Wig Styling Head

 Whoop~ Not even certain if there is a reason to keep this blog up or not, since I don't really have sketches for absolutely everything.... -.- and looking from the dates, my updating is.... like it is.
....well....
An update~ <3

Since I desperately need a mannequin head now, where I could style wigs , then made
one myself. As a base used a years old papier mache head of myself, some failed makroflex horns and a leftover piece of a heavy pressed paper roll.

 Ripped off the experimental paper mask, cut the makroflex into lil' pieces and glued it all together, filled some empty spaces with newspapers.

 Taped the head on the paper roll and papier mache'd most of the thing over several times. Then made a new plaster face of myself, hotglued it on the old base, endlessly covered with latex and sanded, white spray primer, latex, more sanding, dosen more spray primer and varnish layers... Yeah, latex, it's something that looks like gesso, but it was much better to sand it down. All the different white materials and paints actually looked different..... so also added a white acrylic layer, but that made everything worse.... after that the spray primer and varnish combo started cracking off, so its all quite a mix there...

Glued some porolon layers all over the rest of the head, so there would be something to stick the needles in, hotglued a lycra layer on top The back of the head is a bit bigger than my own, but figured that would be exactly the space for hair under the wig anyway. It's not perfectly shaped, but still good enough. ....aaand added fake lashes.... Because.... why not. c:

Nothing super fancy, but got to style a first wig on this thing and it worked out perfectly~

...doesn't it look just like me? Haha~ 

Me, Myself and I

Hehumm... Hello? Anyone there? :D

 Do I get the "most irregular updater" title now?  :D

Well yeah, I've got a dosen things to do all the time and just.... Forget about this blog. ._.

But hey, look! An update! c:

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"Me, Myself and I"- one hell of an headline, huh? Haha, well, once ya see the thing, you'll get what I mean. It's an installation project made for my art college course "Spatial Perception".

This was finished 17.March 2013. 

So~ Had this idea that I'd like to use some kind of masks and hands. 

Ended up making two plaster faces of myself- one of the cut in two+ hands. Here I tried to smoothen out the surfaces by mixing n' adding more plaster layers.

 

And.... Fingers need nails too, yes? :3

Bought the cheapest nails possible and cut/filed them shorter.

 

Gathered all the materials toghether annnnnddddd~ Time to glue all this stuff together~

Materials: cardboard, plaster, plastic conduit, paper table covers, copper wire, gesso, acrylics, hot glue.

 

The main part. c:

The very first idea was to make a watercolour painting on a circular paper, but soon realised, that it would be a lot more interesting, if some of the parts were reaching out of the surface, if the faces would be 3D and if the hands would be "coming out" of the frame. Just stumbled on H.R.Gigers work too, so guess the sort of ornamental hose thing came from there. ;)

 Here you can see where and what I started gluing. The first thing was ofcourse cutting out the cirlce from a large carboard pice, next making holes on the edges more or less with equal distances and half gluing/half binding the plastic conduit all around the edges with copper wire. After that it was all hot glue, finally painted over with gesso (because it stayed on plastic better than plain white acrylic :s), black acrylic details and a "final touch" with fake eyelashes.

 

 Added some of my composition course black cardboard shapes around the final thing, so it wouldnt look too pale against the large white wall. :)