How to make skin texture for large realistic dolls. Advice from the master.

Hello everyone 🙂

People often ask me how do you make the texture of the skin for your large works?

I decided to share with you, friends, my method (in fact, it is the most common among sculptors) of applying pores and micro-wrinkles on the face of the work.

Everything is used, from toothpicks, needles to toothbrushes. Anything that leaves the desired imprint in one place or another of the face is suitable. I advise you to upload a lot of face photos in FUL HD quality or 4K Ultra HD.

Study faces of different structures. Different areas of the face have their own texture, the pores in the nasolabial area are very different from the texture of the forehead or on the edges of the cheeks near the ears. Plus, one thing turns into another. Notice how this transition occurs from one zone to another. It is better to take people with more mature skin, 30-40-50 years old. There is not yet "raisins", but also not the porcelain smoothness of youth. And with the old people everything is more complicated, because there is a story behind every fold. Anyone can throw wrinkles from the ceiling, but it will be very noticeable. Plus, with rather large deep folds in older people, there are also very open pores that are deformed in one direction or another, and this is a separate difficulty. Just throw in wrinkles, without pores, that's not the same.

Apparently this is why serious masters like to depict elderly people, they are more difficult and more interesting :))) Some sculptors make texture blanks by removing silicone layers from the skin of animals and mixing them depending on the area of the body. But I am still for manual work inside and out. Since all my favorite mastodon sculptures are also done by hand 🙂

If your desire to study sculpture is as great as mine, and realism is just as interesting to you, then arm yourself with photographs and sit down to try on a doll. It will get better and better every time 🙂 Good luck!

Yours, Ulyana Luan.