Monday, 23 February 2015

Death masks

 In today's lesson we were doing Death mask, which was a lot of fun. First we took a picture of us in black and white under a light to see where the shadows and highlight in our face are.




Products used:

  • sponges
  • Kryolan supercolour, white and black; mix them to achieve the grey tones you need
  • brush kit: foundation brush, smaller brushes for small areas
I started with applying the white supercolour all over my face. For applying the base I used my foundation brush but later when applying the black and grey tones I used sponges because it was easier to blend with them without having to harsh lines. Then I had a look at the picture of myself where I have dark shadows and started working on them. I started with the eye area first. Then the mouth and chin/cheeks area. Afterwards I did the grey tones and then I had to blend blend blend. Parts that were too dark I lightened up with some white.After  I was done I took pictures in black and white modus and compared them with my original black and white picture.







After comparing the pictures I realized I could have done the mouth part, cheeks and under the eyes a bit darker.

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