So whilst developing ideas on Claudia and Quentin i hadn't thought to wait until we actually started this part of the project with the class. WHAT CAN I SAY I GOT EXCITED ALRIGHT?! Unfortunately this means that some of my previous ideas have to be scrapped but i think this has actually worked in my favour as analysing what i have already written about it is very scattered all over the place.
The re-brief, on top of what i had already learnt about the character profiles, taught me that the characters have to fit into another gothic horror TV series rather than creating our own TV series for them.
so whilst also keeping in mind my previous research (although its not as relevant) I need to select a gothic horror TV series and research its concept. We have been given this list to choose from.
The Walking Dead
American Horror Story
Dexter
True Blood
Bates Motel
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Vampire Diaries
Penny Dreadful
In The Flesh
Being Human
Hemlock Grove
Hannibal
Most people In my class were jumping with joy at this, but truthfully, I haven't actually watched many of these series. Honestly Not many of the series screamed out at me when researching until I saw the trailer for Penny Dreadful.
Monday, 23 March 2015
Tuesday, 17 March 2015
Meet Claudia. Meet Quentin. They are in love?
At this stage of the project we have been given a lot more freedom to create our own characterisation within the brief. Rather than with characters from great expectation which was quite strict with what we could and couldn't do. Also with this section we had the advantage that we had learnt a lot already from our great expectation brief, the techniques and a lot of ideas from the T.V series, film, gothic horror text and general historical references which could defiantly influence our ideas and designs of Claudia and quentin. as i have learnt throughout this project a lot of the work when creating deigns is characterisation. so when creating my designs for Claudia and quentin I really looked into the brief itself a lot more than admittedly i had in the past. The obvious part of the brief that is important to this was the character profiles.
Claudia
Claudia is a girl in her twenties. As a child she was left alone to develop with little parental guidance and through her relationship with T.V. movies developed an unhealthy relationship with Horror films, believing this to be the way life really is.
All the scenes take place in various parts of Claudia’s apartment, She is agoraphobic and is kept in touch with the outside world by her neighbours who provide her with her every day requirements. She models herself on a variety of girls often twisting her look to suit whichever film she is watching at the time and there is often a nod to the main character in the current film within her appearance.
The script portrays her as psychotic and there is always the feeling that although her character is scripted/can be seen as humorous, danger is just around the corner. However all this is normal to Claudia and she is of a cheerful disposition in this mad world of hers.
Quentin
Claudia has an imaginary boyfriend, Quentin, who is long suffering and a constant disappointment to her. They don’t live together but he visits regularly and they talk on the telephone if he can’t get in to see her. As he is part of her imagination his appearance changes to suit her mood.
He is as into the horror film genre as she and into role-playing to suit her whims and moods.
Claudia has a paranoid suspicion that he is constantly having affairs behind her back and keeps him firmly under her thumb, sometimes restraining him or keeping him prisoner in one of the rooms.
whilst creating MY interpretation of Claudia i thought that in my version her appearance wouldn't reflect exactly the show or film that she was watching at the time, but instead she would dress the way her emotions provoked her to and it would reference elements that she had seen in gothic horror. From this idea i brain stormed different emotions and how she might relate them to gothic horror characters or themes and how she may then interpret that into her make-up and clothing decisions. as quentin is a figment of Claudia's imagination i think that his appearance would also make sense to reflect her mood, therefore they're appearance might match, in the same theme coming from different gothic horror inspirations.
inspiration for face charts for Claudia:
JOYFUL CLAUDIA AND QUENTIN
i thought that when she is in a playful happy mood she might reflect the sense of the creepy clown often featured in gothic horror. looking into this idea i came across some beautiful clown interpretations done by Natasha Lilipore. this then led me to think about what kind of clown she would make herself into. what is her interpretation of beautiful? Natasha as a make-up artist has clearly thought through this process herself as there is three different types she seems to take on. the middle one being a very modern interpretation which is actually still very stunning, the right being very artistic and more of a body paint. The left is actually my favourite and i think the most appropriate take on the clown for Claudia as its not typically beautiful and its not a straight copy of any clown but quite distressed and fun, with the sleigh creepiness that gothic horror brings.
this is a very fashion interpretation though and to gather other research i looked int o gothic horror doll's which brought me to those famous big creepy eyes so twisting the left image of natatsha and the creepy eyes and red lips i have started getting a clearer image of this character version of claudia.
As i previously stated i want to incorporate the characters together depending on claudias mood so when she is playful i thought it would be more than appropriate to draw inspiration from saw, and the jigsaw mask. after all he was already asking do you want to play a game?
RELAXED QUENTIN AND CLAUDIA.
i thought about what might actually happen in the TV show and realistically with all TV shows set in apartments, there has to be just a relaxed mood, where they sit and do nothing together. so for me relaxed claudia would be the ultimate gothic horror character that every girl weirdly wants to be.... wednesday adams! the look I think i will be drawing on most is defiantly wednesday adams to me she couldn't fit Claudia's brief any better. This is the life she knows and is comfortable in a world were horror and gore is wonderful and she can feel comfortable.
and for quentin whilst Claudia becomes an interpretation of Wednesday adams who could be more appropriate than Frankenstein? obviously not the extreme version bolts, scars and green face. no not the hole shebang more the concept of frankenstein. the large broad brooding figure obliging to demands and ultimately pretty much grunts, wednesday adams perfect man really. i would still like to incorporate the death mask look and a few scars that Frankenstien's image includes as i think in this Claudia and quentin Claudia is defiantly weirdly attracted to horror and I don't think in her imagination a typically attractive guy like David Beckham would be her 'type'.
LUSTFUL CLAUDIA AND QUENTIN
horror is obviously not the most romantic genre but to me within the genre the most romantic kind of horrors are vampires they are lustful and loyal to there men. I think fitting with the fact that Claudia is freaking out that quentin is cheating on her maybe this is the one for of quentin that Claudia does Imagine a more typically handsome man, someone she thinks she can't trust. so I'm thinking about different movies and Van Helsing suddenly pops out at me, but instead of choosing any of the existing couples within the film maybe pairing the ideas of a women vampire and van helsing ?
SAD CLAUDIA AND QUENTIN
As the emphasis is on developing my skills in gothic hair and make up, I am expected to record several test shots to establish the look most suitable for the characters. At this point the character choices for Claudia would defiantly be between the clown inspired look and the wednesday Adam's inspired look. which ever I choose I will then pair this with the Quentin character that matches.
Monday, 9 March 2015
Miss Havisham continuity second half
The second half of the continuity assessment was defiantly more daunting than the first as every thing had to be the same. to help me with the assessment I brought with me pictures of the front back and both sides from the first assessment.
Wednesday, 4 March 2015
Continuity Assessment Miss Havisham - The first
Product list:
paddle brush
hair tie
hair curlers
pins
hair spray
heat protection spray.
sectioning clips
fake flowers
Illamasqua skin base primer
illamasqua skin base white foundation
Kryolan foundation
M.A.C limeted edition kiss the king
disposible lip brush
Illamasqua loose powder
Kryolan blusher.
THE FIRST TIME
The process of miss Havishams make-up:
1. cleanse tone and moisturise the face.2. mix the kryolan foundation with Illamasqua white foundation and primer.
3. apply this base all over the face.
4. powder the hole face with Illamasqua loose powder.
5. make the model smile and apply the kryolan blusher to the apples of her cheeks.
6. using mac lipstick and disposable lip brush apply all over the lips
7.Using your finger smudge the lipstick across to the side of her mouth.
The process of practicing Miss Havisham hair:
1. brush through the hair with the paddle brush until hair is smooth of knots2.section about four fingers worth of the front of the head from the back section with the pin tail comb.
3. tie the back section in a mid height ponytail. make sure it is firm and tight
4. section the front centrally down the middle with the pin tail comb and hold in place out of the way with sectioning clips.
5. turn on your curlers to heat up
6. spray through the pony tail with heat protection.
7. take small sections and curl the hole pony tail in small indervisual tight curls in different directions.
8. go through the pointy tail taking each curl and turn it in on itself and pin.
9. do this with the entire pony tail building curls upon each other until it forms a bun.
10. take one front side down and section it again down the middle leaving the longer section free below the ear and pin back up the top section again.
11. make three curls in the bottom section.
12. release the top section and do a further three curls.
13. do this again on the other side.
14. take 5 of the fake flowers. put one directly in the middle if you can.
15. using the remanding 4 flowers space them equally around the outside of the bun.
16. secure all of this with hairspray.
Digital Image Perfume shoot
so, the second part of our digital image project was to choose a perfume and create an advertisement image to promote this perfume. I chose CKIN2U, in all honesty to start with this decision was because i know the product and i like the appearance of the actual bottle, also as its gold and white i can pretty much go in whatever direction i wanted with the imagery.
but then i thought about it and to accurately represent the brand i needed not just to look at the product itself but just as we did with lime crime in the previous shoot to explore previous imagery CK perfume advertisements have used.
to start with i was really drawn to the eternity adverts and defiantly thought i could incorporate this into my location, i defiantly wanted to shoot inside. this would avoid a lot of blunders such as weather making interference to my shoot. there are a lot of eternity adverts with couples which i took this comforting vibe
i then looked at poses that the eternity ones had for just women. whilst looking at these images i also studied the styling and noticed the basic make-up and natural beauty look with very clear skin. i also noticed that they are in comfortable relaxed poses.
the other striking image i found was of Kate moss for the obsession cologne now obviously this isn't a perfume but its still the brand i found it helpful to look at both types of advertisement and it still has quite a similar vibe just less comforting and more striking. i didn't want nudity for my perfume shoot as its a younger more fun smell but at the same time this image made me take note that all the models have very athletic figures this was something to take into consideration when choosing my model.
obviously i saved the most obvious advert to look at until last so it didn't influence my ideas too drastically. after all i don't want to copy. but it also helped to see imagery that was in colour as after all i would have to be shooting in colour too. this also showed me that as far as branding is concerned CKIN2U is advertised much less serious than some of the others and is based at a younger audience. i didn't really see this as much of a problem though as thinking about who i may choose for a model they are all very youthful bubbly looking girls who fit this criteria.
So eventually I decided on a location of my model Jo's room this way i knew she would feel comfortable and relaxed as much as possible. I chose to style her in low ride jeans and a sports bra as it fits the athletic sporty look that CK prides itself on without her becoming nude and less CKIN2U playful.
whilst shooting to create more light in order to get better quality pictures i surrounded her with fairy lights. this also added something a bit different to the image. i shot both with and without but these two pictures were by far my favourite, the positioning within the image frame is ideal for negative space for the product and text and my model looks gorgeous. i am happy with how these pictures went in the end now its just time to edit.
mike Newell's great expectations (2012) the film review and characterisation
In this interpretation I could see although, great expectations on a whole can drag bit to begin with, it was more inviting to continue watching. i also think that this version was more what i envisioned when reading the book when it comes to the characterisation through costume and make-up. not only is it shown visible but the dil also includes the literal meaning of clothing and makeup at the time. in the scene when estella miss havisham and pip first meet estella actually said but he's a common labouring boy when she first saw him. when playing cards she says what course hands he has, what stupid boots he's nothing but a stupid clumsy labouring boy. when pip was asked about her back he said he thinks she is very proud very pretty and very insulting. this showed that quite similarly to today the wealthy cared much more about their appearance than the poor. it might seem weird that thats what stuck out to me when watching this scene as its also the scene where we are introduced to miss havisham. which in my opinion was actually truly amazing. it was an odd mixture of interpretation, very authentic and yet she wasn't drastically aged and her dress wasn't awfully aged either, i think this weirdly made the film bait more realistic as helen bon carter became the character herself and didn't need all of the prosthetics and ageing to embody this. it also makes her bait more relatable to our era as she does look bait high fashion and if modelled properly this look could most likely be seen in magazines.
on miss havishams birthday in the film its really shown how props bring a visual to life, waltzing around the cob webbed table.
when you see them as teenagers i love the interpretation of estella and the way pip admires her from afar hiding, you can now see an ideal young victorian beauty, a small fluffy fringe acuretly portrays the fashionable fringe with loose bouncy curls pinned off her face blowing in the wind. this defiantly shows that she is still young and innocent and also showing her wealth. comparing this to pips friend who is also poor in the film a similar age to estella she had her hair all up and no where near as as neatly there were twists and it actually looked far more complex but also far messy and clearly up for practical working reasons. this shows how mewl has considered wealth into the accuracy of the styling. as esstella ages more her hair does too begin to move further back off her face but never fully up, as the desired beauty was to have it hanging back.
miss havisham of course stays exactly the same throughout all of this period of time which i do question abitas i think with the amount of years it would have taken estella to age as much as they show surely miss havishams appearance would have severally haggard also sleeping in the same clothes hair and make-up constantly, but like i said before her appearance in this film is more approachable and characterised through acting rather than the accuracy of her image.
i find the characterisation of a lot of the males in the middle of the film bait too blatant with the facial hair almost being a bit too theatrical but i guess theres only so much you can do to create these period dramas, and as a practicing make-up artist I'm probably not one to judge.
AHH THEY JUST SAID GREAT EXPECTATIONS.... DONT YOU JUST LOVE IT WHEN A FILM SAYS THE NAME OF THE FILM... IN THE FILM?! ... genius.
when pip returns to miss havisham as a young gentalmen and we have just whitnessed his 'make over' it really reminded me of first term and watching queen elizabeth get her makeover too. and i loved the contrast of the reveal to a large audience, obviously in elizebeth it is a grand reveal and every one is in awe that she has become such a powerful figure. i think this is what pip envisioned too but instead i love the were's wally scene in which he is shoved into london bustle with men all dressed in black and him standing out like a saw thumb in bright white from head to toe. it is the antithesis of what he had expected and it is very visually pleasing to watch. its decisions like that that i do think make this version of great expectations bait different from the rest. an element of very subtle modernist humour.
an interesting bit of the film has to be the flash back in which miss Havisham is shown on her actual wedding day as she receives the letter. she was stunning and it shows what a wealthy woman would look like at the time. this shows a lot more depth to the film and the building of the character miss havisham as you actually hear the screech she lets out on the moment of realisation.
ESTELLAS HAIR THOUGH?! ok so a bit further on now and she is graceful and beautiful and her hair is so intricate. she still has an extreme arrogance about her character and the hair all adds to it the execution of her hair is immaculate and unique but relevant to the era. as far as character building goes the hair plays a huge role with estella and this is the perfect example.
Another key scene is where pip expresses himself to estella, and estellas reaction is to blame miss havisham for making her this way. you see so many emotions in such a small amount of time and its a very quick moving part of the film but you defiantly get a lot of understanding of the novel from this interpretation. all the emotions you can imagen dickens may have been trying to provoke are heart felt in this scene. miss Havisham's supposed to be crazy and determined with heat red for the male race but this shows that she hurts far deeper than just a generalisation of males she has so much love for estella also.
The film obviously continues much more than this to which the characters only build more. newell has chosen to present the novel on a hole in a different ways than before done, and can say i think it is an enchanted and engaging period drama and the only version of the novell in film that i have enjoyed majority of the way through. and it clearly shows the journey of all the characters.
on miss havishams birthday in the film its really shown how props bring a visual to life, waltzing around the cob webbed table.
when you see them as teenagers i love the interpretation of estella and the way pip admires her from afar hiding, you can now see an ideal young victorian beauty, a small fluffy fringe acuretly portrays the fashionable fringe with loose bouncy curls pinned off her face blowing in the wind. this defiantly shows that she is still young and innocent and also showing her wealth. comparing this to pips friend who is also poor in the film a similar age to estella she had her hair all up and no where near as as neatly there were twists and it actually looked far more complex but also far messy and clearly up for practical working reasons. this shows how mewl has considered wealth into the accuracy of the styling. as esstella ages more her hair does too begin to move further back off her face but never fully up, as the desired beauty was to have it hanging back.
miss havisham of course stays exactly the same throughout all of this period of time which i do question abitas i think with the amount of years it would have taken estella to age as much as they show surely miss havishams appearance would have severally haggard also sleeping in the same clothes hair and make-up constantly, but like i said before her appearance in this film is more approachable and characterised through acting rather than the accuracy of her image.
i find the characterisation of a lot of the males in the middle of the film bait too blatant with the facial hair almost being a bit too theatrical but i guess theres only so much you can do to create these period dramas, and as a practicing make-up artist I'm probably not one to judge.
AHH THEY JUST SAID GREAT EXPECTATIONS.... DONT YOU JUST LOVE IT WHEN A FILM SAYS THE NAME OF THE FILM... IN THE FILM?! ... genius.
when pip returns to miss havisham as a young gentalmen and we have just whitnessed his 'make over' it really reminded me of first term and watching queen elizabeth get her makeover too. and i loved the contrast of the reveal to a large audience, obviously in elizebeth it is a grand reveal and every one is in awe that she has become such a powerful figure. i think this is what pip envisioned too but instead i love the were's wally scene in which he is shoved into london bustle with men all dressed in black and him standing out like a saw thumb in bright white from head to toe. it is the antithesis of what he had expected and it is very visually pleasing to watch. its decisions like that that i do think make this version of great expectations bait different from the rest. an element of very subtle modernist humour.
an interesting bit of the film has to be the flash back in which miss Havisham is shown on her actual wedding day as she receives the letter. she was stunning and it shows what a wealthy woman would look like at the time. this shows a lot more depth to the film and the building of the character miss havisham as you actually hear the screech she lets out on the moment of realisation.
ESTELLAS HAIR THOUGH?! ok so a bit further on now and she is graceful and beautiful and her hair is so intricate. she still has an extreme arrogance about her character and the hair all adds to it the execution of her hair is immaculate and unique but relevant to the era. as far as character building goes the hair plays a huge role with estella and this is the perfect example.
Another key scene is where pip expresses himself to estella, and estellas reaction is to blame miss havisham for making her this way. you see so many emotions in such a small amount of time and its a very quick moving part of the film but you defiantly get a lot of understanding of the novel from this interpretation. all the emotions you can imagen dickens may have been trying to provoke are heart felt in this scene. miss Havisham's supposed to be crazy and determined with heat red for the male race but this shows that she hurts far deeper than just a generalisation of males she has so much love for estella also.
The film obviously continues much more than this to which the characters only build more. newell has chosen to present the novel on a hole in a different ways than before done, and can say i think it is an enchanted and engaging period drama and the only version of the novell in film that i have enjoyed majority of the way through. and it clearly shows the journey of all the characters.
Tuesday, 3 March 2015
Digital Image Black and White
As part of our course we study digital image. our task this term was split into two sections. But for now I just want to talk about the first task at hand. we were given the challenge in groups to create a beauty advertisement for our own chosen product. this sounds simple enough but the real task was not just taking a pretty picture but to look specifically at black and white photography and dramatic lighting.
Fortunately for us we are given amazing support and I have learnt a lot about lighting in the build up to the actual photo shoot with our photography teacher Chris. Within my group of three with Daniella and lily we first chose our roles within the group, Daniella was a clear choice for our photographer and lily the model which gave me the role of runner/ make-up artist. for a lot of people this would be the duff role but for me i actually revel in the chance to play a little bit of a role in every element.
the product we chose was lime crime white eyeliner. we chose this together as in black and white there isn't a lot of opportunity to show beauty products other than mascara eyeliner or hair products. to gain an edge on the other groups we thought it would be best not to use a black eyeliner as it doesn't stand out in a photo as any thing spectacular.
from here we looked at the style of previous lime crime advertisements and their style of photography and poses. comparing this to research we had done on dramatic lighting and we all had a rough idea of what the composition should look like, as well as factoring in negative space for our own writing.
after this process it was time to get behind the camera, and after thinking we had covered all bases we realised that actually it is far easier to create an image in your head than it is with a camera in real life. we had an issue with creating the lighting we wanted and later realised this was because our model (lily) had a very different complexion to the women we were trying to mimic with lighting. after this blip i am really proud of the imagery we created.
I chose this picture....
now time to edit.
In camera raw format I converted the image to grey scale. From here I took the reds in the image and took them from a minus nine to plus eighty this made her red section of the hair much brighter and lighter. i did this as i think it makes the image more dramatic and give more of a refined look.
i then went to sharpen the image. the image is already very well focused this allows me to sharpen it more than i would usually be able to.
i then continued in photoshop where i created a new blank file which is in format a4. in order to get my desired composition i played with the sizing and position by dragging the image on top of the file.
after playing around for a while i realised that moving lily to the other side of the blank file i could avoid any of her face falling into the gutter and i could make the image larger scale so you can see the product thats being advertised far more clearly.
my new problem is that by doing this you can see the background layer on the right hand side where my image ends. of course for any artist to every problem there is a solution... its just finding it.
I then selected the background and used the brush tool to paint over the white. I enlarged the brush tool a lot to make this a faster process. I repeatedly used alt on top of the image to select the correct colours in relevance to the back ground. add noise filter to create grain. I would then merge the back ground and the image together by flattening the image so i can blend together the previous background and the image as one. then i used brush tool too merger colure more
then used clone stamp to help remove the edge previously between the background layer and image layer, that is still slightly visible.
when zooming out on the image I had got rid of the harsh line but now instead had created small blemishes on the background by using a brush size too small, to solve this I enlarged the brush tool again and smoothed over the area of issue. after zooming in to correct my mistakes I then decided to look at the image as a whole and although there is still darker and lighter patches in the corner I actually like this and decided not to correct it any more as i felt it gave the image a more artistic feel and actually applied more to lime crime as a brand then perhaps a clean monotone grey background would have.
I THEN SAVED MY WORK A THOUSAND TIMES BECAUSE I WOULD CRY FOR A WEEK IF I LOST IT.
for the retouching I have only used two tools the brush tool and healing brush tool... there seems to be a bit of a pattern here. I then zoomed in a ridiculous amount until I can literally see her pours and took the healing brush tool on the smallest section just to remove small blemishes and smooth the skin without loosing the texture. I then did this all over the face on low opacity with the brush tool to smooth over the complexion overall. on the nose specifically I did this low opacity in the same place, clicking once to get the colour and clicking again in exactly the same place to remove any slight dark specs, naturally.
to make the white eyeliner pop more i used the dodge tool. This tool was made apparent to me from my partner Daniella as she saw me struggling with the brush tool. i made the tool very small to concentrate on such a precise area and practically re-did her flicks on the computer. this defiantly improved the image and made it far clearer what it was actually advertising.
final touches....
and finally just to enhance my contest in the picture with dramatic lighting bait more i used the curve to add more shadow.
soooo here it is
Fortunately for us we are given amazing support and I have learnt a lot about lighting in the build up to the actual photo shoot with our photography teacher Chris. Within my group of three with Daniella and lily we first chose our roles within the group, Daniella was a clear choice for our photographer and lily the model which gave me the role of runner/ make-up artist. for a lot of people this would be the duff role but for me i actually revel in the chance to play a little bit of a role in every element.
the product we chose was lime crime white eyeliner. we chose this together as in black and white there isn't a lot of opportunity to show beauty products other than mascara eyeliner or hair products. to gain an edge on the other groups we thought it would be best not to use a black eyeliner as it doesn't stand out in a photo as any thing spectacular.
from here we looked at the style of previous lime crime advertisements and their style of photography and poses. comparing this to research we had done on dramatic lighting and we all had a rough idea of what the composition should look like, as well as factoring in negative space for our own writing.
after this process it was time to get behind the camera, and after thinking we had covered all bases we realised that actually it is far easier to create an image in your head than it is with a camera in real life. we had an issue with creating the lighting we wanted and later realised this was because our model (lily) had a very different complexion to the women we were trying to mimic with lighting. after this blip i am really proud of the imagery we created.
I chose this picture....
now time to edit.
In camera raw format I converted the image to grey scale. From here I took the reds in the image and took them from a minus nine to plus eighty this made her red section of the hair much brighter and lighter. i did this as i think it makes the image more dramatic and give more of a refined look.
i then went to sharpen the image. the image is already very well focused this allows me to sharpen it more than i would usually be able to.
i then continued in photoshop where i created a new blank file which is in format a4. in order to get my desired composition i played with the sizing and position by dragging the image on top of the file.
after playing around for a while i realised that moving lily to the other side of the blank file i could avoid any of her face falling into the gutter and i could make the image larger scale so you can see the product thats being advertised far more clearly.
my new problem is that by doing this you can see the background layer on the right hand side where my image ends. of course for any artist to every problem there is a solution... its just finding it.
I then selected the background and used the brush tool to paint over the white. I enlarged the brush tool a lot to make this a faster process. I repeatedly used alt on top of the image to select the correct colours in relevance to the back ground. add noise filter to create grain. I would then merge the back ground and the image together by flattening the image so i can blend together the previous background and the image as one. then i used brush tool too merger colure more
then used clone stamp to help remove the edge previously between the background layer and image layer, that is still slightly visible.
when zooming out on the image I had got rid of the harsh line but now instead had created small blemishes on the background by using a brush size too small, to solve this I enlarged the brush tool again and smoothed over the area of issue. after zooming in to correct my mistakes I then decided to look at the image as a whole and although there is still darker and lighter patches in the corner I actually like this and decided not to correct it any more as i felt it gave the image a more artistic feel and actually applied more to lime crime as a brand then perhaps a clean monotone grey background would have.
I THEN SAVED MY WORK A THOUSAND TIMES BECAUSE I WOULD CRY FOR A WEEK IF I LOST IT.
for the retouching I have only used two tools the brush tool and healing brush tool... there seems to be a bit of a pattern here. I then zoomed in a ridiculous amount until I can literally see her pours and took the healing brush tool on the smallest section just to remove small blemishes and smooth the skin without loosing the texture. I then did this all over the face on low opacity with the brush tool to smooth over the complexion overall. on the nose specifically I did this low opacity in the same place, clicking once to get the colour and clicking again in exactly the same place to remove any slight dark specs, naturally.
to make the white eyeliner pop more i used the dodge tool. This tool was made apparent to me from my partner Daniella as she saw me struggling with the brush tool. i made the tool very small to concentrate on such a precise area and practically re-did her flicks on the computer. this defiantly improved the image and made it far clearer what it was actually advertising.
final touches....
and finally just to enhance my contest in the picture with dramatic lighting bait more i used the curve to add more shadow.
soooo here it is
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