If you had to.....Most Popular Designs

So, I'm brand new. And I have no delusions of being able to create my own designs yet. I know 95% of what I do is going to be extremely derivative, so on that note... help a girl out. I need to start doing this seriously and for pay as soon as I can. I'm not going to rush in before I'm comfortable and before I think what I'm doing is worth money but before then I want to perfect as many of the 'common' designs as possible.

So far I can do dinosaurs, sharks, butterflies, simple tiger masks, (obviously Spider-man), skeletons, pirates, puppies, bunnies, kittens, dolphins, simple flowers, spider web with a spider, snakes, etc... SIMPLE things. I need to practice my teardrops and swirls though. I'm also working on familiarizing myself with different kids shows/media so I can do a character if needed but I need your help, lovelies!

So! If you had to give me a list of your ten most frequently requested boys faces and your ten for girls, what would it include?

I'm sure we covered this before?

I find the top design choices vary regionally.


Boys (in order of popularity)
Skulls/Zombies (skulls with blood)
Spider-person
Bat Mask
Lion
Dinosaur
Cyborg
Bug-Eyed Monster
Wolf
Evil Clown
Transformer

Girls (in order of popularity)
Butterflies
Butterflies
Butterflies
Kitties
Cats
Kittens
Cheetahs
Tigers
Puppies
Princesses

Top 10 Boys faces:
Tiger
Spiderman
Dragon
Dinosaur
Lion
Skull
Vampire
Puppy
Batman
spider and web

Top 10 Girl Designs:
Butterfly
Flowers
Fairy
Princess
Cat
Pony/Horse/Unicorn
Stars
Swirls and Curls
Bunny
Rainbow

another one I get asked for a lot is a peacock because I have one on a lot of my advertising

Hope that helps.

Boys (in order of popularity to my best guestimate):
Skull
Spiderman (both red and black)
Tiger
Flame mask
Two-face
talking dino
dragon face
tribal stuff
darth maul
Avatar

Girls (in order of popularity to my best guestimate):
BUTTERFLIES
Princess Crown
butterflies
This purple, lavender, light blue and white mask thingy I do... peek in my gallery....
Fairy Crown
Heart mask
Rainbow eye design
Kitten
Flowers
swirly eye designs

Shannon - I'm sure you have! I did a search but no matter what I entered it kept saying nothing matched my entry. Maybe it's a glitch? I'll keep trying for more ideas but I appreciate you pitching your list in anyway!

Thanks, guys!

Boys: Spidey, Dragon mask, snake, dinosaur, skull, vampire, dog, Canada flag beaver, Saskatchewan Roughrider logo design (like Shannon said it's regional)
Girls:Princess, Flowers, Butterflies, unicorn, hearts and roses, cats, cheetahs, fancy eye designs, fairy face, rainbows.
I use a design board but do requests off the board too. 90% choose off the board.

Yep, most choose off the board.

BOYS:
Spiderman, Batman, hero/Flash mask, dragon, Ben 10 watch, snake, dinosaur

GIRLS:
Butterfly, Pink-purple-blue pearl eye design, angel face, rose princess/fairy, hearts (pink or red), mermaid/Ariel

Search "popular designs" another thread should come up for you. It pertained to popular designs as they applied to demographics.

Boys:
Spiderman
Dragon
Batman
Ironman
Tiger
Dog
Bear
Lion

Girls:
Butterfly
Princess
Fairy
Tiger
Cheetah
Rainbow
Flowers
Swirls and twirls

Just an update, I practiced the hell out of everything you guys gave me, and I've improved by quite a bit. I've started working and gotten great feedback and thanks to the boot camp you guys helped me subject myself too I was much better at making stuff up on the fly for the odd kid who wanted to be a ostrich, the grizzly bear, the tiki man, and more! Even if it was the simpler stuff it gave me a task list to focus on and work at.

Thank you so much!

kipton i love ur picture! u say ur a beginner but this pic is simply fab! x

Don't search using the search box on this site. Use google instead to do a site search.

Try typing this into google's search box:
popular designs site:facepaintforum.com

This is what I found by doing this:
http://www.facepaintforum.com/t3742-demographics-and-your-most-popular-designs
http://www.facepaintforum.com/t7346-full-faces
http://www.facepaintforum.com/t7312-60-kids-4-hours
http://www.facepaintforum.com/t8562-need-advice
http://www.facepaintforum.com/t6375-how-many-designs-do-you-offer-at-events
http://www.facepaintforum.com/t7754-i-need-little-cute-bp-designs
http://www.facepaintforum.com/t5823-boy-toddler-designs
http://www.facepaintforum.com/t8950-designs-4-teenage-boys

TheGildedCat wrote:Don't search using the search box on this site. Use google instead to do a site search.

Exactle what I was going to say..i don't even use the FPF search box..I just google eg "pirate" AND "face paint forum" works every time!

lately, my most popular have been captain America, tiger, cheetah, pretty graphic abstract eye design, rainbow around the eyes or arm with name, jewelry, pink kitty, spiderman, snake and spider.


lately, been getting requests for ninja turtles, due to some lego game that just came out.

Boys:
Spiderman
Tiger
Zombie
Iron man
Dragon
Batman
Soccer theme

Girls:
Butterfly
Megamindy (our Belgium Hero)
Princess
Unicorn
Rainbows
Hearts and flowers
Bling bling masks (with lost of glitters and gems)