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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 32: Aged Self Makeup [Assignments]

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].  

DVC makeup student in old age makeup looking surprised

Based on your research images, and the instructions in the video(s) Apply Aged Self makeup to your face or your model’s face and photograph it for grading. 

On this particular project you are only responsible for emphasizing wrinkles that happen when you scrunch your face in the suggested manner, because for this project, you are largely only trying to identify WHERE YOUR FACE MOVES because you need to know this for your future projects.  This being your first age project, many of you will be having a tough time doing this makeup, particularly those of you who don’t have super stretchy faces that are  inclined to wrinkle.  If you have a low wrinkle face, this project will look somewhat more bland on you than those who already are folding and stretching. This is normal, it will allow you to add wrinkles wherever you like in the later projects.   Some of you will have lots of folds and wrinkles, because you may be older or have thinner skin or more mobile features.  You will have an easier time with this lesson, but may have a slightly harder time repositioning some wrinkles for the later two.  Your goal for this project is primarily to learn how to highlight and shadow wrinkles and to FIND YOUR CURRENT/FUTURE WRINKLE LOCATIONS. Those locations are where your face moves, and those spots are the key to letting your other makeup designs be an amplifier of your facial expressions on stage. If you do this in class, Tara will take your photos, and you should post your favorites here for credit. 

If you do this at home it did not happen grade wise unless you take lots of clear photos and submit the best 3-4  through the link below to get credit.  As a reminder, this is how to get good photos:

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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 31: Real Aged Faces Research [Assignment]

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].  

  

gray scale photo of male with beard
Photo by GEORGE DESIPRIS on Pexels.com
smiling woman in white dress
Photo by Nandhu Kumar on Pexels.com
An old woman smiling, carrying a candle

Research images of actual older people, not “old age makeup” (pictures of your own older family members are good to include), especially those with interestingly aged faces, aged faces with similar features or skin color to your own, etc. Gather together source material and submit through the link below.   The internet is filled with TONS of great images of old faces of all ethnicity and character, so you can find images that may help you for all three of your upcoming aged makeup projects.  Remember afterwards to also to put this in your  Makeup Morgue/Portfolio so you build up your morgue gradually and easily over the course of the semester.  YOU DO NOT NEED TO WRITE A RESEARCH PAPER, JUST UPLOAD SOME OLD FACE PHOTOS OF YOUR GENERAL LOOK/ETHNICITY.

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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 30: Where do “White” people come from, and why do they get so wrinkly?

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].  

All humans originate in Africa, so where did lighter skinned people come from and why?

How do differences in melanin content and sun exposure affect aging?

So, different coloration when in different sorts of sun exposure gets different vitamins, and different degrees of aging sun damage. 

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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 29: Watch Aged Self Videos

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].      

This week the assigned video is again me doing a self-aged makeup.  Obviously, the details will not directly apply to you, but I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you watch this video anyway.  In it, I not only talk about details of aging, but also face changes that come with the process of dying, as well as show you ways to stretch your face in order to find your own locations of future wrinkles, using this method will help you whether your usual gender is male, female or non-binary, or your usual color is pink, tan, brown or green! (Lizard people need not remain in hiding here… DVC wants to promote inclusivity with all inhabitants of California!)

Your main goal in this lesson is to find what parts of your face stretch and form into folds as your face moves, because if you know those spots you can design makeup to fall into line with those moving parts and have your makeup amplify your facial expressions on stage. So, while this likely will be your least interesting looking of the three aged makeups you do, it is the most important lesson of the entire semester as it can teach you the most about your face, and faces in general. 

Given that many of you will not be old white women, I also include some additional videos from the interwebs that you can optionally use in addition to the official class video. So, here are mine:

And here are those other handy videos for your perusal, please note, not all of these are in English…

If you find any other great old age makeup links, please forward them to me (Tara) and they will get added to these links lists! Videos are added (as you can see) on the basis of visual content, irrespective of the language used.  I am trying to find MORE good videos in other languages to help ESL students have an easier time. 

Now, watch what you feel you need, and then move on by hitting “next” below.

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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 28: Week 3 Schedule

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

•Monday September 5: Labor Day Holiday

•HOMEWORK: RESEARCH FACES OF ACTUAL OLD PEOPLE (NOT AGE MAKEUP) TRY TO LOOK FOR REAL OLDER PEOPLE WITH FACES SIMILAR IN SHAPE/COLOR TO YOURS, PHOTOS OF YOUR GRANDPARENTS ARE OFTEN EXTRA HELPFUL.

•Wednesday September 7: Group 1: View Aged Self video, Group 2: Bring in your evidence of research on “Corrective” makeup.  “Corrective” Makeup, completed in class

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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 27: Learning Objectives: Aged Self Week

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

This Week’s Learning Objectives:Outcomes we will use to get there:
To learn about the places that move and fold on your face where you personally are most likely to show signs of age in your face as you grow older. To learn how to collect and organize a Makeup Morgue.Danny Trejo flexing his wrinklesStretch and scrunch up your face to find those folds, and make an “Aged Self” makeup to reinforce which parts of your face move.Start to import your past assignments into Portfolium and organize them into components of a Morgue.Aging Face 
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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 26: Congratulations on Making it to the End of Week 2!

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

This week I asked you to do some very weird stuff, which will hopefully help bend your mind into shape going forward.  

Three Eyed Tara

You have:

Hypnotic image of faces falling into other faces in an endless loop.
  • Made lots of stretchy and emotive faces at home in the mirror.
  • Learned how to do corrective makeup for your face.

Next week we will be starting on a three week set of age makeup lessons, so you should start now at looking a old people faces (particularly those who are related to you) to mentally prepare you for this all-important section of the class!

You will find the weeks going forward will tend to follow a steady and simple pattern, where you get to play with your face:

  • You will always watch an assigned video, and then choose from some supplemental videos to adapt the instructions to your face.
  • You will usually be assigned to do a little bit of research online to find images to inspire you.
  • You will usually be assigned to draw what you plan to do on one of your Face Outline Sheets
  • You will always be assigned to do a makeup on yourself or on a human model you provide.
  • We will always do a brief photo shoot to get good pictures of your makeup, (or you will do one at home.)
Animated Gif Of Face Paint on women
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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 25: Optional Extra Credit: Making Your Face Outline Sheets for Makeup Renderings: Part 2 – Drawing – 10 points possible

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

Step 1: Make lines on your selfie 

Tara's face in high contrast B&W
Drawing lines onto the face

Using a very narrow black pen or sharp pencil (Don’t use a regular Sharpie!) take your 8.5×11 printer paper selfie print and mark edges that may be hard to define once the paper is flipped.  Mark the bottom edge of chin, eyebrow outline, and details of the eyes. If your hair is close to your skin color mark your hairline also. 

Details of the outlining of the nose and eyes

(Special note: if you have a tablet and love the free app You Doodle (or another similar app) you can do this process on that app.  You also are allowed, but not required, to do makeup renderings on your computer.)

On the nose go around the outer curl of the nostrils as shown, and do the gull wing “V” line of the tip of the nose.  Do not join the nostril curls and “V” line either here or later on the other side, or your nose will look weird and knobby on your Outline Sheet.  Finally mark the bridge of your nose by running lines slightly inside the two sides of the shadows on the sides of your nose as shown here, don’t connect to the nostril curls, or this will look odd:

Step 2: Flip your photo

Take your photo and flip it around to the blank side and tape it to a window (or lay it on a light board if you own one). This will make your face outline sheet a backwards version of your face, the same way you see your face in the mirror. If you are making a face outline for you doing makeup on a friend/actor put a sheet of paper over the front of the photo and tape both sheets to the window so the sheet comes out frontways.

Picture taped to window print side to glass.
Drawing the eye

Step 3: Draw outlines & eyes

Draw a simple outline on the back of the photo for the outline of the face.  Put in light, vague suggestions of hair, neck and shoulders.  Put in details of the eyes, but don’t put in heavy lines or every single eyelash.  Put a light dotted line where the outline of the eyebrow was drawn on the other side.  When you do makeup you may  cover and “move” your eyebrows, so a dotted line will make your makeup renderings avoid having two obvious sets of eyebrows

Drawing a dotted line on the eyebrow

Step 4: Draw the nose and mouth

Drawing the nose

Draw the lines of the nose as you did them on the other side.  Remember not to join the curls of the nostril to the “V” of the tip of the nose.  You want minimal lines.   Lips are another area that moves with makeup. Draw another dotted line around the lips, (or a very thin line) where you marked your guideline on the other side so if you increase or decrease the shape of your mouth, you don’t get the outline lips to overpower your lip color/outline on your Makeup Renderings.

Drawing a dotted line around the lips

Step 5: Scan your outline

Finished outline sheet

Take the page off of the window and scan it so you can make more copies.  If you don’t have a printer/scanner, there are lots of free and easy phone scanner apps you can use. I photographed this one on my phone (see at right) then ran it through the free version of of the Adobe Scan app to make a more high contrast PDF that is easy to send to a printer:

You can send a jpg, gif,  or a pdf in the next step.

Finished Face outline sheet for Tara

Step 6:  Upload

Upload a copy of your face outline sheet below for points

Step 7: Make Copies

For your own use in class you will want to have multiple copies of these for your projects (at least 15).  And most weeks thereafter, you will do a makeup rendering (color sketch) using one of these sheets before you do your makeup.   I recommend printing copies on card stock in beige, white, tan or “brown paper” color depending on your preference.

Click “Next” to go on

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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 24: Examples: Face Outline Sheets

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

These are a small sample of hundreds of face outline sheets I have made for the face to face class.  On the first day of the F2F class I take a hideous “deer in headlights” photo of  the student that I print in B&W and trace from the reverse side to make an outline.  You can print one of these if you have an emergency where your toddler chews on all your copies, or you dog poos on them, or vice versa. You can also see how wildly different face shapes, eye shapes, eyebrows, noses etc are and why it often really helps to do your makeup plans on a sheet that looks like you, instead of looking like this.

                                      

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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 23: Another Optional Extra Credit Assignment: Make Your Alien Replicant Twins for 10 extra points! 

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

The Master Plan For World Domination:

For this project you will again use a phone app to do something that is both useful and very silly looking.  You will take your photo straight on (no tilting or you will look more “Space Alien” than you intend) on your smart phone, and process it in MirrorPhoto  (or another photo mirror type app) then manipulate it in the app to make two new “Alien Replicant” versions of your face with the two right sides repeated on one, and the two left sides on another:

Tara Face with 2 Right Sides
Tara face straight on
Tara's face with two left sides

As you can see this makes slight asymmetries in your face easier to see.  When we do “Corrective” makeup it will let you see which areas you may wish to try to even out. 

Step 1:

If you use an iPhone, download the free MirrorPhoto App.  

NOTE: If you are on Android or another system, just go to your system app store and check out a few of the hundreds of available free “photo mirror” apps that are out there, till you find one that lets you do what you want.  I tried 3 apps in the Apple system before I found the easiest one for iPhone, but unfortunately I don’t have the other types of phones to test.  However, if my own experience holds true you may find some fun free apps that while they wont let you make an alien twin they can do other fun things with your photos, so your time is not wasted.

Step 2:

Take your photo with your phone.  Try to get your face to take up most of the frame, and not to tilt one way or other, take photos till you get one that does this.

Photographing Tara's face in the app.
Tara's face photographed straight front

Step 3:

Save the face to your phone by using the up arrow at the top of the screen.  Hitting the up key opens options for saving and/or sharing including a down arrow key button at left. Hit that button to save to your phone. The image will show a Save Success rectangle on the photo when it saves correctly.

The app showing "Save Success"

Step 4:

The face doubled by the app
The two faces merged into one
Tara's face with two left sides

NEW! Video with more detailed updated explanation:

Hit the first mirror key in the app (shown here as blue) to mirror-double the face.  Then drag the image towards the center till the sides merge into a single face.  Save the face to your phone.

Step 5:

Merging the faces in the app
Tara Face with 2 Right Sides

Click the next mirror key which will show the other side of the face.  Adjust the position of the face to look normal.  Save the image to your phone.

Step 6:

Upload your three pictures below:

Tara Face with 2 Right Sides
Tara face straight on
Tara's face with two left sides

Optional Step 7:

Play with your face and the app to do fun silly stuff to share with your friends.  (Or not.)

Weird 3-eyed Tara image #1  Up-down-side up Tara faces I like the 3 eyed photo so much I use it as my identity photo on Portfolium!