Final assessment (as the designer).

I feel my partner did well completing my design, as there were some complicated and time consuming techniques involved she did well to complete the look in time. Overall I am happy with the result although I feel the blusher could have been more symmetrical and the blending a little softer. Also on my face chart, the eyebrows are much more delicate, and I feel, if she had followed the design and my instruction more closely, the out come would have been less clown like and more Elizabethan. I am however happy with the lines under my eye, as in practice sessions this has been a problem area, she has managed to create soft delicate lines which is what I wanted. I also wish there had been more gold on the lips and white on the eye lashes, but this was due to time running out and I am just happy she managed to complete the look. Working with Georgia has been good and I feel we have learnt a lot together.

Final assessment (as the artist)

                    

I feel I managed to pull off my partners design to her satisfaction, I am proud of what I have created, and feel I have followed her design well.

On the day, as it was this first time we had done this look with the eyelashes, I found this a bit of a challenge, as they didn't seem to want to stick and I was running out of time. Wed decided last minuet to add eyeliner into the look to blend the lashed a bit more as they created a blunt edge on the eye and as we hadn't practised this it wasn't something we had taken into consideration, however I only managed to get the eyliner on the bottom lashes, but I think it still work and you can get away with it. Over all I was very happy with the result and feel I managed to cover the eyebrows well have good blending and surprisingly a good lip shape, as this was something I really struggled with throughout practice.

Discussions and Developments (as the artist).

This is my partners Georgia Warwick's final design that I must re-create during the timed assessment.

Here she has sent me some pictures of her design she did on herself to help me understand what she really wants.

This was my first attempt at the look, I feel it went quite well and I believe I managed to replicate the look reasonably closely.

Whilst completing this look I was constantly referring to the face chart (which Georgia had provided and stuck on the mirror) and the photos she above that she had also sent me. I asked her to talk me through each step, step by step, learning the look from the base up. I want to be able to complete the look confidently on the day!

Throughout the process we decided that glue would be the best product for me to use, as I feel more confident with this process and it seems to be more successful for me. For me I felt the hardest part of the look was completing the eyebrows and getting a clean shape on the lips, and I can see that they have a lot of room for improvement on my part! 

Feedback from Georgia was that she liked the overall lip shape and was happy with the blending of the eye shadow, however she felt that the contouring needed to be more defined!

When attempting the look a second time, we agreed to try drawing on the eyebrows before the eye shadow and instead of using supra colour black (which is easily overloaded with product and smudged) to a pencil, which could create a more precise sharp line. 

We both agreed that this method worked a lot better and I feel much more comfortable using this. Over all I am really happy with the result of this practice and feel it has really come together. There are still lace lashed to be added to the look but we decided not to use them in practice to as to preserve them for the real thing!

Discussions and development (as the designer).

               

         

As this was my partners first attempt at my design I think she did a really good job at re-creating my design. 

we decided that she would prefer to use glue to cover the eyebrows and that was fine with me as I didn't have a preference for the design and whatever she felt most comfortable with was all I cared about. The only other adaptation we made was taking the blue eye shadow over the eyebrow as in my design it stops just below and the goes into red, we decided to do this as we felt the blue blended over the eyebrow better and created a better effect.

Other than that it was just the lines under the eyes and eyebrows being too bold. Here she has re-attempted the lines under the eyes, we found that having less product on the brush helps and that painting upwards helps, instead of dragging the skin down.

Final design.

This is my final chosen Design. 

Here I have gone through the application process to I can clearly instruct my partner on how to complete the look and allow me to address any problems with my look.

The first step to the look is to cover the eyebrows, it is important that the is done correctly, as a bad coverage can effect the entire look.

Here is my finished look.

3 Final Designs.

These are my 3 final designs. I shall now practice them an see which ones work best.

Seven photographs that changed fashion.

Here a photographer, Rankin, has taken it upon himself to recreate 7 influential photos throughout fashion and give a modern edge.

here is a better video that I watched (http://rankinfilms.com/documentaries/seven-photographs-that-changed-fashion/)

Masters of drawing.

Leonardo da Vinci.

Da Vinci was left handed and drew in a special way. he used a technique called hatching and worked in rapidly drawn parallel lines, as he developed as an artist his lines become curved, to enhance 3-dimentional looks as can be seen on the horse.

"The Vitruvian Man (around 1490) is one of the most famous Leonardo da Vinci drawings. Done with pen and ink, it represents the perfect geometrical proportions of the human being (the text above and below the drawing is a very detailed description of such). Da Vinci based this exercise on a treatise by the early Roman architect Vitruvius."

(http://www.howtodrawjourney.com/leonardo-da-vinci-drawings.html)

For the home work set from an introduction to drawing, we had to create a still life drawing of something using the techniques we had learnt, I chose to draw my windowsill in my bedroom.

References;

Damiano, V. S. (no date) MASTER-DRAWING.COM. Old Master Drawings - master-drawings.com. Available at: http://www.master-drawings.com/

Mends, D. (no date) Leonardo da Vinci Drawings. Leonardo da Vinci Drawings. Available at: http://www.howtodrawjourney.com/leonardo-da-vinci-drawings.html

Practice design development.

Here I have tried to experiment and develop different looks to help come up with a finial design incorporating everything I have learnt from my research.

(I would like to apologise in advance for the bad lighting a quality of photos)

Here I have started with a pale face and used pale pastel colours on they eyes and lips. I wanted the look to be quite powdery so I even used eye shadow on the lips. However I wasn't really getting strong Elizabethan vibes from this design, so I tried to develop it.

I added white to the eyelashes and drew on white lines under the eyes, I also added a more brick colour blusher to the cheeks and instantly I was liking the look much more. I feel the cheek and the white on the eyes really brought it back to the Elizabethans.

I then decided that I wanted more colours involved as in Elizabethan times there were lots of rich colours used in their clothing and accessories. I chose the blue on the lips as the Elizabethans used to paint blue veins on their skin to enhance their look. 

I then decided that I chould move away completely from the pastel colours and just go for it. If I really wanted to represent royalty and wealth within my look I needed to use bolder colours. I chose reds blues and golds as these are the colours I think of when thinking of rich royal colours.

Induction to Drawing.

In today's session, we had an introduction to drawing;
We started off by drawing lines untill they became straight and parallel. This was surprisingly harder than in looked. We also learnt how to hold the pencil correctly (with a loose wrist and with the main movement coming from the elbow).

Once we felt as though we had master the lines we then moved onto basic shapes, as all things are made up of shape and line it is important to master this skill;

Here we created a sort of charter showing the different gradient pencil, ranging from 6B-5H.

I found this task useful as it gave you an understanding of the different depths and textures that can be created with each pencil.

We then combined what we had learn to create 3D shapes with shading and shadow.

Surprisingly the shape I struggled the most with was the cube, I would have expected this to be one of the easier shapes to draw... as you can see, I fail to draw a 2nd version at a different angle, I attempted many a time but it just looked disproportionate and just all wrong!

From this lesson, we have been set the task to research masters of drawing and using what we have learnt from today and our research; draw a still life image of our choice.

Final monochromatic shoot.

As I felt my test shoot of the monochromatic look wasn't a particularly Avant Garde, I wanted to re-think my entire look. I decided to change my mood to strength, but kept my colour scheme as red as I felt this still seemed to fit the mood.

I then moved on to redesigning the face charts. Here I have tried to create much bolder, stronger make-up looks.

I decided to go for the left look, as I felt this had the strongest feel to it.

Before the shoot I started to collect a range of different outfits that could potentially be used. I wanted different tones of red to be used and also still wanted the look to have a sense of femininity to it with out over maladministration the look due to my theme of strength.

Here are a couple of images from my final shoot. They are still yet to go through post production, but I am still extremely happy with the result and proud of my self for the transformation I created.

Inspirations.

(click photo to view bored)

For my inspiration, I created a bored in Pinterest to make a space where I could collect a range of images all in one space.  

Historical Elizabethan makeup.