Sculpting Edit--PLEASE Help! Sculpting Lips

Your doll head is fairly even and smooth.

When you do the mouth, you may want to add a bit more chin, too, because he looks a bit like he's all nose at the moment.

I like the eye sockets, and he's actually got cheekbones!
likes cheekbones.

Ann in CT

 

Its really hard to explain in words

 

If you can ignore the teeth, this might help to explain. http://www.lewisgoldsteinartanddesign.com/SculptingTutorialFS.htm

Otherwise, try googling for face-sculpting tips etc.

 

Ooh that's a neat tutorial. That's not quite how I do it, but the way I do it, its really hard NOT to get a kissy face XD.

Thanks for that link!

 

XD isn't it annoying? :*

 

My advice is to try scupting a study first a bit larger than you plan for your doll. Your head is very small and that in itself is a big challenge on top of learning to sculpt.

its kinda hard to explain the shape of the lips ,but if they look apelike chances are you have two stacked worm shapes or just curled out edges ducklike.

Taper the corners of the mouth to a point ending in line under just before the iris inner edge then use a ball stylus to push in the mouth corners lightly. Wider for smiling and tinier for some anime looks.
The lower lip fits under the upper rather overlapped, not closing even like two closed doors the lower should be pushed back farther. Like one door closes slightly on top of the other.This is because the jaw is set back to hinge open.I hope that makes some sense.


Nita

 

The ball stylus is a small tool with a metal ball on each end.They come in differnt sizes. I use one that has a ball the size of a poppy seed the other ball maybe a pin head. its one of my most useful sculpting tools.
You can add clay anyway you wish ,but some ways are more productive or work better for certain people. I add the entire mound of the mouth and then push it to form the shapes. Some people add the lower lip then the upper. The reason I dont do that is because it takes much more smoothing of the seams and fiddling and seems less intuitive for me and my work style.

Nita

 

I found another tutorial that might help. I've not tried this method before.

http://www.hanniesarris.nl/web/index.php?page=sculpting-a-fairy&lang=eng

 

I always add on clay for the lips, but maybe thats just me.

 

I was practicing lips, too, and came up with some funny faces XD
http://www.livejournal.com/users/cheshiretiffy/277726.html
That first one, especially XD

I was kind of following the fairy tutorial that I linked a couple replies up.

 

awww! that's awful! ....What was it doing on the floor anyway?

 

http://www.toshop-tutorial.com/blog/?Bricolage
http://www.glassattic.com/polymer/sculpting_body_and_tools.htm

tutoriais news. i think

 

my doll lips tend to be pouty...

i first fill in the chin... then make a small bulge or hump where the lips will go... then using a sharp pointed thing... i carved a curvy line at the center (the line of the mouth)... then i just modified ...errr..its really kinda hard to explain...
this technique works for me...

http://www.google.com/translate?u=h...howto/index.html&langpair=ja|en&hl=en&ie=UTF8

 

I think it's easiest to sculpt lips by pulling a lot of clay to the lip area, using a pencil to draw a line separating two halves, to shape those two halves, and then push them back together on the face in the way you want them :3

(That's the technique I use for realistic sculpting, but I think it'd apply for BJDs, too. Did this make sense? )

 

i'm just curiouse... when you say push them back together on the face. what do you mean by that?

 

That fairy tutorial was really helpful, and that face looks great! I'm totally bookmarking that. :3 Thanks!

 

I'd draw a line to separate the two lips, into two separate parts. Sort of like an open mouth? and then I shape the lips by themselves, and push the top lip down, and the bottom lip up into the shape I want :3 Sorry if it's hard to understand, it's complicated to explain

 

ahhh ok... i think its kinda like how i do it... except for the pushing part...