Soft Toy Creation for Beginners
The Head
A course by Maria Mandea , Play Designer
About the video: The Head
Overview
“Learn to make a part with a small illustration, in this case, the head. For this part, we will need some fabric markers. They usually have a felt tip and I find it’s better to have a brush shaped marker as you have more control over the finer details. We will first draw our face, then iron it and once it is ready we will sew it as we did with the hands. ”
In this video lesson Maria Mandea addresses the topic: The Head, which is part of the Domestika online course: Soft Toy Creation for Beginners. Design and sew your own playful textile characters using paper, thread, and your imagination.
Partial transcription of the video
“The Head In this lesson I'm gonna show you how to create the head. For this we're gonna need the cutouts that we did previously, special markers for fabrics, some thread that is thicker, like this. It's used for knitting and it's made out of cotton. We'll also need a pair of scissors, our sewing machine and the iron. So let's start. I'm gonna take the head and put it here, the one made out of paper. Then I'm gonna take my fabric, turn it around, I don't need the back, I just need the front, and I'm gonna start placing my face, and see how I want it. Now I'm gonna take my fabric markers. The...”
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Course summary for: Soft Toy Creation for Beginners
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Character Design, Toy Design
Maria Mandea
A course by Maria Mandea
Maria Mandea specializes in researching and designing how play happens in our daily lives. She is the founder of Micul HAOS (“little chaos” in her native Romania), a brand focusing on creating playful objects and characters that help develop a culture where play can happen for everyone.
Maria is also the co-founder of Super Serios, a design studio that develops urban games and playful art installations across a range of different mediums, including toys, human-scale board games, and stop-motion animation. You can find out more about Maria’s projects on Instagram and her websites.
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