While most makeup artists tend to follow the conventional rules of of the trade, 25-year-old Laura Jenkinson prefers to do her own thing. For the past year, she has been using all her colorful cosmetics and makeup brushes to recreate popular cartoon characters on her mouth and chin. She paints them in such a way that her mouth becomes their mouth as well, making the characters instantly come alive。
在大多數(shù)化妝師循規(guī)蹈矩的做著化妝工作的時候，25歲的化妝師勞拉·詹金森卻“不走尋常路”。在過去的一年里，她用色彩斑斕的化妝品和化妝用的小刷子，以自己的嘴唇和下巴為畫布，畫出了許多卡通人物。勞拉用這種方式將自己的嘴巴和卡通人物的嘴巴合二為一，從而使得這些卡通人物個個栩栩如生。
London-based Laura has so far painted a host of characters on her mouth, including The Cookie Monster, Shrek, Taz the Tasmanian Devil and several others from Disney movies, Looney Tunes, Pixar, and South Park. Last week, she did Robin Williams’ genie from Aladdin as a tribute to the actor. She does the paintings so accurately that every time her lips move, it appears as though the character is talking。
這位來自倫敦的化妝師目前為止已經(jīng)在嘴唇上畫出了包括餅干怪獸、怪物史萊克，以及來自迪士尼電影、兔八哥系列、皮克斯及南方公園等的許多卡通人物。上周，勞拉還為紀念演員羅賓·威廉姆斯創(chuàng)作了其在阿拉丁里配音的卡通形象。勞拉的畫十分逼真，以至于每次她的嘴唇動起來時，就像是這些卡通人物自己在說話一樣。
Despite the fact that she’s looking at herself in the mirror while drawing on her face, Laura says that her technique is incredibly simple. “I find a picture and then just hold it up to the mirror as a guide and draw straight onto my face – it’s easier than you think,” she explained. “I use theatrical makeup normally, but I occasionally use lipstick if I need to get the exact shade of something。
”雖然勞拉畫畫的時候得對著鏡子，但勞拉說她的作畫技巧其實非常簡單。“我先找來一幅畫放在鏡子上，然后照著它直接在我的臉上畫起來，這真的比你想象的簡單很多。”羅拉解釋說，“我常用的是那種舞臺妝的油彩，但有時為了某種特定的陰影效果我還會用到唇彩。”
“Ironically, drawing onto someone else is more difficult – I think it’s more straightforward drawing onto my own face,” she added. Sometimes, she adds a special effect – like Bugs Bunny’s singular, large tooth. She even does a few characters upside down, to get the effect of the teeth right。
“有意思的是，我覺得直接在我自己臉上畫畫反而比在別人臉上畫畫更簡單。”勞拉說有時她也增加一些特效，比如兔八哥獨特的大板牙。有時為了讓牙齒表現(xiàn)得恰到好處，勞拉還會把卡通人物倒著畫在臉上。
Once she completes a cartoon painting, she takes a picture of herself with a weird expression on her mouth that adds depth to the character’s expression. She then posts the pictures on Instagram, receiving up to 1,500 ‘likes’. In fact, she says that it was Instagram that inspired her to take up the project in the first place。
勞拉每次畫完一幅作品，都會用相機拍下來，嘴唇擺出的不同造型讓卡通人物更加具有生命力。之后她把這些照片上傳至Instagram，很快得到了超過1500個贊。實際上，Instagram正是啟發(fā)羅拉這樣畫畫的第一個地方。
“I’d seen loads of other fantastic makeup artists on Instagram and I wanted to do something similar on a bigger scale so I started doing about one a week。”
“我在Instagram上看到過許多化妝師的好玩作品，所以也想自己去做一些，然后就花了一周時間開始做。”
Laura admits that she is thrilled with all the positive response her work has received. “People always say it makes them really happy and it’s nice to bring a bit of joy。
”勞拉承認說她的作品能得到大家的正面評價讓她很感動。“大家常說這些作品讓他們很開心，能給大家?guī)砜鞓�，這真是太好了。”
