So with my first mould being a bit of a
let down, I decided to buy some pre-made gelatine prosthetics from
Titanic FX store. And I'm glad I did, they are excellent wee
prosthetics at great value.
So I pre-painted most of the inside of
the exit wound with a Skin Illustrator FX palette. This was my first
time really using Skin Illustrator palettes, and I was really happy
with the results. I found they take a wee while to get used, but once
you do its completely worth it. I then applied the pros-aide to both
my skin and the back of the piece. I think I would use a bit more
pros-aide next time, just to secure it a bit more. I didn't get the
best edges in a couple of places, but that was down more to my
inexperience, the good edges I did get blended out beautifully with
some witch hazel.
Once that was applied, I began to try
to colour match the piece to my skin using the Skin Illustrator light
flesh tones palette. This, is something I'm going to have to
practice. It took me a while to get a rough match to my skin. First I
used a little of the rose adjuster on a small fan brush, then a
little of the rice paper and natural one. I am covered in freckles
and found it difficult to add a natural looking freckle. I tried the
spatter technique and using a stipple sponge and a regular ripped up
make up sponge, I found the spatter technique to be the best.
Once I had the the flesh tone matched,
I spattered a bit of the blood tone from the FX palette to try and
create a blood splatter effect, since it is an exit wound I imagined
there would be a bit of blood splatter. After that I added some fake
blood. Its not the greatest blood in the world, just some cheap
Halloween blood I got last year, but for the price its pretty good.
Decent blood is the next thing on my list, I have my eye on some
mouldlife aged, but for the moment this and the Vaseline dead blood I
made will do the job.
All in all I was very happy with my
first application, it's far from perfect, but I learned so much and I
feel in my next application I will know what to watch out for and
what to try and avoid.
Before
I end this, I would like to give another mention to Titanic CreativeManagement. I'm not affiliated with them, just a very happy customer,
If you are from UK or Ireland, you should definitely give them a
look. They also offer up a load of different classes and products.
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