kaisle13 × Kalogenic

Nature direction

Siren

I’d build on the translucent, gill-like layers beneath the eye in your reference, carrying that detail into hair, makeup, and lighting. I’d cast a model with deep skin tones and style them with bleached brows and pale lashes to draw focus back to the eye. I want to see how the translucent layers and wet gloss catch the flash on melanin skin.

I’d shoot outdoors at night amid lush greenery or by dark water. A hard key high at a three-quarter angle and snooted flash would isolate the eye and cheek. Gels could tint the foliage or water, and flash could freeze splashes against the dark in wider frames.

Studio direction

You’re So Cold

Was super inspired by this frosty ref in your board! I want this studio editorial to feel like frostbite. I’m starting with the flushed eyes and snow-dusted hair in your reference, then pushing the frost into the lashes, hair, and skin so the model looks like she embodies the cold.

The attitude is full ice queen cunt. It’s meant to be striking, with hard flash catching the ice and crystals in tight beauty shots, then wider frames that show the scale of the snow and ice.

Red Study

I want to portray rage and hysteria, and the dark place the mind can go after an intensely vexing experience. I’m interested in the point where frustration gives way to fury and the feeling becomes hard to contain. Rage is beautiful too, and this editorial would reveal that. Rage can be quiet, calculated, and glorious.

Flower Study

I gravitate toward flora and fauna in my work, so the vine portrait from your board felt like home. I’m drawn to mossy textures and the way flowers bloom in stages.

Would love to tell a story through flowers and weeds, with a pair or trio of muses in an abstract visual narrative. I’d explore color and texture through graphic makeup, using florals to accentuate each muse’s natural features.