How to color a doll's eyes correctly. How to paint a doll's eyes with acrylic paints

Instructions

After applying the general tone to the face, we begin painting the eyes. First of all, take a simple pencil and mark the location of the iris and pupil.

The fourth step of coloring the doll's eyes is next. We take a medium tone of paint to paint the iris, taking into account the fact that we will then need to shade the eyes.

It is necessary to draw a shadow from the upper eyelid eyes, which covers almost half of the iris. To do this, take black paint and add one drop to the main tone.

Now we draw the pupil using black paint. The size of the pupil is one third of the iris of the eye.

The next step is the most important. We need to breathe life into ours by adding eyes m light. First you need to determine where the light falls on the doll’s face by marking with a pencil the place where the highlight will be applied.

Add to the main tone white paint. We draw light on the opposite side of the highlight at the border of the iris and pupil. This place on the iris turns out to be the lightest.

Last step. Apply a highlight to the pupil. Please note that the highlights are drawn in one direction with small dots and opposite the brightest place on the iris. The highlight must be painted absolutely white. It is better to apply it with a clerical touch or a toothpick if it is small.

And the final design of the eyes is to trace them along the contour. For this we will use black or dark brown paint.

Helpful advice

1. It’s better to draw the doll’s eyes acrylic paints, because After drying, the film formed from the paint is not erased.
2. To ensure that the doll’s eyes do not differ, it is better to draw both of them at once.

Paper dolls have a number of advantages over ordinary ones. They take up little space, are cheap, and you can make them yourself. But to make her pleasing to the eye, you need to draw the charming girl carefully and carefully.

You will need

  • - White paper;
  • - pencil;
  • - eraser;
  • - gel pens.

Instructions

Draw the figure and underwear of your future doll. Do not press on the pencil; the lines should be barely noticeable so that they can be erased if necessary. Gel pen trace all the contours. You don't have to use black at all. To outline the strands, use the pen that best matches your planned hair color. For the shadows on the body, take an orange pen. Now you can begin the final coloring.

To make the doll more realistic, you need to consider which side the light is coming from. Based on this, outline the shadows and highlights. It is best to color with pastels or pencils; paints can cause the paper to get wet and become deformed, and felt-tip pens will not give the realism that is achieved with pencils or pastels. Shadows should be made in a darker color than the main color, and highlights should be lighter. When the front of your doll is ready, use the same principle to create the back.

Glue both halves together. Now you need for your doll. It is painted in the same way as the doll itself, but when creating clothes you need to pay attention to some details. Consider the doll's pose; clothes should match the position of the body.

Outline the figure of the toy, draw clothes around this base. If the item of clothing is tight-fitting, it should fit the doll's figure exactly. Make rectangular fasteners to hold the clothes on the doll. These attachments should be on the shoulders, elbows and calves.

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). Shades - flesh, in 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 tutorial the toy has blue eyes, so the next step is to outline the overall eye color 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 virtually 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 for them not only pastel pencils, 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.

White pastels highlight highlights on the eyelids, nose, and lips. Using varnish in the form of a spray, the result is fixed.


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. Smiling mouth, round snub nose 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, 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.

  • Using light, quick strokes, apply the 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 is not applied evenly enough, blend it 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 is not 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 lively the eyes are on the dolls, which are painted by the wonderful 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 closed 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 the absolutely white highlight stands out against this background.
  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 a 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.

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, draw 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 wave your brush in the wrong direction, don’t cry! Fresh paint is washed off with water and a cotton swab. Dried with nail polish remover and the same cotton swab

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Today I will try to tell you how to draw eyes on a doll. I will tell you more, so follow the text. People who received special education, please don’t be sarcastic!
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, drag 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 really liked the Techno yarn for hair quality. I knitted a rug to fit my head.

We tried it on to the head, all that remained was to sew it on.