Makeup Exploration
Gardians of the galaxy
Drax
Drax’s life story is told by his full body tattoos/scarification, where each one meant something important about his family – like about his daughter and wife and father.
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85% of drax’s torso is covered in prosthetic red keloid scarring. (Inflammation of scar tissues)
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Makeup designed David white – 'drax’s prosthetic silicones covering also had to look a little translucent, like real scarred skin, so I sculpted the prosthetics on a life cast of david’
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The pieces were sculpted onto cast ofs the actors body, then cut out in a practical pattern for application, floated the sections off, flatterned them out and moulded them.
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Cast the prosthetics individually with a very particular drax red colour and a secnd layer of gray drax base.
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the prosthetic pieces are binned each day
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4-hour daily session of a team of five makeup artists to complete , which consisted of 18 pieces for the body and face.
Elizabeth Yianni-Georgiou, hair/makeup designer, had her hands full developing makeup for all the different races of aliens, whose skin color varied according to their race
French artist Orlan: 'Narcissism is important'. (2009). [image] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ1Ph-Pprj4 [Accessed 17 Jan. 2015].
Orlan – body shocker art movement
Prison Break - TV
Is covered in elaborate tattoos, many of them of demonic figures and other strange images. They have a prison’s layout hidden in their myriad twists and turns, so that it can at as a map for them to escape.
Gamora
Films
Art Performance
images taken from Javins, M. (2014) Marvel's Guardians of the galaxy : the art of the movie. New York: Marvel.
Drax Makeup. (n.d.). [image] Available at: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0c/73/d3/0c73d3e2dff8662d5dbb59df8c91f252.jpg [Accessed 25 Feb. 2015].
The images above show the scarification on Drax's body and explain their meanings. There is a dark grey skintone with a vibrant red pattern. This helps add to him appear more scary and
Prison Break Tattoo. (n.d.). [image] Available at: http://www.godoftattoos.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Prison-break-tattoo1.jpg [Accessed 25 Feb. 2015].
The images on the left show the sculpt on a body cast and then transferred on a flate surface. The sculpt needed to be cut into appropriate sections so that they could be removed and also fit precisely onto the body once made.
It shows that even large areas can be made from flat piece prothetics. This is a quicker and easy methods than 2 part moulds and pieces can be casted the same day.
I will consider this technique within my work.
Gamora is another character from Guardians of the Galaxy, in battle she was seriously injured and in order to save her she was cybernetically enhanced.
She includes some subtle lines on her face, that indicate the cyborg influence. Their appearance resemble scarification as they are off lighter colour and do not protude that much from the skin but lays slightly underneath.
I like how the prosthetics are not that obvious but still the idea of technology into the character.
The tattoo's are tranfered onto the males body in sections that all fit together. It is a similar fitting to the flat pieces shown for Drax.
These tattoos would mostly likely been made from skin illustator painted onto transfer paper, then placed against the skin and IPA soaked through from the other side to transfer it onto the skin.
The video shows that the transfers range in different sizes and some areas were still painted on. It was powdered to remove shine and help create a matte appearance. Also its likely that sealer products were also used to make it last longer.
this is a quicker and easier technique than hand drawing all of the tattoos, but the transfered will still need to keep getting redrawn/printed for every application.