MK painting and face tinting for dolls

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Author of the master class: Ellada Magaramova

Author’s words! I am often asked how I paint the eyes of dolls.

For a long time I was too lazy to film this process, but then I just fell ill, I can’t sew, so I have time to post my work.
For some, I will not discover America, but I will be pleased if my experience is useful to you!
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So, we need a doll, acrylic paints (on fabric or for arts and crafts), as well as oil-based pastel crayons, brushes for tinting bristles No. 2, No. 4, No. 7
I have these:

So let’s get started!

We take a doll, before tinting I make tightenings and tint with a standard solution – coffee, cinnamon, vanilla, PVA.

I start with the eyes, apply white paint along the contour and slightly tint in the corners with light-light gray and blue (depending on the type of doll)

I draw the pupil

I apply a highlight with a lighter tone, and white inside the highlight.

Shade on wet, dry with a hair dryer.

I draw a black pupil and a white highlight from the light, on the opposite side of the lightest one in the pupil.

Note!!! In If we strive for reliability In the peephole, then the pupil is located EXACTLY in the center !!! It makes up one third of the iris!

If the pupil turned out “clumsy”, you can then paint on it with a marker or a black gel pen.

I finish the lips, apply eyebrows with a semi-dry brush, outline the contour of the eye and outline (SLIGHTLY!!!) the eyelid.

It turns out such a lupastenka smile!

Now let’s start toning. I tint from light to dark tones.

In the Wide Brush No. 7, I “buzz” over a red pastel pencil, I apply blush in the cheek area.

With the same brush, I run over a light brown or terracotta pencil and apply shadows in the area of the nose, bridge of the nose, upper eyelid, cheeks, outer corner of the eye, under the lip, and also on the forehead. The photo clearly shows the places of tinting.

Let’s start highlighting the eyes. With the same pencil (terracotta) and brush No. 4 (brush cut in half), I apply shadows in the outer corner of the eye, eyebrows, along the lower and upper eyelids, as well as nostrils, the frenulum of the upper lip and the corners of the lips.

On top of this tint, I apply shadows of a dark brown color.

The corners of the eyes, if I want to “drown” the eye – then the entire eyelid, under the lip, eyebrows and upper eyelid.

To do this, I take a brush bristle number 2, trimmed in half.

In principle, the painting is finished and everything is ready, but I like the final touch in black, I apply it along the upper and lower eyelids, slightly going into the white of the eye.

It turns out such “smoky” eyes, or, as makeup artists like to say – In smoky eyes.