February 12, 2011. I got a bug to try to re-capture Ethan's first faceup. I reviewed various faceup advice on the Den of Angles, thanks to Leechy's Natural Faceup instructions, which are terrific. Also, one of the airbrush faceup instructions in the Obyrarium. I don't have an airbrush, but the artist, whose name escapes me at this moment, remarked that they work three layers of the first blushing, from lightest to darkest.
Ethan's Fresh skin tone definitely looks best with red undertones, not yellow, even though his wig is a dirty blonde. So, I mixed my pastels and this time, counted out how many scrapes I took of the particular colors. I stuck mainly with three colors: white, a dusty rose and a red undertoned medium brown. Mixed in various proportions, more brown for the blushing and his eyes, and more dusty rose for his lips. But I wanted the blends to work together.
For the blushing, I blended three increasingly darker versions of the blush color. Worked from light to dark and blushed his ears, eyes, nose, chin, forehead. With each color change, I moved inward from the edges, trying to create more depth to his features, bring out his features a bit more. I was extra careful to watch for stray finger prints and hairs and changed gloves after handling the pastels. I had one stray mark this time, which I was unable to remove with my eraser, so it became the birth mark under his left brow.
The materials for these faceups are ZM pastels from Volks, white pastel is a Rembrandt, watercolor and chalk pencils.
I like this softer version of Ethan. Even though I've said it before, I think I'll keep this one until his body arrives, which will be around mid-March, according to the Dollshe website. Look at that face - that boy needs a body!
January 6, 2011. I can already tell, after 2 nights of playing, that I could post every other day with the continuing saga of Ethan's face-ups. Rather than add new posts, I will add photos to this one, with the most current face at the top of the post. Ethan is a Dollshe Bernard. Someday, he'll have a body.
Ethan's Fresh skin tone definitely looks best with red undertones, not yellow, even though his wig is a dirty blonde. So, I mixed my pastels and this time, counted out how many scrapes I took of the particular colors. I stuck mainly with three colors: white, a dusty rose and a red undertoned medium brown. Mixed in various proportions, more brown for the blushing and his eyes, and more dusty rose for his lips. But I wanted the blends to work together. For the blushing, I blended three increasingly darker versions of the blush color. Worked from light to dark and blushed his ears, eyes, nose, chin, forehead. With each color change, I moved inward from the edges, trying to create more depth to his features, bring out his features a bit more. I was extra careful to watch for stray finger prints and hairs and changed gloves after handling the pastels. I had one stray mark this time, which I was unable to remove with my eraser, so it became the birth mark under his left brow.
The materials for these faceups are ZM pastels from Volks, white pastel is a Rembrandt, watercolor and chalk pencils.
I like this softer version of Ethan. Even though I've said it before, I think I'll keep this one until his body arrives, which will be around mid-March, according to the Dollshe website. Look at that face - that boy needs a body!
January 6, 2011. I can already tell, after 2 nights of playing, that I could post every other day with the continuing saga of Ethan's face-ups. Rather than add new posts, I will add photos to this one, with the most current face at the top of the post. Ethan is a Dollshe Bernard. Someday, he'll have a body.
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| 01.06.2011: New Wave |
Tonight's faceup was inspired by a comment from Bill after I trimmed the wig Ethan is wearing in all these photos. He said Ethan looked like someone from Duran Duran. Well, my friends, I love the old days of post-punk/New Wave, so why not try it out?
This one is my favorite so far. I might even leave it for a few days until the flaws begin to taunt me.
I have sprayed only the base coat of ZM Finishing Powder Spray UV Cut. The faceup with pastels: blushing, eyes, lips, brows. I used the pastels wet which adheres better to his face Turns out, it's easy to take an eraser wipe away the previous faceup. A quick burst with the canned air, and it's ready for a new look. The eraser doesn't seem to be disrupting the base coat.
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| 01.05.2011 Sort of Natural Look |
The next faceup is describe in detail in Ethan 3.0. Again done with pastels. It's a more natural look. Not bad, but there are issues.
If you would like to see what I consider the Gold Standard of Faceups, follow the link to Dink's Dolls and bask in the glory that is Cheryl Ausin's artistry.
While I'm a big fan, and hope to commission her for a faceup, I am seeking my own faceup style, which I think beginning to emerge as I work on Ethan's lovely face. There's also the matter of developing the painting skills. Ethan's head is fairly small, probably 3 inches wide by 4 inches tall.
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| 11.23.2010 Bedraggled #2 |
Number 3 is better than Number 2, which was in the vein of Ethan's former days of drug addiction and death.
Number 2 is a tired Ethan. There were issues. Like his eyebrows, which you can't see in this photo are much too high, so he looked quite surprised. Some bits of lint got trapped in the layers of ZM Finishing Spray, which turned into that beauty mark near his nose. On his left cheek, there was another bit of lint and a dark pastel smudge.
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| 10.26.2010 First Face Up |
In version 2, his lashes and brows were drawn with a watercolor pencil. The coloring on versions 1 and 2 were more of a redhead. I love the gingers, but there is another beautiful ginger Bernard, which glorious long red hair.
Ethan version 1.0. My first face up. Ever. Wearing the wig before it was trimmed and fitted a little better to his head, also new skills for me. His coloring is more like that of a ginger. Plenty of issues: mismatched brows, odd lips, although I like the color.
Happy crafting!
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