Wesley's Weekly HOW TO: Basic Burns
Burns are useful for so many things in film, everything from being splashed with acid, to falling into a fire, to being shot with a laser weapon, they can be useful in a lot of circumstances. Thankfully you don't have to be rich or a make-up expert to make a realistic looking burn for almost anything you need.
Start out by cleaning your subjects face, and applying the liquid latex to the burn zone, let it dry, and then...
Just pop it loose and pull it back a little so you have a nice hole in the burn layer.
Then I layered more liquid latex and some pale pale yellow paint in the wound to look like the hypodermis (the fat layer).
I teased out the edges of the wound a little bit to make it kind of stand up a little higher. And there you have it, your terrible 3rd degree burn is ready.
For Blisters, you'll want to add them in on the edges of your 3rd degree burn in the pink and red (they'll be at the core of the burn in a bad 2nd degree burn), make a slit in the latex with a pencil or a paper clip. I know the blister isn't in the right place in this wound, I should have added the blister in much earlier on the edges of the wound, but hey, better late than never.
Then get a piece of toliet paper, roll it up, and stick it into the cut, it'll puff it up and make a blister shape, you could also put some lotion in the section to make it look more "liquidy", but you reseal the wound with more liquid latex, paint yellows and pinks around the base of the blister, and white around the top very lightly. It looks kine of out of place in this photo because it lightens the burnt skin around it so much, that's why I suggest placing them earlier, much easier to incorporate them into the make-up earlier than later on.
But there you go, a horrible disfiguring burn and blisters. Hope that fits in well with the other various torments you'll put your actors through.
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Impressive.
Very Cool And I'll Actully use this one in the near future!
Thanks Wes!
w00t, never needed burns, but this poses very useful :-) thank you, like alway, wes!
Wow great job Wes that would work great for a nice crispy zombie.....Thanks Wes
Wow wes that looks amazing! Congradulations on another good job!
THAT WAS AWESOME... as soon as i saw it i knew it was going to be good. you are a lot of help!!
Wow, that looks real. That might be in a future prank video I'll be shooting. :)
Also you should do Healed Burns at some point!
Healed burns would be the same pinkish color as the first, but a bit lighter, and just tease it around so it looks scarred.
I think they handled scars in the "beat-up" tutorial.
They didnt really cover scares, the mostly did fresh wounds.
thanks for the tip, what do you think for a "Man with Out a Face""Nightmare on Elm Street" look?
I would just do this, but much larger, and all pinks and reds instead of black.
ooo that's discusting. But it looks really realisitic.
realistic awesome
how do you clean it
How do you clean it off?
You peel it off, it's liquid latex, it's not a hassle. Just soap and warm water and light scrubbing.
This is awesome and all but I'm of the darker persuasion and I'm not exactly sure how this should look on myself as a black person seeing as though I've never been burned that bad. Any tips from anyone? Scratch that. Any USEFUL tips?
Thanks.
It's the same basic concept, but you're going to want to use darker paints. But severe burnt skin, no matter what your skin color, still turns pink, and still pops open, and everyone no matter what has a yellow hypodermis, unless you're a mutant.
wow - great work. where did you learn how to do this?