Mask Making?

a little disclaimer here first...
I did this entirely on experimental ways. It may not seem as nice (in fact, it could be one of the worse mask made in history) but then, i kinda figure it works?
I'll see if i have extra time i'll try to make another one, one that looks better than this....

ANYWAY, first....we need to have these...
- Balloon
- Strips of Newspaper
- PVC glue
- Blade (DUH!?)
- Scissors (duh again?)
- marker
- Spray Paint/ Pastel Paint/ Watercolor (whichever you want to paint the thing with)


Well, yeah..you cut the newspapers into those strips...it's for the paper mache...^^
I drew a face shape onto the newspaper, it's for measurement purposes....

Then i drew the face shape onto the balloon with the marker (heck, you can use pen or pencil...lol..if you're skillful enough not to pop the balloon)


Yup..that's the size of my face..(okay, maybe slightly bigger than my face la...XD)

Then it's time for paper mache..!!
Well, i made a mistake when i was mixing up the glue substances....i added too much water instead of the glue.....=_= BUT, i coated another layer of glue without water onto the paper mache...i believe it worked out ok?

Then, the next thing i did was to let it dry, and pop the balloon.
Took about 1 whole day to dry, no thanks to the rainy weather...=_=
Also, LOL.....i was running around the house finding people to help me pop the balloon.....i didn't want to pop it myself...didn't know why...LOL!!!!

ANYWAY....here's the result...

Well, so far so good....I taped it with masking tape to secure it from opening up...(because i used the wrong mixture of glue and water...so it made it a little bit wobbly...=_=)

Then, i proceeded to painting it....It didn't turn out well for the spray painting part because of the newspaper strips.....there were obvious lines (which made it look so much like Jim Carrey's THE MASK =_=)

So i had to wrap it around with a flat layer of newspaper. That was the mistake, or so it seemed.
I don't know how to put it into words, but i coated another layer of glue on it...
The rainy weather didn't help much, so i had to speed things up by using the hairdryer.....


See what i mean by MISTAKE? haish..=_=
ANYWAY, i came so far already, i'm not gonna give up, so i continued on and painted in the details...



I had to make do with watercolor, because genius ol'me had forgotten to get poster paint. Oh well....
Oh, since i wasn't gifted with artisan's hands, i had to draw outlines of the details onto the mask first. Wouldn't wanna screw up the drawings now would i ? LOL....

so, after painting in the details....i finally finished my mask..!!!!
I believe, some would already know what mask this is...but then, not gonna put in the final thing, i might wanna mend the so-called finished product..^^

NEXT WEEK, gonna turn into a slave for prop making again.....=_=

Listening to : Makai Senki Disgaea - Kimi he no Ai wo
Mood : bububububu..~~~