Sunday, 1 February 2015

Emotion through make-up Miss Havisham




When thinking about Miss Havisham and how her character is full of emotion I wanted to achieve her crazed and old look compared to her young youthful face from when she was going to be married. I thought this would really show both of her strongest emotions. 

Here is a sketch of the look I wanted to achieve:


FaceChart:

I am not great at face-charts, as you can see below! I wanted to create a wrinkled and dark character, but didn't want her to look really old as she isn't old in the book, she has aged more from a broken heart. I want to go for a theatrical look, as I really love the 1945 film version of how they portrayed her.  




Here is the first result:

This was used just with PVA Glue! Kryolan make-up to create an old age look. I wanted to create her look to be pealing as she hasn't seen the sun and a gaunt look. I really want to use latex to create the look so will have to experiment with that medium next.



The other look I was thinking for Miss Havisham, was as she was burned in the film, was to have a burn scar climbing up her neck and part of her face and have the rest of the look to be a gaunt look, as she doesn't actually die in the film just has the serious burns.

Here is a Face-Chart of what my idea was:

Mak-up used: FX make-up pack & Fx fake blood


My attempt at this style:


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