The Design

My design is based around the title "Strange Beauty" I chose this as I think it conjures up lots of beautiful imagery in my mind, it also lets me go a little crazy.

My Work is heavily inspired by the likes of Michael Westmore (Star Trek) and Arjun Tuinten (Pans Labyrinth). Art such as Dante-Gabrielle Rosetti (Pre-Raphaelite artist) Echo Chernik (Art Nouveau).  There is a large nautical element as I live by the sea, which is my inspiration.

I decided I would go for a more sea like creation as, the sea is very alien and mysterious as well as the fact that I am able to source things such as, shells, nets and other maritime and nautical items. The local museum has items within that are inspirational as well as the sea life centre.

Not only will I focus on the face, but I am going to put an entire look together, incorporating the hair, nails, skin and clothing, my intention is to recycle almost everything from local fishermen and the sea.

I am going to add pictures to this post once I have scanned them.

Cardassian Vole- Designed by Michael Westmore. 

 [Westmore Michael. Notes from DS9. Available: http://rindastartrekds9.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/ds9-storiesnews-michael-westmores-aliens-2/. Last accessed 05/03/2014]

Make-up by David Marti and Arjen Tuiten

[Leininger, R. (27.07.2009). Top Ten Make-Up's in Film History.Available: http://www.celluloidering.com/top-ten-make-ups-in-film-history/. Last accessed 05/03/2014].

Dante Gabrielle Rossetti, Proserpine 1847

[Riggs, T. (1998). Dante Gabrielle Rossetti. Available: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/dante-gabriel-rossetti-461. Last accessed 05/03/2014].

Artist:Echo Chernik.

[Logan Faerber. (2014). The Art of Animation. Available: http://theartofanimation.tumblr.com/. Last accessed 05/03/2014].

here are images of my own design. 

This is my own design, as you can see the face will be squid/octopus like, the main part of the face can be sculpted as one part, I will then sculpt the tentacles as a separate prosthetic piece, slotting them all together finally. 

This shows the extravagance of what I would like the finished design to look like. 

I would also like to try and build a crown, I need to decide on a material to build it from.

I am going to make the hair huge and hopefully give it a tangled, matted mess look, with various sea creatures within it, if it is possible, I would like to source all creatures, shells and nets from the Scarborough/Whitby Coastline.

I didn't leave the pencil there to show my artistic intent, its just there! ha ha! 

To follow the rest of the process - move on to the next post, 'Let the cast begin' I do hope your enjoying the process, if you have any questions about any part please feel free to ask!