I painted the tail pieces, tuners and guides/bridges. Then painted the strumming area to match. The original has this entire area as one mechanism of tubes not unlike a river raft. I had to tape off the wires and had a seriously hard time getting the tape off. I already clipped the strings to length so I couldn't remove them for painting.
After tape removal:
Printed bits glued in:
and then drew in the lines to make it look like separate long pipes:
side by side (ya, my room lights are yellowish)
My tensioners stick out too far making it longer. Because of how they are hiding the pin nails, I cannot easily move them.
I had to choose between my gray frontal hair piece and the black. I settled on the gray as it has some black mix already. I used my brown root touchup spray and toned it to match my hair while also spraying some halloween white on my own hair.
I seriously struggled with styling. It is a true test of my patience.
After finally hitting my stride, I touched up my eyebrows. Brolin has messed up eyebrows that do not match, side to side, possibly scars.
The following makeup test photos DO NOT INCLUDE the intended white faux mustache and beard additions. This is NOT a final pose set.
These were the inspiration pictures (Brolin in scene and at awards show):
My pictures, Selfie side of camera:
Mirror pics (not reversed, makeup will be done in reverse on day of shoot):
With the addition of the extra thick facial hair (and mapped to match his), we are ready for poses.
I have talked with my uncle, who initially scouted the site with my cousin, and he is coming in to the area tomorrow. We will set up a time to get me to their home near the staging area so I can get all my gear packed. We are so very close now.
My facial comparison app got an update and now it has a hard time loading angled shots. I have only got it to accept that pose one time but didn't immediately have a josh photo at the same angle. The one next to it ranked high enough to be Josh and I am sure my mom wouldn't notice which is which:
But still room for improvement. (lots of extra facial hair coverage needed)
The biggest catch, in all of this, is getting my gear on over my head. The neck piece is super snug and will likely pull at my hair and drag a bit on my facial makeup. There will be last minute touch-ups in any case. I can barely function after the gear is on so I can't do the disguise after the armor.
I was practicing with my scar makeup tonight and failed on one simple step. I did not shave. The rigid collodion has an extra characteristic that I was unaware of, its high capillary action. On bare skin you paint on the liquid and it tends to not drip but still acts mostly as a liquid until it dries. However, in the presence of facial hair, it clings to and pulls toward/on and up the strands. It will pull away from the bare areas to surround a follicle as though it was magnetized. Once touching a hair it creates a large collection of collodion that dries on the hair alone, creating a little bead of clear glue. I believe this must be an effect created due to an attraction to proteins where hair is a higher concentration than skin. Just a guess but wow, oh wow, it does like hair.
I will shave in the morning and redo the scar zone for practice. My recent mehron purchase is what I call "the good stuff" as other brands tend to be very diluted and not nearly as aggressive in making the skin indent. I have only ever purchased small quantities so I am sure there must be other quality brands that sell in commercial quantities.
And as always, my reminder that you never peel this off after it dries or you can cause scarring. Always use an appropriate remover or moisturize the area so well that it falls off on its own. Do not be tempted to peel. This is the same idea as never pulling a hangnail. It seems like it is harmless and suddenly you are bleeding or your tan is now missing because you peeled it off. Repeated use of the same scar shape and you are nearly guaranteeing damage. So, if you do this for stage purposes on a character that will need to be stage ready several times a week, find a different method or just paint on a colored scar. Rigid Collodion really should only be used when a close-up is totally necessary.
I juggled plans, missed out, replanned, over planned and got a call from my uncle who was willing to drive me out on the dunes and take pictures today.
I am ecstatic about how they turned out. I have several sets to post with a pseudo reason for grouping them in some fashion. I have not had a chance to work with my phone to do artsy cropping nor facial comparison nor split face comps. So, this won't be my last upload but is the dump of the final photos that I have been hoping would be from the dunes.
First group is today's final poses. I already weeded out a bunch. Next sets will be my usual, comps to scenes, side by sides, face comp percentages and overlays into scenes from the movie. Just the one grouping today though as I just got back from the Dunes and am wiped out tired. My uncle did a wonderful job with the camera (my camera), especially since he thought I was doing my normal remote control taking my own pictures.
After these shots (above) we hopped back in the Tracker and ran down on the beach to see the "Llewelyn Moss" pose tree he had found for me and then ran down to the waves. I had asked him to find pose locations because he has this uncanny photographic memory and can name a spot by just seeing the movie scene I want to replicate.
When we came back out of the parks, my uncle needed to air up all the tires for the highway as he had let them out for use in the dunes.
While he was doing this (and yes I volunteered to help) I took some "I am bored" closeups sitting in the car:
My facial comparison app has, again, stopped recgnizing side shots, so, I will be doing a lot more side by side comp shots than usual. My highest likeness percentage, so far, is 87 percent. I feel the side angles turned out so much closer to matching Josh but cannot get the app to produce a likeness number from these angles.
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After tape removal:
Printed bits glued in:
and then drew in the lines to make it look like separate long pipes:
side by side (ya, my room lights are yellowish)
My tensioners stick out too far making it longer. Because of how they are hiding the pin nails, I cannot easily move them.
I seriously struggled with styling. It is a true test of my patience.
After finally hitting my stride, I touched up my eyebrows. Brolin has messed up eyebrows that do not match, side to side, possibly scars.
The following makeup test photos DO NOT INCLUDE the intended white faux mustache and beard additions. This is NOT a final pose set.
These were the inspiration pictures (Brolin in scene and at awards show):
My pictures, Selfie side of camera:
Mirror pics (not reversed, makeup will be done in reverse on day of shoot):
With the addition of the extra thick facial hair (and mapped to match his), we are ready for poses.
I have talked with my uncle, who initially scouted the site with my cousin, and he is coming in to the area tomorrow. We will set up a time to get me to their home near the staging area so I can get all my gear packed. We are so very close now.
And now to clean off all the glue and color and say good night. Tomorrow will cement the schedule for this weeks poses.
But still room for improvement. (lots of extra facial hair coverage needed)
The biggest catch, in all of this, is getting my gear on over my head. The neck piece is super snug and will likely pull at my hair and drag a bit on my facial makeup. There will be last minute touch-ups in any case. I can barely function after the gear is on so I can't do the disguise after the armor.
I will shave in the morning and redo the scar zone for practice. My recent mehron purchase is what I call "the good stuff" as other brands tend to be very diluted and not nearly as aggressive in making the skin indent. I have only ever purchased small quantities so I am sure there must be other quality brands that sell in commercial quantities.
And as always, my reminder that you never peel this off after it dries or you can cause scarring. Always use an appropriate remover or moisturize the area so well that it falls off on its own. Do not be tempted to peel. This is the same idea as never pulling a hangnail. It seems like it is harmless and suddenly you are bleeding or your tan is now missing because you peeled it off. Repeated use of the same scar shape and you are nearly guaranteeing damage. So, if you do this for stage purposes on a character that will need to be stage ready several times a week, find a different method or just paint on a colored scar. Rigid Collodion really should only be used when a close-up is totally necessary.
I am ecstatic about how they turned out. I have several sets to post with a pseudo reason for grouping them in some fashion. I have not had a chance to work with my phone to do artsy cropping nor facial comparison nor split face comps. So, this won't be my last upload but is the dump of the final photos that I have been hoping would be from the dunes.
First group is today's final poses. I already weeded out a bunch. Next sets will be my usual, comps to scenes, side by sides, face comp percentages and overlays into scenes from the movie. Just the one grouping today though as I just got back from the Dunes and am wiped out tired. My uncle did a wonderful job with the camera (my camera), especially since he thought I was doing my normal remote control taking my own pictures.
When we came back out of the parks, my uncle needed to air up all the tires for the highway as he had let them out for use in the dunes.
While he was doing this (and yes I volunteered to help) I took some "I am bored" closeups sitting in the car: