Leather Dolls Face

[leatheroo]

I decided to have a go at the dolls face that Jolieo asked questions about. I found an old Bratz doll and cut off her head and the cut the head in half and glued it to my 'head board'. I used 0.9mm leather, wet it, stretched it and went about molding it. I found that the dolls face didnt really have enough definition in the features for a good mold. If i was to do this again i would look for a dolls face that have good eyes and nose definition. Anyway, had fun and here is what i came up with.

cheers

[Ladykahu]

I do a bit of other textile art (thats whats led me to leatherworking) and have also tried the bratz doll face as a mold. they are just to pointy faced for my liking, and lacking in detail.

I ended up using some clay molds similar to these (scroll down a little ways to find the faces) http://shadesofclay.com/products/Tools/Molds/Molds.htm

I then used a cheap air drying clay to make several that I 'tweaked' a little as my forms for molding felt.. so I would presume the same would work for leather. ebay often had the same molds come up quite cheaply. I just varnished the air clay to waterproof it a little, as at that small size using glad wrap (not sure what the american term is for the thin food film?) gave me to many wrinkles.

Natalie

[DanielGallant]

thank you!!!1 nice!

I decided to have a go at the dolls face that Jolieo asked questions about. I found an old Bratz doll and cut off her head and the cut the head in half and glued it to my 'head board'. I used 0.9mm leather, wet it, stretched it and went about molding it. I found that the dolls face didnt really have enough definition in the features for a good mold. If i was to do this again i would look for a dolls face that have good eyes and nose definition. Anyway, had fun and here is what i came up with.

cheers