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.  

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.

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 

These are some experiments using texture and materials to add and change to the appearance of the body using shapes and also materials such as latex mixed with other materials in such as lace and buttons etc. 

Drawing

Ana Rajcevic

Info and images sourced from: http://anarajcevic.com/animal/studio/

I really love the idea of creating a piece that a human form wouldn't usually have such as a feature from an animal. This adds to the effect of modifying the body and changing its appearance giving it a different dynamic and enhancing body features with sculptural pieces. This is great body adornment with a twist that is not a jewellery design but has a similar context as well as being a fashion object that can be worn and also a separate sculptural piece. I would love to explore with creating Something like this if I had more time as it could be a really exciting piece. 

Ideas...

This week I started to practise ideas towards my final looks, I thought of the idea to apply this texture to the neck I thought this could look really good and attention-grabbing in a photograph and it links in well with the project. I had previously made a piece the same as this when we were making our moulds; to make this I had a piece of plastic that had a patterning on it. I applied latex over the top of this drying each layer of latex as I went along, I done about 3 or 4 layers off latex over the piece of material once it had dried I powdered over it so it wouldn’t stick together and then peeled it of the plastic material and this is what it looked like. To apply it to the neck I used spirit gum I applied this all over the mould piece I had made and then carefully stuck it onto the neck pressing it down and holding it in place. Once stuck on the issue was when moving the neck, the piece did wrinkle with movement and didn’t reach all the way around the neck and looked abit odd on its own. I decided if I was going to use this I would need to make something to go onto the side of the face to help blend it in better and it not look so odd and just stuck there. I would also have to move the neck piece further down and cut it so it maybe did not wrinkle as much and extend it round the neck further also. To remove this I just had to ease it off gently using spirit gum remover and then moisturise my models neck after as it does make it quite red and sore looking.

Is that a bearded lady??

Stubble 

Beard

Crepe hair beards and moustaches.

Creating a beard or moustache with crepe hair, I firstly matched the hair up to the hair on my models head you didn’t have to do this you could use any colour hair but I wanted mine to look more realistic. Once I had matched my crepe hair to my models hair and mixed a few different hair colours in I started cutting the crepe hair up really finely into a bowl so it was small and I was able to apply it to the face easily and so it would look like stubble.  Once cut up using spirit gum and stipple paste I was able to apply the cut up crepe hair to the face using a small brush to dap it on and apply it all over. After applying the stubble effect hair to the face I wanted to then create a beard almost like a biker beard with a plait down it. To do this I had a thicker bit of crepe hair and applied this under the chin using spirit gum and the end of a pintail comb to push and hold it onto the skin, I used spirit gum over the stipple paste as it needed something stronger to hold it onto the skin. Once I had applied this in the areas I wanted I created a plate in the beard I think this look came out and worked well. To create a stubble effect look you can also use grease paint and a stipple sponge this would be used more in theatre where you can’t see it as well. To remove this was quite annoying you had to use remover and a towel to get the hair of which was quite sticky and then wash the face with soap and water to make sure all the little bits of hair was off.

Beard and moustache hair- Crepe hair, yak hair, real hair.

Stipple paste- best for laying on stubble, Matte spirit gum when in industry, For theatre use greasepaint and a stipple sponge.

Body Adornments

These are images collected from pintrest which I feel show great body adornments and change the appearance and structure of the body and face. Each of these images show different body adornment and are something I will be using in my final looks whether it be from a necklace or something I apply on the face or body. 

sculptures of human form

Julian Palast

These are some images I found on pintrest which really interested me I like how the body is being shown and how its morphed into different shapes and how the materials create different shapes and textures on the body. I love the colours that have been used also to reallt capture an effect and make the body and images really eye catching.

Bald caps

 Bald cap application.

Applying a bald cap to the head.

1.      Brush the hair threw and wet the hair, after wetting the hair apply gel all over the head using your hands and also using a lot of gel as this is going to have to hold the hair in place.

2.      Once the gels all over the hair section the hair in half and start to wrap the hair around the head adding more gel if needed to help hold this in place.

3.       Add a hair net to the head wrapping it around the head covering all the hair and blow dry this for a few minutes until the gel has hardened and hopefully kept the hair in place, make sure the hairdryer is an ok heat for your model and not burning there head.

4.      The bald cap can now be applied to the head getting your model to hold the front of this while you pull the back down making sure to be careful as they are very fragile. once this is on the head you will need to cut around the head so that it fits your model better when cutting around the ears and head put your fingers under the bald cap while cutting so you can’t cut the models skin.

5.      Once you have cut the shape of the bald cap for your model you can then start sticking this down with spirit gum working your way around the edges of the bald cap being careful around the hair line and not to drip this down the face pulling the bold cap tight so it sticks around the back of the head allowing movement in the head still, using a sponge pat around the edges of the cap just to help stick it down further.

6.      Once the bald cap is on and stuck down you can then start colouring the cap. We started using the airbrush to do this colouring the head firstly in a pink colour to block out the colour of the hair that you could see threw the cap.

7.      After applying the pink you could apply your foundation colour if that’s what you wanted to use you could do this either with the airbrush again or by hand.

To take the bald cap of you would need to gently lift the edges of the cap with spirit gum remover gently working your way around the head taking of the glue and cap of at the same time.

Bald caps are something that come in really handy especially within special effects as you can create and have lots more room on the head to work on and can create some really strange, interesting but beautiful looks.

Lecture with Michael Burton

Algaculture 2010

Algaculture 2010


info sourced from: http://www.burtonnitta.co.uk/,  http://www.michael-burton.co.uk/

Ninette van kamp

Ninette Van Kemp is a London based designer who works mainly on surface designs and textiles she interests in prints and textile products for interiors and fashion based designs. These are a few images were she has experimented and photographed creating prints and pattern's on the skin almost like when you wear a necklace and it imprints creating a patterning on your skin. I really like these images and think they have been photographed really nicely showing the different textures printed on the skin. These images link to the scarification on body's and how you can create patterning like this that look beautiful using different shapes and material etc to do this. 

Info sourced from: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ninette-van-kamp/13/ab0/a26

Burcu Buyukunal../ Facial jewellery

             

Info and Images sourced from : http://www.pinterest.com/pin/73887250108340307/
http://inventorspot.com/articles/facial_jewelry_highlight_our_obsession_enhancement

I came across these images of Facial jewellery on Pintrest and found them really eye catching I had
 never seen jewellery worn in this way before and loved how the pieces of jewellery modified and 
changed the features and appearance of the face by either pushing or pulling the skin. 
This jewellery does highlight today's use of enchantments to constantly change the appearance 
of the face and how the world is obsessed with changing or improving how we look due to many
 aspects such as media and how we are told we should look or advertised to how we can change are appearance. 

'Turkish designer, Burcu Büyükünal, has created a line of facial jewelry to highlight this skewed 
sense of beauty.  The collection features pieces that accentuate different areas of the face in not so
 flattering ways, much like the effect of many of these procedures.  It is an interesting statement to
 say the least.'  - See more at: http://inventorspot.com/articles/facial_jewelry_highlight_our_obsession_enhancement#sthash
.PVOY2jQX.dpuf

Andrew Thomas Huang

Info and images sourced from : http://www.andrewthomashuang.com/Art.htm