Painting By Pixels - Guild Wars - Kurzick

This is my second game-themed look, and this time I'm doing Kurzick, the rival faction from Guild Wars: Factions, to go with my previous Luxon look.

Danika & The Echovald Forest

In Guild Wars: Factions the Luxons rule of the Jade Sea, and the Kurzicks rule over the Echovald Forest. Kurzick territories are filled with gloomy, creepy looking forests, winding trees and crumbling Gothic architecture. Their outfits look like they all just stepped out of a Tim Burton film, with grey pallor and lots of gothic influence. I wanted to do a gothic look, using purple, grey and black shades.

The Kurzick Look - Step-by-Step

Face

• Pale is the name of the game with this look, so after applying my usual foundation (Estée Lauder Doublewear in Shell) I used a much lighter powder (foundation, powder, whatever you can find) which was an old sample of some uber-pale mineral foundation and piled it on my skin, to get a pallid, chalky white look.
• Use a grey-toned eyeshadow to contour & buff it out with the light powder. Skip the blush!

Eyes

• Apply BftE Moonlight all over lids and right up to the eyebrows wet, using MAC 239 brush.
• Dry the brush and re-apply Moonlight dry over the brow-bone, to ensure there are no streaks or patches.
• With the same brush, apply the purple from Sleek Acid palette over the lid, blending it up over the crease, into the Moonlight. Leave some Moonlight as your highlight. Switch to a blending brush & re-apply any Moonlight to highlight as necessary.
  
• Using a blending/crease brush (MAC 217) liberally apply the black from the Sleek Acid palette over the outer-V and crease, blending towards the middle of the lid and up toward the brow-bone on the outer edge.
• Heavily shade the black powder under the lower-lashline using the same brush.
• Using black liner (I used the UD 24/7 Glide On eye pencil in Zero) line the top and lower lashlines (and waterline). On the bottom, flick the line in the inner-corner down. On the top, continue the line out, up towards the edge of the eyebrow (see above picture) for a definite, defined shape.
• Use the black eyeshadow on your blending brush to fill in from the edge of this line back in towards the nose, shading in the shape and blending into the purple/highlight.
• Apply mascara or false lashes.

Lips

• Apply a layer of Vaseline over the lips, then rub over some concealer/foundation to neutralise lip colour.
• Apply NYX Aphrodite lipstick.
• Add MAC Song & Dance lipglass over the top.

As ever, let me know what you think, and any other game recommendations I could use as inspiration!

Game EOTDs

• Guild Wars - Luxon