Pear of Anguish Hair Iteration and Rat Torture Hair Iteration (both with feedback)

After getting the final images just about done for the Iron Maiden character I can move on to starting the next two characters, beginning with the hair for Pear of Anguish.

I really enjoyed doing this more than the Iron Maiden, I've always been fascinated with French Aristocratic styles from the make up to the clothing so have a play around with these is just easy work! With the Pear of Anguish given that the character is wearing a wig I can get a little extravagant with the hairstyles, I wanted to incorporate the steam-punk edge in with this character so for a couple I added metallic pieces, with 1 I added some cogs and a few sharp pieces of metal to start adding the concept of the fear of sharp objects, 2 had brass metal holding together the curls and 5 has a head piece made from vintage French style clock hands.

Again, went for feedback on facebook, and got some helpful choices.

The most chosen one was 5 and it was pretty unanimous, but I agree with a comment that the way I want to present this character that 5 was too warm and friendly, the hair on this one is a bit too posh and clean for a prostitute character. I have a feeling I'm going to combine 1 and 5 as 1 was the next popular choice and I feel the hair on 1 is a little less fancier than the others and I can combine the cogs and clocks as these are all part of the same 'machine' and also the colour of 1 looks dirtier and mechanic.

((EDIT)) Here is the combined hair.

And then I moved onto the final character Rat Torture.

This was another fun one, for the initial hair colour I went with brown this is the colour that sprung to mind first when thinking of rat fur, when I go to do hair colour iteration I'm going to look at different kinds of rat fur that would have been around England at that time along with red hair as many women of this time would copy the hair colour of Queen Elizabeth. With this hair I wanted to include a bit of the fancy past that the character would have had as a Lady in Waiting, that includes hair covers, pearls and lots of curls, I also wanted to explore the dirtier side of the character where she was tortured, so a few messy haired iterations and even one where her hair had fallen out where the rats had bitten down to her skin. For the horror image 2 would work best because it looks the most horrible to a humans eyes. Some people consider hair to be special to them so to see a character like this could unsettle them.

As with my other iterations, to the facebook group/personal profile!

2, 4 and 6 were the most chosen over and over. I agree again with the comments that some were a bit too clean, I want to keep the pearls and curls as I want that last bastion of richness for the character to cling onto. I think I could have the area of the buboes being the part of the hair that has fallen off, and have the dangling hair of 6.

((EDIT)) Here is the combined hair.

Now I have all of the hair sorted I can work on choosing hair colour and clothing.