Well, sort of. Ledger designed the Joker look himself. As if we couldn’t already tell his commitment to the character, he also made sketches about the look his Joker would have right down to—you guessed it—the makeup.

Ledger brought out the makeup artist in him and applied the clown face himself for the first few days of the movie. This of course so that the actual makeup team could write some notes and produce a copy of Ledger’s original design; then replicate it themselves. I would imagine that it would either have been very simple, since it’s placed in a rather haphazard and chaotic fashion; or, rather difficult for the same reason. Ledger obviously took this role intensely serious, I would guess he would want everyone involved with helping transform him into the Joker take it just as seriously.