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).