Whoa nelly this project is quite frustrating! I've learn a lot so far, that's for sure. I have limbs breaking and I'm having so much trouble with my lack of ability making things remotely symmetrical. So I'm gonna take a break and then decide If I want to make these two dolls or stationary sculptures. I'm glad to share some images. As soon as I scan the drawings and plans I will share them too.
Yep, breaking sucks. Your cores don't look much smaller than the other parts, could you be making the parts too thin? Cores just need to be big enough to allow the elastic to pass, they can have some shape to help you sculpt but I think a higher resistance is preferable. Are you using air dry clay?
when I used air dry clay, I found it easiest not to push the sculpture too hard. Instead it was easiest to just cut off extra clay with an exacto knife than smooshing clay around. But I wasted a lot of clay this way, though...
The parts are definitely too thin AND not uniform thickness. I was using la doll with wood flour added like with Noah's doll but I'm going to try just la doll on one of my next projects.
good luck! since you cut lenght wise, maybe you could fill the insides up a bit and try to salvage as much as you can of this one? the shapes looked pretty nice!
Thanks. I did reinforce the ones that didn't break. I was going to put the broken ones back together but I think I may just redo them.
soak the bits that you cut off and you can re-use it , I do this with das air dry, plus clay and laDoll premix (yip still undesided on which clay i like so go between the three)
