New Wendy Froud Sculpting Video

Last year I ordered Wendy Froud's Creating a Faery Figure from the World of Froud's Goblin market. I went back to visit a few days ago to see what was new and found that she has a new sculpting video out. This one on Characters.



Creating a Character Figure
with Wendy Froud
$45.00
In this two-disc DVD workshop, renowned artist Wendy Froud explains and demonstrates how to create a character figure of your own design. Wendy reveals her process in step-by-step detail, beginning with a discussion of how to use reference to inspire the look and feel of your designs. She sculpts three different character heads, covering a variety of techniques for giving personality to your figure including facial expressions, wrinkles and lines. After painting each head and discussing ways to add skin detail such as age spots, she chooses one head to turn into a full character. Wendy then covers sculpting hands and feet, fabricating the body and costuming the character complete with boots, hat and staff. This DVD is meant to follow Wendy’s first DVD Creating a Faery Figure and focuses on character sculpting and costuming without the same emphasis given to body fabricating.

Topics Covered:
Using Reference
Making an armature
sculpting the head
Sculpting wrinkles and lines
Painting Face details
applying hair
Fabricating the body
Costuming
finishing the figure

DVD's will ship on or before January 12.
Click here to check it out. Wendy Froud Video

September Meeting

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

September 2008 Meeting

Wow, once again Lydia (our founding member of our guild) has done it once again and taught us how to make needle felted lambs with a new technique that she developed during our summer break. She is always thinking of how do make new items for our dolls. This was so easy that one lady finished her lamb in class.

A few other ladies also did some felting over the summer but with knitting needles. Sample pieces were made first in order to make sure that the items to be felted did felt after the washing and drying process. This is a step that sometimes gets over looked and is critical in making sure that all the hard work that you have done is for not.

Our next class will be on finishing the lambs and talking about the Creative Sewing and Needlecraft Fair.

September 7,2008

Etobicoke Fall Fair

The South Etobicoke Doll Artist Guild (SEDAG) recently had a table at their community's Fall Fair.

In spite of a rainy start to the day the event was a tremendous success. Day and evening club members Lise St. Germain, Eileen Ross set up the clubs display dolls, demonstrated a few simple techniques and talked to visitors both young and old about the wonderful world of doll making and the clubs monthly meetings.


The club also has recently set up a group on Yahoo at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SouthEtobicokeDollArtists

South Etobicoke Doll Artist Guild

Friday, October 24, 2008

Welcome.
We are a group of members that meet on the last Tuesday of each month to learn and inspire each other in our doll creations.
The members are from the beginner to advance. We create dolls from many different materials from polymer clay, fabric, needle felting, found objects,etc....

We love to share ideas and experience with each other in our making of dolls.
If you would like to join us in a meeting please pass by the Franklin Horner Community Centre, 432 Horner Avenue, Etobicoke, Room 105 afternoon meeting at 1 p.m. and the evening meeting is in the Craft Room at 6.30 p.m.
Hope to see you there.