Start here if you’re new to my doll-making world. Inside you’ll find an introduction, a materials lesson, a downloadable PDF template I use for my dolls, and a sample from the full course. This free starter kit helps you understand the tools, materials, and first steps before choosing your next course. You can also bring questions to the free Saturday Open Studio.

Create a 40 cm (15.7 in) ball-jointed art doll from the inside out: templates, body, head, hands, feet, hollow balls, working joints and elastic assembly. Suitable for beginners, OOAK artists, and prototypes for resin or porcelain casting. Use polymer or air-dry clay, foil, paper and pencil. Clear step-by-step lessons, with help if mistakes appear. Before Skool, several hundred students took this course, with thanks from every continent except Antarctica. Start today!

Learn my complete template-based method for creating a movable wooden art doll—from building the full-body prototype and establishing its anatomy, proportions, and joints to transferring the forms to wood, carving every part, and assembling the finished figure. VIP membership includes two live woodcarving sessions each week, my personal corrections throughout your work, downloadable prototype and carving templates, and lesson recordings.

Create an anatomically correct skull as the foundation for a proportional art doll face. In this course, you’ll build the skull from foil and polymer clay, shape the eye sockets, nose, jaw, teeth and cheekbones, then prepare it for the next stage: adding facial muscles and sculpting the face. This is the structure that helps prevent common mistakes in doll faces. Clear step-by-step lessons guide you from the first form to a realistic skull base. Start today!

Turn an anatomical skull into a living art doll face. In this 2nd part, you’ll add facial muscles, lip structure, eye muscles, eyelids, nose, ears and the final soft tissue layer. Step by step, the skull becomes a proportional, expressive face instead of a guessed surface. This course helps you understand why doll faces go wrong — and how to make them finally come alive. Start before your skull gets bored!