Dear Sam…

 

 

Where have I been?, 2 Assessments down & Its nearly Christmas!

Well! the past few weeks since the prosthetics event has been absolutely manic!, to the point where I decided not to blog until I had got my life together and had got through the last few weeks of uni for this semester!…

Basically, I finally finished those dreads and added them on to the bald cap for my assessment with Tina, we then had the assessment, which I wasn’t to happy with the end result, but Lauren was wonderful and an absolute trooper for me standing there bless her, semi naked for a full body paint. She ended up looking more like an avatar than an alien in the end lol.

 

For 2 of the weeks I didn’t got in as I had so much I could do at home I decided to just crack on with it 😀 stitching hair to tights, finishing presentations and essays and also trying to figure this dread situation out lol

Sam’s hair assessment has been driving me mad ever since I had finished the moustache one! Turns out it worked way better than I thought 😀 RESULT! and my model was great 😀 even having all the extra hair and structures added to her own hair!

these are just some behind the scene shots as I haven’t had a chance to edit them yet…

apart from all that not a lot has been going on :), we did however get our timetable for next semester in January 😀 we still have Sam, Anna May and Gary 🙂 but for sfx we have Lesley! Lesley has been on our course before and now has become a tutor :D…. I’m looking forward to having a new tutor and learning new things :P.

Christmas is literally 5 days away, and your home tomorrow 😀 I’m looking forward to having a catch up and a laugh over the Christmas period.

Now all I have to do is finish off all the last bits and submit on the 9th of Jan… and then another 2 weeks off 😀 Hallelujah!

Anyway speak soon

Hannah xx

Dear Sam….

The week I came to visit, Halloween happened & the first assessment of the year!

Over half term I came to visit you in London & had a fab time! We went to Camden, Stratford & also China town 🙂 it was nice to have some time away and a break from everything 🙂

Saturday 29th October

Halloween weekend has begun and boy have a got a few makeups to do for it! The first being a friend called Charlotte who I know from work, she wanted the half skull face which looked awesome once I had finished. Next up was Ben & his friends who all wanted different looks for an event going on in town, they all looked fab aswell. After I had finished up there it was on to a local nightclub to do makeup for all the staff ready for a Halloween event. They basically got to be whatever they wanted.

Monday 31st October

Today university was shut, not sure why but that meant we didn’t need to go in, I spent the day sorting some uni work out and getting my kit all cleaned up ready for the evening. I was back at the nightclub that I was at Saturday night ready for the Purge themed party they were having. This time I took mum along for the added help. Although it was purge night, it was really hard to create that “purge mask” look and we attempted it about 4 times but it just wasn’t happening! They all ended up with the white faces and crosses on their foreheads. (I am determined to get that look right!) Me and mum are going to have a practice of it at home on ourselves to get it right!

Tuesday 1st November

November has begun which means not long until Christmas now 😀 I was super duper tired this morning as I didn’t finish until late last night. It was so cold at 6am aswell! Today in Sam’s class was our first assessment of the year! The one that we had been building up to with these moustaches. My model arrived and I sat him down ready to begin! I was a little un organised and had a few hiccups along the way. However it all came together in the end 🙂 The final look turned out great and now I’m ready to photoshop them and have them ready for submission date in January 😀

Anna-May this week had something she had to go do, so we didn’t have to go to her lesson this week 😀 which meant I got to go home early which was great for me as I felt like death 😀

Roll on home time!

Speak Soon

Hannah xx

 

Dear Sam…

The week the sculpting begun!, hair fruit & the face paints are out in force!

 

over the weekend I decided to have ago at creating a few things for myself, and practice using polymorph plastic to create teeth!, I decided to come up with this eye piece with loads of teeth all over it. Ones iv created and resin teeth that I bought online. and this is what I came up with….

I created the piece first on my own face cast, added in the teeth and then pre painted it before applying it to my face :D, I also decided to play around with my facepaints again and have another go at doing a neon zombie! I love these things!

Anyway…

Monday 17th October

Today in Tina’s class, it was about time I started on that bloody mould! actually putting clay to face cast lol….so it begun, im going for an alien/intergalactic type creature thing… just winging it basically! what I do best! 😀 and here it is…

still not 100% finished but I’m getting there, after half term its time to finish it off and get it moulded ready for application and assessments. Also this week I had to finish of the bald cap I was doing with silicone to make it thicker, so hopefully my plan will work, however to this date (Friday) its doing my head in as its not working how I want it to 😦 Leave it with me I’m on it!

again no Garry this week, which were not complaining about as that means we get to finish at 2:30 😀

TAXI!!!!!!

Tuesday 18th October

No Leah today as she had Bieber fever hahaha (She went to see him Monday night aha)

Today I finally finished my moustache! its ready for cutting and styling into the style I want 😀 I’m so happy to be done knotting each individual hair! Phew, the second photo is Nicole’s beard which is almost finished lol, she was trying it out on my face lol.

Also in todays lesson we had an hour, in groups to come up with a hair creation using extra hair and to be as extravagant as we could! so Me, Hannah C, Nicole & Lauren had the idea for the pineapple pen/Apple pen song which is on the internet at the minute, however I said maybe we should do a fruit bowl instead, with all the colours laying around. We made a Pineapple, Orange, Banana & Apple. Me and Hannah C were on Fruit duty, while Lauren had to prep Nicole’s hair & Nicole was on the duty of creating the bowl for all the fruit to sit in, we had so much fun and ours turned out great (Plus we didn’t cheat :P)

Between Sam & Anna May we had a break and found this leaf outside that me and Lauren were obsessed with because it had big water droplets on it from when it had been raining 🙂

Anna Mays class this week was playing a pub quiz without the alcohol 😛 and the questions were based on the guest lecturer we had the week before, we also had a few task sheets to do and then it was time for home 🙂

I’m Coming down to see you this weekend as its half term next week & I’m looking forward to having a break away

See You Soon!

Hannah xx

 

 

 

Dear Sam…

 

 

Baldcaps, FaceCasting, Knotting Moustaches & Legging It!

Monday 19th September

Its week 2! & back in with Tina Again :D.. This week we got our boxes which had been filled over the weekend ready for the new year 😀 We each get a box with a bunch of materials in, so that everyone has the same amount of products to use over the year so were not arguing over each year using more of one thing than the other!

All Our Boxes Lined Up

Contents

In this box we get, silicone, plaster bandages, a block of clay, some mixing pots & a marker 😛 I’m so happy that they actually went through with what they were going to do! 😀

Anyway Tina’s class this week was making bald caps ready to face cast for our new characters! So applying layer upon layer of latex the bald caps were coming together. This time I’m using Lauren as my model. So after my usual morning nap 😛 and lunch, it was time to get Laurens face casted and ready for next week. Only took me an hour & refreshed my memory about it all form last year :D.

Next up was tutorial with Garry lol, he introduced himself and told us what his lesson was all about. Basically we go to him if we have any problems! Plus he said he’s going to show us how to use Photoshop properly this year, as from my blog posts from last year, you can see all the drama we had in that lesson 😛

Tuesday 20th September

My GOD was it cold this morning! I haven’t missed all that at all, I even had to put my gloves on!

Sam’s class was up first, and this week we had to start the knotting technique ready to start these moustaches & beards! &&&& its sooooo stressful and fiddly! you have to hook about 2 hairs into a little knot using this tool with a hook on the end, but you end up catching the hook on the mesh and then it all just becomes a knotty mess! Took me an hour just to get 6 hairs onto it lol. Once you get into the swing of it, its really easy, but its starting the swing that’s annoying!

Oh & let me introduce you to Hannah! The blonde one in the picture above, she’s part of the gang now 🙂 two Hannah’s in the same class 😛 Hannah 1 & Hannah 2 lol, Such a cool name!

Next week we have to start actually making the moustaches & stuff ready for our characters, this is going to be a stressful few weeks trying to knot it all if I only did those 6 hairs in an hour haha.

Anna Mays class this week was talking about our Cv’s and how to get them ready for industry when we get shoved into the big wide world and have to find a job! we even got to play a game of Kahoot again which we used to do with Lindsay and involves winning sweets 😀 I’m There! always haha.

We had 3 minutes to leg it to the train this week lol, three of us pegging it up the escalator and literally made it by a second before the doors shut! pros at this shit!

So Last year all the girls would take the mick because I always fell asleep everywhere, this year im going to get them all back! starting with Leah & Nicole…. Unfortunately, to Leah’s expense I didn’t save her picture, however Nicole on the other hand, got well and truly paid back!

That will teach you!

This week I also bought a ring light thing that attaches to your phone so you can take better pictures with a bit of extra light, like selfies & stuff, I bought it so when I face paint I can take better pictures as the lighting in this house is not great!

I’m going to try it out tonight to see what its like 😛

Anyway Speak Soon

Hannah xx

 

 

Dear Sam….

The week of half term & the week where Nicole became a fairy & I finally finished that mould iv been whinging about for weeks lol.

 

I came to visit you in London for half term, and we had a really good time :P.  Living a student life for a few days wasn’t the best though haha, being freezing cold all the time and having to cook for ourselves for a change haha.  Anyway Sunday was fun for me even though I didn’t see you for part of the day, it was nice for me to step out of my comfort zone, hop on the tube and head to Oxford Street for some needed retail therapy :D.  Monday was nice for us all to go out to Covent Garden For Lunch at that Big Easy place which was like a lobster shack aha!. Then it was on to Camden to weave in and out all the little market stalls and down the main strip bit and look at all the shops. Ronan even wanted to break my Cyber Dog “virginity” haha because id never been in there… although I’m pretty sure we had years ago! We were out from 11am – 8pm and safe to say we were shattered by the end of it! Tuesday rolled around and we headed to Covent Garden again to meet up with dad & Oscar… and even though the British Museum wasn’t that exciting & Oscar got cross because the “magic” words I told him to say to make the mummies come to life didn’t work, we can say we have now been lol :D.  Heading to Embankment was nice to go have a look at the Thames and the London eye and stuff, and stuffing our faces full of Nutella & Waffles YUM!… it was lovely to have a chill out & a catch up with dad…. after he left we headed off to Trafalgar Sq. to look in that BORING art museum lol…. although you were adamant we looked around hahaha! plus your rapping to that Rastafarian guy in Oxford Street was hilarious! definitely a fun memory to have which is why I had to write this down 😛

 

Back To University!

Monday 22nd February

Seeing the gang again after a week and a bit is nice…. because weirdly I do miss them when I don’t see them haha… catching up on the train about what had been going on over half term and about my trip to London was funny to… this week we headed in a bit later than usual as we weren’t sure who’s lesson we were in this week! turns out all of them *Head In Hands* we got a little excited thinking we were going to miss a few haha. In Lindsay’s this week we were playing a quiz where we won sweets if we got the answer right! Me being me was straight in there lol any mention of chocolate or sweets I’m there 😛 although we had finished that 2000 word essay, Lindsay thought it would be a great idea to drop on us that we have another 1,500 to write!!! SAKE!!! It will be a doddle I’m sure lol. Next up was Vicky’s and this week it was a demo on Fairy tale…. Nicole nominated herself to be worked on lol. She was a fairy from A Mid Summers Night Dream (Never Seen It) hahaha but she looked pretty funky.  And it was glitter galore…. that shit gets everywhere! lol

This week in Carl’s lesson it was back to Photoshop again and FML its the worst programme in the history of this world! I mean seriously have you ever tried doing anything on that stupid thing 😀 it just doesn’t cooperate! By 4:30 id had enough and it was time to head home lol.

Tuesday 23rd February

Sam’s class was practicing 1940’s AGAIN! lol although this week I decided to sit on my laptop and sort out my Pinterest boards and sort my assessment idea out, by the 3rd hour it was stressing me out so I decided to Dutch plait everyone’s hair… they all started to look the same haha. Sam clicked on and said to me is there any other plaits id like to learn! it then became a gathering as she showed us how to do a 4 stem flat plait, a 6 stem basket plait thing and then a 3D plait… it actually taught me something new and widened my variety of plait making *don’t know why I found that funny* hahaha so the lesson became more interesting lol. Iv been given a new nickname from Lisa & a few others…. Hissy fit Hannah lol because I stress all the time hahaha Thanks guys!

Finally in Tina’s lesson this week, I actually turned my mould that has taken me 2 weeks of pulling the clay off and re applying it! into something I like and is heading in the direction that I had in mind! PHEW! I’m pretty pleased with it actually and Tina did comment on how relaxed I was hahaha patience gets you places iv decided 😛 Next week its on to creating the actual prosthetic pieces now its been smoothed out & textured. Nicole’s pieces that she’s making to fit my face look really cool as well, she spent all lesson creating teeny tiny scales onto her mould (which I didn’t get a picture of :()

Its assessments next week so kill me now as all this week I got to sort my life out and pull my shit together…

Speak Soon Hannah xx

 

Dear Sam…

The week when half term beings!, Leah’s birthday came around && See You later Essay!!

 

Monday 8th February…

Hallelujah!!!!!!! that bloody essay that has been the Bain of my life since November has finally been submitted & is over! it was a 2000 word essay and I struggled, dread to think what its going to be like when I do my 10,000 in the third year hahaha…. anyway rolling in to uni this week at 1pm, we sat in the library frantically trying to help Leah get the last of her essay on to word, because like most of us she left it until last minute.  Putting the last touches to them all, we all went up to dispensary to hand them over, sign our life away and never see them again until we get the results haha.  this week we didn’t have to go into Lindsay’s or Vicky’s as they were both marking this week, we only had to go in and finish off work.  However we did need to go to Carl’s and finish up some touches on Photoshop! We do have this great idea for our fairy-tale assessment which involves throwing either paint powder over each other or colour shaving foam to re-create the scene in Hook, around the dinner table… so excited but its going to be super duper messy!

On my way home from uni, we left at quarter to 5, I had to change trains in Nicole’s hometown! sat waiting for the train to move, they announced that further up the line they had lost electricity!!!!!! not happy…2 and a half hours it took me to get home, I ended having to get a bus all the way back! not happy! Thanks for that Virgin!

Tuesday 9th February..

Its Leah’s Birthdaaaaay!!! & We bought her a Colin The Caterpillar Cake!!!!!! it was yummy!

Sam’s lesson this week was practicing 1940’s again, I let Nicole practice her makeup skills on me again while I just messed around with her hair so I could see how to do it for my assessment. I then robbed Nadia’s bandana and decided to just hang about and annoy everyone as usual hahaha.

onto Tina’s lesson and this week we were still sculpting out our faces, I did have photos but its so bad at the minute I cant even look at it haha, I have literally pulled the clay off of it about 9 times by now, I even had to ring mum for her to give me words of advice aha! thankfully it slowly starting to look better.  With a little bit of patience & some time it will turn out how I want it to look eventually hahaha… I did beg Tina to let me bring it home but she wont :(.

Its Half Term now aswel!!

Anyway! I’m coming to visit this week and I’m so excited!! to get away for a few days and have some fun!

See you Friday 😛

Hannah xx