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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 83: Famous Guy in Beard Makeup Rendering OR Adventures With Spirit Gum Rendering [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].


Beard Makeup Next To Makeup Rendering
Jack Sparrow Makeup And Rendering
Charlie Chaplin Makeup and Rendering
  • Definition: Makeup rendering- drawing of a makeup design one intends to execute

The Assignment:


Draw a color makeup rendering on one of your personalized face outline sheets, a generic outline sheet , or freehand, or with computer software of your planned Famous Guy In Beard Makeup Design (or your Adventures With Spirit Gum Rendering) and submit through the link below.  It is OK to alter or even abandon your design if you find there are problems once you try it on your face, but still do a rendering. It is OK to alter or even abandon your design if you find there are problems once you try it on your face, but still do a rendering. Photograph your rendering (preferably one shot alone, and one shown alongside your finished face makeup as seen above) and upload photos here for credit . Remember afterwards to also to save any research you did as well as this rendering assignment into your Makeup Morgue/Portfolio so you build up your Makeup Morgue/Portfolio gradually and easily over the course of the semester.

STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 82: Multiple Research Images of Your Famous Guy with Beard [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].


Research Images of Lenin's Face

Explanation: Famous Guys in Beards


Do research for a makeup design based on a well-known image of a guy in a beard/moustache. The best folks to pick are historical and newsworthy ones where you can get lots of images like Lenin, Darwin, Charles I, Frederick Douglas, Emperor Meiji, Dickens, Che Guevara, King Faisal, Osama Bin Laden, etc. or the Unibomber, members of ZZ Top, The Beatles, Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak.

Getting your Points


Gather together multiple views of your “Famous Guy in a Beard” and submit through the link below .   Use these sources to base your next assignment, the Beard Makeup Rendering, upon. Remember afterwards to also to import your research/rendering in your Portfolio/Morgue Assignment so you build up your morgue gradually and easily over the course of the semester.

Alternate Adventures With Spirit Gum Version:


Instructor Tara in Fall makeup with floral lashesDo visual inspiration research for a makeup design based on a fantasy creature  with beard, eyebrows, etc of feathers, flowers, paper, plastic, pipe cleaners or other lightweight materials. The best creatures to pick are humanoid amalgamations of human/animal, human/ plant, human/fungus, human/mineral, human/landfill or human/weather where you can get lots of images like snow/ice or tree/lichen etc for your inspiration, as well as possible previous ideas of what a “Green Man” a “Snow Queen” or a “Reptile Woman” might look like.

Getting your Points


Gather together multiple views of your inspirational  images and submit through the link below .   Use these sources to base your next assignment the Makeup Rendering upon. Remember afterwards to also to import your research/rendering in your Morgue/Portfolio Assignment so you build up your Portfolio gradually and easily over the course of the semester.

STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 78: Learning Objectives: Beard 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 Objective:Outcomes we will use to get there:
Learn to use Spirit Gum to apply lightweight substances to your face within a makeup design. Research, render and complete either:
A makeup of a famous bearded man Or a makeup of a fantasy character with facial “hair” of a substance other than crepe hair.
Man with flowers spirit gummed to face
Woman with feathers stuck to face with spirit gum