Sugar skulls

Sugar skulls

In this lesson as it was near halloween we planned and designed ideas for sugar skull ideas. Sugar skulls originally comes from Mexico they believe that the gates of heaven open at midnight on October 31, and the spirits of all deceased children are allowed to reunite with their families for 24 hours. On November 2, the spirits of the adults come down to enjoy the festivities that are prepared for them which they paint their faces in celebration of being re-united with the dead. I started my research of planning my sugar skulls by looking at reference pictures of the internet and also by watching different youtube videos. I decided to go with a pink colour scheme as to make it a bit more girly instead of scary but include other details from other reference picture that I liked.

 I created this face chart with the ideas from other reference images and I really liked my colour scheme as it was girly but by adding elements like black paint and the spider web I believe this added the element of horror which I wanted to include as well. I really enjoyed making this face chart as face paints and special effects is an element of make-up I am very fond of. 

I believe the application was quite good I started with the white based from the super colour palette which gave me a very thick based of which I needed,I then buff it into the skin to create a smother finish. Then I took the pink super colour using the buffing brush and buffed it into areas where the light would hit the face e.g. the cheekbones, forehead chin etc. After completing the base I moved on to outlining the eye details with black super colour and then filling in all the eye detail further with colours like gold, purple and pinks. After completing the eyes I moved onto the mouth, outlining with the black super colour again and then filling in with white super colour to create teeth. Lastly to finish off I added in all the detail around the face e.g. the swirls and dots which added a bit more detail and interest to the face. 

Products:
-white face paint 
-beauty blender 
- black super colour
- pink eyeshadow 
-contour/angled brush 
- yellow and purple super colour
-angled brush

Reflect:
To improve my look and if I was to complete this again I would have planned my time better as I did not get time to add in all the detail I wanted too e.g the spider web which I believe would have improved the look. Another aspect that I would improve is that the eye petals are too close together meaning that they slightly touch and overlap which I think looks at bit messy so I would have changed this to make the look appear neater, again which I could have achieved in more time.