Canadian Makeup Show Demo's: Part Two - Makeup's

As promised here are the makeup demo's I did at the Canadian Makeup show held here in Vancouver this past April.

On the first day I did a gelatin burn scar makeup. It consisted of 4 overlapping appliances finished with just a touch of hand laid hair(side burn). Underneath the makeup was a strip of nylon glued under the lower eye then stretched and glued under my model's jawline. This gave the eye a slight sag, and would pull down on his lower lid even more when talking or moved his jaw. It turned out fantastically! It was glued down with pros aid and colored with Illustrator pallets. The largest of all the appliances had bad edges so a bit of bondo was used to blend, in the end It turned out great!!

I got some really nice comments about the makeup. Included in those people were 2 Oscar winners, Ve Neill and Bill Corso, so their kind words were very much appreciated! Anyways here it is, hope you enjoy!

Eye sag (different lighting)

On the second day I did the bondo transfer demo. It just consisted of a bunch of scratches, no notable cause, I just sculpted them where ever I felt really. In the end I applied 9 transfers, ranging from small lip cuts to larger forehead or cheek pieces. They were then colored with Illustrator and then touched up with fake blood. In the end I really like the way it looked when most of the fake blood was removed, it looked the most raw and sore and real.

So here it is!

This is with most of the blood removed.

Finally here is what it looked like with just the bondo pieces before coloring and blood.

Canadian Makeup Show Demo's: Part One - Sculpts.

So for the Canadian Makeup Show (held April 4th and 5th '09), friend, coworker and makeup artist Stan Edmonds ask me if I would be interested in doing a makeup demo at the VFS booth. I of course am always up for another make up project and also supporting the school.

I decided that doing a different one each day would be cool, and also give me a great side project for the evenings and weekend after the 9-5 shop work. I did a face cast of Jon and Katie both from MKD08 (newest VFS makeup class). I right away new I wanted to do a burn scar on Jon, and then decided to do a subtle aging makeup on Katie. I first sculpted and completed the scar make up molds. It was a single sculpt floated off and broken down into 4 appliances. The over all piece was an awkward shape, and breaking it down not only aided in application but also in molding as there was now no undercut worries. It turned out great!

I then started Katie's makeup. I got the 3 piece sculpt based out and was gonna float off and finish on the separate molds. I then decided I didn't want to do gelatin both days, and thought it would be better to do something different for the second day. Just making a run of bondo transfers last week for friend and mentor Charles Porlier, I decided it would be cool to do a full bondo transfer makeup.

I removed the original age sculpt (I really like the forms a lot too, oh well ) and quickly drew on a cut/scratch pattern, I then quickly roughed in the cut edges and then refine them all. It actually went quite quickly pre drawing them, as I knew exactly what to do and didn't need to come up with it off the top of my head. Once the were 95% done I floated them off, flattened them all and finished the sculpts. The flattening is required in the making of bondo transfers. I then poured up a silicone mold.

Here are the gelatin burn and bondo transfer cut sculpts. Makeup's to come soon!

Burn Sculpt.

Floated off and remounted and refined.

Bondo sculpt.

Floated off, flattened, and finished.

ALIEN TRESPASS!!!!!!!!!!! OOOOOOO, SCARY!! Well really it's not...

So a while ago (late Sept 'o7) I worked on the film 'Alien Trespass'. You can check it out here: http://www.alientrespass.com/

It was a lower budget film based on the idea of 50's sci-fi flicks. So the film was sent in the 50's era and they even went so far as to have the creature and creature design after the 50's monster movies. In fact the movie was suppose to be a lost film from the 50's, or so goes the marketing for it.

There was 5 of us working on this project creating the suit. I helped as a sculptor, mold maker, foam runner, foam seamer, painter(bottom tentacles only), and also did the finishing vein and silicone work on the suit. I was also involved heavily with the design and creation of the under structure of the suit.

The suit had an animatronic eye, which I was only involved in the installation, not fabrication. It also had rod controlled tentacles on the top of the head.



There was some issues with the foam run sticking to the core, but eventually it all came together, and I really liked the out come! It really does give you that 50's feeling, and the production really liked the end result as well!



Here are some pics of the finished suit, enjoy!

Lastly here is the tip (sculpoted by me) of extending tentacle that came out of the back of the alien. I didn't get a shot of where it sat/came out of due to the fact the back side was unavailable when I took my pics sorry!

Who wants to rock out!? This kid does...

So just recently I got an offer to do a makeup turning a 13 year old boy into a 35 plus year old man. It was for an unusual circumstance but in the end I had to say yes!

Once it was agreed I'd do it, I quickly got the face cast done, and sculpted 2 cheek/nasal labial pieces, plus a forehead piece. I didn't want to have a huge pieces to glue down as the boy would be removing the make up him self with the help of his dad. SO I covered what I felt I need to, to get the proper end result.

The sculpts were done on a the face cast then floated off, and remounted on individual molds. I was happy with sculpts and the resulting appliances.

Since there was no chance for me to up keep the makeup once he left my place, I made sure to really seal and secure the make up applied. I used a barrier foam on the skin first then Top Guard from PPI. This gave me a nice surface for gluing too. I used pros aid for the glue down. Once it was blended off, I sealed it all again with pros aid, then 2 passes for Green Marble Selr, drying in between each pass. Then lightly powdered it after.

After this I did a quick couple passes of of Green Marble concentrate as a wrinkle stipple on the eyes. It was the first time I had used it for this purpose and was happy with the results. Definitely want to use this again in the near future to see what I can come up with.

I went onto doing a base of Illustrator with a sponge then used my air brush to do a serious of spatters in different red and brown shades. I also did some finer work with a regular brush. I did a vein tone pass in the deep eye sockets, plus some red finer veins on the upper lids. I did a heavier paint job than normal since the make up would be viewed in a darker setting. I was over all happy with it, but found it too yellow (yellow lights in the area I applied in), though everyone who has critiqued it says they don't feel it is...I still do!

I then laid a full beard and mustache. I gave the beard a quick cut, not too much time spent on styling it. I set it in place with a couple passes of hair spray, then finished it off with some hair whitener in his real hair and eye brows. Next time I will set the facial hair after I do the whitener, as it was hard to brush and blend it into the stiffer hand laid hair. The hair looked fine to the eye, but shows up much whiter in the pic due to the flash reflecting off of it.

In the end the father and son were very pleased, and the make up did what it was suppose to do!

Sculpt update.

Here's some close ups of my silicone aging sculpt that I'm nearly finished.

I have another day or so on it, then I need to finish the hand sculpts and ear lobes. Then it's time to start breaking the sculpt down.