Hands Up

I took you up through the Papier-mache step in the previous post. From that point, the hands don't differ from the head. I added details with paperclay, painted them, added fun-foam fingernails and put a sealing coat over the whole thing. Here's the result:







So...now we have my boy in all his naked glory:







Next is costuming...wanna see that too?

A Step Back

I didn't go over the body. Boy am I rushing ahead of myself! Look, there I go...





There is a trick to this, which I learned at the Puppet Rampage...the back of one's hand needs more space than the front. Who knew? Thus...the body has three parts:







Which then comes together so:







All in all, a roomier style.



But here's a trick of my own...some puppeteers use wires, but I find boning to be much better:







Why? Because it does the same job as a wire but it is lighter and much easier to pack.



Yes...he needs hair:







All the pictures I found always show the red oni with hair at least on the back of the head with the bald samerai forehead. This really does set him apart from the western devil. A good thing to be sure!

Hand-some Oni

Can you stand it? Metal hands...Terminator Oni!







This was another trick I learned from Brian Kooser. Start with metal...he often uses a thin wire to begin, and I was going to as well. But I couldn't find my wire, so I grabbed the tinfoil.







Cover it with masking tape and use that to flesh it out a bit more.







Then you add the papier-mache layers. After this...details with paper clay...I can't find a picture of that step though. Sorry. I just blazed through without stopping.