By Sophia Rahman

A MAKE-UP artist transforms herself into ghoulish renditions of TV, movie and video game characters

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Lombardo transforms into an elf using a blue wig and intricate detailing

Jacqueline Lombardo spends up to 12 hours on creations from Game of Thrones villains to 2D Wonder Woman.

Using little more than a camera, a black table cloth, a whole load of make-up and even more talent, the 26-year-old art director brings her other-worldly characters to life.

The make up artist moulds herself into a demon creature with white face paint and black contacts

Jacqueline, based in New York, said she has always been attracted to using makeup to customise looks, and first branched out by doing her friends’ makeup for functions, before graduating to special effects styles two years ago.

She said: “When I create pre-existing characters, as opposed to original designs, it’s usually based on movies or TV shows coming out.

The artist stitches herself up using a bald cap and gory make up
Using stark red and black paint the special effects make up artist channels her inner devil

“You start seeing posters and other promotional media and it’s instant inspiration for me!”

For her most complicated designs, such as ones with morphed perspective, Jacqueline uses an un-made-up photo of herself and digitally sketches over it in Photoshop, then continuously refers to high quality photos as she creates the look.

Mad Max: Fury Road's Immortan Joe comes to life in this transformation

The painstaking process takes between four and six hours on average.

She said: “The longest one took 12 hours, which was for Comic Con. I was a woman White Walker/Night Queen.

Lombardo transforms into the clown from American Horror Story: Freak Show

“I painted the normal area - face and chest - but also had to do my full arms, legs and even my back. I also did my sister’s and cousin’s makeup who were the Mad Hatter and a Splicer from Bioshock.”

After completing the look, Jacqueline then captures the finished character by lighting herself an LED ring light, against a black backdrop.

Grey-scale scars cover the side of Princess Shireen's face

She said: “The most recent look of mine was Arya Stark. Because she is a real actress without heavy makeup or SFX prosthetics, it was very difficult to get her facial proportions right.

“Getting those minute details of facial structure and realistic texture is the most challenging part. I’m still working on that skill.

Vicious teeth stick out of a ghoulish creatures mouth in this Halloween look

“Since I mostly stick to flat, 2D painting, I only can use shading and highlighting - as opposed to 3D moulds - to create the illusion of shapes and features.

The artist transforms into a rainbow unicorn in this look

“But it’s these challenge that keeps me excited to keep going and continue to improve!”