Summer School - Special FX and Character Makeup

This highly creative and practical course has been designed especially for budding makeup artists aged 12–15 years, to provide an insight into the makeup skills needed to play a key creative role in performance, fashion, film and television.

Aspiring makeup artists will explore a whole variety of special effects and makeup techniques using an exciting range of materials, with the aim of developing adventurous and cutting-edge designs.

What your young artist will learn

• Character project for a final makeup design, e.g. aliens, monsters, inspiration from Disney characters.
• Explore different makeup genres, design and finishes.
• Use a wide range of makeup products.
• Apply stencils and a range of other accessories, to help enhance the design and make it exciting and creative.
• Casting and applying prosthetics.
• How to cover various skin conditions.
• Casualty effects, including black eyes, stitches, slit lips, blisters, and bruises.
• Create and apply makeup for a monster, fantasy, editorial and casualty design, using various techniques and applications.
• Special effect and prosthetic makeup to include severed fingers, burns, and applying a prosthetic nose and prosthetic skin.
• Making and preparing a bald cap, a headdress or styling a wig as part of the completed character.

 

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