Costume Makeup - Applying the Detail
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Roger Bennett Riggle has been a licensed, professional make up artist for over 20 years. He began at Kinetic Artistry, a theatrical supply house in Takoma Park, MD. During his 10 years there, Roger managed the make up department -7 different lines; sales, consultation and artistry.
Roger has hosted numerous Washington, D.C instructional seminars for area artists; everything from beauty and photography make up to Halloween transformations and special effects make up techniques. Roger worked for over 10 years as the make up artist for Tom Radcliffe, a leader in headshot photography at the Point of View Studio also in Takoma Park, MD. Roger applied the photographic make up to thousands of actors, sports celebrities, musicians and opera singers.
Roger specializes in Halloween make-overs and the transforming of personalities for diverse, special events. In addition, Roger has created special make up effects for disaster simulation used in the training of nurses, doctors and EMS personnel. His credits include triage exercises at the Baltimore/Washington International Airport, for the Secret Service, and for the UHUHS military training facility. Roger has also designed for numerous theatrical productions which entails researching and articulating the authenticity of period styles.
Roger has a degree in drama from the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. and, since 1978, has choreographed, directed and produced numerous operas and musical theatre productions. For eight years, Roger was the Associate Producer of TheatreFest, theatre-in-residence program, at Montclair State University, Montclair, N.J. Roger has worked with many celebrities including: Leslie Uggams, Susan Lucci, Debbie Reynolds, Kim Zimmer, Pattie LuPone and Betty Buckley. Roger has directed operas at the annual Amalfi Music Festival in Italy . He is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Roger is the make up consultant for Parlights, Inc. in Frederick, MD, a leading theatrical supply house for the greater Washington/Baltimore areas.
Costume Makeup - Applying the Detail
Special effects makeup expert Roger Riggle demonstrates how to apply the makeup details.
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Roger Bennett Riggle: Hi! I'm Roger Bennett Riggle and I'm a professional licensed makeup artist and my model today is Vanessa Strickland. We are doing a scarred joker, a deformed type of joker character from the Batman comic strip. We've already applied the molding wax to make a more deformed looking smiled mouth and we have applied and not smoothly a water-based cake makeup all over the face, but we want it kind of broken up. We don't want it silky white smooth like, we would do a clown and/or a mime type character. So, at this point we're going to start to paint in some detail and what I'm going to do is to choose a grey. We're going to make the nose dark and the eyes dark, but instead of using a black, I'm going to use a dark grey because I want to play with some more and different colors with this particular character. This is a dark grey. So, it won't be so black. Remember, when you're working underneath the eyes, have the person look up and when you're working over the eyes, they can look down to the floor or they can close their eyes.
Let's add just a few little eyebrow textures just to give it a little characterization. Now we'll do the other eye. I'm going to do some see these brush strokes I'm doing on the nose, woo, woo so that it's not solid and animal looking. Remember, we painted it all in black for the animal. This is kind of like you breathe smoke, dark black smoke.
So, a lot of times we need to do a makeup, you kind of want to make up a story with it. Why not? We will make it look a little distressed by pulling in through here. We get some downward distressed, sickly, weird, depressed kinds of look. There are a lot of those little tricks that you can do to make someone look like they're really ooh, ooh.
To pop the eyes a little bit, I'm going to take just a touch of white and I'm going to paint in the eyelid. I'll just tap a little makeup on the eyelid. This is a technique we also use in beauty where we press on a very light color, sometimes it's shiny, sometimes it's not, but this technique we press the makeup on either a powered eye shadow or a cream and this is what we call popping the eye. Whenever you put a light color on the eyelid, it pops the eye for you and you can see where that's really pop that eye out with a little bit more definition for her.
Now, with the white brush and of course you can change to a brand new brush. I'll wipe all the makeup off the brush and now I'm going to dip it in this deep orangy red color and I'm going to be painting the mouth and I don't want the mouth to be very pretty. I want it to be irregular and deformed. So, I can come across here, I can do a kind of a mess up there. I can make the lip -- this is asymmetrical. So, one side will be much different than the other. Then I will try attempt to make the mouth kind of this big by filling in the crevices of our molding wax here. You can see quite a bit of the time when I'm doing lines and stripes and stuff like that on animals, features like that, I use long definitive strokes, but a lot of times when I'm creating and designing and playing, I'll pat because the pat kind of makes an irregular shape and I can start to put it where I want to and refine it later if in fact, I need to. Let's make -- since we went up high on this side, let's go down low on this side so that the mouth looks diagonal.
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Wonderful information, others too critical by thedude at 10/31/09 11:55AM Flag
Not being a "professional" makeup artist, I suppose I don't feel particularly critical of the content of these videos. I don't see anything wrong with embellishing on the idea of the character or with making a character my own when I do it. I also don't think that you are going to get "trained" as a professional by watching a series of five minute videos. Although the sites motto is "See how the experts do it", it does not say that it will play every moment from Rogers' life so that you
uhm, what? by jennasie at 01/12/09 06:31AM Flag
I am a professional make-up artist, amateur at best. this is the most appalling joker face i have seen in my life. i paint this face at theme parks almost every day and they all look significantly better than this. for one the joker is supposed to smile. kinda a signature mark there. second the grey just looks like you put too much white and are trying, in vain, to cover it with black and its just blending together. i can appreciate your attempt at originality, but the joker is clas
What The?? by havenxero at 11/27/08 11:15AM Flag
This guy says is a professional make up artist i dont mean to toot my own horn but ive done better make up than that and i am truly amatuer. No training no nothing and i have done much better make up i have seen better work than that at kids bday parties im not trying to be mean but 1 the make up is all wrong and 2 it is extremely extremely sloppy
Love it by kav at 10/09/08 01:38PM Flag
What freaking whackos looking at these videos and commenting. I am imagining reclusive "star trekking" "batman-y" "pokeymon-y" anti-social types sitting home waiting to pounce on anybody who dares to bring a hint of impurity or creativity to their anti-social past times. Ewww. God, I appreciate my like even more now. And btw...my son loves this look of the deformed joker. Thanks for being creative in your rendition! I loved learning the various techniques you used.
lets put a smile on his face by stoneteen at 08/23/08 01:27AM Flag
when i first saw the video begining the first thing i notticed was you screwed up the the easiest part that is the white face paint. how well this "scared" joker face paint should look like he just picked up some face paint and spread on his face without caring. secondly the joker joker nose has always been simply white.thirdly his eyes are are really just black circes again looking like the were carelessly put on. fourthly the scars should be pointing upward in a smile because the joker his hap
not quite by ysoserious at 07/19/08 06:23AM Flag
just a point of interest for the future. The joker has never and does not now have a darkened nose. he doesn't breathe smoke. he is simply human. further the lines under the eyes aren't necessary because the joker has never felt sadness. he's a "joker", that's not witty irony, it's the truth he finds sheer joy in the death a torture of others. I like to stick to the truth and not embellish when it comes to mimicking movies
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