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Got Wood? - Stages / Tutorial

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I posted my Got Wood? photo yesterday on my Facebook page, and a lot of people actually thought it was a photo-manipulation work.

So here, I just wanted to show everyone how I created the look, from bare faced to the finished look.

note: I did this rather rushed and sloppy, 'cuz I really can't be bothered to make it look perfect at this point since I only had it for less then 5 minutes after I finished it.

1. Start with a freshly cleansed and moisturised face. Let your moisturiser set it for a while and then start blocking your eyebrows, here I used the glue stick method.

2. Apply your skin tone foundation on your entire face, and then start mapping your highlighted areas (here I highlighted down my nose, centre forehead, cheekbones, concealed brow area, chin) by blocking in with a much lighter foundation/concealer. Blend the edges by tapping on them using a flat foundation brush. Go in using a white foundation under your eye (this is to set the area where you want your eyes to appear bigger)

3. Using a much darker foundation (this one is about 5 times darker than my skin tone), start drawing in one by one, lines to create a wood-grain pattern. Draw it in using a thin brush (I used bodyshop's concealer/lipstick brush)

4. Once your face is covered in lines, fill in between the lines using a lighter foundation (one that you used earlier for the highlights) to emphasise the highlights of your features even more. Apply these only on parts of your face where you want the highlights to be. Blend by lightly tapping with a foundation brush.

5. Now using a black gel-liner darken the wood grain patterns only on areas where you want your contours to be. Blend again using the tapping method.

6. Set entire face with a translucent loose powder. Then, using a dark brown eyeshadow/contouring powder lightly go in to contour your face - making sure the pattern you created can still be seen, otherwise you may darken the pattern again by going in it more with a darker eyeshadow.

7. Now, start mapping out the features of your characters, I made this Pinocchio to look Tim Burton inspired. So I contoured his eye area to look like Edward Scissorhands. Also using a dark eyeshadow, draw a line down the sides of your mouth, and blend it outwards - to create the Ventriloquist dummy mouth effect.

8. Once the features are mapped out, work on them more with darker colours.

9. Put on white eyeliner on your lower waterline. Go in with a black gel-liner, and on the edges of lines near your mouth - draw them in to make it look sharper. Also with the same eyeliner, line down where the white highlight underneath your eye meets the dark contouring - to make the eye shape more prominent. Draw in eyebrows using the same gel-liner. and lastly, go in with a orangy tan blusher on your cheeks for that doll/puppet look.

and that's pretty much the basic. ;-)
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WhirlingBlue's avatar
wow that is so amazing! Brilliant work!