Good afternoon everyone. Can anyone give me tips on how to achieve that faded multi-color look of Tyler Mane’s coveralls from Rob Zombie’s Halloween please? Every time I dye coveralls, they’re either dark brown or Olive green. I can get to that multi color, faded look. It’s always too dark. Any tips for doing those coveralls would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
Dye is just the starting point. Use just enough dye to get a slightly brown tone, you don’t want to go too dark at once. Then you want to apply paint in thin layers to build up the colors on the coveralls. It takes a while to do it well. Take your time. Use as many reference pictures as you can find.
When I did mine, I just used dark brown dye. I didn’t add in that green color people say to add in for the layering color. Instead, I just misted the coveralls with matte black spray paint to achieve the dried oil stains look. I had the added benefit of my dad giving me his old pair to use, and being a retired heavy equipment operator, there were already plenty of real oil stains on there. As a con, though, they were already in pretty rough shape, but being that these coveralls have gotten quite rare, beggars can’t be choosers. I retrospect, it’s a bit TOO dark, but most of the references I worked off of were production stills and BTS photos, and most of the movie takes place in the dark anyway, so I think it still works out. I’ve been considering going back and adding MORE blood effects, but eh.
Drying after dye job
Adding stains:
Added patches and blood:
Worn:
