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
- Sizing reference photos
- Blocking in the face
- Coloring modeling chocolate
- Building up the head
- Easy sculpting stand
- How to measure from reference
- Making the eyelids
- Adding on the cheeks
- Adding the brow
- Checking the profile
- Adding the lips
- Adding the nose
- Filling out eyelids & cheeks
- Building up the jaw & forehead
- Adding the ears
- Hairline & Smoothing the face