I know I JUST posted like a day or so ago, but I have a lot of free time and I work hard and fast. I was so excited and now I'm furious. So furious i could spit nails!
Well, this mask has taken a turn for the worse. Whatever is wrong with it, now, I hate it and I don't know what to do to fix it. I'm running through some options and I'm not liking the work that's going to have to go into fixing it. Getting really tired of fixing this stupid thing and I find out I STILL need to fix it YET AGAIN because something is still wrong. I want a final product I'm happy with and I want to make sure I'm happy with it when I do fur it.
People think making fursuit heads is fun. Well, it's not. Its exhausting and I turn into a male quite frequently. The pain from being punched in the nads(My artistic Ego) is practically unbearable at times, especially, since i know I want to be happy with what I'm making.
One astute observation I have made and I kinda knew when I first put the eyes in. The muzzle is too short and the eyes are unnaturally high. I should be able to see out of my own eyes, not stupid tearducts. This whole thing isn't about the eyes anymore, actually. It's more apparent, now, that I've somehow built the mask out of proportion to my own face. I don't even know how that happened. Probably by not using a real balaclava with set eye holes and using a balaclava that just pulls over my head with a great big opening for my face. The one's I have been using were free, but I've been having extreme problems navigating my heads and their layout because these balaclavas are just cheap pieces of crap.
Should I just flat out, tear the eyes out, lengthen the muzzle, bring the ears down and make the mask the way its supposed to be? It will take some work and some tampering, but I think that's my over all problem. I want to build this mask right, unlike my first mask. This is my third mask, but the second one to be finished, if I can get the money to finish her.
I know I made this video asking for advice on my eyes, but should I just tear out the eyes, again, and reconfigure the mask to where I can actually see out of the eye holes? I'm not happy with how it looks anymore and I think I should get to work fixing it. I want to to do this right and I want to make sure I KNOW how to do it right, if I want to start taking commissions I don't want to be screwing up like this on someone else's mask! Overall, I see how other people do their heads and I want to be proud and pleased with my work. Not anxious, and begrudged about how it looks. I plan to go to cons with this thing and when I look at pictures, I want to be happy about how the suit came together, not displeased.
Any tips and advice on my observation or what I can do to get this mask back on track? Not so much about the eyes anymore, but making a natural-looking tauntaun head?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=h0eBa-B3egE
Well, this mask has taken a turn for the worse. Whatever is wrong with it, now, I hate it and I don't know what to do to fix it. I'm running through some options and I'm not liking the work that's going to have to go into fixing it. Getting really tired of fixing this stupid thing and I find out I STILL need to fix it YET AGAIN because something is still wrong. I want a final product I'm happy with and I want to make sure I'm happy with it when I do fur it.
People think making fursuit heads is fun. Well, it's not. Its exhausting and I turn into a male quite frequently. The pain from being punched in the nads(My artistic Ego) is practically unbearable at times, especially, since i know I want to be happy with what I'm making.
One astute observation I have made and I kinda knew when I first put the eyes in. The muzzle is too short and the eyes are unnaturally high. I should be able to see out of my own eyes, not stupid tearducts. This whole thing isn't about the eyes anymore, actually. It's more apparent, now, that I've somehow built the mask out of proportion to my own face. I don't even know how that happened. Probably by not using a real balaclava with set eye holes and using a balaclava that just pulls over my head with a great big opening for my face. The one's I have been using were free, but I've been having extreme problems navigating my heads and their layout because these balaclavas are just cheap pieces of crap.
Should I just flat out, tear the eyes out, lengthen the muzzle, bring the ears down and make the mask the way its supposed to be? It will take some work and some tampering, but I think that's my over all problem. I want to build this mask right, unlike my first mask. This is my third mask, but the second one to be finished, if I can get the money to finish her.
I know I made this video asking for advice on my eyes, but should I just tear out the eyes, again, and reconfigure the mask to where I can actually see out of the eye holes? I'm not happy with how it looks anymore and I think I should get to work fixing it. I want to to do this right and I want to make sure I KNOW how to do it right, if I want to start taking commissions I don't want to be screwing up like this on someone else's mask! Overall, I see how other people do their heads and I want to be proud and pleased with my work. Not anxious, and begrudged about how it looks. I plan to go to cons with this thing and when I look at pictures, I want to be happy about how the suit came together, not displeased.
Any tips and advice on my observation or what I can do to get this mask back on track? Not so much about the eyes anymore, but making a natural-looking tauntaun head?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=h0eBa-B3egE