Workshop of Polina Inyakina.

recognizable, unique style

About me

Hello, my name is Polina Inyakina. I am a master - puppeteer, as we are called. I am self-taught, a few years ago online training was not yet so popular, and on the Internet they were reluctant to share such information. Therefore, I had to reach everything on my own: try, see what happens, try again, test various techniques and technologies, use different materials and tools. My two educations helped me in this: my first education was art, in the direction of painting, and my second education was a designer - couturier.
Today I create designer dolls, as well as conduct "live" master classes in Moscow and St. Petersburg and online courses on Instagram on their manufacture. In addition, I have a few more interesting and exciting projects that I come up with myself. Some of them can be found in the online store.

About dolls

I started making dolls in 2013. I got to a lot myself, through trial and error, went through various methods, looked for my own style. And it seems to me that I have found my own individual, unique style.
Now I create 5 to 8 designer dolls a year. I make them not to order, but, so to speak, "at the behest of my heart." I bear the image of a new doll for a long time, each "girl" is not born immediately.
For each new doll, I create an image, invent my own story, carefully select the future wardrobe, make face sketches, select suitable accessories, because I believe that there are no trifles in my business and every detail is very important. Each doll is created by hand, in a single copy, and, probably, that is why my clients appreciate them so much, because they know that no one will have such a second "girl". You can get acquainted with some of my dolls by visiting the gallery.

About other

But making dolls is not the only thing I do. I also sew a variety of bunnies, large and small and a variety of small animals. I really like working with paper, and I devote part of my creativity to making various scrap works: these are garlands, decorative panels, tags and Shadowbox. I have a project called "Paper Crumbs" - these are paper dolls with moving parts of the body, with clothes, accessories and stands.
There are some more interesting undertakings in the plans, including writing a book. On my Instagram account, I run regular free live broadcasts for everyone, in which I share with the listeners my best practices, the secrets of mastery. I also conduct courses in which I teach students how to create author's toys: dolls and more. Training takes place in two formats: live master classes and online courses.

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DOLLS

What I create from and where they live

Today, I make all my dolls from baked plastic FIMO Doll Professional or Living Doll. They have hinge arms and a head. For hair I use a natural "goat" or "llama", but recently I started making dolls with molded hair. On the heads of dolls, you can often see bunny ears or other accessories with magnets. In tailoring my wardrobe, I most often use original Tilda fabrics, even those that have already been discontinued. I like to use non-standard techniques for sewing and decorating clothes and often invent them myself. I paint the doll with acrylics. Such a "tear-stained" and a little sad expression on the face of my dolls has already become my calling card, although not everyone likes such a painting. I find in this some kind of charm and tenderness.

My dolls are about 26-28 cm tall. These are interior dolls and they cannot sit on their own, so each of my dolls stands on an author's stand. I love to create a whole ensemble from the stand, which complements and reveals the image of each doll. I also like to come up with more and more options for stands, each of which can pass for a separate creative work. Often my dolls have friends, these are small designer toys created using various technologies: they can be soft toys and plastic toys. And of course, each doll has its own product passport, which is nothing more than the author's drawing of the image of this doll. I always want the buyer of each of my dolls, as a child, to experience the delight of receiving and unpacking the doll and the satisfaction of owning not just a separate doll, but a small but integral piece, my doll universe.

I sell all my dolls. I did not leave a single doll for myself. Probably, this is because I always want to add something to a doll, change something, improve something. And since I have a lot of new ideas, the process of changing a single doll can take decades. And I am really glad that my dolls, after they brought joy to me in their creation, now delight others. I put all my new dolls on public display on Instagram, where they are also sold. I like this format: you can show the doll and accessories from all sides using photographs and videos, you can read and respond to your comments about how and from what this doll was created.
Today my dolls live in Russia, but there are many of them abroad: in Europe, in North and Central America, in Asia.

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Master classes

It does not work for someone who does nothing.

"Live" MC

I held my first doll master class at the end of 2016 and since then I have been doing it regularly. I like to communicate live with the students of the courses, with novice craftswomen and simply enthusiastic people.

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Online MC

With the development of social networks, it became possible to conduct online broadcasts for their subscribers, and craftswomen like me have the opportunity to conduct online master classes.

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Polina Inyakina

Online store

In the online store you can buy various video courses, as well as designer paper dolls and other accessories designed by me.

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My YouTube channel

I created a channel on YuoTube in September 2018. On my channel, I post videos of new dolls, show them and talk about how and from what I made them. There are also recordings of live broadcasts in which I share with my subscribers what I am inspired by, I talk about my master classes. And of course, I post a variety of small lessons in which I show you how to make this or that creation, I share the technologies and secrets of creating dolls and other toys.

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My workshop

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