Pinhead Skullcap phase two

In our last post on the Hellraiser Project we had finally found success in creating nails for the Pinhead Baldcap. That  process was actually a great deal more difficult than I had anticipated, but I’m glad it’s done.

The next step is to create the grid of cut flesh on the top of the head. The idea is that with a bald cap complete with pins and a grid, the rest of the makeup on application day will be half as difficult.

Back when we were trying out the facial pins, I settled on the cotton ball method of creating the cuts. A little latex, with pieces torn from a cotton ball sticking to it. This is a long process, and it’s giving me an idea of how long this makeup will take to apply. Just creating the cotton grid takes between an hour and a half and two hours. Each bit between the pins has to be added individually, then heated to dry faster. Instead of the long lines that it appears to be, what you are actually looking at is dozens of tiny little cotton pieces, four little pieces making up each square.

The next step is to mat it down with fake blood. This is where a creative choice comes in. I’ve seen people do the grid just drawn in with black, I’ve also seen it done in red. I don’t want to do any of that. I’m using blue food coloring to mat the cotton down. Pinhead is frequently shown in a blue light and the color gives an eerie look to him. It also serves to mark out the grid and highlight it, without looking unnecessarily bloody. That’s a principle of Pinhead’s look…he cause all this horrific bodily damage, but none of the blood ever gets on him – he always looks crisp, clean. The blue color adds to that stark, clean look. When I apply the makeup, we’ll use the same method, and follow the lines set down for us on the bald cap.  Finally we add white makeup to the squares and clean up some of the edges of the cotton with white greasepaint and a brush. The idea is to create trauma, to look like the skin is puckering where the cuts are, rather than it look like there’s a bunch of makeup in rows on my head.

That’s it. Time to celebrate with some Violent Blue, because the next step is the full application of the makeup.

PINHEAD BALD CAP : PHASE TWO COMPLETE

August 8, 2013 | Categories: Hellraiser, Pinhead, The Hellraiser Project, Violent Blue, Webcomic | Tags: Hellraiser, Pinhead, The Hellraiser Project, Uncategorized, Violent Blue, Webcomic | Leave a comment