The head of a doll is probably the most important part for a dollmaker.
It starts with finding your "look" which involves to get very deep into facial features, proportions, studying all kinds of doll (and human) heads., browsing through anatomy and art books and the like. All of this leads to understanding how to create "the" face expression that you are aiming for. Once you have a clear picture in mind of how the doll should look like the hard work starts and it takes a while until imagination has become reality. It took several months in my case since I've started to needle-felt my doll's heads beginning of this year.
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| Here is the result of my needle-felting journey - developing my "look" took me several months. Those of you who follow me on facebook have seen this little guy already - he's the one with the golden curls from yesterday's post |
During this process I sometimes wished to have a tutorial or ebook or something - but there wasn't any.
Don't get me wrong - there is plenty of books dealing with this topic since the technique (and also the idea) is not new but I missed a modern and fresh touch.
This is why I decided to share my knowledge with you and started working on a step-by-step tutorial/ebook about needle-felting doll heads.
It will be available in my etsy shop beginning of 2015 and I hope it will support you to create the doll head of your dreams.
Have a great weekend!
XOX
Antje
