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The Final Look

When I began painting and creating the look, I became happier with the outcome, not because of how the prosthetic look but because of how I had the opportunity to redeem myself with the other elements that I wanted to create, such as the green skin and the peeling skin, although I am aware that the most important part is the prosthetic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I did not encounter any problems while painting the skin, and I know that I would have had I not practiced it beforehand. I think that here I was successful in creating contour on the face with lighter and darker greens, and creating more depth on the chest; making the collarbones and shadows more visible.

It is also clear to me how much I learned from my mistakes in my practises. Firstly with the eyeliner and the eyelashes being too thick in the first practice; this time I was really satisfied with how the eyeliner looks as it is sleek and neat, and the eyelashes do not overpower her eyes like they did before as I cut them down. I decided to last minute disregard the necklace that I used in my practice as I felt that the colours were too contrasting with the red and yellow on the head; too many colours would have detracted from the green, black and gold. Moreover, I used supracolour for the lips this time instead of liquid liner, and placed the lines closer into the mouth and I feel like this gave a more realistic look and was closer to one of the images that I used for my inspiration. Lastly, buying gold string to wrap around the hair tied all the gold elements together I feel, and I only noticed that this would be effective from the photos from my practice.

Sue gave me different points of advice for my look. She suggested painting this black tongue onto the lips and mouth, and this gave an effective tribal edge to the look.

Overall, I am pleased with the whole look apart from the prosthetic area. This was the most important part that would have benefitted the most from practising, however I did not have enough time to do this, but it has taught me a strong lesson that it is important to be completely sure of the sizings of your pieces as this is definitely an element that let me down. I was pleased with the scales, but they were also too big for the face. I would also change the colouring as Sue commented on the colours saying they were too harsh and I agree, I think that a black and orange would have been more effective and matched the colour scheme better.

It is a shame that my prosthetics pieces turned out so disappointing as I was very excited to embark on this unit and now I feel as if I have not done myself justice and wasted my opportunities in a way. I would also liked to also done a look that is conventional of that of the TV and film genre, as my look is still fashion based, but in retrospect this must be the route I feel most comfortable in.

Application of the Prosthetic

When putting my prosthetic on Sylwia's face, I was not happy with it as soon as it went on. The baldiez layer was too far away from the edges of the silicone mould, and so when it went on, because the edge was too close to the hairline and the eyes, I had to cut around it and it turns out that the edges were made of silicone, not baldiez, meaning I would not be able to blend the edges. This was extremely disappointing; the point of creating a prosthetic is so that it realistically merges into the face and looks as if it is part of the person. This meant that my prosthetic didn't have realism and the edges were completely obvious. Because of this, I felt that I had to work really hard on the skin and the rest of the look to create obvious characterisation and detract from the terrible prosthetic application.

These are the photos from the first attempt at my application. At this point, this was where we discovered that I would not be able to blend the edges as they were silicone. If I knew that this had happened, I would have tried again, however I did not have enough time to try again, therefore had to make the best of the situation. After this, I took off the pieces and cut around them more so that it was not in the hair, and to reduce the impact of the appearance of the silicone. 

On the face, I found that the pieces I made were too big. While sculpting, I was continuously cutting them down so they weren't big in height, however it is clear that I didn't do this enough. Moreover, I feel as if the pieces should have extended all the way from the eyebrow part to the hairline. I am not happy with how the prosthetics look as I feel like they are too big for the forehead, and I wish I had been able to practice the moulds before I had done the actual thing as there are so many things about this that I would have changed in order for it to look more realistic and for it to look as if it really is part of the face, as I think that if this look had been done well, it could have looked really good. 

Here are the photos of my final application. The colour is not right as there was a setting on the camera that was on that none of us were aware of until Lottie was able to change this later on in the day, so this is why these photos have a blue tinge to them; the moulds were more green than this. Even in this photos I am not happy with the prosthetic or the application for the same reasons as in the explanations above.