Claudia

   For my character Claudia I wanted to keep her quite plain and simple, but also have an element of special effects in my design and that's how I came up with my busted knuckles effect. To start off my character I wanted to make her look slightly greasy, so I added highlighter over my models face and concentrating the highlight in areas where people would naturally show sweat/grease on the face. I also added texture to my models face, such as bruising and tiredness to the face by building up various blue, purple, green and yellow eye shadows and water activated paints on the face where people would naturally hallow out.
   For the knuckles I painted different shades of red paint to my models knuckles along with also adding bruising around the wounds and on knuckles that wasn't cut open. I next took a cotton bud and lightly tapped latex around the paint and started to layer the latex more towards the wound instead of having it thicker throughout that whole area. Once the latex had dried I dusted it with translucent powder and using some tweezers, I started to pick at the latex and lift it up away from the paint to create a loose skin effect which I then added darker shades of red under the latex to create the effect of dried blood.
   Lastly the hair, which was rather simple for me to achieve as due to Claudia being in a mental hospital she wouldn't have the classic 1960s hairstyles, so instead I just added texture to my models hair by using various sprays and gels. I also wanted to give the effect of having dirty/greasy hair to my model so I concentrated one of my gels towards the roots of her hair, yet sadly this didn't really show up on camera.
   Overall I'm rather pleased with my character Claudia design, although sometimes I wish I had added more interesting make-up to my design, I believe that if I had done that then she wouldn't of captured what I had my vision of Claudia to be like.