Stage Makeup - Swauger

Stage Makeup Project 4

Inspired by the painting Men Are Square by Gerrit Albertus Beneker, my character has become his job. With smoke erupting from his clothes and steel running through his blood, his face replicates the appearance of molten steel crusting over. This design will use original latex appliances to provide a raised texture to the hardening steel and the water base makeup palette to create a glowing, cracked face with a nearly indistinguishable human features.

I'm a bad artist and completely forgot to take process shots of my appliances, so we can go straight into the application process!

First I began by applying my latex appliances to my face.

Once the appliances were on I painted the latex red and then dusted around the outsides with black to blend them into the black on my face.

Then I painted the cracks in the appliance yellow.

Once the yellow dried I dabbed black on top of both the red and yellow to make the colors appear to glow. I also added on an absurd amount of black grease paint to dirty up my face.

Project 2 Stage Makeup II

Kragmar just emerged from her diapause to find the darkness of her family garden. Her usually long vegetative hair remains short from her pre-winter buzz cut. Her bouncing antennae glow bright to illuminate the path ahead of her as her compound eyes take in the scene around her. Her ears take in every single sound through her human ears as well as the extra set of vibration receptors located on the top of her head.

I started by estimating the number of plastic crystals that I would need for my compound eyes. To do this I placed 2 stones on my face and then duplicated them using snapchat's sticker tool. When the stones appeared to be in the right places I then placed the correct amount of stones in the same places.

For my first attempt at illuminated antennae I placed multiple sizes of glass beads in size order onto a piece of floral wire. I coated these beads in flex seal.

For the compound eyes, I painted overtop of the stones to look like copies of my eyes.

For the vibration receptors I modeled them in clay and coated the models in liquid latex.

I used my phone to time lapse capture my makeup process.

PROJECT 1 Stage Makeup II

PROJECT 1

Stage Makeup II

Dodger is a member of the Anipowered Nation’s Air Force due to her natural ability to fly. On a routine mission Dodger is forced to descend lower into the trees and finds herself knocked to the ground after an impact with a branch or two (or ten). Thanks to her family’s feline/reptilian hybridization, she is able to recover quickly with her speedy healing abilities. Now to find her way back home.

Because my character is a feline/reptile hybrid, I have given her the facial features of a cat with the skin of a lizard. These features will be created using an original latex appliance and an original hair appliance. This appearance includes hidden eyebrows due to the lack of fur on lizards and is altered by the gash found on her mouth from her crash. With the crash, a few whiskers have been ripped from her face, leaving even more blood trails down her cheeks. The face is swollen and bruised, leaving splotches of purple across her otherwise green scales.

To begin my project I made multiple line drawings detailing the different elevations of the makeup look.

With these drawings I then sculpted out the model for my nose appliance.

Using this model I applied layers of liquid latex to form the appliance. When I removed the appliance from the model, I then inserted cotton balls into the hollowed parts of the appliance to give the appliance structure.

I used the appliance to trace out the correct size of netting for my hair appliance. Then I applied small lines of latex to the netting to attach hair.