FUNDAMENTALS OF FACE UP _ How to draw doll faces _ Monster high repaint _ etellan

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It's officially been one year since I dived into the world of doll customization .

So I decided to pay it forward so to speak and create a fundamentals of face up for those who are new to the hobby or those who just want to see how I make my doll faces before we begin .

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So for this lesson , I'm going to start off with a Howle doll from the Monster High series as a bass , I'll be removing olfactory paint and hair using hot water to soften the vinyl of the head and 100% Acetone for the paint .

I've worked on this doll model once before .

But when starting out , I'd recommend starting with a Dracula Laguna or Claudine as the designs are quite simple but really beautiful .

And when you do a face up , they just come out gorgeous every time .

So to start off , I wash the face thoroughly and do a spray of Mr Super clear matte varnish .

This makes it so the pigment of the water color actually sticks to the vital .

So starting off with a peach tone , I draw the first line which will be the top of the lid .

I want to place the top lid halfway to three quarters down .

I don't like adding the line where the factory design is purely because I think that it can look slightly unbalanced .

Once you bring all the face up together in creating the eye shape , I use a mixture of white , peach , red , light brown , dark brown and black .

So over the year of doing these doll face ups , I've tried various brands of watercolor pencils and found that the fabric castel Aldura pencils are by far my favorite .

They are a bit expensive around $4 each .

But if you can grab just standard fabric castel and just a white and a black from the Albu Range , it's so worth it using these colors .

I'm able to create an hombre effect to the waterline and tear duct .

This creates dimension and shadow throughout the eyes .

Once the face up is finished with eyelid creases , they can really be customized to however you want the doll face to look .

So for instance , if you wanted a monolith design , you just add pastels as opposed to harsh lines like I'll be doing later on for this particular face .

I wanted to do double eyelids .

So I decided to do three lines as natural folds in the skin , which we'll come back to later when we're developing more of the shadows and the highlights onto the iris development .

I decided to go with blue eyes .

So for this , I used white , medium blue and dark blue , starting with medium blue , I draw the circle and fill it in .

Grabbing the white , I draw a half circle and develop the halo effect on the bottom portion of the iris .

This creates dimension but also will work as a guide for when I'm painting later on before I paint the iris .

Though I will first develop the shadows and colors that will be throughout her skin .

This will be done through blushing with soft pastels and eyeshadows for the blushing .

I'll add warm toned browns to the outer corners of her eyes and the inner corners of her eyelids , nose and where her eyebrows will be also under her mouth , her chin , her hairline and her forehead .

Adding this step really brings a nice warmth and shadows to the face .

It really humanizes her in a way .

But as an additional step , I personally like adding blues and purples to the inner corners of the eyes and even adding some blacks later on this creates imperfections in the skin , which I think really is just so beautiful on any kind of artwork .

Once the blushing is done , I spray her with a coat of Mrs super clear mount varnish again .

So layer two involves acrylic paints .

My favorite paints when I work on dolls and do mini painting are the and the games workshops that adult paints .

So we'll be using a mixture of the macro blue and white and we'll be using an army painter brush for application , picking up the small amounts of paint on a brush , I'll be drawing small thin lines around the irises to create the lines and designs you generally see in irises .

I make small lines of white , medium blue and dark blue and then just alternate to create the natural design .

It can be hard on subject matters so small but looks nice .

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It will be the skin folds of the eye creases and the eyelid when making shadows .

I've always found it good to re highlight your areas , not with a white but a light color .

So for instance , if you're working on a Frankie doll , you would use a maybe a mint kind of pencil .

So it just sharpens all the designs and makes everything pop in a way with brows .

I'm going to do a hairy ombre design with a medium brown , dark brown and a peach tone .

I'll make small hair like strokes later coming in with the peach tone to do highlight on the front hairs and the brow bone with lips .

I wanted to try a nice red reid design .

So just started it out with some peach tones and browns to develop the shadows later on , adding a pinch of red eye shadow to the center .

Also adding some red eye shadow to the cheeks to warm up the face layering it with highlighter on top .

Once that's done , we'll do another code of Mr super clear and we're done for layer two .

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It's really just a matter of reshowing and re highlighting .

I also add some freckles with medium brown and white pencil .

Lastly using Valejo gloss varnish .

I gloss the eyes and lips .

The gloss is an air dryer , acrylic resin .

So you don't have to use a UV lamp .

Thankfully for curing once that's dried , the face up is done .

Let me know what you think of this face up in the comments below .

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