracks after i put a lot of hours into them, this would be so helpfull thank you

[jillianumo-etuk]

sorry i am late but i wanna know is activia la natural stone clay good and i really love your dolls

[RoothieDoodles]

This video is such a god send! I always come back to reference your super helpful tips! I'm trying out the la doll clay myself and I noticed that even after a few days of the clay being dried out, I'm still able to leave a nail dent? Is that normal and will it go away when varnished/ sealed? I've tried adding a primer as well and after that stage it didn't do much to "harden" the clay to make it no longer dent-able. The exact type of clay I'm using is the La Doll Satin smooth natural stone clay.

[chuaclarice]

Do you happen to know the difference between ladoll red vs. ladoll blue (premix)?

[olesiabockelie]

Hi, thank you very much for the video! Do I understand it right that you prefer porcelain over air dry clay for your dolls? Can you tell why?

[nutmeg]

Thank you for such a beautiful video. I am just starting to get into air dry clay and sculpting. I was wondering if you had any advice for the layering part. Most people say that the layers of air dry clay have to be the same level of wetness to adhere. Your sculptures seem to be proving them wrong but I'm not sure if there's a trick to it. When I've watched some other people try to work in layers they ended up with clay that wouldn't stick together well once dried. They even used water, slip, and did scoring but still had problems with keeping it all together. How do you avoid this problem?

[Jilianity]

How do you connect the ball joints together?

[bugbitez]

i love it its so detailed and amazing! i have a question tho.. how do you connect them together? is it after they dry or do you glue them in somehow

[infantaVegan]

Do you havf online course to teach how to make kt from the start?

[royalhavoc]

Hello, I’m one of your students with a question! 😅 I’m making a doll right now with your masterclass and I’m about to start on the hip joints… my question is should I use two of the same exact size balls or one bigger and one smaller? I couldn’t tell in the videos or the blueprint if the balls you made for the peanut double joint hip were slightly different size or the same.

I have the same question referring to the knees?

[hasnainhasnain]

How to avoid cracking in air dry clay dear? ❤