Materials Questions about air dry clay (La Doll)

With ladoll, you can add just thin layer every time you want to add details. ladoll clay is so nice that I can make a thin layer, probably not more than 1cm, when I make the base body over the armature, then I just add a little more clay for details like muscle, breast, etc. And you can sandpaper it to make sure it doesn't going bulky. And the sands can be reused again as slur

For oven baked, I can't give any pointers since I never used it. But I think I like air dry better cause for example, when I make a head with a perfect nose, I don't need to worry it will change shape once it dried. But with oven baked, I have to be careful not to disturb the nose when making other details like lips or eyes maybe.
Also I heard that once you have baked the sculpt, it is more harder to sand it rather than air dry clay, which mean sanding oven baked one wasted more energy and time, but maybe I can be wrong.

But all of this is just my opinion, other member may have other opinion as well.

 

as someone who as worked in both they have their pros and cons

i wouldn't advise la doll for anything smaller the 1/6 through it may be just my ineptitude, and i would rather not use it for super finely detailed things like hands and feet, not because you can't do it but because it seems a little to fragile and brittle for it, but over all i like working with it, in my opinion it's greatest advantage is that it's super easy to sand! if you sculpt something it does retain it's shape and if your not happy with it you can shave it off and the clay can become soft again if soaked in water for a while

it's better for larger projects because i found that polymer clay tended to morph a lot when it got in to the larger sizes and becomes very heavy very fast!

polymer clay is great at piking up details... almost to good xD but it's very forgiving and super tough once baked, since it has a bit of give once (properly) baked it's pretty brake resilient, but as said earlier the bigger it is the more likely it is to shift shape, it can be pretty heavy and pretty hard to sand it clogs up the sandpaper really fast

so i think it's a matter of taste and what your making

 

You can always make small and tend to be fragile parts with modeling epoxy putty. You don't have to make whole thing with just one material, you know?
Good luck and hope to see in-progress pictures of your doll here soon.

 

One of the huge advantages of La Doll is that after drying, you can just carve it off with a simple blade.
You can also scrape extra bits off by using a small metal scoop.
Plus you can draw and write on dry La Doll using pencil.

If you want to add another layer onto dry La Doll, you just need to make the surface wet. Just dip your finger into water and then brush on the La Doll.
Very easy and convenient.