Blank Doll Modification

Starting from a wooden peg doll, I recreated Pokemon’s Diglett.

Initial Sketches

At first, I wanted to play around with adding clay to my peg doll. For example, if I were to make Winnie the Pooh, I would have added ears and possibly the snout. However, given that I have very little experience with clay making, I decided to paint my doll instead. When I drew the peg doll without the head, I was able to see multiple characters; Pokemon’s Diglett and Despicable Me’s Minion for example. I thought creating Diglett would be more fun especially if I could recreate its rock home.

Sawing the head - Sanding the body - Applying Gesso as primer

Painted Diglett and rocks