People with no foreheads...

If they ask for designs that involve the forehead and the "canvas" is lacking in size, what do you do? I came across this when painting a dolphin. Went to swoop up the forehead to do the tail and "EEEKK!" The girl had about a 1/2 inch forehead! (In my defense, she had bangs, so I didn't realize how small the space was until I pushed her hair aside.) I did as best as I could for a major newbie, but do you ever swoop down onto the eyelid in cases like this?

You could swoop down around the eye to the cheek, maybe.

I try to clip up bangs with those tiny alligator clips from dollar tree or bobby pins before I get started. It is hard and it seems like they always choose something that is hard for lower foreheads...just like the flinchiest kid choosing Spiderman.

I actually just don't even draw the top half of the design, if that is the case.... For instance, if it is a kitty cat design, I will just leave out the ears and instead I will paint on a collar with a little tag. If the person has a huge glorious forehead, I will go all out with the animal ear details and maybe even a cute gigantic bow. I will also extend the tear drops and swirls to cover more cheek space.

There's almost always a way to make do with any design when there's not much forehead real estate.... it may take a bit to stop for a moment and figure it out, but the key thing is to not let it freak you out or send you into a tizzy....

There's lots of things that can get in the way of what your design is intended to look like. How about the excess hair that starts at the temple area and goes up onto the forehead that makes your paint bleed....arrrrrrrrrghhhh....

But a dolphin can be thinned out quite a bit toward it's tail to make it work - and the tail doesn't really have to be more than two teardrops if there's very little room.

I'm always more stumped when I get foreheads with no people.

THAT was my wise-guy comment for the day!

JJJJJ wrote:I'm always more stumped when I get foreheads with no people.

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