I tend to practice on my face...a lot. Which tends to result in my skin getting irritated from me wiping off lots of makeup and from trying to make other miscellaneous things such as scabs and other flesh wounds. That's when the idea came to me that I needed something better. Now I love using live models, don't get me wrong, but it's not always convenient to track someone down or it's a time problem ( I tend to get inspired in the middle of the night :P). So I decided to make a bust with a finish that would allow me to make it over a million times over and that would let me make a prosthetic at my leisure. So far it's going very well, this first step was about making the first half of the mold. I made this simply with plaster mesh strips that you can pick up from a craft store pretty cheap. I just put a thick coating of petroleum jelly on my eye lashes and brows and a thin layer on the rest of the skin that I would be applying plaster to (this allows the casting to be pulled off your face once it's dry). I did started with the nose making sure to leave openings for the nostrils so that I could breathe and then went around my head making sure to overlap the layers. I strongly recommend cutting up a bunch of different size strips before you start to make it easier. i did this by myself but it would probably be easier having another person laying the strips for you. The next step will be to measure my head and neck and make the back portion of the mold, which will then be filled with plaster and the stand and finally sanded down and finished. I'll keep posting on the process as I complete stages!
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