How To Make Box Boys! with Ankie Daanen, NIADA …...Sanding sponge or sanding paper 4 Long pins An awl Wire cutter Embellishments, which I take from old necklaces A bowl for hold

How To Make Box Boys!with Ankie Daanen, NIADA Artist

Lesson 1

How To Make Box Boys! ~ Ankie Daanen, NIADA Artist ~ All Rights Reserved 2020

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Supply List: How to make Box Boys.

What do you need to start?

You can use small cardboard boxes or small tins.

It can be simple brown cardboard boxes or old pill boxes.

Almost anything will work!

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Creative paper clay

Different colors of easily bendable wire. Gauge is not important. (hobby stores, not hardware stores)

Sculpting tool

Sculpting brush, # 8 or 9

Fine painting brush, # 1 or 2

Wooden skewer

Sanding sponge or sanding paper

4 Long pins

An awl

Wire cutter

Embellishments, which I take from old necklaces

A bowl for hold water.

More we will use later, which I will explain also later.

This will get you started

Let´s have FUN!

Ankie


You can start by taking 3 di�erent kinds of boxes in di�erent shapes and or sizes.

You take a piece of clay and cover the box with a not too thick layer the front of the boxes.

In this picture, I show you that you can make a complete small doll with a body, arms and legs, but you also can only use the face, as you can see later.

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Now push with the back of the sculpting tool eye sockets in the face. �is way you will have nice round eye sockets.

Not too close to each other because a nose comes in between.

�e next step is making little eyeballs. YES, you have read this well: LITTLE!!!!

Put these eyeballs into the eye sockets and gently attach them on the face. Also take a look to the eyes.

Fill in some clay when they are not symmetrical rounded, because it will show. �an we can start making the eyelids!

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For the eye lids you roll a very, very tiny piece of clay into a worm and �atten it into a tiny moon shape. Put this on the top of the eyeball.

�e upper eyelid is rounded more than the lower eyelid. �e lower eyelid is straighter.

Be aware that you easily will take too much clay. Now we make the lower eyelids.

Make two small, yes...REALLY SMALL rolls of clay and position these under on the eyeball, and position them a bit straight. �e lower eyelid is not as rounded as the upper eyelid!

Do not forget to use your sculpting brush!!! Push the clay a bit downwards.

�is avoids that your eyes have bags hanging under the eyes! My advice now is to let the eyes dry before you will go on. �is helps when you are going to put on the forehead.

You will not damage the eyes and eyelids.

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�an we take a piece of clay, like the size of a big marble. �is is going to be the forehead. �e forehead end just touching the upper eyelids.

Not above them, not over the eyelids.

Blend in this forehead so you do not see any more that you have attached it. �e forehead should stick out a bit so that the eyes do not look like bug-eyes, popping out too much.

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Now we make the nose and nose holes

We shouldn´t make the nose too big if we want the face to still look nice and whimsy.

What I show you in one of the faces is a nose that has a bit longer nose tip.

But the width of the nose stays small!

Knead a small piece of clay and form it into a teardrop (pear) shape.

Now take the top of the teardrop form and �atten them a little bit.

Position it on the middle of the face, touching the edge of the forehead, and carefully smooth the edges into the face. �e thicker bottom part has to stay thick.

Use the blunt side of your sculpting tool and attach the sides of the nose on the face. Also attach the bottom of the nose.

Scoop away a bit of clay when your nose is going to be too big! Almost NEVER you will immediately have the perfect nose.

�e nose really needs some work. To achieve good nose job!

�an push two nose holes into the bottom part moving the blunt site of the tool moving to-wards the outside of the nose.

Push them a bit to the outside, and form two nose holes and nostrils. Of course, turn the tool when you do the other nose hole.

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It takes some work to smooth the nose and make it a nice form. Use your sculpting brush as a sculpting tool too.

Sometimes you might have to add a tiny ball of clay to the tip of the nose and smooth this out. Mostly the nose tip disappears while sculpting the nose in the beginning.

Make sure that the nostrils are positioned higher than the central point at the bottom (the bottom of the nasal septum).

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We will go on to making the mouth.

Take a small ball of clay and shape it into a more or less triangle shape. One side should be rounded because this is the thick part of the upper lip.

Position this triangle with the �at side against the underside of the nose. Smooth out the �at sides into the face.

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A�er you have �nished putting on the upper lip than you make a very small sausage shape lower lip.

�e outer corners from the lower lip are smaller than the ones from the lower lip. Push the lower lip against the upper lip and blend in on the face.

�an we will give the face cheeks and a chin.

Take a very good look WHERE the cheeks will touch the eyes and the nose!!! �e cheeks have to blend in on the nose.

You also �rst could have the nose and mouth getting dry before putting on the cheeks!

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In the mean time, you can make very simple arms and legs.

Just eyeball the size you need to go with your choice of boxes.

For the arms and the legs, you roll simple long straight sausages.For the hands, you push the both ends a bit wider and �atter.You can let them dry and later you make the hand a tiny bit thicker and add a thumb.

For the legs, you also make long sausages, and bend a bit forward a foot shape.In both arm and legs, you have to poke a hole with the skewer on the top so you can connect them later to the body with the wire.

When these are dry, then you add a bit clay on the instep and on the heels.

When dry you sand them.

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On these pictures, you see me sculpting a face with a bit a longer nose.

�is is the end of Lesson 1!

Enjoy Ankie12

How To Make Box Boys!(Painting the Face)

with Ankie Daanen, NIADA Artist



How To Paint The FacePaint on the plate:Use a white china plate.

Stone/Ceramic is always better than plastic, because on plastic you cannot make a pallet with colors. I always keep this plate because the colors are getting nicer and nicer.

Put watercolor paint on the plate like the colors:

• White• Black• Purple• Ultramarine blue• Red• Lemon yellow• Sepia• Olive green

With an old brush you mix the colors with some water, but NOT black and white, and so you will get many color scales on the plate.

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We start to paint with a very transparant color for the iris. Really make the paint very, very transparant.

I did choose a light blue color because of the colors on the box that I will use for the body.

The paint you see on the white plate is for thousands of dolls!!!! You only need just a little bit of paint.

Now paint a thin line along the upper edge of the eyelid using a little of the darker paint, and I mixed a tiny bit of black with the blue.

ake sure the paint ows smoothly.

We now make the iris “stronger”... Now, take the same darker color, and draw a line with the darker paint around the light iris.

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Now, put a tiny bit of water on your paintbrush and ´pull´ some of that darker paint to the top of that iris. This will create a little bit of shadow on the top part of the iris, at the point were it meets the eyelid.

While painting the iris, you have to be sure that the middle of the iris is a light color. When it should be too dark, than we do not see the pupil that we will paint in the eye later.

(You can paint the upper eyelids white when you messed up with the thin lineThis will be a help to have the darker line on the eyelid not too thick.But it is nices when you do not have to correct this)

With a clean wet brush, you go over the inside of the lower eyelid.You will see that a light color comes loose from the painted eyes, and this very light color will be enough for the paint on the lower eyelid.You upper eyelid line defenitely is the darkest one.

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Paint some shadows above the white eyelid and use a clean moistened paintbrush and take a shadow color and than, starting at the inside corner of the eye above the deep part of the eyelid, put in some shade that follows the eye curve and blend it our smoothly upwards. The paint can be quite wet.

You can use a bit a different color, but stay into the color range you started with.


Painting the Pupil.

e use fresh black paint to fill in the pupil at the center of the iris.Be aware: the pupil is ALWAYS in the middle of the iris

ALSO when the eye looks to the left or right!!!To lighten the eye after painting the pupil in the iris, you can paint a tiny little white ´moon´ under the pupil. The doll´s eyes will only really come to life once we add a small white dot.

Take fresh white paint for this. This ´light source´dot is on the same side of both eyes, and just touches the pupil.

Again make the outer line of the eye a bit darker if needed.When you think the eye has enough expression, than you do not do this.

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Take a good look at the eyes and than you see you might have to put in some more depth.

This will happen when you repeat the steps.

You can use two shades of color for this, but in the crease you see the darkest color.

This is because it is the deepest part of the eyelid.

Give again some extra shadow above the eyelid


Next we will paint the eyebrows

When your eyebrow is round than this makes the face friendly.

Do not paint them to short on the eyelid.

After painting the eyebrow you can take your brush, clean and a bit wet, and pull some shades out of the eyebrow line un-der the eyebrow.

This also is a big help for you when you have problems painting two the same eyebrows.

With the point of the brush you can adjust the lines.

But you also can keep a little sharp line.

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Now we will put some shades with some transparent paint around the outer edges of the nostrils. You can start using a soft wattery red color and than use a slightly darker color for the shadows inside and around the nostrils.

For the mouth, use paint not too hard from color. You could use some Sepia to tone down the bright red and makes it more natural.

The place were the two lips meet is the darkest part of the mouth.I always start painting small lips and than slowly I make them biggerWhen you immediately start big, than mostly the mouth gets bigger and big-ger, and it is hard to remove red paint.

To add a little color to the face, use a dry make-up sponge to apply some pink or orangy powdered rouge make up powder to the cheeks for a blush effect.

Also with some more eye make up colors you can go over the edges of the box. This gives it a bit an antique touch.

Rub in very well, so it will not loosen up by the varnish.

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Now you can varnish the face!

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End of lesson 2! Next will be the embellishments :-) Have fun! Ankie


How To Make Box Boys!(Finihsing Box Boys)

with Ankie Daanen, NIADA Artist

Lesson 3



Finishing Box BoysYou can gather some embellishments that you can use to finish the Box Boys.

You can use your own imagination for this. The more creative you are, the more fun you will have!

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First I glued a nice trim around the edge of the box.

I took some pink wire and poked two holes through the box on the bottom.

Cut wire whatever length you want.


Now I take the sculpting brush and wind the wire around the steel of the brush.

Making in the ends a loop that can hold some charms.

Hang the charms on the wire and take care that they do not fall off.

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Than I do the same on the top of the box, only with another color

wire and another charm.

You will understand, there are no boundaries in embellishing!


You can see that I did more or less the same with the second box, and I used some fun things on the top.

The blue wired beads looked like hair, and he also got a funny hat.

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Now I make the body for the round box boy.

I first poke 2 holes for the wire for the arms, and two on the bottom for the legs. I took a piece of wire which went straight through the armholes.

I painted the arms and legs and finished them with a tiny piece of trim. As you can see I also first glued something on the armhole spot as an

extra embellishment.

Put the arms on both sides and again make the wire curly with the steel of the brush.

Two gold buttons I glued on the body, and on top and on the bottom embellished the body box with a piece of trim.


I did find some golden paper wings which I glued on the back.

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I took two pieces of the wire and pushed them through the top of the legs.

Twisted them, cut the wire short, bend it twice inside and put them into the holes.

You can use some glue to have them secured.


I poked a hole on the top of the box and took a piece of the skewer to put through.

Then I made a hole into the face box and glued the head on the box. Finally, the box boy got a headpiece glued on!

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Some pics of the finished dolls!

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in the near future.

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I look forward to seeing your “Box Boys” :-)Hugs! Ankie

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How To Make Box Boys! with Ankie Daanen, NIADA …...Sanding sponge or sanding paper 4 Long pins An awl Wire cutter Embellishments, which I take from old necklaces A bowl for hold