My first Resin BJD

I currently make porcelain BJD's but have been toying with the idea of making a resin BJD for quite some time and now I finally am going to do it. I will sculpt a new doll and have it cast for me at a casting house. I'm familiar with sculpting a BJD and molding it in plaster, but sculpting and having it cast in resin is completely foreign to me. I would like to show my WIP here and I have many questions. So PLEASE if I'm doing something wrong tell me, I don't know if sculpting for silcone molds will be the same.

Here is my working drawing that I will be using. I took a working drawing that I previously drew and shrunk it on a photo copier.

 

I will be using polymer clay to build my model.

 

I changed my mind and decided to work with La Doll air dry clay. This is my first time working with air dry clay, so I have to go about my sculpting process in a different way. So far, I'm loving the change from polymer. Here's what I have so far....

 

Thanks! My drawing is 14" so that's what I'm shooting for.

I'm really loving it, and I thought I would never switch from polymer.

 

I started building up the legs. I'm going to let it dry before I continue. I used drinking straws to keep them hollow.

 

Thank you and I'll post some more pictures when I get further along.

 

It has been alot of sanding, cleaning and readjusting trying to get everything perfect. Next I will cut the legs and add joints to the knees. Normally I work with polymer clay but I switched to La Doll for this prototype. Although I am loving my new medium, I still am figuring out the best ways of working with it. The fundamentals of sculpting are the same but it definitly is completely a different medium to work with.

 

I have sculpted a few master dolls that i molded then cast in porcelain, but they were out of polymer clay. This is my first time sculpting a doll to cast in resin and using La Doll. Sorry if I had not made myself clear. Thank you!