5 MINUTE QUICKIES #8 MAKING MULTIPLE EYE'S

Making something over & over again IS tediuos to say the least. I HATE it lol. To make something as mundane as dragon eye's i use a tried & tested foil copying method. Below is how i make & copy a large pair of eye's.

To begin with i use card stock to make the eye lids & variouse balls to make the eye balls.

Doing it this way i can make 'one' eye then simply 'move' the eye ball left or right or to the middle before copying in foil then PM strips (Paper Mache). I do need to flip the eye 'ridge' over left/right of course but thats no trouble.

The result.

FROM CHAOS COMES CREATION OR SO THEY SAY

It's said the universe was born & thrives on chaos. I don't know about that so much, but i do know my work room IS chaos to the extreme. Heres what it looks like when i pack away for the day. Everything goes where i can fit it lol. To the left foreground of the picture are cardboard boxes of all kinds waiting to be cut & stored/used & as well as eight sixty galon storage boxes all stacked to the ceiling. The table is to the right background under that messy pile. It sits six people to give you an idea of the size of it & it is stacked underneath as much as it is on the top too lol. My PC is to the left background hidden from sight. I can simply rotate my seat to type then rotate back to tear lol. God how do i do anything in here is beyond me lol.

LARGE WALL MOUNTED DRAGON SCONCE WIP

Of course you can't make a small wall mounted dragon candle sconce without making a BIG one too lol. Though this one is still in the WIP stage (Work In Progress).

A temporary wall fixing until i get the bracket made.

More updates on this when i get back to work on it some other time. He has had his arms/claws fitted since these pictures were taken but i do not have any new pictures as yet for this project.

SMALL WALL MOUNTED DRAGON CANDLE SCONCE

One of my passions with dragons are wall mounted candle sconces. Here is a small one i made a little while back. The two part HOW TO video can be found in my listing at the bottom of this page.

ANOTHER GRIM REAPER I MADE WAS A FULL BODIED VERSION

This new grim reaper was full sized scale. Remember there are NO wooden or metal supports, NO mesh wire, NO plastic tubes or anything remotely similar holding this guy up. It's all down to simple toilet roll inner tubes taped together to form the spine then simple engineering skills & creative tape & rolled news paper webbing to create the lower robe. Then 8 layers of news print covered in one 3mm layer of my Dragon Skin TM I promise you i lie not. As i said once recently to someone not everyone lies online. But see for yourself here are some images from the build.

Once the webbing to make the robe was dry i cut & shaped it easily adding the leg definitions.

A quick rib cage shaping followed.

Then the skull & cowl were added.

Just like the wall mounted reaper the skull was fixed to the inside top of the hood then the supporting tube spine burried to make the skull look like it was floating free inside the hood.

A helping hand is always welcom lol.

A 1mm coating of my Dragon Skin TM makes what few layers of paper i actually ever use super strong. A single coating is as strong as 15/20 layers of news print.

The hands & feet were built the same way i did for my wall mounted version further down the page.

I removed the arms to re-adjust the position here.

You can see the floating skull effect better here.

Sadly there are no pictures of the final build. He was stored in our garden shed once built. Before I could take any more pictures a local moron set fire to some rubbish bags stacked against our shed door. When the fire brigade came they ripped off the shed door & before we could rescue grim they sprayed the whole shed inside with high powered hoses. Even though it WAS obviouse the fire had not spread inside the shed. Whilst grim survived the soaking without any structural damage the dragon skin when wet after drying cracks. The more you soak it the more you can create a wonderful cracked effect. Whilst this creates a marvelous dragon skin effect imagine what 3 minutes of high pressure fire water hose can do, it was too much to repair on this sculpture. So i simply tore it apart & scrapped it. 3 months work for nothing in the end thanks to some local 12 year old little (place curses here as appropreiate to my mood at the time - severely extreme) moron getting his priomaniac rocks off!.

1/3rd LIFE SIZE WALL MOUNTED GRIM REAPER

My first true life near full sized project was a wall mounted grim reaper. It's 1/3rd life size scale. There is a full slide show in my HOW TO video's on YouTube. Sadly i made it prior to starting the HOW TO video's properly so it's only a slide show. But here are a few images i took along the way from it.

If you look carefully here the skull appears to float inside the hood. Thats because i fixed it to the top of the hood & burried the spine support to give the floating skull look.. You can see it a little better further down.

I masked off the face during the final paint touch up with maskig tape to reach inside the hood i used spray paint rather than a brush as it gets into all the places a brush can't.

If you look carefully hee the skull appears to float inside the hood. Thats because i fixed it to the top of the hood & burried the spine support to give the floating skull look. It does not show up too good in this shot but in real life the skull really looks to be floating free inside the hood un-supported lol.