Looking for a model.

 

This isn't an open call for anyone who wants to do a shoot, but a search for one very specific person to collaborate with for several shoots.

Looking for a model, adult woman, for some special effect makeup shoots, this isn't a paying job but a random thing to do. Open to PEI only, unless you really love traveling a lot to PEI. There's no set schedule, the frequency of shoots all depends on the model's schedule for the most part, but probably no more than once a month, possibly only a couple times a year even, whatever time and ideas permit.

 

 

 

I'm looking for someone comfortable being in front of a camera, not necessarily an actual model or someone with a lot of experience, but at least open to just doing it without needing a great deal of guidance all the time. I'd prefer someone who has never worked with me before, just looking for a new face to cover in prosthetic makeup. While I'm happy to meet with anyone interested, I'm not guaranteeing that we'll do a photoshoot as I'm doing this to find a very specific kind of person – that I'm not totally sure I'll find

 

While most of my shoots are more medieval/fantasy looking nowadays, I would be looking for someone comfortable with as broad a range of shoots as possible. Best example is if you'd be fine doing a shoot similar to any of the ones pictured here – if for some reason this got reposted and the picture no longer exists, concepts range from simple headshots, traditional modelling, costume shots, swimsuit to boudoir.

If it matters, my main focus in terms of makeup design is demon-oriented, not in a horror sense, but more a fantasy sense. I don't do alien, zombies, or really anything else, just not my area of interest. From time to time, if a good idea comes along, I will try a horror shoot, but it's rare these days.

 

I'm based out of Hunter River, I generally prefer doing makeup out of my workshop – it's gets too cumbersome packing and unpacking and then packing everything back up. I don't mind if you want to bring a friend along, but make sure they're patient as the makeup can take at least 90 minutes, sometimes 3 hours, and I might be putting them to work depending on the shoot.

 

 

 

Again, this is a volunteer only thing, it's just a weird hobby since I sell special effects prosthetic makeup, there's no real point to it or anything, just a thing to do – if that makes sense to you and everyone already thinks you're a bit odd, than this might be for you. 

 

Anyone interested can get in touch via The Monkey Rodeo page on Facebook or Instagram, or via my website even, it's pretty easy to find if you're not already well aware of it.

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Because the reach of my own page seems to be pretty limited here on PEI, I'm asking if you happen to know someone you'd think would be perfect for this, share this with them, or if you're part of a group where you feel like this would be appropriate to share, go ahead – just make sure it's mostly Islanders that will see it.

Fuchsia Horned Amanzi Demon

That's a bit of a clunk description, but it's what I'm going with.

 Did this shoot just before last Christmas, it was kinda of a thrown together, hastily planned shoot - I think it turned out pretty well. I did the makeup on location, which I don't do anything and really don't like doing - but despite that and realizing I forgot a couple things, I still managed to put together something that looks good.

 

Demons in Ugly Christmas Sweaters 2023

 Not much to say, just things to look at.

Ren Faire Demons - Odru-Shaggorath Demon

I don't often do exterior shoots post Halloween, it just gets too crappy and cold. We had a bit of snow down and it wasn't too cold, so this one ended up actually happening. I had plans to shoot late in the day, into the evening so we could play around with shooting at night - but we lost track of time during the makeup process and had maybe 30 minutes to shoot outside (with a 15 minute drive included in that time).

I had other ideas I wanted to try, but we just lost the daylight so fast - and it was getting way colder as the sun went down, so we packed it in and headed back home to do some exterior lighting stuff.

The blue contact lenses really glowed in these last few shots and the dramatic lighting really looked cool. My only disappointment is in the lack of variety in the poses of the shots, we had to stick to keeping it simple to make sure what we were getting would at least be worth it.

 

Annual Halloween Photoshoot - The Eldritch Flayer

I forgot to upload all these here. This was from my most recent annual Halloween shoot, I just made this piece and it was meant to be first shown off in a D&D shoot in September, but shit weather and bad scheduling kept putting it off until the weather turned too cold, hopefully we'll be revisiting it in May/June of next year.

It was a super simple and quick shoot, I've started using Adobe's Generative Fill to add a little more interest to the background of some images since we really are limited on interesting shooting locations on PEI, especially after 15 years of doing this.

 

Ren Fair Demons - Adarra Warlock

Did a shoot last week where I made the whole costume, prosthetic, props and all. I'll be doing more shoots like this from now on, so I wont' be doing as much, but it feels a lot more satisfying that what I had been doing for the last few years.

I'm still learning to sew, but I'm pretty happy with being able to turn the dress and hood/vest pieces out in one single day, that involved dyeing the fabric, cutting it all out and assembling it, it they were all from my own versions of existing patterns, just very modified. Not perfect, but I think it turned out pretty good for someone who only started about 8 months ago.