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Photographed by Nisha Haq |
Brave new world
The cult of the body and cultural diversity.
Friday 6 December 2013
Evaluation
Evaluation
Technical file sign of sheet
Thursday 5 December 2013
Look Two Final Images.
Moodboard look 2
Ideas behind my look.
For my second look I wanted it to have some more fashion elements within it along with tribal influences with scarification again and some of the colourful jewellery worn. I have also used influences from jewellery makers especially one that I have on my blog already named Burca Buyunkunal who creates facial jewellery distorting the face and its features. I wanted to keep the colours for this look white and nude and have bright jewellery to add colour.
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Here is a face chart created for the final idea along with images of my second final idea as I created this. This look was designed looking at facial jewellery and enchantments changing the features on the face along with adding objects that change the look of the face. I wanted to do this as I find this an interesting prospect that we can change the features of are face just by adding something or pulling and pushing it in different direction by adding materials. I wanted this image to be more about body modification changing the structure of the face with objects added using prosthetics and materials along with making it look more fashion and catwalk based. For the hair I wanted this to be big distorting the head into a funny shape as if the head is the shape of the hair.
Look One Final Images
Images above photographed by 'Nisha Haq'
Necklace Provided By 'Keiron Levine'
Moodboard Look One
Ideas behind my look
Above is a mood board I created with a few of the more high impacted images that helped me develop my final design. There are influences of tribal elements which I have decided to include as I really like the look of all the scarification on the body. I have also included textured images and also more fashion/catwalk images showing the hair idea I would like and also some of the colours I will be using within the final design.
Above is the face chart along with design ideas for my first look.This look has been designed from influences such as scarification along with texture and tribal influences. The face has a lot of texture within in with the lower area such as the chest and arms containing more of the scarification idea creating scar like designs using gelatin around the chest area creating a nice design. I will also be making some prosthetic ear pieces out of gelatine so it looks like my model has stretched earlobes.
Keiron Levine
Wednesday 4 December 2013
Practise for final looks.
Above are the images of me practising one of my final looks on myself for my first image to do with brave new world. For this look I wanted to create quite a textured look as I really like textures and how they can look and wanted to use products we had been working with. To do this look I actually used putty which is something we had not experimented with but that I knew could block out eyebrows and I could manipulate to create a texture. At first I had issues with the putty as it is quite fiddly to apply to the face and un sticks easily especially if your hot, and I had trouble trying to get it to flow along the eyebrow. Once I covered the eyebrows it had created a texture in itself which I liked which I then went and applied tuplast over the top to get more of a wiggly line movement just to add more texture and movement to the effect. Underneath the eye I just used putty without tuplast as the tuplast has such a strong smell and under the eye is very sensitive. I really liked the effect of the putty and tuplast together which I then added a bronze coloured effect over the top to really highlight it and make it stand out along with a silver at the bottom of the eye.
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These are ideas towards my second final image for brave new world. My initial idea for this look was to create a round shape of gelatine dots and to have wire threaded threw these with beading on the ends almost like the wire was under the skin and the scarification had grown over the top. I brought some thin wire and practised how I could put this threw the gelatine it worked as the wire was so light but after sticking one of these on the head it took me quite a while and I actually decided I wanted to simplify the design as it had to much going on and I couldn't get the wire to sit straight making it look weird and not how I had pictured it to look.
Some of the many gelatine dots and shapes I created.
Original Final look..
These are some images I took of one of my original ideas that I practised and shoot in the studio. When shooting and creating the images a lot of things were going wrong such as setting the gelatine dots that I wanted to apply to the head, and also I was having problems with the latex textured neck piece I made and sticking this. I also realised when coming to shoot this look you couldn't really see the neck piece as well as I wanted and overall at the time I was not happy with this look so ended up not taking proper images as I also couldn't get the camera and lighting to work that well either so it was not the best day. Now looking back at the images they are not as terrible as I thought and I think I could of worked something out to make this look work but at the time was just not in the right frame of mind but I am glad I photographed this.
Sunday 1 December 2013
Images from books which feature body adornment.
Tuesday 19 November 2013
Quick sketch ideas for final ideas.
When I think of ideas for designs I have to scribble them down writing down exactly what I wanted to do along with drawing a bit of a crappy little drawing designs. These are some images of my ideas that I scribbled down quickly on pieces of paper along with notes on the ideas for these designs.
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Face chart of one of my original final ideas. |
Theme of Gold, Silver and White
Images all collected from Pintrest.
I found when I was searching and looking for ideas to do with this project a lot of the images I collected on pintrest were images with colours such as gold, silver and white. I think with this project I was naturally drawn to these colours for some reasons along with liking the designs of the images I came across. As a lot of the images I collected used these colours and a lot of my final designs and ideas are based around similar colours to these. I thought I would create a small mood board with a few of the images I collected inspiring ideas for my designs showing tribal influences, textures, body art, body modification and fashion forward imagery.
Monday 18 November 2013
Practical Lesson Scarring
Creating scars using Wax which is a product that is very popular in sfx, Wax is quite easy to use and you can mould and shape it into many forms and build up its texture on the service of the skin and create shapes easily. You can warm the product up on your hands and then start applying it onto the skin moulding and shaping this either with your fingers or with a palette knife. You can then build this up onto the area your applying it and blend it in you can then add colour to this product to give it diff rent tones and make it look realistic. Below I wanted to create a shape that I could apply across the body, but I couldn't apply the material straight to the body so I made a mould that I could apply my gelatine into so I could make a specific shape.
Experiments
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