mask making

[kissa_bites]

Remember the base I made a couple of weeks ago HERE?
Well, I hated it. The more I looked at it, the more I loathed it. The mouth and nose were bugging the hell out of me. So, I went back to a base design that i made about 7 years ago - this one: It was a good begining and looks oddly like droxy  's icon. With the below design in mind, i went to work reworking Millicent's mask.




 I added more clay to get rid of the bottom of the nose, mouth, and chin, then cleaned up a bunch of cracks (those are normal) with yellow clay. It still weighs about as much as a strawberry. Midweek, I'll sand then paint.


 
I also started the phoenix mask for the ball, based on reginafletcher  's story Millicent. Ditto with midweek sanding and painting. This one, however, will be fully rhinestones and feathered. I'll do progress shots if I can remember.

Comments

[reginafletcher.livejournal.com]

It looks very cool--not sure about the no-mouth-thing! *can easily see Snape going that route, but with my mental images of Millie & Draco... impeding their ability to mouth off causes some cognitive dissonance!!* LOL!

[benevolntgoddes.livejournal.com]

*grins* see, here's the thing - Millie and Draco not withstanding, the whole DE mask thing is a terror inspiring image, lolol. Featureless white is SCARY - especially a lot of featureless white faces. The movie masks annoy me so much because the made individuals out of what should have been a faceless mob. < / passionate mask lecture *grins*

I have a 3/4 mask that I can photograph for you. It's made of plastergauze and seriously needs a clay skin on top of it, but if you prefer the shape, I can knock that out in an hour. It does have a free mouth and jaw, lol. It's for the really small-headed, though.

Um, does The Dark Lord really want the Juniors mouthing off while masked... erm, or anytime he's about?