Dolls with Custom Scars (Tutorials are welcomed!)

Thanks for the tips! Whee, now I have project for this summer. ^_^

Munis> Since no one answered that part, I'd assume acrylics and pastels, just as you would the face. ^.^;; At least, I'll be using that because it's what I have. Maybe Watercolor pencils, too.

 

How often will clothes be covering the scars? If your doll is clothed, the fabric can and will rub body decorations off. My Xi-Aleister has a tattoo on his stomach that he came with and I have to be very careful that the pants waistband never sits where the tattoo is, nor would I ever be able to tuck in a long shirt on him...too dangerous, the tat could start rubbing off.

 

So, if one was to use Apoxy, would you just mold it into the shape and then stick it to the skin and let it harden on? Or would you have to glue it? Also, how would you make sure the the edges of the Apoxy blend into the resin? I don't really want to have scars with very noticeable edges on them...
I wanna give my boy some scars on the outside of his forearms, like a scar one might get if they raised their arm to block a knife or sword blow, but even though I've got plenty of reference material for the appearence of scars (my own stomach to be exact), I don't really know how to go about molding them...

 

You can roll the Apoxy into a very thin "worm", and then smooth it onto the skin in the rough shape you want. Cut off the excess with the blunt end of an X-acto knife, and then smooth the surface down with a finger dipped in water.

It will be white unless you color it beforehand to look closer to the resin.

It dries in about 24 hours, then you can sand it down smooth, and seal and blush for an appropriate look.

- Mel

 

Ah, thankies!
One more question... when you say sand it down smooth, is that just the edges or all of the roll?
Whoops, actually two more questions... should I seal before I blush? And if I do this, how hard will it be to remove in the future?

 

My experience doing a closed-eye mod showed me that it's very hard to tell if Apoxie has any irregularities until you paint it, then it looks awful. Plus that stuff takes fingerprints like nobody's business.

If you wanted an irregular mass of scar tissue that would suit you, but if you wanted something less knotty and more smooth, giving it a light pass with 150 grit Testor's sanding film usually does the trick.

Sanding the edges down makes the edges of it blend with the doll resin a bit better.

As for ease of removal - this stuff is hard to remove, but if laid on a body for scarring should be pretty trivial to sand away - I'd recommend sanding film wrapped around a block to give a flat surface, that way you can even out the scar mod without taking away too much resin. As you remove the last of it, remove the block and let the film conform to the body shape.

As for blushing, yes, you want to seal before you do so. Seal a couple times, blush and seal, like blushing a faceup, and then put gloss varnish on the scar for the shiny keloid look.

- Mel

PS: Oh, right, Nobody - if you're looking for easily removed scarring, I've heard of other folk doing stuff with layers of acrylic gel medium. That stuff comes right off with some Windsor and Newton Brush Cleaner. I'm not sure how durable that would be, but at least you wouldn't have to sand it off if you changed your mind.

 

Okay, so, I'm still not done with my little Yuta's faceup.

There's one thing I need to do and that is add burns.



I'm going for something like this:
-Burn on the left eye (right eye in the picture)
-And a burn by the mouth


Any tips on how to do this?
Thank you.

-Ushi

 

I think you could use carefully-applied tacky glue to make the mouth burn, and then blush it with pastels to look like a real scar.

For the scarred eye, you'd probably want to use apoxie sculpt to close the eye and then sculpt the burn scars onto that, since you can't really do much with an open eye socket.

 

Where can I buy these items for the burns?

 

Aleene's Tacky Glue is available at most craft stores. If you can't get it in Japan, you could always ask a craft/hobby store if they carry any thick white glue- you should be able to find something similar. Regular white glue would probably be too runny for raised scarring.

Apoxie Sculpt is just one brand of air-curing clay you could use- a lot of doll sites like those for Soom and Volks carry Tamiya Epoxy Putty and different air-dry clays, those would work too if you can't get your hands on the Apoxie stuff.

 

Ok so what you do is you get Liquid and powder, its for acrylic nails. (its what makes nail salons smell the way they do)
You just dip a brush in the liquid and then into the powder and it clumps and you put it on where ever.
Its safe, because its like resin and you can also use it to close eyes!!!
Make sure its clear. Powder it will be like white.
You can remove it with acitone, or rubbing alcohol.
I learned it from Katie Bair, she did a customization pannel.
Was really cool!!!!!

 

Oh by the way, its just called Liquid and powder

 

my boy has scars...that ive been too lazy to redo since removing them... lol but i use a matte acrylic gel medium...thought i would need a ton of it, but didnt...now i have a huge tub of it floating around.

anyways, the acrylic medium works wonders. i used a toothpick to apply it, since a brush was "too perfect" of a line...in other words, it didnt look like a scar when i used the brush. dragging a toothpick works great. make sure you use MSC or testors BEFORE starting the scars, and after. then you need to blush it a bit or paint, whatever you feel comfortable with (try diff things) and spray again for a final seal.

you can get the matte acrylic gel medium at most arts or craft stores with an arts section. ^^ hope this helps! oh and heres the thread of my boy's when i had done them: tada!

 

I just finished the scars on Ryoichi's face. I used plain white glue and a fine tip brush and painted them on in layers until I liked their thickness.

Mt thread is here:http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=222921

 

When I get my Camine, he's going to become Tsuzuki from Yami no Matsuei. Seeing as I'm a stickler for details, I want to put the suicide scars on his right wrist. Of course, I want to try to do it myself, but I have no idea how XD; I don't want to just paint them on, I want there to be an actual bumpy, slighty raised texture. Is there a tutorial I can refer to? If not, what materials would I use, where can I get them, etc.

Thank you very much for any help~

 

I belive using an epoxy compound would work for a more permanent scar

 

Some people seal the doll, then use elmer's glue and a toothpick and just layer the glue until it's the thickness they like then seal again. Then you can blush and/or paint it until it's the appropriate color. I would recommend using white and peachy/pink pastels to make an old or healed looking scar. More pink for a younger scar, more white or skin color for an older scar.

 

The elmer's glue method that Kikuka mentioned seems to be very common and works well. I've discoverd that if you want a shiny look to it, after the last sealent coat, put some gloss on top, like gloss that you use for lips in faceups. (Just don't seal the gloss or it takes the shine off)

 

I've always thought some of those threads lack some information. And I've never gotten around to posting what I think it's lacking so I'll just toss it up here!

As someone mentioned, shine! Now I don't know of a scar that has shine like lips but from looking at my own (knee surgery, walked into a wall and cracked my head open and some random knife wounds) I see little lines with some light shine to them. Hard to do in doll scale, I know. But some diluted gloss should do the trick.

Color. Some are WAY lighter then your normal skin tone. Some are darker. Some are red/pink/even a bit purpleish(minimal).

More detail. Knife wounds like a cut (not a stab) go skinny, wide, skinny if they got deep. I've seen very few that are just. Wide.

So yeah. Those are the details I find often missing! Enjoy. Or you know. Just examine your own scars.

 

I don't have many of my own scars to examine XD BUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH EVERYONE I'll definitely look up the tutorials. But how does one seal the doll? And would sealing prevent later modification? Not that I can think of anything else I'd want to do, but if perhaps I wanted to touch up the scar?
As for the pastels, what kind of medium are you specifically mentioning? When you say pastels I think colored charcoal, but I doubt that's correct.

 

Pastels refer to chalk pastels - I think that's what you're referring to, and if so, you're absolutely right. I like to use a good palette of colours and then scrape the sticks (crayons? pieces?) very lightly with an exacto knife onto a piece of paper or margarine lid or whatever. You get a really fine, coloured powder, and you can mix colours to your heart's content. When you have the colour right, you just apply the powder with a paint brush or a Q-tip with nice, light touches wherever you want colour. Work in layers until you have the effect you want. Be sure to seal afterwards so it stays on the doll.

 

Ah, so you use the powder and add water to make a paint, then. Okay :3 How does one seal a doll?

 

Using Mr Super Clear Flat or some people use other brand Matte finishing spray.... Sealing the doll (several light coats) BEFORE you paint it will prevent you from staining the resin and if you change your dolls character down the track everything can be removed without damaging the dolls surface

 

Actually, just grab a paint brush and use the powder. No water needed.

 

I actually used gloss instead of Elmer's Glue, then sealed on top of it and blushed it. It looks REALLY good - it's a big scar on the abdomen of my Sylar. XD' It has the slight shine of a real scar.

 

The pastels will just stick long enough for me to seal it? Alright, I'll seal the doll a bit first just in case, but I doubt I'll change him XD Better safe than sorry~! And I'm guessing I can get the matte sprays at any craft store.

 

Make SURE the sealant is resin safe! I recommend Testor's Dullcote - it's usually in the model car/rocket section of craft stores.

 

I have a character who has very extensive scarring on his back, some would be carved but most would't be. I've seen a lot of lovely photos of dolls with scars but how do you do that? What is used to make raised scars? If there is another thread for this can someone point me in the right direction?

 

My Adrian has had the crap modded out of him, which involves some scarring. All the scarring is removable, and I use the PVA glue method.

Basically, it involves painting the scars onto the doll with white glue, the normal stuff they let schoolkids use for craft stuff that dries clear. I used Alene's Tacky Glue because it's also the stuff I use for eyelashes, and also because it's quite thick in consistency.

Lay down a thin line of it where you want the scar to be and let it dry, and then build up layers of it until it starts looking raised enough for you. It'll take several coats - for example the work on his face took about four coats of glue and some work with the back edge of an X-acto.

When you're done and the scars are all completely dry (you'll need several hours' drying time depending on how raised they are), seal your doll with your matte sealant of choice, and lightly blush the scars with a light reddish brown pastel. If you want them more recent and angry looking, blush them a couple more times. Otherwise, leave them be.

Seal them again, wait for the sealant to dry, and then mix up a very pale flesh shade - about two parts pinky to five parts white, and half as much acrylic medium for translucence. Then touch it very carefully to the very top of the raised scars. If the paint is too thick or the line too sharp, blur it carefully with a damp Q-tip.

Wait for that to dry, seal it again, coat with gloss varnish. You've got a basic scar.

For the angry looking, half-healed scars on Adrian's face, I "inked" them with brown acrylic before doing the white so they looked fresher.

The nice thing about this method is you can peel the scars off when you remove the doll's paint. Just peel them off with fingernails. (: They aren't 100% permanent - they will show wear if you place them on joints - but otherwise, if you don't treat the doll roughly they probably will be there for as long as you want them.

- Mel

 

Awesome! thank you so much, do you have any photos by chance?

 

Linked in the post, but here's some inline images.







- Mel

 

so i have ordered myself a migidoll ryu ((how could i NOT take advantage of this offer??)) and am excitedly awaiting his arrival so that i can start his faceup! hurray!

and here in lies the crux of my problem. i have searched frantically for how to create scars of dolls. all i have seemed to find is threads where people post pictures of their dolls and their work with scars on them. which is great, but what i need is HOW to do the scar.
the materials.
the process.
all that jazz.

help?

a scars tutorial would be GREATLY appreciated.

 

I'm working on bullet entrance and exit wounds on my guy, i want to know if my technique is right, anyone have pictures of bullet entrance and exit wounds they've done?

 

Not many pictures, but a lot of great discussion in this thread: http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=199327

 

Adrian has a healed exit wound on his back. Let me get to taking a picture tomorrow when it's light, and I'll try to explain why I did it that way.

- Mel

 

That'd be awesome ^.^ i've got them mostly done now but i did them with glue so if it needs to be re-done that's not a big deal XP

 

Well, lemme see if a good description will help the crappy lighting. Adrian's bullet wound is on his abdomen, so I assumed surgical intervention was necessary to put him back together even though the slug blew out his back.

So on his front where the bullet went in is a long scar with "football stitching" discoloration from the sutures. The scar was done as I'd described to you in that other thread, and the discoloration was done with color pencil smudged with a very slightly damp Q-tip.



Now, the exit wound is kinda... less tidy. Generally a bullet doesn't make a neat hole out the other side of a person like a holepunch. It's much messier than that due to the round tumbling and several other factors. (And really gory, as I found out through Google Image Search).

So in the surgical repair of his injuries, sutures weren't enough, and there had to be a piece of grafted skin over the largest bit of his exit wound.



I pretty much used the same technique as the entry wound, just that it covers more area and I tried to have the sort of "thicker than skin" appearance mature scar tissue sometimes gets.

- Mel

 

Hiya, my boy Eduard has scars on his back and I'm finally going to mod his back for him, and I did a bit of research and I definitely know that raised scars are the way to go (Plus they just look cooler ;D) but I was curious on the materials used to make them! So far I've only been able to think of is Apoxy to make them... I *think* but I'm not quite sure, and I don't even know where I'd buy it either or even where to begin the scarring mods @__@ So if anyone could help me or give me tips or sggestions, that'd be great!

 

Hi there!
I've searched through this forum, and I haven't found any good threads concerning small, straight-line scars. (cuts by knife, ect.)
Has anyone made these type of scars? If so, could you post pictures or tell me a little bit how you did it? That would be awesome.
Thanks guys!
~Ember

 

plain gesso works well and it not harmful to resin. You can water it down thinly and slowly paint it on in layers to acheive a raised scar and then once it is completely dry dust it with pastels to tint the edges and sides.

It actually turns out quite realistic looking! Then of course seal with with whatever you use and viola!

 

i have a character who has poorly healed chemical burns across her shoulders and back of her neck. i have no idea how i would make them tho. i have read tips on it, but they don't make much sense to me, and are not as descriptive as i would like. i assume i would use glue or something and blush over it, but what tecniques should be used. if anyone is planning this kind of mod, i would grately love a photo tutorial or even better a youtube video. (i get lost and confused in words, i'm mostly a visual learner)

 

I'd have a chat with onegreyelephant, burns and gore are pretty much their speciality

 

A good place to begin is by doing a search in this forum for the information you're interested in. Here is a thread specifically showing and discussing methods of creating burn scar mods. I found it by entering the phrase "burn scar" in the Search this Forum box at the upper right corner of the Painting, Customizing, and Esthetics front page.

http://www.denofangels.com/forums/showthread.php?t=217837

 

god i love her stuff i probably will ask her if i get the courage

i have been to that thread specifically, but it doesnt give me quite the detail that i need

 

I gave my newest dolly burns last night as an expiriment to see what it would look like. It's kinda cute in that scared for life or until I get bored of it kinda way. lol.
I digress ummm to give Faust his burns I used some hot glue and messed with it so it looked like burned and scared skin and then I used water color piant to color the glue so it would look burned. When I was done with that I used nail polish sealant to give the burns a bit of shine and to keep the paint. I will put up pictures if I ever take them. ^_^' I hope this helps a bit.

 

Umm, gakwildcat, you know the nail polish will most likely really start to yellow?

 

gakwildcat: i would love to see pics. but i also reccomend not useing clear nail polish. it does have a tendancy to turn yellow.

 

I'm considering modding one of my dolls to have either scars or a metal hook for a hand. Not like a pirate, like a medical prosthetic. Any tips on how I should go about doing this, or if someone could do it for me?

 

One of my dolls is going to be modded to have a robotic prosthetic claw for a hand, apparently (because I'm not the one doing the modding) the way that is best done is to go sanding down the hand and then using wires as a base to mould epoxy around. That way the wrist is still moveable and the s-hook has something to attach to so it doesn't go pinging up the arm.
As for scarring, I know it can either be modded on or painted on, one of mine has scarring on his face that is just painted on

 

this is a picture of my boys whip marks done with white acrylic and soft pastels.
Hope it helps someone.

 

This is not a question on how to make scars or faceups, but more the mechanics of doing them together. My new girl has burn scars on one side of her face and I do not know whether to do them before, after, or at the same time as the rest of the faceup? I do not even know if it would make a difference. My biggest question is if I should spray between doing the scars and the faceup. Thanks for answering my question.

 

I have a boy with a scar down one side of his face that goes through his eye, so in my case, I did the faceup first and then put the scar on. I did coat between faceup and scar, mainly because if I messed up the scar, I could just take it off without removing the faceup too

 

I have a doll with burn scars all over one side of his face. :3

He has a normal faceup on the other side. I'll tell you how I did it, though it might not be the very most effective way. XD It depends on how severe the scars are that you want.

Supplies:
White Glue (I used Anita's Tacky Glue)
MSC
Pastels

I sealed, I think (though I may have done it right on, as glue doesn't hurt resin), and dabbed the glue straight on. I did little 'dot' motions and covered that area, pushing the tip to his face, squeezing, squiggling it around, then moving to the next part to cover the area. Then I waited.

You have to do this step a few times: You wait until it's ALMOST dry, to where it's very firm and not smeary, to where it's quite thick. It takes quite a while, depending on the thickness-I think I had to wait a half hour to an hour. @_@ Then, when it's thick and sticky I dabbed my finger on it lightly, pulling away straight up-that pulls up the glue in the bumpy texture further. Then I waited for it to completely dry, and added more, doing that. I added more in different areas-for example, on his upper eyelid it's not very thick and I think I used one layer, but on his forehead and cheeks it's 4-5 layers.

Then wait overnight for it to dry all the way, and seal the CRUD out of it. Any water can still mess it up. ._.

I wanted an older scar look, so I used a medium-light brown and a pale pink mixed together, with more sepia as well. I googled a lot of images of burn scars, which I recommend doing if you can stomach it.

Then I sealed more, and did the actual faceup on the other side of his face and partially along his eyes, and he has a tiny bit of eyebrow. XD Aaaand that's how my boy TJ came to freak out non-doll people and have doll people go "Aww!" over him. I hope I was helpful.

Edit: I sent that picture to a friend to show the scars once, and never really looked at it in person. XD He looks kinda icky... Also! I didn't add any gloss, because somehow the glue retained some shine even under the ton of MSC.

 

Hey, I have a few questions about doing raised scars...

I've done some poking around the threads and have decided that using simple white glue to create raised scars would be my best bet. I don't know how I'd go about applying the scars, though. Would you say...spray the resin with MSC, glue, MSC, use pastels to color the scar more realistically, then MSC? Also, which would be better to use, plain old Elmer's or Tacky glue? I know that glue could be peeled off easily, but I'm a little worried about what it could do to the resin. I'm probably just worrying too much...

Any advice on what I should do? I've never modded a doll before, and am a little nervous.

 

When I did scars on my boy I MSC'd him, blushed the skin where I wanted the scars a bit, then used an old brush to paint white glue over it. I'd let it dry, then add another layer, dabbing with the brush to make it more bumpy, repeating until it was raised as much as I wanted. I then dusted the whole thing with the same color I used to blush the bottom and MSC'd it to seal it all in. I like the white glue method cause it's easy to take off if you deside you don't like it later. ^_^

 

Both tacky glue and white glue are safe for resin--no worries! They're what people normally use to apply (and reapply and reapply ) eyelashes. Putting down a layer of MSC first, as Azrael Evangeline says, is a good idea because then you have a base for blushing/painting as well as for the glue. But the tacky or white glue itself will peel away from uncoated resin just as cleanly as from coated resin; it's really the pigments in paint or pastel that you need to protect the resin from.

 

Well, considering scars are wounds on the skin that didn't heal correctly, they're actually really easy to do! When I did the scar on D (Shown below) I just used some liquitex gloss and built up a few layers. All I have left to do is whiten it a bit to help it show up. (and yes, you can paint over it, and then wipe it away if you mess up.)

The steps are:
MSC (I use Testors spray myself.)
Bottom blush (Should be a tad darker than the skin around it.)
Gloss (just let the brush move however it wants. It makes the effect more natural.)
Let dry. (Only takes a few minutes.)
Blush (A little bit over this layer of gloss)
Gloss
Gloss
Finally, use a colored pencil to roughen-up the top of the scar and color it in a bit more. (I used white.) Short, scratchy strokes make it look more natural than just a single line of gloss.

And Ta-daaaa! A nice little scar! (Sorry the images are so big and blurry! X_x )




And one with his non-scarred eye in. (His eye is supposed to be discolored like in the first two pictures. )

 

I've found that I can get very realistic results by using a line of gloss - the kind I use on faceups anyway - that I build up into a little mound. Then I seal it with Testors, and blush. ^^ It's worked for me.

 

I use the glue method described above, with one addition. It goes liekt his:

1 MSC the area
2blush background colour for the scar (pale for older ones, reddish for newer or "raw" ones) and MSC it
3 Apply glue in the desired shape (if you need multiple layers wait for ti to dry between layers)
4 on your top laye wait till it has a skin, mostly dry, then pucker the skin, I use a pin, or in some cases just touch it and let the skin stick to me and tear off. This leaves a really interesting texture for really nasty scars and particularly for burns
5 MSC, I suggest two coats
6 blush and paint as desired
7 3 coats of MSC

 

My floating head has a Joker glasgow smile, which is very slightly raised. Originally, it was done by applying a very thin layer of watercolour for the scars, but he's a lot gnarlier now. I tried layers of white glue, which worked and gave it a little bit of a glossy texture, but Liquitex Texture Gels sound like they might have worked a lot better.
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