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How To Make Your Own Clown Doll ! (A Guide)
Hello good people !!
I have made a few clown dolls before, and someone submitted a question asking if I followed any guide for them or had a guide myself. I sorta made it up as I went for the first doll, but I have learned better methods of doing things since then!
Here is my guide on how to make some dudes for yourself!
You will need:
Fabric for the body - I used an off-white fleece for the torso and limbs for this one, but have previously used a thin off-white sorta cotton fabric, which works better if you want floppier/thinner limbs!
Fabric for the clothes - Use whatever you want, honestly! I used some cool stretchy silver-metallic fabric for mine but have previously used cotton and polyester patterned fabrics !
Polymer clay - I used Sculpey III for this one, but for my previous two I used some other kind of Sculpey that was very very light and airy, which made it hard to sculpt properly without squishing it! If you want to add any detail to the face shape, use some firm polymer clay !
Posca pens (optional) and acrylic paints - Acrylics are used for the base coat on the head. I used the paints for the details too previously, but used posca pens on this one which was much easier to do the face details with! Either works just fine, though : )
Faux fur - for hair! If you want a bald clown or one with just a hat without hair, you don't need this!
Decorative trims and such - I used some pink frilly elastic trim, blue dotted non-elastic trim, white elastic frilly mesh, buttons, a silver bell and some blue velvet ribbon for this guy! You can literally use whatever you want (ribbons, bows, pom-poms, lace, etc) to make your clown look cute!!
Varnish - Use spray varnish if you can! It'll help prevent the face paint from smudging (all 3 of mine have had this happen using varnish with a brush). It is possible to use varnish with a brush on them but be careful with it! I used sculpey gloss varnish.
Tin/aluminium foil
Basic sewing supplies (needles, thread, pins, scissors)
Steps
1. Make a ball out of the foil, a little smaller than the size you want the finished head.
2. Cover it in a layer of Sculpey and sculpt the face shape you want. Include a pretty thick neck with the base at the bottom WIDER than the rest of the neck. This will be how the head is anchored to the body!
3. Bake the clay, let it cool, and sand it down so that it is nice and even without any finger-prints!
4. Paint a base coat on it with acrylic paints!
5. Paint/draw on whatever face details you want using acrylics or posca pens! Let your creativity flow!!
6. Varnish it!
7. Draw out the body pieces (torso and limbs) on your body fabric. You'll need two torso pieces, four leg pieces and four arm pieces. Honestly there's no method to what shape to draw, just draw what shapes you want them to be! (Remember to reverse each second piece though so that they match up when sewing them together). I used a rounded rectangle for the torso, and chose to make the legs on mine very long!
8. Cut out all the pieces and sew them together with the CORRECT sides facing INWARDS and the WRONG sides facing outwards. Once sewn, flip them inside out. MAKE SURE TO LEAVE THE TOP SIDE OF THE TORSO UN-SEWN TO INSERT THE HEAD!
9. Almost fully fill the body with plastic pellets, and only partially fill the limbs (I filled them about 1/4 full)! If you don't have those, use dry rice like I did (or dry lentils) or sand! If you use sand, ensure sure you make your stitches REALLY close together so sand doesn't come out of any gaps! If you want the limbs to be chunkier, fill them with more pellets OR stuff the rest of them with poly-fill or cotton wool!
10. Insert the neck into the torso and sew the opening tight around it, like this! The wide base of the neck stops the head from coming out : )
11. Sew on the limbs! The stitching doesn't have to be perfect here since the clothes will hide it!
12. Make the clothes! You can make whatever kind of clothing you like; I just made a baggy little jumpsuit sorta thing for my guy! To do this, I laid the clown out on the fabric and roughly drew the shape for clothes around him based on what I wanted! Flip it, lay it down in the fabric again and then trace this to get the second jumpsuit piece!
13. Use the same method of sewing the pieces together with the CORRECT sides facing each other so the WRONG sides are facing outwards. Then turn the clothes inside-out so that the eight sides are now facing outwards! MAKE SURE TO LEAVE OPENINGS FOR THE HEAD AND LIMBS TO COME OUT THROUGH!
14. Put the clothes on the clown!!
15. (Optional) Glue fake fur on the top of the head in the style you want it! I used hot glue because I didn't have anything else, but fabric glues and all-purpose glues would be good too! If you don't want hair, just skip this step!
16. (Optional) Hat!! Cut out a wide triangle shape, sew the opposite sides together and then sew a circle to the base if you want a pointy hat like my dude's one (I don't have photos of this sadly but I'm sure there's a tutorial out there of how to sew a cone)! Then glue the base to the top of the head.
16. And finally, add all the trims and extra bits you want to make them look super cute !!! I just sewed on some ribbon to the base of the hat and around the ankles, sewed some frilly elastic trims around the neck, added a little silver bell to the hat, sewed frilly trim around the wrists and ankles and then sewed two buttons onto the front of his clothes!
And then, your little clown is done !!!
I hope this comes in handy to anyone wanting to make their own clown dude!
I would appreciate any reblogs and such of this to help spread the clown joy !!
Have fun !!!
(Small note! I would appreciate if you didn't copy any of my clowns directly! Please use this as more of a guide than an exact tutorial to make this specific clown! Being creative with yours is much more fun!! :•D)
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trump really rolled back healthcare protections for lgbt people during pride month AND on the day of the 4 year anniversary of the pulse nightclub shooting. i don’t know why i’m even shocked at this point but i still feel physically ill
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As i’m sure many of you have heard, the Trump administration just passed a ruling that would remove LGBT+ anti-discrimination protections in health care and health insurance. I immediately thought of this man’s story when I heard about the ruling. Stories like this are the reason why those protections are necessary.
It’s easy to feel hopeless with all the bad news our community has been bombarded with recently. But we have to keep fighting, and one way we can fight is through legal means.
Here are some organizations who have announced plans to take action in court. If you can donate to any of them, please do!
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We mourn. We remember. We stand with the LGBTQ community against hate and violence.
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can you guys please sign this petition, it only takes seconds.
shukri abdi, a black muslim 12 year old girl was pushed into a river by her racist white class bullies and drowned to death. she didn’t know how to swim. no one was charged for her death and she still hasn’t gotten justice despite there being a witness.
read more info about shukri here.
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lesbian friendly films
90s films
Aimee & Jaguar - ‘99
All over me - ‘97
Better than chocolate - ‘99
Bound - ‘96
But i’m a cheerleader - ‘99
Edge of seventeen - ‘98
Everything relative- ‘96
Fire - ‘96
Fried green tomatoes - ‘91
Go fish - ‘94
Heavenly creatures - ‘94
High art - ‘98
It’s in the water - ‘97
Revoir Julie - ‘98
Show me love - ‘98
The cheery orchard - ‘90
The watermelon woman - ‘96
Asian leads/main characters
A piece of our life - Japanese film, Drama
All mixed up/Manji - Japanese film from 1964 and remade in 1983, 1998, and 2006. Drama/Comedy
Blue - Japanese film, Drama/LGBT
Candy rain - Taiwanese film, Comedy-Drama
Circumstance - Drama
Drifting flowers - Taiwanese film, Drama/Romance
Fatal frame - Japanese film, Horror
Fire - Indian film, Drama
Ghosted - Taiwanese film, Thriller/Drama
I can’t think straight - Drama/indie
In my end is my beginning - Korean film, Romance
Life is peachy/Ashamed - Korean film, Drama
Love/juice - Japanese film, Drama/romance
Saving face - Indie/Drama
Sayew - Thai film
Spider lilies - Taiwanese film, Romance/Drama
The cherry orchard/sakura no sono - Japanese film,
The handmaiden - Korean film, Drama/Mystery
Three veils - Drama/Romance
Topless - Japanese film
Two weddings and a funeral - Korean film, Romance
Whispering corridors 2: memento mori - Korean film,Horror
Yes or no - Thai film
Black leads/main characters
Bessie
Black.womyn
In my fathers house
Like a prayer
Looking for LaBelle
Pariah
Rafiki
Set it off
Storme: the lady of the jewel box
Stud life
The skinny
The watermelon woman
The women of Brewster place
Comedy/Romcom
Blockers
But I’m a cheerleader
Codependent lesbian space alien seeks same
D.E.B.S
Drool
Edge of seventeen
Fried green tomatoes
It’s in the water
Itty bitty titty committee
Imagine me and you
Life partners
Nanette
The four faced liar
The perfect family
Who’s afraid of vagina wolf?
Coming of age
But i’m a cheerleader
Blue (2002)
Lost and delirious
Pariah
Show me love/Fucking Amal
The miseducation of Cameron Post
Period Pieces
Atomic blonde
Carol
Farewell, my Queen
Fingersmith - BBC miniseries
Heavenly creatures
Reaching for the moon
San Junipero - black mirror episode
The girl king
The handmaiden
The hours
The secret diaries of miss Anne Lister
Tipping the velvet - BBC miniseries
Drama/Romance
Appropriate behavior
Blue is the warmest color
Carol
Circumstance
Desert hearts
Disobedience
High art
I can’t think straight
Imagine me and you
It’s in the water
Jack and Diane
Jenny’s wedding
Princess Cyd
Rafiki
San Junipero - black mirror episode
Saving face
Show me love/Fucking Amal
The handmaiden
The watermelon woman
Three Veils
Horror
All cheerleaders die
Contracted
Fatal frame
Heavenly creatures
Jack and Diane
Jennifer’s body
Whispering corridors 2: Memento Mori
Supernatural
All cheerleaders die
Jennifer’s body
Thelma
The Carmilla Movie
Thriller/Mystery
Atomic blonde
Black swan
Bound
Ghosted
Set it off
The handmaiden
Thelma
Teen flicks
All cheerleader die
Blockers
But I’m a cheerleader
D.E.B.S
Edge of seventeen
Jennifer’s body
The Carmilla movie
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I’m team Edward, but I wanted to draw a sad face and new moon was free ondemand 🤷♀️. The books were better than the movies by a large margin, but they’re fun to watch when I’m not feeling well and need some nostalgia. And the soundtrack is great.
Bella was my teenage hero— don’t believe what they say about her. She was actually pretty cool. She was independent and strong, she was kind, and she was really smart. She was fearless and a lot more bamf than anyone gives her credit for now. I remember when all the girls my age were reading twilight— when the movies were coming out. Bella was the coolest back then! At least where I lived in Southern California.
And no, Twilight isn’t sexist. There are tons of really awesome and strong female characters. Like Rosalie, for example. Yeah she’s rough about the edges but she’s strong and capable. She got violated by a group of men, but when she becomes a vampire she turns around and gets her revenge without succumbing to drinking their blood. Bamf right there. Victoria is arguably the main villain of the series. She’s a smart, ruthless vampire who almost wins. Tanya and Kate are side characters but they’re strong, independent women who are very aware in their own sexuality. Esme is implied to have come from an abusive relationship but she recovered and found love and takes joy in her family. Alice is a somewhat stereotypical fashionista but she is an amazing fighter and implied to have been through quite a lot, but she stays positive and keeps going. Anyways, that’s my PSA.
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i don’t know which twilight fan needs to hear this today but keep in mind that the quileute tribe is real and deserving of your respect
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Hey, just a suggestion:
Hozier take me to the forest and let me meet the lesbian goddesses.
That's all, thank you.
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forest
rule #1: do not enter the forest. there are things in there that would eat a young girl like you alive.
they tell you this because they are scared. there are things in the forest that no one has seen and come back from (or what does come back is not the same. it is changed. it is something unlike anything they have ever seen before, and thus it is not what went there in the first place). it scares them. so they tell you,“do not go into the forest, because the forest is death, and we do not want you to change. we want to mold you. stay here, little one, and be molded.”
and yet, the lure of the wild never fades, even after they’ve pulled at the clay of your heart.
rule #2: there are witches and wild things in this world. they speak with voices like honey and song, and look like visions of goddesses. do not be tempted.
you see them, in in-between places, in little ways. smaller magics that everyone but you does not notice - the flash of a smile, the curl of a lip. she is magic, and she is heaven, and she is denied you. she is a witch and a wild thing, and you are tempted. you are sorely tempted.
she grabs your hand, and when you mold your lips to the skin of her neck, she smells like earth, greenery. you see the sharpness of her teeth, how her fingers bend toward the sun like leaves, the forest in her eyes.
rule #3: do not fall for girls who have forests in their eyes and wildness in their veins. do not fall for girls who cannot be kept in gilded cages and convention. do not fall for girls at all.
she grabs your hand, and she leads you into the forest. you are a witch, and a wild thing, and you forgot to be afraid when they told you to, and now you will never get the song of the wind from your blood.
you do not mind. you tug her closer, because you are both witches and wild things now, and you know that there is nothing that can hurt you in this forest. there never was.
- kayte kelsey
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