Re: Indiana Jones Voodoo Doll - Tutorial - FINISHED
Woke up this morning and couldn’t get the Voodoo Doll out of my head. So I took all the day off maintenance & continued him.
(ignore some of the step numbers out of sequence. They are just to correlate text to images for my guidance)
1 Prepare a piece of wood 10 X 10 cms, and 1.5 cms thick
2 Draw a circle with a diameter of approximately 7.5cms
3 Draw this shape, 2.2cms wide, and 3.3cms tall
4 Cut out the circle
5 Like with the head, start cutting out small chunks.
6 Always check with a ruler so as not to over-carve. Minimum diameter should be approximately 6.4cms
7 Carve sloping downward, but don’t carve the inside of the pencil mark
8 Keep on checking the size as you go (frequently). It is sooooo easy to over-carve, and you would have to start all over again
9, 10, 11 The initial shape, as stated, has to be sloping downwards, like so
12 The back of the hat, from the bottom part, no has to be carved upwards slightly
15/17 Check how it is looking on the head. Make sure the tip mark of the hat is in line with the centre of the nose
16 As you can see, for example, there is way too mauch at the front
18 Once centred, mark where the head meets the bottom of the hat with a pencil
20 Now carve around this bottom area at a slightly downwards angle. (For screen-accurate, this part should be left 'flatter', with just the back of the hat having the upward tilt)
21 / 22 To end up with this shape
23 Check again to see how it is looking on the head
25 At a 45 degree angle, cut around the border of the mark
26 Pick at it to hollow a little, around 2mm deep.
27 / 28 Test it on the head to see how it fits, and fine tune the areas that need to be corrected so the top of the head will fit into this space
29 / 30 Done
31 / 32 / 33 Final check
34a Prepare a piece of wood, 5 x 3cms, 1.5cms thick
34 Draw this shape, 2.2cms wide, and 2.9cms tall
35 Cut the shape out
36 / 37 Sand it smooth
38 Carve these edges in a curved shape
39 To end up like this
41 Cut the tip of the hat like this
40 / 42 / 43 Test to see how it looks on the hat
44 Now check it also on the head, lining up the tip of the hat, again to the centre of the nose
45 Also check that the back is centred
46 Mark this exact sweet spot with a pencil
47 Fine-tune the carving around this new pencil mark so as not leave any flat area
48 Now draw a line at the top of this bit, in the middle, like this
49 Then add this
50 As usual, at 45 degress, cut around the pencil mark inwards, around 1mm deep
51 And 1mm at 90 degrees around the circle
52 Pick out this area
53 Till you get this
54 Sand to smooth. Redraw the central line.
55 Exactly like we did for the brow of the head, remove a sliver of wood along the central line
56 / 57 Cut a small ‘V’ shape at the back (note new cut on the finger)
58 / 59 / 60 Now glue it all together and we are almost done with the wood
61 Cut a piece of wood 3cms long
62 Sand to rounden the edges slightly
63 / 64 Glue it at the bottom of the head, at the centre of the flat area
65 Comparison to screen-used head to check for overall size
THE HAIR
66 Prepare the hemp and the selotape
67 Cut out a bunch like so
68 Put some selotape on a piece of paper, sticky side up, under-folded at the tips to keep in in place.
69 Spread the joy
70 Put another piece of selotape on the other bit, to sandwich the tips of the hemp shut
71 With the black marker, stroke the colour onto the hemp on both sides
72 To get this. Now you can cut bits of hair as you need
73 Here is the head, now with 2 coats of wood-stain and one coat of Matt varnish
74 Cut out pieces of the hemp, and glue them to where the hat meets the head, all along the back and the sides
75 Flower Power
76 Give him a haircut. Cut very unevenly. He’s not going to tea with the Queen anytime soon
77 Take those extra bits you just cut, and roll them into balls
78 Glue them to the front
79 To end up so
80 A little trim
81 Stick the hair to the head by brushing Matt Varnish all over.
82 / 83 / 84 Put the bottom part of the head into the top of the open shoulders of the doll’s body. Sew both sides shut.
85 Shoes now become gloves
86
NOW put the jacket on
87 Cut out some cord for the whip and give it 3 loops. One tip short, the other long.
88 Tie it shut so that the loops remain in place
89 / 90 Sew it onto the back of the RIGHT hand. Short tip of the whip facing away from the body.
91 Cut out a strip of leather, roll it up, and belt him
92 / 93 Ready
94 Now think of all the needle pricks and cuts, and
STICK IT TO HIM !!
