How a guardian is made, day by day

Every guardian is shaped by hand over about a week of work. It is not a machine process and it is not a single afternoon, and people often ask why. Here is what those days actually look like in the studio.

Day one is the body. The structure comes first, with no face and no hands yet, just the form. This is where the lineage is decided, whether it will be an elf, a fairy, a Gnome, a sylph or a tree being, because the body of each lineage is different from the start.

Days two to four are the face, the hands and the character. The features take shape slowly, and this is the slowest part on purpose: a face made in a hurry never holds an expression. We work, step back, and correct until the guardian looks like itself.

Days five to seven are finishes, materials and name. Wool, felt, threads and stone are chosen for that specific piece. At the end, the guardian gets the name it will keep.

That is the whole of it. No shortcuts, no scenery, just hands and time.