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?

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.

Yes, I learned how to paint at a gaming con...

Ha ha! You thought it would take longer didn't you? I gotta say...a glove puppet head is a lot easier to paint than a role-playing miniature...and it takes a lot more spit too! (Don't ask unless you really want to know)





Priming with black...it works well on miniatures so...why not?







Gaming Con Painting 101: Skin first!







Something you don't do with miniatures...varnish (matte of course). Yes, I went back and forth on the horns--really though, it matches the face better this way.

Japanese Paper Clay

Ah the wonders of Japanese Paper Clay!

Paint is coming next! Wait for it!

Puppetry tip learned this weekend:

Don't thrust your finger too enthusiastically into your next puppet in the Punch show...you can hurt yourself that way. You'll soon learn what a very important finger that is as the show goes on.

What is happening in my workshop?

It's a mystery...they almost look like cocoons...

Then they got kinda brown...

What is happening? Any ideas? (Cheating is allowed)

I think I know what's going on here.



Almost makes you kinda wanna ask "Why did she bother with the balloon?", doesn't it?



Well, can you see it yet?