Can you Dance?

The problem with me doing a type of figurine sometimes is that, I get stuck doing that for a long time. In an attempt to "redeem" myself for the botched lip job I did on my other doll, I made this.

Creating is a spontaneous process for me and, I did not really plan on making this at all. I just want to make another doll because it makes me happy to do that.

As always when I am starting, I chose and planned my color palette.

I personally preferred to have a wider range of skin color-not just the "flesh" or fair type because I wanted to get this message over there: You are beautiful no matter what the color of your skin.

I would have preferred to have a standing sculpture but I do not have the materials to support it so, here she is sitting down. I started by making the feet.

The purpose of me doing this is because the shoes is different from my previous doll. It's a ballerina!It even surprised me! hahahahaha

Anyway,I will be skipping a few things because I have basically showed them in the previous post. But, let me just show you guys how I made the ballerina shoes.

Done. As an additional detail,I added some black clay at the bottom to make it into a more "functional" footwear. I know I am being weird but, it does not hurt to add those details.

One of the reasons why I love scrap clay is that, I can use them as a "foundation" on my next projects. here is a green one-this is part of those lower than the ocean bottom quality clay.

I imagined my dancer to have fluffy multilayer skirt.

Here I am showing you how to make skirts.

Insert another wire reinforcement. As I have been saying before, I do not have any other sculpture wire so, I am improvising. It is often "frowned" upon to insert wire reinforcements because, it does not really "strengthen" the scuplture. But this is not a commercial figurine and, its very tiny.

I just inserted a small piece of clay to serve as the base for the upper torso.

Since the head is bigger than the rest of the body, I started to separately make the detail without attaching to the body.

A few things one needed to keep in mind when making a figurine is that, even if its a chibi and detail is not really of utmost concern, attaching 2 clumps of clay for the ears is still important- don't make your sculpture weirder than you originally intended to.

Braid the clay to give a more realistic hair detail.

Repeat until you have a decent bun.

Attach to the head. I am not going to show you how to make/ attach the arms and hands because, its basically the same from the previous doll.

The great thing about making figurines is that, you get to tell a story. I had her told her head because I am imagining her attempting to relax after her number but the music was turned out so loud.

Here it is from all angles:

There are still a few things I wanted to add on my doll but basically, its done! I am so happy with the way it turned out, I think I want to name her. Any name suggestions?