Jen and Kira, original Dark Crystal movie characters
Finally finished!!
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This is a personal version of these beloved characters, Jen and Kira from the original Dark Crystal movie, made by request of a customer, inspired on the characters created by puppeteer Jim Henson and concept artist Brian Froud. For to create these dolls we sculpted two new bodytype and head molds, the boy mold is called Alvar, and the girl's mold name is Eglantina. The original characters are, of course, puppets, so we take the general proportions of them as reference an the rest has to be reimagined to convert them into ball jointed dolls, taking more than one artistic license in the process since the intention is not to obtain exact replicas of the original characters but a totally personal recreation of them. I always wanted to create a doll inspired in Froud faerie characters and this was the perfect oportunity.
The hands and feet were sculpted from normal ones, but the little fingers was carved off and trasnformed to have four fingers. The legs are modified normal legs, I made them shorter and thinner to adapt each pair to each character, the same with the arms, but conserving the knees as the originals. The waist of Kira was made cutting and carving a normal waist. I'm very happy of how these characters were becoming and once they were fired we took molds from them and created master copies in epoxy clay to preserve the prototype. The resultant final copies in porcelain will be smaller so these gelflings will be the only of this size and totally unique ones. The heads are each one a variation of an old mold that we never released before; we called it "Shaman" . You can see a picture of that mold here: https://
They have double joints as the normal dolls, and 18 joints in total. Jen is 24,5 cms. tall and Kira is 21,5 cms.tall They are painted with acrylics and satin lacquer. The costumes are made with handpainted fabrics, embroidered by hand and machine. All the cords with beads are handmade too. The fake crystal is made with silicon and painted with very washed acrylics and then varnished. The boots and belt are natural leather , with an epoxy clay embellishment. the flute of Jen is made in epoxy too. The wings of Kira are detachable, they fit into two little cuts of the dress, they are made qith gauze and flexible wire under the zigzag stich.
The dolls in the pictures are already sold but these models are now available and can be made to order. Final Alvar mold (Jen) would be 19-20 cms. tall and Eglantina (Kira) 17-18 cms. tall, depending on the batch of porcelain and behavior of the kiln during firing. More head options will be available for them too, and can be requested with normal five fingered hands and feet, and flat and ballerina feet for Eglantina.
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Amado Gravagno Muñecas de Porcelana by Porcelainbjddolls on Etsy
porcelain_bjd on eBay
This is a personal version of these beloved characters, Jen and Kira from the original Dark Crystal movie, made by request of a customer, inspired on the characters created by puppeteer Jim Henson and concept artist Brian Froud. For to create these dolls we sculpted two new bodytype and head molds, the boy mold is called Alvar, and the girl's mold name is Eglantina. The original characters are, of course, puppets, so we take the general proportions of them as reference an the rest has to be reimagined to convert them into ball jointed dolls, taking more than one artistic license in the process since the intention is not to obtain exact replicas of the original characters but a totally personal recreation of them. I always wanted to create a doll inspired in Froud faerie characters and this was the perfect oportunity.
The hands and feet were sculpted from normal ones, but the little fingers was carved off and trasnformed to have four fingers. The legs are modified normal legs, I made them shorter and thinner to adapt each pair to each character, the same with the arms, but conserving the knees as the originals. The waist of Kira was made cutting and carving a normal waist. I'm very happy of how these characters were becoming and once they were fired we took molds from them and created master copies in epoxy clay to preserve the prototype. The resultant final copies in porcelain will be smaller so these gelflings will be the only of this size and totally unique ones. The heads are each one a variation of an old mold that we never released before; we called it "Shaman" . You can see a picture of that mold here: https://
They have double joints as the normal dolls, and 18 joints in total. Jen is 24,5 cms. tall and Kira is 21,5 cms.tall They are painted with acrylics and satin lacquer. The costumes are made with handpainted fabrics, embroidered by hand and machine. All the cords with beads are handmade too. The fake crystal is made with silicon and painted with very washed acrylics and then varnished. The boots and belt are natural leather , with an epoxy clay embellishment. the flute of Jen is made in epoxy too. The wings of Kira are detachable, they fit into two little cuts of the dress, they are made qith gauze and flexible wire under the zigzag stich.
The dolls in the pictures are already sold but these models are now available and can be made to order. Final Alvar mold (Jen) would be 19-20 cms. tall and Eglantina (Kira) 17-18 cms. tall, depending on the batch of porcelain and behavior of the kiln during firing. More head options will be available for them too, and can be requested with normal five fingered hands and feet, and flat and ballerina feet for Eglantina.
#argentinaBJD #balljointeddolls #darkcrystal #gelflings#handmade #jimhenson #ooak #porcelainbjd #tobyfroud#worldofthra #bjd #arteargentino #bahiablanca#diseñoargentino #artesaniaargentina #jenandkira #brianfroud#wendyfroud #fanart #inspireddolls #gelflingbjd
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