Thomas Vaughan: Finishing the Head... and Blob!

Blob is nearly complete!!!

Just his scarf to do..

I lie

I've decided to correct things again!

During casting all the body part I painted the head, once everything was finished I decided to assemble Blob...

Not good!

The head tone is much darker than the body.

I decided to roll out some plasticine to act as a scarf, to allow me to see if the colour change is noticeable with something separating the head from the body and it is!

Poop!

So what did I do?

Well ripped the eyes out of the head of course!

There was a method to this. As you can see from the image below...

The paint job wasn't great! As I could not remove the eyes whilst painting, painting around them become very tricky. Paint started to become blotchy around the eyes and also green kept going on to the eyes!

Therefore I managed to pick these out with a pin and they were stuck in there pretty good, and I then binned these eyes and decided to make new ones. I coated the head with white primer again and started paint a new shade of green on top, without the eyes in.

This proved a lot more effective! With a better green but also the finish was up to a standard which I wanted. Plus I did not have to worry about the eyes.

Once the painting was done I then, baked the eyes again, coated them in primer, and then a clear gloss on top.

The Scarf

Next was the scarf!

I got some material from John Lewis

I know fancy, right? Only the best for Blob.

I then took some paper card and measured how much of the material I would need to go around Blob's neck.

Once I had this measurement, I used a scalpel and cut a piece of the material.

I then used fabric glue to fold the fabric over the card and secure it in place.

The reason I kept the card inside the fabric was to give the scarf shape and strength, to hold around Blob.

For the piece of the scarf which would be hangin over Blob's stomach, I thought it would be nice to add wire within this to try and get a bit of secondary movement whilst animating.