Step 8: Mottling

Requires: Mop brush, Berry Maker Tool, Pyrole Red 03

This stage is optional, you do not have to do this. However, it does add more realism to a reborn. Mottling fills out an area with extra color, after all skin isn’t one shade. The trick is to blot off most of the color on the brush before applying as you do not need to use very much.

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Step 5: Add some shading

Requires: Cosmetic sponges, Flesh 04 mixture

With the dolls head on its side, dip the sponge in the mixture and pounce some color in the area just in front of the ear. Turn the head and repeat on the other side.

Next, do the same on the limbs. On the outside of the arms, pounce the color from the shoulder to the hands. Do the same for the legs, going from the ankle all the way to the upper thigh.

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Step 3: Coloring the lips

Requires: #2 Filbert, bespoke mixture

With the brush, paint a line along the length of the crease between the upper and lower lip. (where the mouth opening would be). Once you have done this you do not need to add any extra color. You are trying to achieve a shaded look so the inside of the mouth is darker than the edge of the lips.

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Technique description: Pouncing

A lot of the base color is applied with a technique that is known as pouncing. It is a slightly odd name and I am not sure where the term comes from. However, do not think of it in the terms of a cat pouncing, it is much more delicate than that!

This is almost like dabbing, or blotting the doll with a cosmetic sponge that has paint on it.

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