Incremental Progress
Had a board meeting, so only got a tiny bit more done — upper big teeth and building out the lower jaw a little.
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So many layers of paint!
After the first painting with unbleached titanium, next came a wash with a mixture of watered-down burnt sienna, raw sienna, and Mars black. This involves applying a fair amount of the watered paint and then blotting with a damp paper towel. In the SKS video, this looked sort of snotty green, but for us it…
Goggle-y Eyes! (Goggle Snaps)
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Creating the pattern for the head furring
For this step, I used the process for creating a fur pattern from this page on matrices.net Basically, you mummify your head base in masking tape, draw cutting lines and indicate which way the fur should “grow” in each area, then carefully slice and peel it off.You flatten the pieces onto brown paper so the…
Adding texture and “sutures” to the foam to simulate bone
This next step was in two stages: Adding Texture to the foam “bone” This step was actually fairly fast and easy. You take a wire brush, and tap/slap it firmly against the foam surfaces, so the bristles pockmark it and create “pores”.Again, Andy and I each worked on one skull; we used 3 different brushes….
Feet Don’t Fail Me Now!
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