Makeup Exploration
I casted the blue veins, with a mix of daark blue and light blue acrylic and range of different blue toned flocking, as this wouold make the, less purple and relate more to the nautral vein colour.
The image below shows the outcome of each section, the colour is very pale but actually has a glow to them due to the lighter aqua paint colour. I positioned them onto the vaccum of my models face, so make sure that they fitted. I found that the side pieces were too wide and would go into the hairline slightly, so i decided to for the piece to be applied slightly further down.
Here shows the veins on my models face, I felt that the colour suited her skin tone and eye tone, as was visible as it has a glow but not too vibrant that it did not blend into the skin. I found that when applying the pieces as they were made from 80% deadner it was easy to pull and the silicone and some of the lines got stretched and distorted slightly, especially on the cheek areas. I must make sure i am carefully to to pull the pieces to much when applying them in the future. I painted in a few darker blue tones using skin illustrator paint, to try and break up the colour but it is not obvious in the photographs. However I do not think that it need to mamy different colours as i had included a range of flocking and also being more precise produces a more fake robotic appearance. Also I went to apply some foundationon the left side, but it stuck into the edges and made them more visible to for the rest of the face i left it natural and just concealed some areas were necessary. Overall I was happy with the way they fitted to the face and felt that they resembles the idea of a cyborg and intergrated technology. I feel that although the pieces are subtle, they still create a character and story with being too overpowering. I think that the look could be improved if there was a futuristic hairstyle or even if the hair was very precise (as seen in the films Stepfod Wives and A.I) to create a man made appearance.
I did find that when my mode smiled some of the cap plastic creased, I feel that this would have not of been as noticable if i was able to apply them to their designed place. However, I have learnt that I must consider the natural creasing and wrinkles of the face and make sure that silicone piece do not sit flat over them, but rather mould to them.
I did experiment to see how it would look if i had used more colour on the lines but also on the skin. I felt that it added some depth but also lookes abit messy. Painting techniques is something that could be further investigated within my project.
I made the face veins using the method as before. They were subtle and blended into the skin but feel that they had more of a scarring appearance due to their pale colour - however this still relates into the idea that technology has un natural has been intergrated into the body.
The veins glowed under the UV lamp and their shape stayed precise and accurate. I decided not to add chin pieces as felt that it would be too much on the face, it i was to re design I would sculpt them futher undr the chin and perhaps less of them, so that it still shaped the face but was not too heavy.
I feel that with a better lighting than just one UV lamp, it would improve the quality but overall i was able to ee the effect that it could produce and was pleased with the outcome and felt that by glowing it produced more of an robotic/cyborg aspect to the veins.
I darkened the middle image and feel that the veins prodcuce shapeing of the face on their own.
White UV
Blue Veins
I experimented to see if the white UV silicone pieces could be painted over the top with a vein colour, so that they would also be suitable in the normal light.
The test was a success, it caused them to glow slightly less vibrant (as compared to the flashing) ut they still had the electric glow appearance.
This meant that the pieces could be used on a character and then different lighting could add to the cyborg effect.
Unfortunately i was not able to apply them onto my model to take more photographs, but I will definitely consider this method in the future.