| Page 4 Painting |
| Well, I definitly need some practice with the airbrush, and mixing my colors. This first mask will now become part of a new animated prop for my yard, as it didn't turn out like I wanted. |
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| As you can see, this creature looks kinda dead.... My base color was way to light, so I couldn't really do highlights, and the darker colors were too dark. I had quite the purple color going on. I added some black and yellow and then had a mess.. Sooo, this mask will become the Grave Digger.. |
| I did manage to get the veins to stand out some, and the warts on the nose and chin. I also added some freckling. I hope it won't look too bad when I add hair to it. |
| You can also see the seams aren't taken down too far. I used a dremel with a cotton buffer wheel. It flings latex chunks all over the place! This was my first attempt at airbrushing, and I did try to do some mottling on the top and back of the head. It's a good thing I can make more masks,,, just takes latex and about a half a day... I think I'm going to need the practice. |
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| HAIR PUNCHING |
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| Punching hair is a very time consuming and tedious job, and if you don't have good eyes like me, you will need some kind of magnifying glass to see. Below is a picture of the tool I use. I got this from another site and it works great. |
| This is what I use. It is an X-acto knife, with the blade removed. I then took a household sewing needle and cut the eye part in half, then cut one side shorter. In this picture, the short piece could have been just a touch shorter than it is. the long piece is then bent to make a slight hook. |
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| Here you can see that I have the hair wrapped around my finger, and I'm grabbing just 2 hairs and pulling them out snug. |
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| Once you pull the selected hairs out, you just punch them thru the latex. |
| If you right click on these three pictures you can open in a new widow to a larger view. |
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| In these pictures you can see my progress. I have gone all the way around the bottom part of his head. He will stay bald on top. |
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| Once all the punching is done, you need to coat it with latex. That way the hairs don't pull out. |
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