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Male Face Sculpting

Skill level: Intermediate

People have been begging me to create a male face mold tutorial, so what better male face to use as a basis for our study than Elvis?! Elvis has a very 'traditional' male face with some features that carry over to a lot of other male faces, which can easily be adapted or tweaked to your liking.

Learn how to create the eyes, nose, lips, ears, cheeks, chin and hairline in this sculpting tutorial.

40:58 Minutes of Instruction

What You Will Learn

  • How to sculpt a realistic male face out of modeling chocolate and isomalt
  • Learn how to scale photo reference to match the size of your sculpture
  • How several common mistakes and errors artists make when sculpting the face and how to fix them
  • Learn how to add the eyes, cheeks, nose, lips and ears in a way that is repeatable and consistent
  • How to check your work for errors and fix them

Tutorial Chapters

  1. Sizing reference photos 1:03
  2. Blocking in the face 1:45
  3. Coloring modeling chocolate 6:19
  4. Building up the head 7:48
  5. Easy sculpting stand 8:42
  6. How to measure from reference 9:17
  7. Making the eyelids 11:03
  8. Adding on the cheeks 15:28
  9. Adding the brow 16:45
  10. Checking the profile 17:31
  11. Adding the lips 20:24
  12. Adding the nose 26:57
  13. Filling out eyelids & cheeks 33:41
  14. Building up the jaw & forehead 36:42
  15. Adding the ears 37:35
  16. Hairline & Smoothing the face 39:04

Sculpted Male Face Tutorial

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About Liz Marek

Liz Marek is a professional cake artist and recipe developer who has been teaching baking and cake decorating since 2008. She founded Artisan Cake Company in Portland, Oregon in 2009 and now runs Sugar Geek Show, where she publishes kitchen-tested recipes, food science explanations, and step-by-step tutorials.

Liz is best known for sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes. She won Netflix's Is It Cake? Holiday 2 in 2025 with a hyperrealistic Santa cake, and has competed on and won Food Network cake competitions. Cake Masters Magazine named her one of the top 10 cake artists in 2017. She is the author of Artisan Cake Company's Visual Guide to Cake Decorating and a graduate of the Oregon Culinary Institute.

Her focus is on explaining not just how a recipe works but why it works, so bakers can troubleshoot instead of guess. Every recipe on this site is tested before it's published.

Liz teaches full-length cake tutorials, including sculpted and hyperrealistic cakes, at Sugar Geek University.