Here I describe in detail the process of making the doll’s body: how to find the right proportions, how different the proportions of a realistic, character-based, grotesque, and stylized doll are, and what are the ways of creating the body volume. In addition, you will learn:

• how to make a wire armature for a doll
• how to connect sculpted elements to the cloth body
• what materials and what glue to use for the body
• how to put the body into the desired pose
• how to make elbows and knees
• how to make the figure balanced so it can stand on its own without support

The second section of this volume is devoted to wigs and different materials for them: hair, fur, paper-mâché, wool, thread, and more. I give a detailed description, using many illustrations, of:

• ways of dying wool, fur, and hair
• ways of attaching hair to polymer clay, before and after baking
• ways of making a doll’s hairdo and fixing hair
• the particular chapter is devoted to finding and correcting mistakes in your work.