In the world of dollhouse miniature tutorials, there is a lot out there on the internet, and I wrote about several of them already.
This time I decided to take a class from Domestika and the fantastic teacher is called Jessica Dance.
Today I am going to discuss in-depth who she is and what the class is about.
Updated 10/08/2013
But first: who is Jessica Dance and her dollhouse miniature tutorial?
Jessica Dance is an artist, designer, and coach, who has worked on many commissions for big brands.
Her main thing is craftsmanship and thus she loves making things by hand and has 'the eye' for detail in her work!
She started out in the fashion industry but it turned out she wasn't really interested in fashion :-).
So she decided to get more into making props and started by making things with paper and cardboard, basically because these materials were cheaper to use when starting out.
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Then she realized that lots of people were doing the same thing and that it was very competitive in prices. When people contacted her in her freelance journey, she got a lot of messages asking "How cheap can you do this"? Annoying, right?
That was the time that she taught herself to knit and make 3D objects by using cardboard as a foundation and then knitting around the structure.
So she kept on doing this while starting to collaborate with photographers to get her hard work more visible to a bigger audience.
Instead of using cardboard, at some point, she started to use styrofoam forms, which is a kind of polystyrene. Doing this, she finally started to get commission work for making puppets and models for commercials, etc.
And that's where things really took off for her in the model-making world :-).
That process continued and she learned how to use other materials, like balsa wood and Kapa-line foam.
Doing all these things over time and experimenting is how Jessica Dance created her own style.
Her motto is: it doesn't really matter how much time you spend on projects, because you evolve and learn from them over time, even when things go completely wrong! And that is exactly how I feel it!
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Influences of Jessica Dance and her dollhouse miniatures.
From a young age, Jessica was a huge fan of Wallace & Gromit. And by using Fimo clay, she really started to like making model figurines from this particular clay.
