Marina Bychkova

What does this make you think?

Dressing Cinderella for her photoshoot in her gold-plated metal costume. Which part of her outfit is your favourite? Corset, bra, collar, shoes, or skirt?

Work on the OOAK auction doll Serenity continues! I’ve filmed a series of shorts, documenting the making her one of a kind gown, shoes and accessories. Here, I’m curling her soft and silky Angora goat wig into a luscious vintage 1930s hair style to give her that Shanghai glamour!

When I don’t make dolls, or play with my dogs, I soak in my tub. It’s a medicine for anxiety. The process of firing a wood burning soaker tub is pretty labour-intensive, but also meditative and anticipatory. It’s diverting and calming. youtube.com/watch?v=7RdVU5…

I'm on the new site now too

could be a more relaxing alternative to some news out there tonight...

I watch a lot of ambient videos on youtube while I work, so we thought we'd try our hand at making one of our own! 8 hours of a relaxing sunset with crickets, owls, and gentle wind chimes. youtu.be/aZfFpMFqv7A

Videos like the one where I buried a doll at the beach and pretended to discover it like an archaeologist to a Beck song youtube.com/watch?v=pjh4FL…

Moving my content from Vimeo to Youtube, hoping to have all my videos posted there going forward: youtube.com/channel/UCNHjY…

@3Dmattias True, but i do love some long long hair, mine is over 3 feet long.

@Enchanted_Doll Feels more to scale with the rest of her and feels more in line with the realism of all the other details on her.

I cut Cinderella's hair. I use a combination of dry and wet cutting to give her a layered shoulder-length style. I often prefer long hair, but i quite like this cut. Would you get a haircut like this?

@BelldandyLove Im trying to track down the Shanghai version "Miss S", looks to have some lovely costuming from the 30s

@Enchanted_Doll I love this series! I enjoyed watching it with my sister several years ago. 😊

@BelldandyLove I have been rewatching Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries lately...

@Enchanted_Doll The shorter hair makes her look like a modern day princess, rather than the traditional ones in fairytales. 😊 It's very charming! A bob with bangs would also be a fun style for your dolls . . . !

I use argon oil shampoo and curl defining conditioner to transform it into a silky and shiny soft wave. Hard to believe that it's even the same hair! I love that it looks like a golden river. I'll be a little sad to cut it, but I look forward to layering and styling it.

My wig construction process. This wig is made of very soft, natural Mohair. It starts out looking extremely poofy and voluminous, but that's because mohair is naturally curly and frizzy.

Using an assortment of tiny tools to make the floral engravings for the lingerie design. Little flowers, tiny bows; making full use of my magnifiers. Also sticking out your tongue helps you create the finer details, i'm sure there's a scientific explanation 😛

How the lace lingerie engraving started, from sketching pencil lines on the doll's torso to starting the engraving. No turning back once the needle carves the porcelain, much like an ink tattoo on skin.

This part feels like a breeze compared to the rest because this is the very beginning, and the stakes feel much lower 2 hours in rather than 40 hours into a doll when invisible air bubbles surface during a firing ruining 40 hours of work, making me start over. I really hate that

Opening my plaster molds is always exciting, because it reveals the results of my labour. It’s also the easiest step of ceramic doll-making process, in a long list of steps. All the steps that follow after this get more complicated and take much longer to produce results. ⏳