Practicing Different Wound Techniques (Mrs Laderman)

1. This wound was made by simply just applying wound filler and fake blood (using a stippling sponge) straight on to the skin. 

I think it is the least effective out of all the wounds I have created, because there is not much depth or variation in colour throughout the wound. 

2. This wound was created by rolling up cinewax and then putting it on the face, ensuring the edges blend into the skin. I then used a palette knife to cut the wax straight down the middle and make a deep gash. I coloured around the outside of the wound using my supracolor palette, foundation palette and my bruise wheel. Finally, I filled in the gash with wound filler and added some fake blood around the edges, using a stippling sponge. 

I think this wound is quite effective because it is not too big or overwhelming, and therefore looks quite realistic and may work well when combined with bigger wound elsewhere on the face. 

3. I created a triangle shape on the face using cinewax. I blended the edges into the skin, especially on the outside of the triangle. I then filled the triangle with wound filler, and added some more fake blood around the outside, using a stippling sponge. 

I think this technique was quite successful and would be the main wound on the zombie because of its dominating size. Using the cinewax around the outside gives the impression that a chunk has been taken out of the person's face, and this definitely would have been quite likely in The Walking Dead. 

4. This wound I created following the video (on a previous post) where Greg Nicotero shows you a quick demo of how to create a walker. I mixed oats with liquid latex and applied it to the skin. I then used a hair dryer to dry this, before applying foundation and supracolor over the top. I used a paintbrush to apply wound filler on the textured skin and then finally applied more fake blood on top, using a stippling sponge.

I think this is a very effective method because if gives you quite a lot of depth and texture to the skin, which was visible on the walkers in the TV series. I think I may have added slightly too much fake blood around the area, but if I toned this down slightly, I think it would work very well. 

5. To create this wound, I randomly places small pieces of cinewax over the face and blended them into the skin slightly. I then applied wound filler over the top, followed by more fake blood. 

I think this technique worked quite well, but I think it looks quite similar to method 3, only it does not appear to be 3D and have a chunk missing. Therefore, I would choose to use wound 3 over this one. 

After trying out different techniques, I like how method 2, 3 and 4 turned out, therefore I will be moving forward with these wounds and incorporate them into my final design.