Dri's Facial Decorations : September 2017

Friday, September 29, 2017

Lies... One More Clown...

The OFFICIAL last day of clown make-up .....

But, we did something different in today's class. My partner Leah & I would do our last clown design, we both had Tramp faces left, BUT, we would take our designs and put the make-up on one another & also using each others make-up and brushes.

So, I put my design on Leah's face & Leah put hers on mine.

My Design!

This is the facial outline of my design, no problem with this, probably the easiest part of doing the clown make-up.

Again, the skin tone is soooooo hard for me to figure out.

Not only that but I never seem to make enough paint for the face, which was another struggle of keeping the color the same throughout. But, I did start using the beauty blender to make it more even throughout her face.

So the beard worked out well, still trying to figure out how to make the beard more "beardy", I tried using the beauty blender to make it more of a "hairy" illusion. But, obviously it didn't work.

As for the white eyes, I forgot to outline them before putting the skin tone on which messed it up a little.

We used the white paint for one eye, then tried using the creme white from the kit on the other eye. But, the creme didn't go on well at all. So we just used the white paint, which turned out streaky. So maybe another two coats would have changed that.

I changed the lip color to a lighter pink, just because I wanted the lips to be more accented not hidden.

The eyebrows could have been more sharper in the lines, I need to work on making straight lines and carefully filling it with color, but the color turned out to be perfect.

Other than that I'm glad we are moving on to other make-up's because I really hate clowns!

But here is a great picture of Leah and I together! :)

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

The Last of The Clowns..... I Couldn't be More Excited

Today in class we painted our faces with the last two clown faces, Tramp or Auguste. We got to choose which face we decided to do then from that we must do the design that was either we chose or another artist design.
I decided to do the Auguste face that was created by Leah Prestogeorge!

Leah Prestogeorge's Auguste design.
Colored by Me

Throughout the process, I thought this was going to be cake....wrong.

I started with the outlines of the exaggerated mouth, eye browns, and the cat-eye eyeline.

Then comes the hard part, making the color of the skin tone as well as applying it to my face evenly and keeping the color the same the whole way around my face. Throughout that process, I went through, almost, my whole white palette and got frustrated more than once. But in the end result it didn't look too bad.

The face looks pretty evenly colored in this picture but I can see some slight yellow coloring as well as some dark orange. I'll be honest the color isn't what I wanted I wanted a more peachy color, but this process of even getting an all around color was a struggle and took up most of my time.

I applied the paint with the same brush Sue provided, like in my last update, but used the blender to pat down and evenly distribute the color, it actually worked pretty well.

And now the end result... Drum roll please....

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As you can see I'm totally thrilled. LOL.

But anyway, the end result went pretty well, I noticed I'm still having trouble with covering my eyebrows, just something I need to work on.

Critiques from Sue:

The white inside my mouth needs to be less streaky. So another coat of white would have probably made it a lot better.
My mouth wasn't as smiley as the design was. In the picture below, you can see I am smiling and that is how it should be looking when I have a straight face like the picture above.

My own critiques:

The outline of blue around y mouth could be better drawn, it looks a little lopsided.
My eye brows I drew on look uneven so next time be more precise.
The yellow on the cat-eye eyeliner could be more dramatic and out there, I feel like I can barely see it.

Other than that, I am happy clown make-up is over and on to the next project!

Friday, September 22, 2017

The Final Product .... Wasn't Easy

So this is the final product of my white face clown design..... TADA!!!

My biggest struggle was the application of the white base color, I started with using the little tan beauty blender but I started to notice the white makeup looked very blotchy and not looking smooth all around. So I decided to just use the paint brush Sue provided us with and noticed the white paint went on smoother and less streaky. I had to apply two coats of white paint to get my face to look more evenly. I need to work on how to make my lips look larger, I think that was also a challenging part for me, only because the paint brush was acting up and I can admit I was rushing a good bit.

For Next Time:

From my drawing to my face, I did forget to use the ombre blush design, so next time I would have to put the ombre blush on before I start drawing on freckles.

I also noticed maybe I should white out my eyebrows more so the ombre colors are more defined, I also think that the colors on the eyebrows need more color so they stand out more. Sue also suggested that I blend the colors on my eyebrows a little better as well.

I want to use fake lashes next time to make my eyelashes more dramatic, my clown design was all about drama and color. So to make my eyes more BAM would make the face more dramatic.

Black Outline Suggestions

As you can see I did not like doing this LOL!

But I did notice that I liked the outline of the eyebrows in black as well as accenting my eyes above and below them. I think it brings more dynamic in my face rather than looking just white with a lot of colors.

Also, you can see this is where I noticed that I forgot the blush and needed to do that before the freckle dots, I think I'm going to make the blush ombre more of an outline where the ends of my mouth are to indicate a rainbow smile!

BTW, the only reason I outlined almost every circle was because Sue was messing with me to do it :) gotta love her!