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Costume Makeup - Finishing the Scarred Joker

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  • mels Flag

    Are YOU serious?
    I signed up just so I could comment on this. I am sure you're a good artist for some make up, but this certainly isn't your deal, and maybe next time you should do a little research or actually use a damn reference. Yeah you give people ideas; but not really on what to do. It's more like a what 'not' to do when you go into the details of the face.

  • mels Flag

    Are YOU serious?
    For one, the Joker's white face make up isn't blotchy. it is in fact smooth, but missing and showing skin in some places. Also, it might help if your model scrunches up her face next time. The Joker's face is a map of wrinkles, because he's an aged character. Your pretty princess isn't going to get the job done, and she's going to have to put some effort into too if she wants it to come out right.

  • mels Flag

    Are YOU serious?
    Second, you did the eyes entirely wrong. Joker's eye make up is entirely black, there's no damn 'popping' on his eyes, they're meant to look dark and set in, not there to stand out. He's not a queen, and he's not trying to look sexy. You seriously think he sits down in front of the mirror and applies his make up? No, I bet if he was real, he'd scoop the make up out with his fingers and cake it on just like that.

  • mels Flag

    Are YOU serious?
    And your 'distress lines' aren't really from him being 'bleh' or what ever the hell you called it. He's playing a damn aged MAN for christ sake. It follows the lines of his face. And if you take a gander at his picture, you may also notice that you entirely forgot the creases that trace along the bridge of his nose from tucking his eyebrows inwards. (Eyebrows shouldn't even really be visible AT ALL.)

  • mels Flag

    Are YOU serious?
    Lastly, his mouth. AND DEAR GOD WHERE DO I BEGIN? I MEAN FUUUUCK. JOKER ISN'T 'DeFORMED' he wasn't born with that problem, it didn't just magically appear. He's 'disFIGURED' meaning that HE took the knife to himself and HE cut his face open! The scars should point upwards you idiot! He's the fuckin' JOKER. For crying out loud, he should be smiling! Not have a completely neutral face!

  • mels Flag

    Are YOU serious?
    The red of the lips shouldn't be defined either, it should blend in like he smeared the red across his face with one hand and was laughing while he did it. The first two segments are a great guideline for someone to get the proper materials, but after that they should just stop watching. I felt insulted the entire time I watched this tutorial. I'm sure if it was indeed so 'professional' maybe it would have looked like it.

  • mels Flag

    Are YOU serious?
    I've seen kids on DA who're just messing around do a HELL of a lot better than you did. I RATE THIS: EPIC FUCKING FAIL.

  • teehee123 Flag

    Give him a break, lol
    Dude, you need to chill. Did you not read the description? He's worked in theater makeup; not movie makeup. Yeah, it's really wrong and all, but the techniques he's using are ones essentially made for the stage, not the screen. If you're really that passionate about the joker's makeup, go and pick on someone who intends to do it for the purposes which you list oh so numerously (not all, but many).

  • x___whysoserious Flag

    really ?
    i know that you probably are really talented at applying makeup, but not for this joker. you should probably go see the movie. or use a photo of heath ledger's joker. the eyes should be ALL BLACK. no white and no gray. and the lips should be RED, not red orange. and the scars should curve upward, not just go out horizontally. you should try it again sometime. & PLEASE do it justice this time.

  • lucaslover911 Flag

    lol
    i know u were being serious about all the mistakes but ur really funny!

  • DarkandTwistyLee Flag

    I agree
    I agree with mels. The makeup colors and how it's applied is completely off. I doubt the Joker would use "orangy red" for lips, gray on his nose and have gray eyes. Use the original colors if you wanna be a Heath Ledger Joker. BUT I did find this helpful when it comes to applying the scars, and using foundation and the waterbase cake makeup. And the Joker is not deformed -_-

  • miicu99 Flag

    ummmm yeah
    alrighty lets see here first off use a guy as your model the bone structure is different on males and females the scars are ment to be turned upward in a smile (dur!) the eyes are way too refined the black makeup is ment to smear to the sides of the eyes and once again the smile needs to be a deeper red (a crimson) even if your a professional take into consideration how the movie portrays the jokers appearance hes ment to look worn and sinister not bleh... i apologize for the bad commen

  • sirenpacificus Flag

    What?
    You're trying too hard. The only thing that should have any effort whatsoever are the scars. The Joker isn't a professional make up artist. He would just scoop that crap on. If you want to make it all blotchy and dirty just go outside and run around for a while until you get all sweaty.

  • piotroxp Flag

    mels
    Mels - you just rant for 8 comments not saying anything worth of reading. He said @ the beginning that its a "halloween" type of makeup. Not a movie makeup.

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  • Costume Makeup - Finishing the Scarred Joker

    This video series will show how to apply makeup to look like the Joker. Expert Roger Riggle shows you how to create the perfect joker makeup.

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    Roger Bennett Riggle: The other thing that I've decided to do is to bump up the texture of the face and what I'm going to do here, I've decided to take a grey eye shadow and I'm going to take a brush and what I'm going to do is just touch some of this powdered grey eye shadow into some of my textured areas. So as to keep this face from looking like it's totally white. I can do it in along the side of the mouth. That's going to pick up some of the definition of the molding wax. It gives it a grey kind of smoky. See, the texture of that liquid latex popping out now. We'll do the other side. This dark grey eye shadow helps to pick up the texture of the deformity. See it picks up the texture of the molding wax.

    Let's add a little in the temples. When you color in the temple, the temple bone and down, it brings up the skeletal structure and a hollow skeletal structure is kind of a more scary look. We can put a little in the hollow here and a little in the hollow here. Let's just break up a little of this smoothness with a little grey. You can see some of it came off there. So, we've really kind of textured and colored up that face. So, it has -- remember, three dimensions. We've used at least three colors, white, grey, burnt coal, and I've even added some grey eye shadow to give it some texture and some unsmooth quality to what we've done.

    The last thing that we can do -- and we've used wigs for other segments that we've done. We've used a wig for the werewolf; we used a wig for the tiger. If you want to, you can take your own hair and use your own hair. Vanessa has nice long hair, so it's fun to play with. They also make hair sprays in all different kinds of colors and it's temporary and washes out in one shampoo. So, you could spray your hair black or brown or you could put stripes of white or grey or blonde. They even have florescent colors, yellow, blue, purple, any color you wanted to use.

    So, basically for this, I'll just rub my fingers up through her hair like this and give this kind of a low gruesome zombie kind of look. So, it's also fun to use your own hair and actually, I think we've done a good job with disguising her face and making Vanessa really not look so much like Vanessa and we've done very, very little.

    So, again we molded the molding wax, we adhered it to the face, we covered it with liquid latex, while the skin was stretched and then we put a water-based foundation over that and added the detail.

    So, Vanessa can go to the front door on Halloween and scare someone as the scarred joker in her costume makeup.

     

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