Hi there! Welcome back to my blog.
This blog post is going to be focussing on playing around with materials to create the dry rough skin of a rhino.
Figure 1 shows a close up of a rhino. Their skin is very visibly dry, especially with the layer of mud over the top of their skin. Their skin is almost flakey and has lots of cracks.
The only way that this type of texture could be recreated would be to use Fuller's Earth.
Fuller's Earth
Fuller's Earth is used widely in the beauty industry, mainly in skincare. It has lots of benefits for the skin; exfoliate, cleanse, purify, and nourish (Sanghvi, 2021).
Fuller's Earth is also used in media makeup and special effects makeup to create different textures, like fire and cracking as seen in Figure 2.
Figure 3 & 4: Practise with Fuller's Earth (O'Connor, 2022).
Figures 3 and 4 show that Fuller's Earth was trialled prior to the final assessment, to test colouring and creating the dry crusting effect of mud and rhino skin for the final images. Figure 3 shows two patches of grey coloured Fuller's Earth. The bottom patch is with the aqua colour put straight into the clay mixture and applied to the skin. The grey colour has worked, however it looks quite flat because there is not much depth to it. The patch above it has a darker base colour applied underneath the coloured clay, this means that when the clay cracks the darker colour can be seen through which actually makes it look more realistic and really makes the cracks stand out. Figure 4 shows both patches but with a bit of brown aqua paint added over the top. This was done to replicate mud and how mud dries on the rhino skin. This was extremely effect and gives the impression of rhino skin.
Thank you for reading this week's blog!
See you next week,
Alysha:)
Reference List:
Blair Drummond Safari Park. (2021) Close Up of Rhino. 27th September 2021. Author's Personal Collection.
O'Connor, A. (2022) Practise with Fuller's Earth [Images]. York.
Red, M. (2021) Fuller's Earth [Online]. Available at https://www.behance.net/gallery/9065007/Fullers-earth/modules/67403473 (Accessed 17 February 2022).
Sanghvi, A. (2021) Beauty Benefits of Fuller’s Earth and How to Use It [Online]. Available at https://www.emedihealth.com/skin-beauty/fullers-earth-beauty-benefits (Accessed 17 February 2022).
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