I hope that everyone had a wonderful Halloween! Despite the snow we got here in Illinois we still made the most of it and I of corpse still dressed up! This year I pulled my inspiration from my love of Hotel Transylvania and went as Mavis!
I used my makeup skills to transform my face to look more like her by making sure to contour my nose and cheeks. And because I am committed to Halloween I even made my zing (aka my husband Frank) stop at 711 to get me a Slurpee so I could drink out of it all night and really be in character. I really had a blast with this costume. Here is how it turned out…
Completed Mavis Makeup
I found an ancestor!
With my zing!
Toy Story meets Hotel Transylvania! Bo Peep Violet and Aunt Mavis!
What did you dress up as? If you enjoyed this post you may want to check out some of my other makeup transformations on the Skinned page of my portfolio website!
I just finished another split face portrait and just in the nick of time. See I have always wanted to draw Doug Jones but he has portrayed so many incredible characters I never could decide which one I wanted to draw. His ability to emerge himself into the makeup and transform himself into whatever character he plays not only blows my mind but is really inspiring. He is not your typical actor playing a role, he is the role.
When he first appeared as Baron Afanas on the TV adaptation What We Do In The Shadows it hit me instantly.. this is it! I knew this was the Doug character I wanted and needed to draw. This show has become one of my all time favorites and the addition of Doug as the Baron makes me love it even more. The Baron makes you fear him, love him, laugh with him and mourn for him and Doug does it with absolute perfection.
After deciding I wanted to draw Doug as the Baron, I added him to my art bucket list thinking I had time to draw him. Then I got word that he was added as a guest to a convention I will be attending. I was so excited to meet him that of corpse my drawing hands went to work immediately. However I knew it was going to be a bit of a challenge to get it done in time with all those wrinkles. But I didn’t let that discourage me. In fact, if anything it motivated me even more. It also wasn’t easy finding photos from him on the show since he is new on the show and not one of the main characters, so I re-watched the show and then utilized a few photos shared online from make up artist Todd Masters who brought the Baron to life. Those photos really helped to get the fine details and full perspective of his facial structure and also made me appreciate the make up artists incredible work even more.
I did get the art piece completed just in time and am so excited to gift it to him this weekend. I call the piece “Night On The Town” and I could not be happier with how it all came out….
If you too are a fan of Doug Jones and the Baron make sure to keep an eye out in my Etsy Shop for made-to-order prints and wearable art shirts and don’t forget to come back here to see what happens when I gift the original art piece to Doug himself in my next artventure update!
My latest creation is a Spitting Image portrait I call “Invite Me In”. It is inspired by the scene in True Blood where Jessica Hambry “trick or treats” her way over to Jason’s house dressed as Red Riding Hood. In this scene you finally realize that even though she still has an innocence about her she isn’t the same baby vamp she was when she first hit our TV screens.
I used a combination of photo shoot photos of Deborah Ann Woll as well as screen shots from this particular scene to draw off of. I also found her “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf” Vlog to be incredibly fun to watch and use for inspiration. This is the the end result that I hope to give to Deborah at Comicon. Which will make her the 3rd of the cast that I have had the honor to meet and give my work to (Pam/Kristin Bauer and Russel/Denis O’Hare being the other 2)
This is how it looked after I cleaned it, sprayed it with a primer and started to paint it….
And this is how it looked after I finished painting it and my husband played Dr. Frankenstein and put him back together. I then did a few paint touch ups and then he did a nice spray laquer over all of it.
We gave the Creature from the Black Lagoon away as a gift to one of our tattoo artists so we plan to be on the look out for another one for our own collection. The last one we have in the box to reconstruct is the Wolfman!
My latest creation is a Spitting Image portrait I call “Invite Me In”. It is inspired by 
