running off of pure mac n cheese

But I have also recently rediscovered critical role through the mighty nein tv series and I want to use up some of my more odd coloured clays, so I’m thinking of doing Jester or Mollymauk or Essek or Nott or Caleb. The thing is, I don’t have any green, blue or purple resin dyes, and I’m using polyurethane resin. I’m wondering if pigment powders will work? I’m going to do some small tests and see how it goes.

I’ve seen lots of fan-art with him in these bell-bottom like pants? And I know I want to incorporate some kind of jacket into the design since he went into the distortion in a pretty cold place. I’m thinking I’ll use the flower fabric for the pants but I genuinely have no idea what to do for the rest of him. I will gladly take suggestions I think I’ll also start sculpting Helen as well, since I'm still in the mindset of sculpting long and gangly creatures.

I think I also might start working on a Helen doll as well

All the parts except for the head are casted/sculpted! I’m just going to do a bit of sanding before test stringing him to see if I need to make any changes. He’s also going to be VERY tall compared to Nikola, which I’m honestly not too angry about.

so Michael has arms now. I fear I may have made them just a little bit too long… I really like the wrist joints though so I might just have to shorten the forearms somehow? I’ll need to sculpt the legs to check the proportions

I also switched over to polymer clay which was a very good decision. I used Apoxie clay for Nikola and the parts would always stick together during sculpting, but polymer clay doesn’t have that problem. The clay I’m using is translucent Sculpey Premo along with some scraps of a much cheaper and stickier polymer clay in order to colour it. The really cheap polymer clays can get very sticky, though, so the cost of the better clay was definitely worth it in my opinion.

still trying to go for the general not-quite-human theme here so that I can hide any of my mistakes behind the fact that it’s not really supposed to look all that human. I’ve seen a lot dolls from Doll Chateau that have extra joints and in general look pretty off putting so I think I’ll try to go for something like that here. I now kind of want to sculpt all of the rest of the avatars, going from the least human-shaped to the most human-shaped. I’ll definitely make a Helen to go with Michael, but knowing how prone I am to burnout, that’s probably as far as I’ll get in the list of avatars

I used syringes to fill the molds. I swear that I remember buying craft syringes at some point for a casting project, but I can’t find them, so now I no longer have a food safe marinade syringe.

so my two part molds have now become one-part molds. i fully forgot to buy mold release while buying the other materials. the molds are still usable, though, I just cut some slits down the sides so I can get the casts out of them. the other photo is my first cast, which I chose to try doing without using syringes and it didn’t go well. I only managed to get actual casts of the hip joints and everything else didn’t fill the molds properly. I’ll try again after using syringes and see how it goes

I’m trying my hand at resin casting. these are the first halves of the two-part silicon molds. I have enough silicon and resin to probably cast the whole doll, however I unfortunately decided to do this only after I sueded the doll. so these are just the joints. this also means I can sculpt other dolls with different body shapes though, so that’s going to be nice. Im trying my best without a pressure pot, which isn’t ideal since the silicone I had on hand had a six minute working time and a ten minute cure time. so this might not even work out.

the fic is here if anyone wants to read it. not sure if I’ll continue, I’ve hit the literal worst writers block of my entire life and my motivation is in hell smoking weed with satan

ayway this is about five hours of work. hopefully it will eventually be a skirt for a custom doll but we’ll see.

the photo is shit but I’m very happy with her. she looks sufficiently horrifying

looks nothing like the source material. in my dream one took up residence inside my car and built a nest inside and wouldn’t let me in at all. i dont even own a car irl

The sculpted and sanded head I made for my Nikola doll. Making the embodiment of uncanny valley as my first doll was a great idea, since most of my mistakes sort of just add to the overall look.