I started to create some face charts after looking at images of both modern and authentic lunatics. I feel that this has helped me a lot, although I would like to look further into into fashion photography images of madness and mental illness. Below are my first visions of how I could build upon my look, which I will continue to build upon as I get further into my research.
The above design shows blueish lips to represent neglect of the bodily appearance and deep red and purple eyes, which represents the models lack of sleep as that is the reason why she has gone mad in the first place. I added some blood as I thought it would be interesting to add an element of self harm to the design to show the extent of the models madness - she is so convinced that the spiders are in her brain that she has resorted to harming herself in an effort to get them out.
Ive always though bleached eyebrows represented something out of the ordinary so I thought it would be interesting to add this to a design. The bleaching of the eyebrows also takes away a lot of character from the face which could be mirrored in the pure whiteness of most mental asylums. Again the eyes are red to show lack of sleep and this time I have added stitches onto the mouth to add a more horrific element because there is no blood in this design. The stitches also represent the fact the patient cant talk about or get anybody to understand their condition completely.
My next step will be to do some tests of these designs and see what works and what doesn't, and I can then incorporate those elements into my further research and design.
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