At a pivotal moment in the show, Marisol bashes her best friend’s head with a golf club offstage and comes back on covered in blood. The designer wanted to imitate a shirt made by TikToker Quentaloup where there is a missing heart radiating outward with beaded blood. I jumped at the opportunity to bust out the beads and sequins and took a crack at it!

I used red sequins, beads, and rhinestones to fill out blood spatter on Marisol’s top. I referenced crime scene analytics to get the shapes of the spatter correct.

I filled out the bulk of each spatter shape first with sequins, then beads, then filled in and added extra movement and more shape and direction with the rhinestones.

I was asked to draft and construct a collapsible pregnancy belly for an actor. The belly had to be able to hold a sweatshirt inside it that would be pulled out during the “birthing” moment onstage.

The belly was drafted based on styles of 3D papercraft eggs - composed of three main panels that had more width in their middles than at either end. Each panel was flatlined with batting to give it some structure and padding without making it too stiff and unnatural. It was sewn onto a skin-toned tank top along with a mesh panel with snaps at the bottom to make removing the “baby” easy as pulling off a few snaps.

Once the “baby” is removed from the belly, it flattens itself to the actor’s body as there is nothing else giving the belly structure.

Unfortunately, I have no progress photos of this process.