Monday, 10 March 2014

Miss Havisham face charts

After researching the Victorian era and thinking about how i portray Miss Havisham to look, i have started creating face charts for my Miss Havisham design, also incorporating skills that i have been taught over the previous weeks.

Face Chart number 1:





















These first face charts are for an older Miss Havisham. I have aged her by creating wrinkles across the face. I have also given her heavy bags under her eyes as she would not be sleeping properly and years of not treating herself well would have caused this. I have added yellow tones around the eyes too as her skin would be lacking nutrition and care and i feel she would have a varied skin tone. Her general face colour would be very patchy and pale. I have given her a coldsore on her the side of her lip as this is something you also get when very rundown and will create this using liquid latex or duo eyelash glue, and various colours from my kit and a bruise wheel to give it depth and look more effective and life like. I have also made her eyebrows big and overgrown with a slight mono brow as maintaing eyebrows was not something that happened in the Victorian Era let alone something Miss Havisham would be doing. (I found this out with previous research which is on another post.) (I would also bring this aged look down the neck and onto the hands.)
Experimentation of this design:



After experimenting with this design i feel like the lines on the forehead for ageing are too theatrical. I really like the idea though of trying to age her, so i will make another face chart and experiment with not so heavy harsh lines, which are blended more. I like the dark tired looking under eye but will also try to contour the cheeks to make the face look more gaunt looking.

Face chart number 2:


This second face chart is of a much younger Miss Havisham. I have created dark under eyes, but not as heavy as above as she is a lot younger. I have added veins coming from the sides of her face as her skin i feel would be full of imperfections. I have also added red patches on the face, either from eczema, itching excessively, or from a skin disease caused by bed bugs that were very common in the Victorian era. Like above i have made her eyebrows big a bushy. I would also make the lips appear chapped and sore.  (I would also bring the red patchy skin down the neck and onto the hands.)
Experimentation of this design: 



Face chart number 3.

This is a face chart, combining the two. The ageing has been toned down so it wont look to theatrical and i felt like the red patches on the second one was to much so i think one will be more effective.

Experimentation of this design:  








After experimenting this design, i feel it is a good mix of my ideas for Miss Havisham but is not to over the top. This is the design i will use for my final assessment.

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