Tea En Jaye

Saturday, September 23, 2017

Russel Hobbs Custom Figurine

Russel Hobbs from the Gorillaz bust figurine. Stands about 4".

Made this back in March using polymer clay and acrylic paint.

For the font on his shirt, I used the printer.

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Here's Noodle before she got knocked off the table and shattered....

Right now, I'm slowly in the process of moving soon so, a majority of my polymer tools and supplies are packed away. I will be making another attempt and finishing the rest of the group once I'm settled and come across it in my list of projects.

Friday, September 22, 2017

Star and Pokeball Blankets

Yeah, yeah, it's been about 8 months since I've posted here. I am noticing the coincidence that I'm always in the mood (or remember) to post in my blog around the Fall and Winter months, but my activities doing other things don't stop. So, I guess it's time to play catch up before I go on another hiatus.

Most recent projects are these crocheted blankets I made my boys for Christmas. Poor kids have been watching me knit and crochet their whole lives and I'm finally getting around to this but, I know they'll love them.

The star one I give credit to a pattern, but I've altered it a smidgen and the Pokeball I did completely free hand.

Pattern I used can be found here on Ravelry. It's free!

I followed it for about the first few rounds. I was not fond of how pointy the pattern made the star look so, I simply altered the pattern by changing the dc 3, c3, dc3 at the peaks down to 2s.

When I got towards the end, I decided to experiment and make extra peaks and it actually turned out looking all nice and even!

The eyes were a debate for a bit. I wasn't sure if I wanted to knit, crochet or make special buttons out of polymer clay. In the end, I decided to go with black felt and white fabric paint then sewed it on with a needle and thread.

This one was pretty fun to make until I got towards the green stripe. It ended up taking forever and ate up a lot of yarn for one row alone. I also ended up taking it apart and restarting more times than I can count. In the end though, I think it turned out looking pretty good. My original plan was to make the background a solid color, like the first one, but because I was low on gray, I decided to add colors to represent the basic element types.

I am currently working on a second one with lots of altercations and writing the pattern as I go along. I am hoping to post it sometime in the near future.

Badtz Maru

Made with polymer clay and acrylic paint. Stands about 4"

I wasn't happy with his mouth so decided to take it off and try again.

Friday, December 30, 2016

Princess Kenny 4" Custom Figurine

I actually took more photos, this time!

This took me a total of 3 days to complete.

Started out with making my shape base out of tin foil and shaping around with polymer clay.

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Once I got the size and shape I was looking for, it was time to bake.

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Nice and smooth from wet sanding with fine sandpaper.

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As much as I want to get away with sculpting the eyes, this is a situation where I feel it's best to paint and then use clay for the eyelashes since they overlap his hoodie in photos.

Since this wasn't photoshop where I can hit the back button, I ended up sketching his face as a guideline with pencil. This allowed me to see the outline when I added the first layer of paint for the skin tone.

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This was the most intimidating part. I took my sweet time painting the eyes. The hair was a little rough only because I have no experience. Since Kenny's wig is messy though, I managed to pull it off.

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Then came for all the accessories. I had the perfect sized swarovski crystals and used them for her jewelry with colored clay.

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Final touches and then glazed.

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"Ima kara... PRINCESSSUU KENNY!!!"

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Waddle Dee

Was messing with a piece of tin foil and it turned into a perfect shape that looked a lot like Kirby. That's when I grabbed my clay and started sculpting around it.

I've been messing with polymer for about 7 years now. I never made a custom figurine or anything at this size, always stuck with the miniatures. It's a little intimidating, but a great learning project for myself.

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I wanted to give myself a little more of a challenge make it into Waddle Dee instead of Kirby.

Jumped the gun a little and didn't bother taking any photos until this point.

After shaping the clay around the body, I baked and wet sanded it. Then, primer and first coat of paint.

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Originally, I was going to paint on the face, but after tons of procrastinating, I decided to sculpt the eyes and cheeks, bake, and then glue it onto him.

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For his parasol, I used wire to shape it before adding the clay to keep it sturdy. Then the same stages as the body. Bake, water sand, prime then paint.

For his base, I used scrap clay, a circle cookie cutter, and black paint.

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Once it came to the part where I had to assemble everything, that's when I learned an important lesson. Super glue hates acrylic paint! I just assumed it would stick. Nope, ate the paint right off.

I fixed it by sanding down the areas that needed to be glued and retouched it after it fully dried.

Last step was adding gloss.

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