Sliced Leg SFX Silicone Prosthetic

Hey guys,

Today's blog is all about my sliced leg effect, you can call it the warm up to Halloween as I've got a few ideas that I want to create as well as one big idea for a live Demonstration at +Blackburn College  for their open day event in October (those of you who follow me on Facebook or Instagram will know what that character is.)

As some of you know I have been experimenting with silicone prosthetic, its something that really interests me as its can be incredibly life like in both touch, movement and visually. It's pretty expensive but worth it if you want the realism.

I began the prosthetic by creating a mould, I just used some monster clay (favourite clay to use but is quite hard, melts well though) and then create the mould. Below you can see the mould is the blue piece which is created by a silicone based product called Mold Star 16 by Smooth On. There are different types of Mold Star, 16 is a fast setting one with a 6 minute pot life and 30 minute cure time which means that if your quick at working its perfect but if not perhaps try Mold Star 15 which has the pot life 50 minutes and a cure time of  about 3-4 hours. +Smooth-On  products can be purchased via their website http://www.smooth-on.com or if your from the UK you might be better buying it from +Bentley Advanced Materials via http://www.benam.co.uk , they also have a handy tutorial video on there about using the product!

 

After creating the mould, I moved on to creating the prosthetic by encapsulating the silicone using bald cap plastic. Meaning I coated the mould in bald cap plastic (after applying a release agent) and then once this was dried I poured in the silicone. This silicone is again a Smooth On product which can be purchased at +Bentley Advanced Materials called Ecoflex Platinum Silicone which is extremely soft and flexible. To create the felsh colour I added Silc-Pig which is a pigment specific for silicone as well as red flocking which gives a multi-dimensional colouring by colouring the "background"

 

Once the prosthetic piece was done its ready to be applied, for this application I used my new adhesive; Telesis 7 Silicone Adhesive which is a fantastic product the only down side is that its expensive. Its taken me a while to save up for it but it really do glue well.

 

Now the fun part...not that anything before this wasn't fun but this is the really fun messy bit...colouring and blood!

So as I love my skin illustrators so much I used them...I used mainly my FX palette and 5 blood palette both are perfect for casualty effects and gory effects. I love how you can create such a nice wash of colour that doesn't over power the effect. As you can see below, the prosthetic coloured without any blood.

 

 

Once you have the colour right you can go ahead and add the bloods. Whenever I'm teaching sfx I always check my students work before they add the blood because blood can hide a multitude of sins and dodgy edges. (Word of warning to my new Level 3 Media Makeup students starting in September.)

 

My favourite bloods to use are those by Bloody Marvellous, who do a selection of sfx products including liquid bloods and wound fillers.

With this effect I used both liquid and thick bloods in dark.

 

 

 As you can see below, the colour is fantastic for dark venous blood. The top swatch is the liquid blood which you can see is a little more watery in consistency with a slightly more transparency and runs very easily. The next sample is the thick blood which is a lot more dense in colour as well as being more stable and doesn't run quiet as easily as the liquid.

 

The next product that I used, also from Bloody Marvellous, is the wound fillers. The first one is scratch blood and then congealed blood. I love these wound fillers so much as they are really realistic and easy to apply...except the scratch blood which is a little more jelly like making positioning a little more work but totally worth the extra work.

 

 

As you can see from the swatches, that scratch blood, which is the orangey colour is very sticky and gel like in consistency. The congealed blood is far more solid and adds fantastic depth in colour and texture.

 

 

Altogether you get a fantastic realistic effect. The colours and texture work really well to create that lovely gory ripped skin effect.

 

 

 

 

Am happy with the piece and can't wait to try more effects using a similar techniques.

 

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Zombie Tramp: SFX demonstration

A few weeks ago I held a few demonstrations for Blackburn College, inviting my media makeup artist, beauty therapist and hairdressers to come and watch a little demonstration of what I do. It’s a chance for other students from other courses to get a taster of being a media makeup artist and it proved to be a successful week.

I held demonstrations for fashion and photographic using my headdress, see blog below and I also held a SFX demonstration which was specifically aimed at my level 2 media makeup students as a taster into what Level 3 students do. As everybody know SFX is my favourite area of media makeup and its eventually what I would like to go into full time; dream job would be working for an effects studio making monsters and creatures all day! So this session, I have to admit was one of my favour demonstrations of the week.

My theme was zombie tramps, last year I did zombies vs. tramps and this year its all about the evolution! Plus part of the unit in level3 is to create a believable tramp character so this demonstration just introduces them to some basic application techniques e.g. ageing, false hair applications, scraps, cuts etc.

I sculpted and casted the prosthetic piece and tried to challenge myself with creating a realistic skull. I’ll admit it does need some work on the shading and shaping of the bone structure but overall I didn’t think I did that badly. Once again the prosthetic piece was made from gelatine as I am still saving up for the prosthetics course which teach the foam latex and silicone prosthetics…..

The fabulous Leah was a fantastic model for me today and to keep the session interactive I let students come up and help me apply the makeup.

 

 

A lot of the products used were my favourite, used in previous looks such as Blood Mary’s Spray Blood, I still make a mess when applying this but it gives the most brilliant, realistic blood splatter, plus its quick and easy! The main colours of the piece were using Grimas casualty palette L which contains all the cream colours needed to colour a piece like this, I am saving up at the moment for the Skin Illustrator palette but am thinking that I’ll pick this up at one of the Make Up conventions this year and do a review on it for you guys.

I feel like the application was pretty successful in the time I had to apply it and I think the concept could do will a polish but it worked for the demonstration plus the students seemed to enjoy the session. Leah had great fun afterwards scaring passers-by in the beauty salons which was fairly amusing!

I do love my zombies, this was one was a little too clean, needed some darker colours I think.

Let me know what you think?

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 Next blog will be a makeup review with some looks…am feeling creative!