Steps To Making A BJD Doll

By Arline Bradley


If one is a fan of dolls, then he would most likely take pleasure in owning ball jointed dolls because these dolls are some of the most beautiful types. Now a ball jointed doll or simply a BJD doll, is a doll that is connected by balls and joints. Now the good thing about these things is that they are very easy to make and can be made at home.

Now just like any creative endeavor, the first thing to do would be to create and conceptualize. Now in this part, it is best that one would first put down all his ideas in a notebook or a paper. So the very first step here would be to draw the doll and design it already before even starting the entire process.

After making a nice design, then the next thing one should do now would to be to buy the equipment. Now the main thing that one would be needing would be special clay known as Super Sculpey. Now Super Sculpey is the best in the market for this kind of project because it is the sturdiest.

Now before touching the Super Sculpey, it is important that one would first create the skeleton of the doll using some wires or materials like that. The thing that one has to do here would be to get some hard wires and create parts from these hard wires like the arms, the torso, the head, and the other parts. Do remember that these wires are hard to manipulate which means that one may need pliers.

Now in order to make the wires a little bit more stable so that the Sculpey will stick to it, one will have to add some masking tape on the body parts. One more thing to do with the masking tape would be to create a ball on the ends of the body parts. The last part of this step would be to wrap the skeleton parts with some tinfoil.

Now after that has already been done, then the next part would be to add the Super Sculpey on the skeleton. When starting out, one should first rub a very thin layer of the Sculpey on the body parts. When one has already done this, then one may just add more of the Sculpey as much as he pleases.

Now after putting a thin layer of Sculpey there, then the next thing to do would be to add more and build the figure. Now during this step, one can be creative and make the doll look like whatever he wants. Of course he also has to carve the face in which he can use different paints and accessories for the eyes, the mouth, and the nose.

The last step would be to now stick all the parts together. Now do take note that at the edge of the segments, there should be a ball where the masking tape was placed and a joint that it will connect to. Connect these pieces and bake them in the oven for a few minutes before taking it out and putting on the clothes.




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