Faceups First finished faceup! (and failures)

he looks amazing!!! I love how you brought tartaglia to life with your doll, the freckles are so cute! and the way your drew highlights on the lashes is really pretty! it's like that perfect spot between realistic and 2d

thanks so much for sharing, it's so cool to see your process, it's making me itch to do face ups for my dolls

 

He looks incredible! You’ve done such a lovely job, I can’t wait to see more from you!

 

Very nice work - well done - those eyebrows are fabulous. I can never get the hang of eyebrows.

Teddy

 

Looks great I love the eye details.
And the eyebrows.
Very good Faceup, would love to see more.

 

Literally amazing— I love how you did the eyeliner! The double point blends almost seamlessly into the lashes! It’s so!! Just wow!!

 

Great work! I really like how you didn't give up and how well the eyes came out. Those freckles remind me of my own

 

Wow I love the eye details and freckles, the faceup is gorgeous! Thank you for including your attempts, it takes a bit of the fear away from trying to do faceups as a beginner

 

You ended up with such a beautiful work of art!! The process was very comforting to read as generally, broadly speaking we don’t see the artists mistakes uploaded online. Thank you so much for sharing!

 

Whoa! You brought the sculpt to life so well, I adore the freckles and subtle warmth. I love seeing the progress pics, you really refined your faceup skills!

 

Outstanding, stunning works of arts!

 

That’s amazing especially for a first face up! Just out of curiosity how did you do the digital mock ups? That seems super helpful!

 

Wow, even that first faceup has very clean lines! Also I love the DF-A Max as a sculpt, and it really was a good choice for Childe. It looks just like him!

 

This is amazing! Do you have a picture of the doll wearing a wig? I'd love to see the completed Childe!

 

I love seeing how people progress. And modding is hard and requires some practice as well. It didn't look like a bad try. Keep up the good work

 

WOOOOW This is so gorgeous!

 

Love your progress!















It's really good considering that this is your first successful faceup.







As your style is pretty realistic, I'd suggest being more daring with greens, blues and purples on certain areas of the face to create more depth, like what painters would do on portraiture!

 

He’s adorable, I hope to see more of him around !

 

Wow, this is a gorgeous faceup, especially for someone who's only done it a little bit before! The eyebrow shape, the colors you chose, the placement of those colors, and blending with pastels are all fantastic. And I think your lines look really good! But since you struggled with that aspect, may I give you some tips?

Using paint for the lines is the hardest part for a lot of people, myself included. I haven't used acrylic ink for faceups, only acrylic paint and acrylic gouache. I can imagine acrylic ink would be great for areas that you want to be a dark or vibrant color, like the eyeliner or the line inside the mouth. But for eyelashes and eyebrows, it's probably a bit much. I don't know if you thinned it down at all, but I would recommend thinning it with a paint medium and not thinning it with water. Thinning paints with water makes them hard to work with, and if you use too much water it can sometimes bead on the surface of the doll. If you try a medium and don't like how it feels, try another. I always point people to this tutorial by Xhanthi which shows the perfect consistency that you want your paint to be at. TBH if you find that using the acrylic ink feels unwieldy, give acrylic paint a try. I'm sure it behaves differently, and it's always worth trying new materials. Even if you CAN get good results with something, for me personally it's more about the struggle. Struggling to get good results is still struggling, and there may be something else that is just plain easier to use, you know?

The other great thing about using a paint medium is that a lot of them make the paint dry just a little bit slower than water would. This gives you a bit more working time if you make a line and it sucks. With a damp q-tip, you can quickly wipe off any lines you make that haven't dried yet.

Painting the line inside the mouth is really annoying, but here's how I go about it. I build up most of the lip color with pastel early on, and as I go about the rest of the faceup it ends up with at least 2 coats of sealant over it. That's when I paint in the lip line. You only want a little bit of paint on the tip of the brush to reduce the chance of getting any on the lips. But it's never, ever, EVER perfect- I always get some on the lips. Just leave it, don't try to fix it yet. Once the paint is completely dry (and yes, this takes a lot of patience because I'm dying to finish the faceup by this point), you can very gently scrape off the mistakes with a fresh x-acto blade. You scrape sideways with the blade, the opposite of how you would use it for cutting. If the blade is sharp, the paint is dry, and there are a couple layers of sealant protecting the pastel underneath, your mistakes will easily come off without disturbing the color underneath. After that I'll do the lip-texture lines or more pastels or whatever.

And finally, did you seal the head before using gloss? If you do that, you won't have any problems with gloss screwing up the paint underneath. But I often do some last minute stuff with acrylics, which are waterproof when dry, so I can gloss over that and it won't get messed up.

One last thing I want to mention is be careful with those digital mockups. I did really detailed ones a few times, but frankly it was impossible to match it perfectly in real life, which always made me feel disappointed even when the faceup looked good. So if you're a perfectionist, I recommend making digital mockups that kind of get the general idea across, without putting in too many details. That way there's room for variation, error, and spontaneous ideas!

Congrats on a really beautiful faceup and super cute boy!

 

love this

 

This is gorgeous and informative! I love it