Quentins final design

Consultation notes:
Model - Daniel Newstead
Skin type - Fair, facial hair, dry
Hair - Not dyed, short
No allergies
No contra-indications

 Here is my final design for Quentin, I am really pleased with it and excited to see how it turns out in practise. I decided to make the veins really dark and  horrible looking and take them onto the ears and neck and hands so it isn't just the eye area in the photos.

Equipment: 
- Brushes
- Kryolan supra color
- Matte Kryolan neutral eyeshadow palette
- Powder
- MAC shine
- Moisturiser
- Illamasqua white skinbase

Step-by-step:
1. Mix skin base and moisturiser and apply to models face, neck and ears to slightly lighten the skin.
2. Use an eyeshadow brush and a matte grey shadow and darken the eye area
3. Use a very fine brush and begin to paint veins on. I will use burgandy, red, white, blue and purple supra color for the veins. Slowly build them up by adding different colours and make sure not to forget the neck, hands and ears!
4. Once happy with the veins powder the face so the grease doesn't smudge
5. I then used a fan brush and a mixture of reds and black supra colour and applied it to the center of the lips and smudged it out a bit to look like dried  blood.
6. Add MAC shine over the eyelids to create a more feverish and clammy look.

Claudia's moodboard

Claudia's final design

Consultation notes:
Model - Jade Holmes
Skin type - Fair, combination
Hair - Mid length, dyed, brown with lighter ends, no problem with heat application
No Allergies
No contra-indictations

As I have always been a huge fan of the classic cat eye look I decided to give this a go using the technique I tried out during one of my initial devvelopments - mascara as eyeliner applied with a disposable wand. I loved the idea of this and thought it would give my Claudia the dark and sexy look I wanted while looking a bit more interesting and going with her unpredictable personality. 

Equipment:
- Brushes
- Disposable mascara wand
- Mascara
- Matte neutral eyeshadow pallete by Kryolan
- Kryolan foundation palette
- Loose powder
- Illamasqua Sculpting powder duo
- Black khol eyeliner
- MAC honeylove lipstick
- Gosh lip pencil in Nougat crisp
- Illamasqua pigment in Beguile
- Rimmel eyebrow kit
- MAC vanilla pigment

Step-by-step:
1. Cleanse, tone and moisturise
2. Apply a base all over the face to create a flawless finish
3. Powder the base
4. Contour using the sculpting powder duo by Illamasqua to give depth to the face
5. Highlight the cheekbones using the sculpting powder duo by Illamasqua
6. Define eyebrows using the Rimmel kit, first using the wax and then setting with the powder
7. Highlight the brow bone using Vanilla pigment by MAC
8. Take the disposable mascara wand and using the tip apply mascara to the lid in spotting motions and follow the usual shape you would if creating a winged liner using eyeliner
9. Apply lots of mascara to the top and botton lashes for a heavy eye look
10. Once the mascara is dry take a fine brush and using a dark grey matte shadow apply below the bottom lash line to help balance out the top lid
11. Use a black khol (sharpened three times for hygiene) and apply to the water line to create an extra dark look
12. Using the Gosh lip liner, line the lips ready for lipstick and then again going slightly over the lips natural edge
13. Take a lip brush and apply honey love by MAC to the lips beginning in the middle and blending it out

Quentin initial designs

Consultation notes:
Model - Daniel Newstead
Skin type - Fair, facial hair, dry
Hair - Not dyed, short
No allergies
No contra-indications

Because of the symptons Quentin suffers when he shifts too often and for too long I wanted to make him quite ill. Instead of using fake blood dripping down his face (one of the symptoms is vomitting blood) I decided I wanted to create the illusion of dried blood on his lips. I thought that using a mixture of red supra colours would do a good job for this.
As well as this I wanted to make him look quite tired  so decided to darken the eye area.

As the first design was too plain, I decided to play around with the idea of painting pale veins around the eyes to make the skin look thin and make him look more ill and suffering.
 

As Claudia's make-up was relatively normal I really wanted to go quite theatrical with Quentin so took the vein idea and decided to see how scary and painful I could make him look with my final design. I wanted to take gothic to a more extreme level with my Quentin.

I want to keep my models hair in his usual style as like with Claudia I want to keep the hair and fashion styling normal and simple looking. If I use any products it will be some hair wax to help hold his natural hair style. 

Claudia initial designs

Consultation notes:
Model - Jade Holmes
Skin type - Fair, combination
Hair - Mid length, dyed, brown with lighter ends, no problem with heat application
No Allergies
No contra-indictations


Design one:

This was my first design idea, as I wanted Claudia to look pretty with a dark edge I decided to go for a light eyeshadow in grey tones around the eyes with loads of mascara and a perfect nude pout. As this design was quite plain I decided to make it more smokey like how it looks below.

 I thought this was a more flattering and more bold look than the first design however realised I have done smokey eyes quite a lot before and realised this didn't show my technical ability enough so wanted to make more of a statement and show off my technical ability more.

Going with the whole idea of a bold eye and nude lip I created this design. Instead of using eyeliner or eyeshadow with the traditional smokey eye I used mascara on the end of a disposable wand to create a rough and very daring look. I also smudged the lipstick around the mouth to make her look slightly less normal and more unhinged but still so my model would look quite sexy in a vamp kind of way. As I want my character to fit in with the show more I realised this was too audacious so I changed the look once more before coming up with a final design I was happy with.

I am going to keep the hair in a casual and simple half-up, half-down do as I don't want it to be completely down but I don't want it in an elaborate up-do as I want to portray Claudia as quite plain in styling and hair. I don't want her to look too done up.

 

Claudia changes

I decided that instead of using Buffy as Claudias main icon I would make it more modern and use Effy in Skins as the main girl in the TV series she is currently watching as the show ran around the same time as when Claudia would be been introduced into true blood as, also because I think she suits the character more. Here is my new moodboard.
I have also decided as I am making Quentin look really supernatural I don't want Claudia to have an physical faery characteristics, her only halfling trait is her telepathy. My model for my shoot has brunette hair and blue eyes and I think she will look very striking and fit well for my Claudia design.

 

Quentin idea development

Above is the moodboard I made for my presentation with the very first ideas that came into my head for my Quentin character. I have decided as Claudia is going to be a relatively normal looking character, I want to make Quentin quite theatrical and dramatic which I can get away with as he doesn't even really exist! 

Quentin is going to be a skinwalker from True Blood. A skinwalker is a shapeshifter that can turn into other humans instead of just animals. I came across this idea as in Quentins character description it states that he changes in appearance to suit Claudia's mood. By being a skinwalker this makes him fit really well into the series. 

" As he is part of her imagination his appearance changes to suit her mood. Sometimes he will be a David Beckham looking guy, whilst in another scene he will appear as a Pete Docherty type, Daniel Craig type or a Hollyoaks Babe. If she is having a bad day he will morph into an uncouth couch potato chav with all that brings with it."

If a skinwalker shifts into another person for too long they experience some unpleasant and painful side affects. These side affects include:

• Fainting
• Extremely high fever
• Pain
• Vomiting blood

When Claudia is in a bad mood and can't make her mind up about who she wants Quentin to be she makes him shift as many times as she likes which makes him really weak and ill. Shifting too often can cause fatal problems for skinwalkers. In my designs I want to show this side of Quentin.