Making of Skull Monster

I’m gonna show the process I’m going through to make my coming PURIM costume.

 

The concept is some sort of  skull looking monster for a mythical/fantasy world.  All though it’s more like a warrior man wearing his monster outfit, than a real monster.

 

Thanks for taking a look and hope you like what you see…

You can always share your thoughts and feelings, I’d be glad to hear them.

 

Here’s the basic design

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MASK

in order to make the mask I first started by casting my face. I used a nice mold making material with a banana flavour to push my face into. Then i casted in a cheramic material that i poured in to the mold. It really got the hairy details nicely as you can see. I had to put lots of vasoline on my eyebrows, lashes and beard. fun!

 

Next i started sculpting on the cast using brown Chavant. It hard in room temprature and it softens when heated. I’m using a heat gun to soften the material and the areas that I’m working on. After a few hours I got this basic structure…

 

I continued working on the mask, getting the big shapes to my satisfaction. Then I moved on to smooth the surface a bit and add some cracks and details so it feels more like bone. For now I only detailed the top piece.

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Here I am just holding the chavant mask against my face. 

 

 

NECK PIECE

This is a small skull I made from sculpey for a neck piece I’m gonna wear. I dug a hole in the back for the string. Then I painted it with acrylic colors, and ink for the dark areas.

  

 

 

 

 

 

CLOTHES

The concept for the cloths is similar to a monk’s robe. In order to cut the fabric correctly I had an idea of using 3d software for testing the shape of the cloths and simulating it on a human body. Then I will cut the cloths and flatten the 3d pieces using the unwrapping tools to get the shapes for cutting the real fabric.

 

 

 

WIZARD STAFF

The wizard staff was something that I didn’t have a very specific design for, but I knew that I want it to be wooden, and have the top glow in a push of an unseen button. 

I started out with a broom stick and coverred it with plaster bandages to shape it like a wooden branch of a tree. To make a convincing wood color I used a special liquid that makes things like like wood by applying it to the surface and wiping out areas with a piece of fabric to make them brighter. It dries up very quickly so this whole process was a fairly quick task.

 

In order to make the top of the staff I needed to make a tube that will contain the electronic items that will light up. For that I used the cardboard tube of a tinfoil. then cut the edges in a way that would able me to connect it to the broom stick. 

  

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Then I wired up the LED with a battery and a button that turns the light on only when it’s pressed and pushed it in the tube. I then set up the “magic orb” thing on the top. I used a piece of a water bottle (flipped upside down), a cottege plastic cup,  and cottun balls to get the affect.

     

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