Old Age

Today I completed the old age on my entire face.  I liked working on my own and taking the time to fix mistakes and make discoveries. I finished in about an hour and ten minutes.  I feel that I did a much better job than I did on half my face last week.  I think I made an improvement in my eyes.  Last week I had a bit of trouble on aging my eyelid and today I got it to look like I wanted.  I made a curve with the highlight from the tip of my eyebrow downward toward the edge of my eyes and I put shadow under that.  It was effective in giving the illusion that the eyelid was heavy and sagging. When comparing the two pictures I noticed that making my lines darker is more effective. Here is a picture from last week when we worked on half of our face....

My lines were light and there is little difference in my mouth.

I look much older than I did last week.  I was able to add more to my lips and eyes and I think the overall product is much more effective.

For the wrinkles between my eyebrows and on my forehead, I scrunched my face and lightly traced over the creases with my eyeliner and then went back over them with highlight and shadow.  I found that to look more natural than what I did last week.

Feedback is appreciated!!

From Morgue to Aging

Soo I'd like to start off by saying that I LOVE working on my morgue.  The rest of my classes for the past few weeks have been so stressful, but working on my morgue is relaxing and helps clear my mind.  I love that I'm able to be creative and work on something that is completely made up of things that inspire me.  I think I'm addicted to cutting things out of magazines now. 

We recently worked on adding weight and taking weight off. We added weight to the left side of our face and took weight off of the right.  I had some trouble with this one.  In class I wasn't seeing a vast difference between the two.  Looking back at the pictures I think the problem was that I didn't make the shadows dark enough.  At the time, I was afraid of making them look too dark and unnatural, but I suppose I will have to find a balance.  I actually think the right side looks heavier than the left and I'm trying to figure out why. I'm thinking I just wasn't making dark or light enough shadows and highlights overall... please comment with your observations!!

On Wednesday in class we worked on aging our headshots.  I enjoyed this exercise and it was very helpful.  I found new discovers with each line.  I could see what worked or looked natural as compared to what didn't and I learned that the eraser is a great tool in softening shadows and lines.  I will say that I'm a bit disturbed by my final product:

Is that scary or what?!

Tomorrow, we were told we could bring in pictures of older family members.  I feel that I favor my mom's side of the family, so I printed out a few pictures of my grandparents as well as my mom to bring in for tomorrow. I also want to put an age progression for my mom in my morgue since I have access to some old pictures of her.  She's only 44, but it's still interesting to observe the changes.  Here are some for you to look at:

My cute grandparents! My grandma is 75 and my pap is 83.

 

 

 

I want to try to get ahold of my grandma's wedding picture. She was 19 and I think she looks the same! haha.

I'm trying to upload the pictures of my mom but they aren't working right now. grrr. I'll try again soon!