Props Making a Head stand Bust

I love my floating head collection, and wanted a way to both display them and making wig making less awkward. I have seen some very lovely busts by several companies and thought trying to make one myself would give me a taste of bjd making on a much simpler scale

My BluePrint





I forgot to take a picture of my armature before I laid the base clay on

Here is my base level of clay over my armature



Now I have to wait 48 hours to ensure its fully dry so I can continue building the shapes up to my blueprint

 

For now the goal is to anchor on a deep hook like the second drawing shows. But after watching others people’s sculpting developments I’m trying to decide if I change the base for stability if the anchor method will need to change too

 

Small Update

I managed to slip out my armature without any trouble



I quickly reached the point where I believe I should do some sanding and smooth out to better see where to build up more or make changes, after making two pass throughs I had gotten used to the changes and felt I wasn't making any real progress (outside of adding cleavage) but now that I've compared the pictures from my base clay foundation and this up day I can see I have done more than I believed



Beyond Sanding to smooth everything out for easier visuals, I also plan to slice it in half so I can strengthen the inside clay with apoxie so I can string for testing stability and function with a decreased chance of crumbling my project.

 

School has me swamped But I did some framework work. Which I ofcourse forgot to take good photos of rushing to finish before class started


I checked if it fit msd size heads and woot! it did. I can't tell if the body is actually tiny or just looks tiny because it I stopped before the shoulder joint, and if that was there would it look more in size.





It took me several days to slice her in half safely inbetween life. but I managed, and then was able to take some apoxie sculpt and reinforce the channel and add my little hook for the elastic to catch on.



Today I decided to do a test "stringing" I used sewing flat elastic so its not a nice tight test but it works!




I am still determined to clean up the bust to look as best as I can make it, hoping to correct this lovely slouched position my attempt as back muscles created

This experiment has been so satisfying, I just want to start a million different sculpting projects now ugly or not its all about learning anyways