Face Charts #1

   When thinking about my final look for this project, apart of me wanted to really stay true to the original Frankenstein and use some of it's very famous traits. Unfortunately, as a designer you're constantly having to be better at the game of creating something that maybe hasn't been done before, so whilst I was trying to figure out what I could do I thought about what is seen to people as "dead" or "undead"? To me, undead would have extreme under eye circles or hallow eye sockets so that is where the inspiration for the heavy black and purple smokey eye came from. An idea whilst drawing up this face chart was to add some form of gloss to the eyes to create a swollen effect to the eyes.
   For the rest of the face I wanted to create an overall wash or undertone of colour instead of doing a harsh thick layer of colour that sat on the skin. I chose to do it this way to make my overall creation more realistic and to stay away from a theatrical type of approach to my monster, but to also enforce the idea of the undead, so my character looks extremely sick/not right looking as all normal tones to someone who is alive will have been taken out. Another element of the face is scars, my reasoning behind using scars instead of the typical bolts or stitches on the face is to add a different twist to my monsters appearance. For me, it makes it look as if the monster has been walking for many months or years as the joining of different body parts have healed.