How to draw a face for a rag doll. How to paint a doll's eyes with acrylic paints? Let's start a difficult task

- textile It's better than x\b, it's easier to learn on it. For those who sew textile dolls, it will be better if you prepare at least 2-3 blank heads, since it is not always easy to transfer the proportions from a sheet of paper to the blank’s face.
For those who knit dolls, there will be enough fabric

The color of the fabric is any light fabric, but if possible it is better to take the one from which you sew dolls, but this is optional
- acrylic paints for fabric. It is not profitable to buy as a set. Half of the paints were simply not useful, unless you plan to paint clothes.

The most popular paints are white, black, brown, blue, green

You can buy gouache for the first time, but it fades over time and you need to secure it with something or keep the doll away from water

- Tassels

I advise you to buy good brushes, but not squirrel brushes, they are too fluffy and soft (but this is my opinion, as a person who has been painting faces for about 3 years)

I have these, I bought them as a set

The most popular ones are like this, so if you find them individually, buy at least 2, the thinnest and the medium

You will need dry pastel for tinting (ONLY FOR THOSE WHO SEW)

They are expensive, so for the first time it can be replaced with eye shadow and blush (BUT I DIDN’T TRY IT MYSELF AND I DON’T KNOW HOW THEY LAY ON THE FABRIC). Another option is if you find these crayons individually, buy them. Color - brown, orange, pink or red (for testing)

You will need white paper, a simple pencil, buttons that are flat to the size of your eyes, or ideally, a ruler like this

Drawing eyes textile doll. Master Class. Very often, many needlewomen who love to sew textile dolls have problems when painting the doll’s face, and especially the eye. I think that you might find a master class from Elena useful for your work (A_Lenushka)

Draw eyes on a textile doll. Master Class

For work we will need:
1 Acrylic paints
2 Synthetic brushes
3 The doll’s body is primed (I prime with a mixture of 0.5 water + 0.5 PVA + acrylic paint)
4 Water
5 Sheet of paper (instead of a palette)
6 A simple pencil and an eraser.
First you need to draw a doll's face on paper. This will allow you to get better and you will have a cheat sheet where you will periodically look. Believe me, it’s better to ruin a few sheets of paper than a finished doll carcass. You can use “mother’s” magazines (about babies) as a sample; they contain very high-quality photographs

Additionally, I prime my face with almost undiluted PVA glue and dry it. After this, the paint adheres perfectly and the face looks like porcelain. In addition, I pass the brush along the neck (the seams securing the head) and legs. The neck will become stronger, and the legs will also be painted

Draw eyes on the face with a pencil, outline a nose and mouth. Fill the eye with white acrylic paint (including the eyelid). Using the remaining paint (on the tip of the brush) we outline the nose and eyebrows (just put dots). We wash the brush. We wait for it to dry and outline the contours of the eyelid and iris with a pencil.

We draw the iris by carefully picking up paint on the brush. Did you draw it? Now, we dipped the brush in water and ran it across the paper (removing excess paint). Is the trail slightly blue? make shadows on the white (or whatever it’s called?) of the eye. If the brush leaves almost no mark, then gurgle it again in water, run it over a sheet of paper (remove excess paint), put 0.5 mm of paint on the brush, lightly smear it on the paper and paint the eyelid with the rest

Cleaned the brush. passed over the paper (removed excess moisture). dip the brush literally 1 mm into the paint. We rest our elbow firmly and trace the eyelid with a confident hand. Let's get more paint and draw the pupil. Use the remaining paint to add shadows on the squirrel and iris. The brush gurgled in the water. Swipe across the paper. Is there a trace left? Amazing! Now with this brush we add shadows above the eyelid, under the nose and lightly outline the mouth. Brush no longer paints? dip it in water and there will be enough paint on it again

Rinse the brush thoroughly. We dried it. We collected some white paint. Add highlights and lighten the lower part of the iris slightly. Use the remaining paint to add brightness to the nose

I draw the nose and mouth with a bronze outline. I also add shadows near the eyes. You can draw eyelashes. Or you can leave it like that


I remind you once again:
We paint with a synthetic brush (it is more elastic).
We wash the brush thoroughly, the acrylic paint dries very quickly, a lump forms at the tip of the brush, and it makes it very difficult to paint.
We paint with an almost dry brush. Before picking up paint, dry the brush by running it over the paper several times. Otherwise the colors will be faded and blurry. If the brush does not glide, it means there is still not enough water.
If you waved your brush in a different direction than you intended, don’t cry! Fresh paint is washed off with water and cotton swab. Dried with nail polish remover and the same cotton swab

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Textile dolls self made look very creative and attractive. They are usually made to give as a gift to someone or to decorate the interior. These lovely hand-made young ladies with amazingly lively, heavenly beauty eyes, all dressed in lace, frills and finely crafted flounces, seem to be programmed to radiate magnetism, create comfort and add charm to every place where they find themselves.

Below we will tell you how to draw eyes for such a doll. acrylic paints. There is nothing difficult about this - even a beginner can cope with the task, but you will most likely have to practice.

About the “revival” of a doll

Don't worry if you've never done this. It is important to understand the principle of face painting, and then everything will go as usual. Everyone knows what is most important on the face. That's right, these are windows into the soul, that is, the eyes. Now it is clear that the beauty of the future doll depends entirely on how we draw the organs of vision. Now let's get to work.

Tools and materials

We will need the following available tools:

• synthetic brushes;
• acrylic paints;
• primed doll carcass;
• a sheet of paper for a sketch;
• water;
• a simple pencil and eraser;
• PVA glue.

Eye imaging process

Everyone knows that our eye has the shape of a ball, covered on top by a movable eyelid with winged eyelashes. In the light, a glare appears near the eyes and at the same time a shadow from the upper eyelid. All lines in the drawing must not be the same in intensity! The line of the upper eyelid is thicker and brighter, and the line of the lower eyelid is thinner and more muted.

The drawing order is as follows:

• Draw a face on paper - this way you’ll quickly get used to it and get a cheat sheet that you can look at without spoiling the doll. After all, it’s much better to throw away the paper rather than the doll.
• Prime the face with glue and dry. Now the paint should adhere better, and your face will look “porcelain.” Additionally, you can brush over the neck and legs - the neck will become stronger, and the legs will be more convenient to paint.
• Do it on your face with a simple pencil eyes, height and nose. Fill the eye with paint white(the eyelid also needs to be painted over). Use the rest of the composition (at the end of the brush) to mark the eyebrows and nose (just make dots). Ready? Wash the brush, wait until the paint dries, and use a pencil to outline the contour of the eyelid and iris.
• Now you can draw the iris. To do this, apply paint to the brush as carefully as possible. Dip the brush in water, run it over a sheet of paper to remove excess paint, and create shadows on the whites of the eyes (they will give a natural look). If the brush no longer leaves a mark, rinse it again and pass it over the sheet, pick up paint, smear it on the paper and draw on the eyelid.
• Rinse the brush and remove it excess water and only after that dip it in paint - 1 mm will be enough. Press your elbow harder into the tabletop and begin to outline the contour of your eyelid using clear lines. Make a pupil, add shadows to the iris.
• Run a washed brush over a sheet of paper - if a mark remains, shade the areas under the nose and at the top of the eyelid, outline the mouth. If the brush doesn't paint at all, dip it in water again.
• Take some white paint, apply highlights and lighten the bottom of the iris a little.

The Tilda doll, thanks to its original individuality, can afford to be without a face, mouth, nose, and with dotted eyes. But in all other cases, painting a doll’s face is one of the main ways to put character and soul into a craft. The hackneyed phrase “the eyes are the mirror of the soul” is 100% right in this case. It is the expression of the doll’s face, the raised or lowered corners of the mouth, and the shape of the eyebrows that tell about the character of the textile doll. Therefore, it is very important to paint her face the way the author intended and according to all the laws of plasticity.

A textile caramel doll should be cheerful, a little naive, and therefore a little surprised. A smiling mouth and a round snub nose are already stitched along the contour. All we have to do is apply decorative makeup.

We will paint with acrylic paints, although in some places it is allowed to apply war paint in oils. Prepare in advance a palette for diluting paint, brushes of different thicknesses and hardness, and white paper for testing.

• Let's start the master class with preparing the paint. Place a very small amount of it on the palette and dip the tip of a dry, hard brush. Choose a tone slightly darker than the “skin” of the toy. Brush excess paint onto a piece of paper.

• Lungs quick strokes Apply paint to the cheeks, in the grooves of the stitches, near the eyes and mouth. You can tint the nose a little. If the paint does not go on smoothly enough, blend it with a cotton swab.

• Apply white paint to the eye circles.

• Mark the middle of the eye with a pencil, then step back a little upward (1-2 mm) and draw a large circle from this center. Step back another 1 mm and draw a smaller circle. Make your eyes the same. Paint over first big circle light brown paint, then, without waiting for it to dry, make the outer diameter dark with a smooth transition to the center into light brown. Once dry, outline the black pupil.

• Using a thin brush, make two white spots on both pupils. One is small, the other is large. Look how our doll's eyes sparkled. This is how the hand-drawn plastic surgery of the face turned out. All you have to do is brush a little dry red paint over your lips and the caramel is ready.

Advice. For tinting, you can use a mixture of ground cinnamon and fine instant coffee.

We will start this master class with pencil drawing. There are certain rules and proportions by which all features are drawn, not only for dolls. Imagine that your face is a circle. Divide it mentally into 4 equal sectors. It is on the horizontal axis that the inner corners of the eyes and the centers of the pupils will be located. The outer corners, depending on the facial plastic surgery, can be lower, higher and generally asymmetrical to each other. In our case they are lowered down. Melancholic textile doll. Raised eyebrows at the nose also indicate that this craft does not have a very happy life.

1. We draw the pupils, eyelids and mouth.
2. Paint the squirrels with a thin brush with white paint.
3. Draw the blue pupil.
4. Draw a black circle in the center so that it touches the eyelid.
5. Place two white dots (small and large) on the black circle.
6. Blend dry white paint over the blue iris. Try to ensure that all manipulations performed are the same in both eyes.
7. Make shadows. They are also applied with dry pastel. Blue along the edges of the whites and black along the borders of the eyelids. Draw eyelashes, nose, lips.
8. Use dry paint or pastels to create a subtle blush.
9. Here you go! All that remains is to add a few small freckles, put a piquant hat with red curls on her head and the sad lady is ready.

Notice how vibrant the eyes are on the dolls he paints wonderful master needlewoman Irina Khochina. It seems that these are not painted, but at least glass pupils. Irina explains how to achieve this in one of her master classes.

Always remember that the eye is a large sphere inserted into the head. The shadows on it are located in the same way as on the sphere. The extreme, lightest point is the highlight, followed by light, penumbra and, finally, shadow.

1. Draw two identical circles on the central axis (in the middle of the face). It always visually seems that the eyes should be a little higher to the hairline. This visual illusion occurs due to the fact that the lower part of the face is more loaded with elements (nose, mouth, chin).
2. Then draw eyelids from below and above deep into the circle.
3. The pupil should be slightly covered by the upper eyelid. Only in a very frightened person can it be in the middle without touching the eyelids. But it won't look nice.
4. The next step is toning the brow ridges. Slightly darken the distance from the eye to the eyebrow. This will create depth and volume.
5. We paint the eye with off-white paint so that against this background it is absolutely white highlight stood out.
6. We paint the iris and black pupil. Don't use pure color. Add a little brown to the blue, etc. The iris also changes saturation from the edge to the center.
7. Draw the shadow under the eyelid.
8. We place two white dots relative to the center of the eye opposite each other. One point will represent the highlight (lower), the second (upper) its reflection.
9. We outline the eye. The line closer to the highlight should be brighter. Draw the upper eyelid clearly, because it is covered in dark eyelashes and has a shadow. Draw the line of the lower eyelid lighter and almost dotted, darkening towards the outer corner.
10. All that remains is to tint the volume of the eyelids, nose and lips.
11. And, of course, almost real glued eyelashes.

Professional craftsmen, it seems that such a face is very difficult and unrealistic to make yourself. However step-by-step master class Below describes the process from start to finish and shows that even if you can't do it the first time, anyone can create a doll face!

Are used:

• synthetic brushes different sizes, starting from the smallest for drawing small details;
• two types of pastels - dry and oil;
• acrylic paint.

First of all, sketches of the doll's face are made on paper, where the sizes of the nose, mouth, eyes, facial expression of the toy, etc. are pretended.

The resulting contours need to be outlined with pastels (the most convenient is in the form of pencils). The shades are flesh, in this case pink-brown. The applied pastel is shaded with a brush. This is how the first shadows appear on the face.

Next, the contours of the eye, nose, and mouth are lightly outlined with a brown pastel pencil, and the chin, corners of the mouth, etc. are again drawn in with a lighter (brick-colored) pencil. The lines are constantly shaded so that there are no sharp color transitions.

In this master class the toy Blue eyes, so the next step is to outline the overall color of the eye by tracing in the right color iris.

The middle is painted with a lighter blue shade, the paint is slightly shaded to create a soft transition between tones.

The center of the iris is made lighter by adding white acrylic.

A small amount of black is added to the blue color. This shade outlines the pupil and shadow under the eyelashes. Using a brush with almost no water, a shadow is drawn in the corners of the eyes. The streaks on the iris are outlined in a very light blue color.

For the pupil, use black; you don’t need to draw a perfectly round or oval shape for it; a slight “jitter” of the outline looks more natural. Thin black stripes from the pupil are drawn on the iris. Highlights are applied with white paint.

Lips can be drawn with dry peach pastels. For blush on the cheeks, use a large brush. It is permissible to use not only pastel pencils for them, but also real cosmetic blush.

Using one of the smallest brushes with brown acrylic, you need to re-outline the contours. She also needs to paint eyelashes and eyebrows. To fix the paint, the eyes can be covered with a special acrylic varnish, but in the absence of it, ordinary transparent nail polish will do.