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Re: TMNT's Leatherhead
Yo, big fan of TMNT myself, I can’t wait to how your Leatherhead comes out!!
Character sculpting competition
Hello, I'm an artist from Kenya. I do paintings, comic books, cartoon and sculpting. I have just joined in after seeing your post on Facebook.
I have been creating my own characters for my comic books since I was a kid. Now I'm much older, I have been following you on Facebook and came across the advert for the competition. I believe it might be a breakthrough, maybe, because I have been looked upon like a crazy person who draws cartoons and characters like a kid. But through exposure I believe I can put my creation to something useful.
I have been creating my own characters for my comic books since I was a kid. Now I'm much older, I have been following you on Facebook and came across the advert for the competition. I believe it might be a breakthrough, maybe, because I have been looked upon like a crazy person who draws cartoons and characters like a kid. But through exposure I believe I can put my creation to something useful.
The CHILD with spider snack
Hi there, here is a diorama with one of my very favorite characters inspired by the Mandalorian S2E02 series, specifically Grogu from Legacy effects, is made of a Supersculpey, reinforced with wire and aluminum foil, painted with acrylic paints and final varnish, the slime is made of epoxy glue 
Unfinished Werewolf Sculpture
I began this sculpture with the idea of turning it into a hunting trophy for my wall. Silicone skin, fiberglass skull, hair punched with taxidermy eyes. It actually wound up being much larger than I had originally planned (I can fit my head inside his mouth easily) and I eventually lost interest in it due to how slow progress on it became. I eventually moved on to other projects.
Chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes ) - Realistic bust + left arm
Hello, I work as a special makeup artist in the Czech Republic, I would like to share with you my biggest work project so far
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), adult, male
Everything is handmade, eyes, jaws (upper/lower), bust, and left arm, fur is horsehair, I did most of it for the first time based on SWSCHA courses - many thanks!
The whole production project took a month, I hope you like it
Used materials: Monster clay (for the statue), Dragon skin, Slacker, Foam-it, Smooth cast 25, crystal clear, and colors
LAIKASTUDIOS Archibald Snatcher Artdoll
Hi. This is my posable Artdoll. It's supposed to be Archibald Snatcher from LAIKA studios The Boxtrolls stop motion film. He has posable arms and legs. Wire armature. Soft body. Super sculpey clay head, hands, and feet. Clothes and top hat hand made and hand stitched by me. For color: Acrylics, water color pencils, soft pastels and all has been sealed. Hope you like him! My Instagram. @ LilPhantomsRoadshow 
Re: What's On Your Workbench? (Summer 2022)
First time posting but just sharing this little project im doing its a silicone mask i was inspired by The Thing movies i love the first movie probably one of the best horrors of all time. I did have a facebook page with my work on there but unfortunately facebook have removed it. It was called Balsdons fx i have made quite a lot of silicone masks over the years.
Anyway this is what im working on at the moment.
The eyes are a little to big for the bottom head im going to order some smaller ones. Also there are loads of small tentacles to make for this and hair punching and still paint to do but i will get around to finish it soon.
Anyway this is what im working on at the moment.
The eyes are a little to big for the bottom head im going to order some smaller ones. Also there are loads of small tentacles to make for this and hair punching and still paint to do but i will get around to finish it soon.
Re: TMNT's Leatherhead
Thank you Chris. I couldn't have done it without the Stan Winston School of character arts. I mean, I could have, but it wouldn't have looked as good.
The tutorials that helped me the most were Shannon Shea's Garage Monsters series, and Steve Wang's creature mask painting.
I took the lessons Shannon gave about building a puppet out of foam, cotton balls, and latex then applied it to making a costume.
If the TReX head lesson had been around at the time I would have sprayed glue over the foam to seal it before coating it with latex. I did not know that trick and the foam soaked in a gallons of liquid latex.
Another tutorial that really helped me was the first I ordered. That was Steve Wang's. The way he painted Gill man was an inspiration. The lessons on motteling made a huge difference in the realism of the costume.
My only regret was I did not use thinned rubber cement to apply the paint. I was worried about the health side effects of the thinner and my garage having bad air circulation. So I just used water thinned acrylic paint. It looked great but did not flex with the costume. All the areas that rubbed the paint flacked off.
An alternative I wish I knew at the time was to tent the liquid latex with the acrylics and thin that down with water. Then the paint would bond and flex with the costume. I used that on my following costumes.
I coated the body of the lizardman in a flexible gloss coat but that only helped a little.
Live and learn.
The tutorials that helped me the most were Shannon Shea's Garage Monsters series, and Steve Wang's creature mask painting.
I took the lessons Shannon gave about building a puppet out of foam, cotton balls, and latex then applied it to making a costume.
If the TReX head lesson had been around at the time I would have sprayed glue over the foam to seal it before coating it with latex. I did not know that trick and the foam soaked in a gallons of liquid latex.
Another tutorial that really helped me was the first I ordered. That was Steve Wang's. The way he painted Gill man was an inspiration. The lessons on motteling made a huge difference in the realism of the costume.
My only regret was I did not use thinned rubber cement to apply the paint. I was worried about the health side effects of the thinner and my garage having bad air circulation. So I just used water thinned acrylic paint. It looked great but did not flex with the costume. All the areas that rubbed the paint flacked off.
An alternative I wish I knew at the time was to tent the liquid latex with the acrylics and thin that down with water. Then the paint would bond and flex with the costume. I used that on my following costumes.
I coated the body of the lizardman in a flexible gloss coat but that only helped a little.
Live and learn.
