Tuesday, 25 November 2014

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)
 


Sunday, 23 November 2014

New final design

I got a bit bored of face charts so decided to sketch my final design from the side view. Face chart will fllow soon...





Okies so those were a few of my sketches of how I expected my final design to look on a person form the side view, the next few pictures are of the two chosen images I used for inspiration and the ace chart which I ammended which had elements of the elizabethan portrait I wanted to keep such as the rosy orangey red in the cheeks and the soft blending of colours combined with the shapes, straight lines and the colour black which I decided to include from the Alex Box picture.




Saturday, 22 November 2014

Changing my design..

Over the last few days I have been thinking about changing my final design for the practical assessments. I have decided that The cheeks on my final design, where I used the contemporary image of the Queen of Hearts make up, didn't look very proffesional and gave the make up a bit of a face painted, childlike, messy look.  I have decided to take my design in a new direction by using my original choice of Elizabethan Portrait and then using this Contemporary make up Image by Alex Box.

The reason I have chosen this image is because in one of my previous practice designs, which I've now decided I prefer, I used straight lines and triangles which I thought gave the design a modern day almost futeristic look. This design interested me becuase it also uses a range of very precise straight lines and triangles which gives it a modern almost robotic look but still contains some Elizabethan style make up with the white face, white lashes and red lips. I also like the way the artwork has been added to make the model appear as though she is wearing an Elizabethan style collar.
My next job is to create a new New Elizabethan face chart using this image for inspiration. I am going to include tringles and straight lines to give the make up a fresh contemprary feel whilst keeping to the colour scheme and light eyemake up  from the Elizabethan portrait.
 
 
 
 
 

Wednesday, 19 November 2014

Feedback 19/11/14

Okay so in yesterdays lesson we also recieved feedbak on our blogs. I have recieved an email with the feedback at my solent unviversity email which I will be discussing on my blog however I am unable to log into my Solent email at the moment for some unknown reason so the review of my feedback will be coming to my blog shortly.

Elizabeth the Golden Age

In yesterdays lesson we watched the sequel to Elizabeth, Elizabeth the Golden age, again starring Kate Blanchett as Queen Elizabeth. In this post I am once again going to take a look at and analyze the Elizabethan costume and make up from this film.
One Colour which was repeatedly worn throughout the movie by Elizabetha and her ladies in waiting was a pale babyish/sky blue. Th dresses in this colour were of typical Elizabethan style with smal taken in waistlines and wide flowing bottom sections which swept the ground, large puffy like sleeves and square necklines with frills of high necked fan like collars.
However on doing some resaerch it appears that wearing blue, and especially light blue, during the renaissance era signified a young marriageable woman. This would of course make sense since one of the main themes focused apon during the first half of the movie was the fact that Queen Elizabeth was still un-married and its is in one of the scenes where we see Elizabeth being shown portraits of possible suitors that she and her ladies in waiting are wearing this particular colour. And again shortly after, in another scene where Elizabeth is meeting one of the men she could potentially marry she is again wearing a baby blue dress.
Blue also apparently sybolises "heavenly grace" according to biblical symbolism, and is often associated with the Virgin Mary as she is often depicted as wearing blue. This theory ties in with the movies story line, as Queen Elizabeth was of course known as the Virgin Queen and this would symbolize her purity as an un-married woman.


Another colour Elizabeth wears during this film which has a powerful meaning is the colour Purple. Purple has throughout history been associated with Monarchy and regality and this is infact due to the fact that Queen Elizabeth I herself forbade anyone to wear the colour unless they were of royal blood. Purple was indeed a very expensive fabric colour to produce since the dye to create Purple came from a small mollusk which could only be found in Tyre regieon of the meditereanian sea and therefore was imported to Britain from Lebanon. due to its rarity and price Purple was a favoured choice of cloth for many rulers, spiritual leaders and monarchs worldwide including those from Eygypt, Rome and Persia.
The fact that Purple is linked directley to Monarchy is extremly significant during Elizabeth the Golden age, As Elizabeth is wearing a very brightly coloured Purple dress during scenes which alternate between her making descisons about the punishment of Mary Queen of Scotts who was being trialled for treason and the Spanish behind the plot who repeatedly refer to Elizabeth as the "bastard queen" The fact that she is wearing purple shows in her mind and to her country she is the one and only true and rightful ruler.




It is also interesting that throughout he first half of the film the outfits of Elizabeths ladies in waiting seem to consistentlty matched with the colour of her own garments.



http://renaissanceclothing.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/meaning-of-renaissance-and-medieval.html
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/color-blue.htm
http://mightyminerva.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/big-purple-elizabeth.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/raleigh_walter.shtml
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2011/9/28/1317226000474/Still-from-Elizabeth-The--007.jpg