Morgue

A morgue is a collection of photographs. It is often used by the make-up artist when sketching or sculpting a character. Such as if you had to age an actor. You could look through the morgue for pictures of older people and and study the shaps of there wrinkles for ideas. It is easy to make your own morgue. Start collecting magazines. Go through the magazines and tear out pictures of people. You want to look for pictures of

both males & females
different shaped eyes
nose shapes
eyebrow shapes
mouth shapes
ears
face shapes
wrinkles
skin tones
people of different nationalities
different shaped hairlines
pictures of different aged people from babies to elderly
also look for skin textures
blemishes

Look in womens magazines for special articles on plastic surgery (especially plastic surgery mishaps), skin problems or diseases such as moles, rashes. They will often have great pictures with the articles. Also photography magazines often have many pics of pople of various ages.

Ask friends and family to save old magazines for you. You may even want to ask a local Doctor's office or beauty shop if they will let you have old magazines when there through with them.

What to put your pictures in
My morgue is a 3 ring binder so i can add pics as i find them. I use a hole punch and then use notebook hole reinforcement sickers since magazine pages would tear easy and fall out wihout reinforcement. Also it helps to organize your morgue. I personally have my mogue categorized by age. Then in each category the pics are put into groups such as all full face shots, mouths, ears, noses etc. But you should use whatever system your most comfortable with.

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