The initial ideas for my mask started from jokes my friends make about me such as 'dad in eyeliner' and 'Sean Bean', hence 'winter is coming' but I wanted to choose something more characteristic of my appearance. A lot of my initial ideas focused on the the makeup I wear, (winged eyeliner forever) and although a couple of ideas focused on other aspects of my look, (the hair on the left side and a set of giant stretched ears not pictured) I found myself coming back to the makeup as it was fun to mess around with the proportions of it, and I think that it is a defining feature of myself.
Initially I did want to do something really out there and wacky looking. An idea I liked in theory was a crazy spiral that would wrap around the head and support the facial features. I thought that this would hide parts of my face that needed to be covered but would also look interesting as it wouldn't cover the whole face and leave pieces of flesh peeking through, which might have given a spooky kind of Tim Burton-esque feel to the mask. In practice however it absolutely did not work. Below are pictures of two ways I tried to create that effect, first by wrapping a long strip of paper around my face and and secondly by cutting a spiral from paper and trying to configure it around my face. As you can see there were technical difficulties with both methods so I had to change the idea.
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| Strip of paper |
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| Spiral |
I'm glad that my initial idea didn't work out as it prompted me to find a new way of affixing mask to face in separate 'bands'. In the sketches above I had drawn out several bands so it would create a similar effect to the spiral but found when the facial features were added there was just too much going on, the different elements detracted from each other. Since the make-up was what I wanted to emphasize in my mask I cut the design down to only include one band for the eyes and one for the mouth with no unnecessary extra bits.
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