I start with a vinyl doll kit you can buy here:
http://www.tinkerbellcreations.co.uk/
I also need: Genesis heat set paint set
Odorless mineral spirits
A variaty of brushes of different sizes
Painting pallet
Sponges
Hot Air Gun
Paper towels
These can be found again here:
http://www.tinkerbellcreations.co.uk/
First, wash your doll kit with warm soapy water to remove any sticky residue.
Then let it dry overnight to. Make sure there is no water any where on the doll kit before you start to paint!
Fill a well half full of thinner.
Take a medium size brush and load it with the flesh coloured paint.
Mix it with the thinner in the well. Make sure you have a good thin watery consistancy!
Cover the entire head with this color and then pouce with a cosmetic sponge to remove the excess thinner. Then do the same for the limbs excluding the soles. Make sure that any excess thinner is removed. Press the sponge on a paper towel to remove excess let on there.
It should leve the apperence of tiny little pours in the skin. (see last two pictures)
Let all the thinner evaporate so you are just left with the paunt. Look over the whole head and limbs to see if there are any chalky patches. Ithere is then your paint is too thick, and you need to add more thinner. To get rid of the chalky affect on the vinyl add a layer of pure thinner. If there is no chalky affect then heat set the paints with you heat set gun. Remember to keep it moving at all times!
Repeat the layer of flesh four or five times, more if nessasary.
Fill another well half full, take the orange colour (im sorry I cant remember the name) and mix together. We want the same consistency on this a we did on the flesh.
As before cover the entire head with the orange colour, and pounce off any excess with a cosmetic sponge.
Do the same for the limbs.
Let it flash dry.
Chek for chalk.
Then heat set with the heat gun.
Repeat twice or more for a very newborn baby look.
Now mix blue and green together to get the colour for the veins. The consistency should be slightly thicker than previously.
Now draw viens on the head and limbs. Only a do one or two at a time! Then, pounce off the excess.
On head:
On temples
On the forehead
In the corner of the eyes
In the limbs:
In the middle of the sole of the foot or plam of the hand
Back of the hand and the top of the foot
Sides of the arms and legs.
Follow the pattern of your veins
Fill another well half full, and add the red blush this time.
You want a thin consistency of water!
Put the paint on a sea sponge and punce off the excess on a paper towel. Use a rocking action on vinyl making sure to cover the entire head. Just this once!
Let the head and limbs flash dry, and then if you are happy set them. Reload your sponge, rock over the cheek and forhead area to give them a healthy glow.
Allow to dry and heat set, repeate as many times as desired. I usually do this three times.
Add a small amount of white to red blush paint. This will be your lip color.
Paint all of the head, removing any excess. Heat set each time. Continue until you have the lip color you want. I usually do about 10-12 layers.
Mix a little more red blush colour. Paint it on the soles of the feet and palms of the hands, ignore the middle. Pounce off any excess with a cosmetic sponge. Repeat as desired. Don't forget to heat set!
I did NOT reborn this foot. I just needed a photo that showed what to do well as the ones I took were awful
Add a small amount of blue to the lip color mix. This will be the colour for the creases. Load you brush and put the paint into every crease, blending with a mop brush as you go.
With the same colour paint tiny tiny little lines on the cheeks, eyelids and ears, these look like capilleries and broken viens. It just adds that extra bit of realism.
To finish add a drop of thinner directly into the pot of flesh paint , mix with brushing, and draw a thin line along the tips of the nails. Don't forget to heat set!!
With the gloss paint on the lips, on the corner of the eyes , nails and inside of the nose.
That's it !