Dorian Gray design research and face chart

•Background - wealthy young gentleman, no parents, mistreated by his uncle through childhood

•Story - begins a life of sin and cruelty, safe in the knowledge that his appearance will not falter

•Status - a gentleman, wealthy, friends with Lords and Ladies

•Characteristics - 'finely curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair,' very attractive, youthful

•Personality - impressionable, naive, curious

•State of mind  - gradually worsens and becomes corrupt

•Attributes - well-spoken, talkative, becomes cruel, promiscuous

•Research and evaluate

I researched some typically evil characters from films. What they all have in common is a wrinkled face full of frown lines, and quite a gaunt bone structure emphasising cheekbones and setting their eyes deep in their head. They have facial characteristics which seem almost abnormal, whether it's scars or the shape of their features. This makes them look monster-like, and therefore threatening and evil. 

•Who is it aimed at? - people who enjoy thrillers and old classics, people who have read the novel

•Visual impact  - shocking, horrifying, realistic

•Conveying personality  - frown lines, stress lines, wrinkles - all shows his cruelty

•Express yourself - including my own opinions/desires, e.g. not being as deformed as previous interpretations have shown Gray, as I felt they were excessive

•Goals and dreams - Dorian sets out to live a life of careless luxury, committing as many sins as he likes without a worry - therefore the effect on his appearance is quite drastic

•Building back stories  - assumptions of lots of smoking, drinking, opium, sex, possibly fights - his appearance would show the consequences of all this

Using my research and descriptions from the novel, I have created an initial design for my Dorian Gray interpretation. I have incorporated wrinkled skin and frown lines, a sore on the lips, which will be dry and greyed, a cut on the lower cheek and also a black eye to show evidence of getting into fights, yellowed eyes to show jaundice and therefore liver failure through alcoholism, greyed skin and tired, grey under-eyes, hollowed cheeks, a drooping mouth, and thin, greying hair.