Professional makeup sfx artist

Kivandrohex · Oct 5, 2013

I am wondering I want to change my whole portfolio. I can do many things.

like: casting, mask, latex pieces, scars, bruises, men into women, Hand casts for rings or jewellery and also paint animals on them I have fairies that I have made from porcelain and going to fire them in my "kiln" (high temp oven) also I want to know how I can update my port-- including teddies and cushions and props-- all crafts.

Each area should have a category, and I want to know what you want to learn and see what I can do....

I am an owner of a business called "ChErina Dolls"

thank you in advance.

Cella · Oct 5, 2013

Hmm... I'm a little confused.

What is it that you are looking to do?

Kivandrohex · Oct 5, 2013

I would like to know what you all would like or love to see in the portfolio of these catagories.

ChErina Dolls

I am wondering I want to change my whole portfolio. I can do many things.

Casting:
Hands
Fingers
Face
Spray painting cast

mask
Mache/textured/crack filled mask
Material
Porcelain

latex pieces
fake scars
Fake torn back
Fake dead person
Fake zombie arm
fake cut throat

bruises
Different stages of bruises
Day 1-5

men into women
Facial hair
Latex aging
No eye brows

Hand casts for rings or jewellery
Plaster/porcelain/Hand
Latex fake Chopped off hand
Plaster/porcelain/ finger
Painted animal hands, real or fake

Porcelain dolls and fairies
Adult porcelain doll
Baby Porcelain fixed doll
Fairies porcelain

Teddies
Small plush
Large doll

Cushions and props
Cushion for relaxation
Sowing

Busts
Sculpting from rock clay

Filigree · Nov 12, 2013

This would probably be more useful for you if you set up an online gallery, and offered links to it. Costume and pro sfx makeup can be a really lucrative - but aggravating and expensive - field to reach 'name' recognition within. (Check out SyFy's 'Face Off' or 'Heroes of Cosplay' for some examples.)

I've played a little in maskwork, costume design, and jewelry design. Just enough to know that my days of making it my living are probably a ways behind me.

Dolls, as items of fine craft, can be a mainstay for artists. Google the term 'art dolls' for some ideas of styles and prices. You might also want to check out the artist Charla Khanna, showing at the Jane Sauer Gallery in Santa Fe, NM. Khanna's primitive dolls are porcelain and fiber sculptures going for upwards of $3K.

Hope this helps.

Gale Haut · Nov 12, 2013

I can't quite grasp why you're assuming your niche market would have a high population on a writing forum. This probably isn't the best place to be asking these very specific questions.

Filigree · Nov 13, 2013

As this is an art & design forum, I can see a little crossover. Not as much as in Hands On, where this might do better.

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