Bottom

A Midsummer Night's Dream: Bottom

This is the character design for Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream after his head has been transformed into a donkey. I started off by putting a brown base on the forehead, neck, and cheeks and then a white base on the muzzle and around the eyes. 

To blend out the muzzle, I gradually stippled the white out over the brown with a stippling sponge. Around the lips and nose I stippled a bit of light grey  and then extended the shape of the nostrils with black.

To blend out the white around the eyes, I lightly smudged the edge of the white and brown areas together with my finger and then dry brushed the surrounding brown area with a bit of white.  To add a more fur-like effect on the forehead I very lightly brushed white and light brown lines all over in an upwards motion.

The donkey ears were cheap dollar store bunny ears that I cut off the hairband and bobby pinned to Jacob's head. I didn't have time to spray paint them the right colours beforehand, so I just used some of the same brown, white, and black colours from the makeup. It was really messy and goopy, but this makeup was just for some photographs, so it didn't really matter. Of course if you were going to do this costume you would want to use a paint medium that would actually dry and not make your hair a hot makeupy mess. Also make sure that you apply makeup all the way around the neck, unlike how I did here (I wasn't anticipating a profile shot).

Queen Titania

A Midsummer Night's Dream: 

Queen Titania

 In my Grade 12 English Literature class I did a project on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". For this project you could basically do whatever you wanted as long as it demonstrated your understanding of the work you were studying, so I decided to put together a character profile scrapbook with all of the magical creatures in the play. This particular design was Titania, Queen of the Fairies.

 

 

Though this makeup looks intricate, it's actually quite simple. I started with a white base and then added the sharp purple contouring and lines around the eyes. On the forehead I dusted purple shadow over a piece of old lace using it as a kind of stencil. I finished off the look by adhering dollar store rhinestones to my forehead and temples with lash glue.

Forest Sprite

Halloween 2010: Forest Sprite

 This was my Halloween costume in 2010. The make up is primarily gold shadow on the forehead, nose, and cheek bones with a darker green as a contour.For the speckled effect on the forehead I mixed the same dark green with a mixing medium (water will also work), took it on a brush and flicked the brush near my face.

 The leaves in my hair and around my collar are from an old silk plant I bought at Value Village and I found the butterflies at a craft store.

 I was a bit strapped for time making the dress so it is essentially an old green dress that I shredded at the bottom that hot glued a crapload of strips of floral and dark green fabric onto. If I had had more time I would have sewn the strips on.