Practice for the assessement: My final Miss Havisham look.

Above is the outcome of the practice for my continuity assessment in which I have designed and produced my take on the character Miss Havisham from the Charles Dickens novel 'Great Expectations'. With the makeup I created the look by using Duo eyelash glue with kryolan HD blood and the Kryolan Aquacolour palette to give the effect of dry skin. I wanted the makeup to reflect the pain that Miss Havisham would be feeling, therefore I decided to make the eyes look sore and red. With the hair I decided to keep the hair looking quite neat and tidy, however have the front pieces messy.
By practicing this I have noticed that I should make the makeup slightly stronger so that the colour will show up better on camera, also I now plan to include some flowers that I will stain/burn in the hair as Miss Havisham will still be styles for her wedding day.

Practicing techniques for my final Miss Havisham look: dry skin and lips.

Now that I am planning to include dry skin and lips in my Miss Havisham design I decided to practice at home with eyelash glue and the Kyrolan HD blood/aquacolour palette to achieve this look. Below is the outcome, I think this worked well and I am looking forward to including it in my design.

Final Miss Havisham face chart.

Here is my final face chart for Miss Havisham. As you can see it has changed slightly from my inital face chart. The lips have become chapped and bleeding, the skin is slightly more aged, the eyes are sorer and there are patches of dry skin on the face. 

Practicing a new technique: burns/wounds.

In today's lesson we further developed our skills in creating burns and wounds. Here is what I produced.

Learning a new technique: wounds.

In todays lesson we learned the technique of creating burns and wounds. To do this we heated gelatine, placed it on the skin, created the wound/burn and then applied colour to the gelatine to create the appearance of sore, bleeding skin. Above is the outcome of my burn/wound, I think this looks good considering it was my first attempt however next time I will aim for the gelatine to look not as round and in a perfect shape as I believe this will give it a more realistic feel. 

Practicing my initial Miss Havisham look

Today I began to practice my initial idea for the Miss Havisham look. This was based on the face chart I have designed. Here is the outcome of this. 

Although it is not finished I feel that it went well. I think the pale base works very well and the darkness of the eyes and around the nose came out quite well. By producing this look on a model and on two separate occasions it have become clear that I would like to change my Miss Havisham look, I feel as though the overall impact would look better with dry skin and more of an age to the skin. This will then give the look a more realistic feel as Miss Havisham's age will be fitting with the decay of her appearance. I would also like my final design to include dry, chapped lips and the eyes to be more sore and possibly slightly bleeding. 

Initial Miss Havisham face chart.

Here is my initial face chart for my Miss Havisham look. I have chosen to create Miss Havisham looking quite jaunt in the face, to do this I will be heavily contouring the cheekbones. I have chosen not to age Miss Havisham that much as I would still like her to look somewhat young. With the eyes I have chosen to make them look deep and sunken, furthermore I will be adding tints of red under the eyes to give the appearance that Miss Havisham has been crying. With the skin tone I have gone for an overall dusty feel to the skin by using a pale base.