Overall review of Hair and Make up Design, Sept - now

I have thoroughly enjoyed the course so far, and I definitley feel ike I have learnt alot! Not going to lie it has been hard work at times and very stressful for some units wih the workload and the stress of practical assessments, but definitley worth it. I am 100% sure I made the right choice in coming to University to do this course. Not only for the skills and knowledge I am learning/going to learn but for the experience. I have found Group 1 (the group I am in for lessons) to be lovely people and I think as a group we are very supportive of each other. There has been a great deal of different techniques to learn in our practical sessions in both subjects and although I have been taking notes I think I need to adapt my style of writting and improve my organization, for example using a different notepad for each practical session, to avoid confusion and be able to record information in a more structured manor, simply to make life easier for myself when writting up tech files. Something that has suprised me is how much I have enjoyed our theory lessons, I have found the historical element extremely interesting not only this but the theory lessons have sparked an interest in writting which I did not predict on starting the course, when I thought the practical lessons would be my favourite.
Some of the practical skills I have found the hardest to grasp have included contouring and shading. I greatly underestimated the skill it takes to be able to contour correctly in order to give the appearance of either changing the shape of certain features or drawing attention to certain features and creating shadow. Although I have improved somewhat since september (where my shading looked patchy or like nasty bruises) I still think this is something I need to practice a lot util I can say I am good at it.
Digital imaging production has ben intersting, however the I feel the workload has been very heavy connsidering it contributes a smaller percentage to our grading. This being said there have been parts of the subject I have enjoyed. Photography was very interesting to learn and I feel I have learnt quite alot regarding fashion styling for example the difference subtle things like, colour, props, poses and facial expressions can make in the eyes of someone viewing an image which I didnt really think about before.
I feel the timed assessments went quite well although I have identified areas in both subjects where there is room for improvement. I think Anna and I made a good team as we were both very focused and willing to practice. I also felt we communicated well with each other.
Overall I feel the first semester has been a success (well... I hope so when I find out my grades!) and I am very much looking forwad to comng back after Christmas.

More pics of Annas and My assessents

 

Heres are some more Pictures of My design by Anna

 

 

More pictures of Annas design by me

Annas assessment of my design on me

I was really pleased with the outcome of Annas practical assessment on me. I think she worked realy hard to get the design as accurate as possible and I think the end result was good. Ana completed the design on time and the lines were very neat. Although the face appears to be all white in the picture above the base was infact skin coloured tand the white around the eyes blended in very well to give a misty cloudy effect which I wanted. Anna did have a littletrouble hiding my eyebrows but the fact that she was runing low on supra colour in white did not help other than that I think Anna did an excellent job and I was very pleased.

Feedback for blog

Ive fainally been able to log into my university email without any problems so can now reflect on my work so far and the fedback I was given regarding my blog. As Sharon said at the time I did need to make more references to Elizabethan style/make-up/fashion. I agree I did need o do this and added a post after this feedback about the Elizabethan fashion styling in the Film Elizabeth the golden age and how the outfits and colours they were wearing would have had  meaning in Elizabethan times do to the cost of dyes and the associations of wearing particular colours.
Sharon also mentioned that she would like to see me draw more so befre altering my face chart for my final design I sketched and coloured some pictures of what my design would look like from a side view on a little cartoon like pesron rather than just drawing another face chart.
I have tried to refence my last few blogs as I had previously not been doing it correctly using the Harvard method. Sharon said to me not to wory about going back and rferencing the whole blog as I did list websites I had taken information from, but to Harvard reference any of my future work. I have attempted this with the last couple of posts that required referencing and I found this VERY confusing so is something I definitley need to work on in future. I was rather pleased with my overall feedback as I wasnt sure If I had just been writting a load of rubbish for the past weeks so definitley cheered me up :)

Pictures for tech file

For some reason I can't access my university email and my regular email doesn't seem to be working so instead of emailing my pictures to myself I've had to upload them to my blog and save to my laptop in order to print them for my technical file. They should probably be on my blog anyways so here they are, Also one thing I have noticed since uploading them is that there has definitely been an improvement, especially in the case of face charts! But also in the application of make up on live models. However I still think I have a long way to go so will be taking every opportunity I get to practice the skills I have been learning since September.

 

This is one of my first face charts, at the time I thought it was a good attempt however on reflection now I can see how awful my shading was, or lack there of, especially around the nose and under the chek bones. Therefor the result was a very 2 dimentional image.

 

This is my first attmp at an Elizabethan look, and again not much shading..

Aslight improvement in this monochrme look, this is where I began to actually practice shading in order to make the picture look as realistic as possible instead of just focusing on what colour products I would be using and where I'd put them on the face.

Hereis another practice face chart purely coloured to practice shading. the make up on this face is a natural look and I copied the techniques from a video on youtube.

 



Another Elizabethan design, in this one you can clearly see shading taking place and the face starting to form a face-ish shape thanks to this. I did not choose this design as my final design as I thought it was a bit boring and there wasnt much to show from the contemporary image I had chosen to sample at the time apart from the heart shaped lips.

This face chart is th begining of my final desgn, in that I mean that this at one time was my final design until I realised I could not find the contemporary Image that inspired this look to note on my blog. However since this design still had a a strong link to the Elizabethan image I was using I was able to choose another contemporary look and use that to ammend this design to encorporate those modern elements instead of starting again from scratch.

 

This is my FINAL final design, contains a mixture of the original Elizabethan portrait and shapes and colours inspired by the Alex box image shown on one of my previous but fairly recent posts.

 

This is my first attempt at blocking out eyebrows usin prit stick. the right eyebrow has dried and been covered in white supra colour whist the left one is still drying.

for some reason I have uploaded these in the wrong order. these picture are from a few weeks prior to learning how to block out the brows and are of concealing and contouring, using our Kryolan products.

 



 

This image shows a monochrome make up style using the colour green as you can see I clearly needed  A LOT of practice contouring! As you can clearly see straight lines which have not been blended well and also dark colours applied in the wrong areas to achieve the look I was aiming for.

 

 

This lesson was all about applying eye make up for the right shape of the eyes and applying lip colours to compliment the shape of the lips. I was fairly pleased wth the result of this application minus the shading to the eyebrows wehere I got a bit over enthuiastic with the dark powder.

 

 

 

This image is from Halloween week where we practiced Halloween looks. The lesson I learnt on this day was to stop talking and pay attention as I only completed this much of the look within the lesson. To add to this there is no symetry between the two sides of the face and I think the application could have been neater. To create this look I used Kryolan Supra colour.

 

Another ttempt at blocking out eyebrows and applying an Elizabethan style look. This time I feel the eybrow blocking went much better probably due to the fcat that I waited for the glue to dry completely and added more layers. I was quitw pleased with the overall look although I think the blusher could have been applied with more care.

 

My first practice a Annas design, at this point I was panicking about finishing the design within the allowed time but I wasnt too dissapointed with the look. One cheek though which for some reason I do not have an image of, was very dark and I found it hard to blend the purple contouring without leaving a blotchy looking cheek.

 

Finally My timed practical assessment images! I was fairly pleased with the end result and the fcat that I managed to complete the look within the given timescale however the pictures I have taken here using my phone are very blurry. I shall upload some of my Final pictures taken using the actual camera at a later date.

Timed Practical Assessment

Yesterday was my timed practical assessment where I had to produce Annas make up design using her as the model. I felt that the assessent went better than expected, as in all practices of the look I ran over time with the application, however on the day I finished with about 10 minutes to spare. I was pleased with the overall look of the design, however not being under the pressure of being timed I think I could have improved in certain areas such as blocking out the brows, one brow apeared to be much better than the other, I think this is due to me not applying enough layers of gle as I was in a hurry to finish on time and spend longer on the applicatio of the make up. Also the blending of the contoured areas and blending the gold and purplish redish colour on the lines which ran either side of the nose. Also in the photos taken, you could see that the line needed to be a little more even as one ran at a slightly different angle across the top of the  brow. Here are somee picture of the end result.

A post I forgot!! Da Vinci Sketches/shading

I just found a "to do list" post it note with some homework scribbled on it from a while ago in Kats lesson where we were asked to look at the works of Da Vinci in regards to sketching and how to shade to help us with shading/contouring faces and with shading face charts. So I have done a little research into Da Vinci himself and that of his work so here goes...
Da Vici was a famous Italian, not only artist, but wait for it.. Scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, architect, botanist, musician and writer! born on April 15th 1452 and dying on May 2nd 1519 (Angela Ottino della Chiesa in Leonardo da Vinci, p. 83) Da Vinci is considered to this day to be one of the most intelligent and talented men in recorded history. His most famous works of Art include the Mona Lisa, and The Last Supper. (http://www.leonardoda-vinci.org/biography.html)

Davici demonstrate kowledge that was hundreds of years ahead of his time these sketches not only exhibit his skills as an artist with beautiful shading and perfect detail but they clearly highlight just how much knowledge he had of anatomy which most people did not even begin to understand until centuries later. (Susan Hills, 2 August, 2013)

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci was left handed and used a method of sketching short paralell lines to begin his drawings, this method is called "hatching" The fact that he was indeed left handed and his hatching lines start from the upper left of the page and end at the lower right compared with a right handed artist who would sketch from the upper right to to lower left, helps authenticate the works as genuine Da Vinci pieces. Da Vinci was also tought to be the peson who founded the idea of curved hatching in order to create a 3D  effect in his pictures. Leonardo Da Vinci's favourite materials to use whilst drawing include; metal pencils, chalk, brush and ink and pens and tinted paper. (Debora Mends, http://www.howtodrawjourney.com/deborah-mends.html)