1.6 Batman Design – Face Painting

Time Required for Lesson – 20 Minutes

Equipment and Supplies 

  • Sponge 
  • White & Red FX/ Tag paint 
  • Round Brush 
  • Detailer brush 
  • Black and White Paint 
  • Spray bottle 
Bat Man Face paint 1

Load Your Angled Brush 

1) Select a Your Dark Blue Split cake.
2) Load up your angled brush.
3) The  dark color pointing up towards the hair line.
4) Starting one width of the brush above the eyebrow, drag the colour from the middle of the one eyebrow to the middle of the other. 

Bat man Face Paint 2

Learn to Angulate 

1)From where the first line ends, make the first batman ear by using the thin bit of the brush.
2) Simply rest it in place, slide it upwards the width of the angle brush.
3) Curve it around to end in the outer eye corner.  
4) Repeat on the other side. 

  

Bat Man Face Paint 3

Lines

1) Fill in any gaps and blend with the sponge if the blue mask is looking patchy.
2) Starting from one ear to the other, thin to thick to thin brush stroke. 

Bat man Face Paint 4

And more lines 

1) All inner lines to be thin. All outer lines to be thin – thick – thin for extra texture.
2) Eye brows start below the actual eyebrow of your human and then gradually raise it above the eye brow and tuck it into the corner of the eye.

Bat Man Face Paint 5

Add Highlights with White

1) Highlights of light blue to be added over the dark blue sections to give it the appearance that the light is catching the design and to break up any heavy looking sections.
2) Alternatively, Super hero stencils with white. 

Bat Man Face Paint 6

Add Highlights with White

1) Highlights of light blue to be added over the dark blue sections to give it the appearance that the light is catching the design and to break up any heavy looking sections.
2) Alternatively, Super hero stencils with white. 

Tips

* Brush  consistency should be Pastey and bright. 

** Load up your round brush till it is a creamy consistency.

*** When the brush strokes are patchy that means you need to add more paint again.