Now we're working with cottage cheese

Trying to take some of my doll making notes and advice to heart and do what's kind of worked in the past. 

A solid figure based a template is good, it only runs in to problems with the clays I use and my so-so sculpting. This is under the once I have an example it will be easier to copy school of thought and I'd like to copy what is generally my own little person not someone else's doll.

These are the pieces to the previous one but you get the idea. Yes I traced it from a sculpting book but there ain't no problem with that, that's what they're for. By the time I'm finished it'll be human shaped, we're all shaped about the same, but the details will be mine.

This is how it goes together, just paper and tape. I tried one out of carboard but had to chuck it when the clay I was using was separating from the cardboard.

The general idea will be to fill in the template with clay or wax or what ever you're using then fine tuning things. I can't say if I'll cut it apart afterwards. One step at a time.

And this is the slowest step, the "glueing" layer just to get the parts to stick together. This is a paper mache paste made from a powder, great for waste and general use air dry stuff, make as thick or thin as you want, and it's inexpensive. 

I'm thinking about doing severa things, reading, crocheting, looking at stuff online, but I don't know what I'll end up doing. Yesterday went to making sketches of doll joints. I'm going to do a dummy of my commonplace book before I commit it to a regular book. I still have some OCD or something like that, and other related stuff, in my brain. 

Still seeing two different types of commonplace books, assembled quotes, tables, words of wisdom like a personal encyclopedia, and numbered lists of ideas like HP Lovecraft's book. I'm kind of wanting to be in the personal encyclopedia camp as I don't want to share some of my writing ideas until they're written, or I get paid good money for them.