Black Swan

Here is a drawing of the Black Swan make up design from the film, and my own interpretation of how I would do it. The original make-up design has black wings on  the eyes. This is effective as the film is about the swan and also the black creates connotations of evil (which is represented within the film). She has red eye contacts in, which I decided to keep in my own design as I think this clearly represents that her character is evil and also stand out with the black make up around her eyes. I changed the purple lipstick to red lipstick to create a common theme of black and red. Both these colour represent evil such as the links to blood and danger. Also, instead of using the black wings around the eyes, I have used a black colour then I would stick black feathers around her eyes then blend the black to grey underneath her eyes. I have done this as it creates an alternative link to swan wings painted on the face and I have made it more 3-D. The red dots hanging of the black lines on her cheeks can represent that they are tears and therefore this further shows the characters passion for ballet.

Rafiki- The Lion King

Here I have created my own make-up design for Rafiki from The Lion King. I have made notes around the side of the picture describing my choice of colour and analyzing why I have decided to use what I have chosen.

Face Painting

My mum has her own business called 'Funny Faces' which is face painting for children. She has loads of designs and has been training me up so that I can join her. I have been to several jobs with her and practiced with some of my designs.

Here are some practice designs I done before I went to do my first face painting job.


Here is a tiger design. I looked at several pictures of tigers and noticed that their stripes are around their face and not on their face, so I decided to use a lighter colour (yellow) in the centre and blend it out to an orange around the edges with some black and dark orange stripes.

This is a fantasy design which I created for girls. This is shown with as I have created a flowery pattern and my choice of colours such as the purple petals show that it would appeal to girls.

This design would be used more for halloween. It is more grown up compared to some full face designs as anyone could have it. I done a similar design on myself for halloween one year as shown in the picture below. I used a thin brush to paint the web and spider in black then I outlined it with a white paint to make it stand out.

 

 

 

 

I have created my own book on the faces I am able to paint.

 

 

 

A-Level make-up designs for media coursework

As part of my A-Levels, I was asked to create an opening to a thriller for media studies. I designed and applied the make-up for our video and thought of three designs as we had three different characters.


Here I have researched and found some make-up techniques and analysed them. I have compared them to what we may need in our thriller clip to work out if they are what we could use. This first design I found could be used for our protagonist played by Sarah.

This next design could be used for the little girl played by Ellie in our clip.

The last design I have analysed is for our antagonist played by Cj.

After I analysed these pictures, I decided to try out some of my own designs I have created. I recorded tutorials for each design.

http://youtu.be/Sm6LJc2hdCw

Personal Statement

I have a passion for make-up and nothing would make me happier than to pursue a career with it. I believe that theatrical make-up adds more excitement and the make-up artist could perform a variety of designs and themes on a person/

I have always seen myself as a creative person. At GCSE level, I studies art and design, which helped me develop my artistry skills and my ability to be creative and imaginative. I also studied BTEC Performing Arts and during the course, we completed a unit on theatrical make-up. This was y far my favorite unit of the course and this is when I discovered I wanted a career in theatrical make-up. We designed and created three different types of stage make-up. These were old age, fantasy and cuts and bruising. From doing this, I went onto helping the school production, The Wizard of Oz doing the make-up for the performers. I applied the make-up onto several people and this helped me learn to deal with the pressure that the job may require. I am a very sociable person and this is very useful in the industry as I can relax the performers as they go onto stage.

I have also helped in a family business called funny faces. This is a face painting business for children and I am currently going through training so that I can help apply onto the children's faces.

I would love to train as a theatrical make-up artist as I have loved the experiences I have had with face painting and make-up and I want to take my education further with it. I believe that this is a job I would fully enjoy and love doing as a career.