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!

I'm so excited that we've started with our real makeup! Once we started applying it, I noticed how necessary and helpful the color palettes are. It was especially nice during the dress rehearsals for Independence.  I knew what colors I had to mix for my foundation, shadow and highlights, since we had already done them in class. I also have to cover a tattoo on my foot and since my foot is a different color than my face I used the foundation palette.  It was very conducive in helping me find the exact color I needed instead of testing out something different every night.  Below are some pictures of my palettes and then my basic corrective. 

This is my color mixing chart for my foundation: 

This was the test I did on my arm, where I found 4 was the closest to my skin tone:

This is my palette for foundation:

 

I found that 2 & 4 are the perfect match for my skin tone. 

This is my palette for contouring:

  

This is my palette for bruises:

 

This is my basic corrective:

I had some trouble covering up the dark circles under my eyes.. I did the best I could!  

P.S.  I took these pictures on my phone so I apologize if they aren't the greatest quality!

 

                                                                                                                       

Chapter 5

I really enjoyed Chapter 5! It was cool to actually learn about some anatomy. I felt proud when I was able to name some bones of the face for my biology major roommate! She was pretty impressed that we study the bones and muscles of the face for stage makeup. =]. I had never given much thought about my skull in relation to my makeup before. I can now understand and appreciate why it's so important to know what's under your skin in order to apply makeup effectively. I especially liked the exercise outlined in the book that we did in class on Monday. It was sort of a very surreal experience for me. I don't mean to sound like a freak, but the whole time I couldn't stop thinking about how I'm going to die someday! I usually just connect skulls to death...and it's not everyday that you focus on your own skull for a whole class. I was just being reminded that it's inevitable that my face will just be a skull one day. SCARY! Sorry, I just had to throw that out there. But it was cool to feel the shape of my own bone structure.

I also thought it was cool to draw our bones on our own picture. It's really interesting to see the shape of my jaw and eye sockets and how they contribute to my face shape and ultimately what I look like. I haven't yet had time to do the exercise Matt so cleverly thought up, but I plan on it.

Clowns, Clowns, Clowns!

So on Wednesday I didn't have my black and white picture with me, so I used Andy's as a substitute. On Thursday night I re-did what we did in class with my own picture. It was interesting to see the difference in my design after I had painted it on my face using Andy's picture and then my own.  Here's a picture of those two (left side only):

The top was with Andy's picture and the bottom was with mine. (Don't mind the bottom, I look like a crazy woman with those fly aways!)

I had a lot of fun in class on Friday.  I was anxious to cover my entire face to see my whole design. Here are some pictures:

The left is before I added color and the right is the final.  ...Now here are some of my favorites!  These next few are after we added to our design....

As you can see, I had way too much fun taking pictures! I can't wait for what's next!

Here are some of the clown pictures I've found that I really like:
Also, I noticed after doing my research that I'm not very fond of the Auguste clown look for whatever reason.  I am more drawn to the Whiteface and I like the Tramp because I feel that it is able to portray a lot of emotion. 

                                                                                                                      

I found that it is quite simple to upload pictures. I'll probably be doing it a lot.  I also discovered that I should definitely blog on my laptop rather than my ipad.  For some reason it gives me trouble when I try to post from it sometimes. 

9/10/10

I really have been enjoying the classes so far. I will say that I'm anxious to get my hands on my makeup though! I can't wait. I am excited to do clowns. I found some really cool pictures to inspire my renderings, but I have been pretty much designing my own. I really need to get into the habit of posting blogs everyday!! I haven't quite figured out how to post pictures...I promise my next entry will have lots of pictures.

I think it might be easier on my laptop rather than my iPad, but I can't seem to pull myself off this thing.