Inside Out

So today's post is about this paint that I did on my friend James a couple of weeks ago for my final project of my photography project. I kind of had a bit of a nightmare with it in that my original photos got wiped because the SD card got corrupted so I had to do the whole thing again. I tell you I was legit crying, so when James offered to model for me so I could do it again I was literally so happy!

So I was kind of playing with the concept of being inside out and the idea that we're all the same underneath our skin. Originally the piece was meant to be a lot bigger, like it was supposed to go over a shoulder and on the stomach but we just ran out of time which was SO annoying.

Overall I was pretty happy with how the photographs turned out and the exhibition looked pretty good, but for me, the actual piece could've been a lot better. But I'm so bad when it comes to self-criticism I literally hate myself and my work so much, I don't think there's a single thing I've done that I'm actually 100% happy with! I just think I could have taken more care over the shading and actual skeleton, it just didn't work out quite how I wanted but there we go. I like painting this sort of thing quite a lot though because it really does force me to work on my "artistic" technique a lot more, like with shading and highlighting and all of that.

The products I used were pretty simple, just a Rimmel Scandaleyes nude eyeliner for the initial outlines and then painted the roses using the black from my Ayliss iMagic flash palette (really good dupe for the Makeup Forever one, which fyi is $99 which you know, is a tad expensive when you're 17!). For the skeleton I just used Mehron Paradise Paints in white and black, just because they're quicker to use than cream paints, and then the red parts I used the Mehron bruise wheel. Any other shading I did with the Sleek cream contour kit in light which is a new one I picked up a couple weeks ago and so far so good. I don't tend to contour on a daily basis just because I don't have the time for it but on other days I've tried it it's been pretty good!

Well lads, that's all for today, hopefully I'll be posting a little more frequently now, but then again I've said that before and it hasn't happened so I'm making no promises!

Emilia xx