Plaster Mask Tutorial/Walkthrough
It’s finally here, my walkthrough on how I made my clown mask from this years Halloween!
First we’ll need some supplies, this is my first time working with this as a medium so bare with me. Right here we have some plaster casting, a bag of modeling plastery stuff by Sculptamold and a medium and fine sandpaper sponge. You’ll probably need some help with this one, but if you feel like you’re a super pro and can plastor your own face, by all mean go gung-ho on that shit.
I have saved you the horrifying nightmare fuel that was my face while I had this on by adding these sweet shades. Believe me, you’ll look like you’re straight out of Goodnight Mommy. You’re definitely gonna wanna put on some Vaseline before applying the plaster otherwise it’s probably gonna feel like the plasters ripping your skin off after it dries. Basically all you do here is just cut up some of the plaster casting and dunk it in a bowl of water and apply it straight to your face. I made about 2 - 3 layers on my face, and it dries pretty quick. You can cover up your lips too, I don’t really suggest covering up your breathing holes or your eyes though.
It’ll look somethin’ like this after you take it off your face, you’ll wanna leave it for at least a day to dry. as for how long you leave it on your face for? Not very long it dries as you go along probably like 10 - 15 minutes.
I decided to add some more plaster on top after and covered up the holes and such since I was doing something a little different for my eye holes and mouth. You’ll wanna let it dry again.
After that I drew my lines for what I wanted my face to look like and then cut them a little with an xacto blade. Then I started piling on the scultamold it’s gonna look a little lumpy after but that’s okay cause we gonna sand it after it dries.
After sanding this bad boy with the medium sanding sponge my cut marks kinda got covered up so I re-cut them.
It’s pretty easy cutting the plaster actually in case your’e worried. (Don’t forget to make nose holes so you can breath).
I have this handy lil’ mini sander thing I got off ebay, sadly it’s heads are really shitty and don’t do much so I had to tape some sandpaper onto them… It worked way better after that. If you don’t wanna get something like this a nail file will work just fine for evening out and smoothing the holes in your mask.
After all that sanding I realized the eye holes were literally RIGHT in my eyes so I had to re-wet them and push them out a bit. This is the back of the mask by the way, I sanded it a bit as well so it wasn’t as ugly and not rough on my face when wearing it.
It actually gave it some nice eye dimension after I pushed them out so it was fine.
Continue sanding until you feel that it’s smooth enough to your liking, you use the fine sand sponge after you got most of the high ridges down with the medium. Getting it completely smooth by hand is sort of impossible. You’d need a electric sander for that.
Lookin’ good!
Here is where I started having some fun with mediums these are optional depending on what you want to do with your mask. I used a crackle medium to give my mask a bit of a old antique look.
After that I decided I wanted to do water colours so I put down an absorbent ground for the places I was going to paint.
Now we get to do the fun part, painting!
After I finished painting it all I added some glitter on the cheeks and eye for a fun sparkly effect. I also added in the string holes here with my mini sander and blade (I just jammed my blade into it and spinned it around), you might wanna put them in a bit earlier if you don’t have one of those so you don’t end up cracking your mask (if you don’t know where to put them view below). Once the paintings all done I sprayed it with a super high gloss sealer for extra shine!
Now we gonna add some string in the holes I didn’t take a picture of for some reason, this is so your mask actually stays on your face. There’s two ways you can do this, around your head or behind your ears. I like to do behind the ears because then I don’t have to worry about messing up my hair with a band around the head. I measured my elastic around 14 inches, you might want to do your own measurements with the string first tho.
Had to take a picture of how I did it on my eye ball mask since I don’t have my clown mask currently with me. There should be two holes that you tie the string on it’ll look like that. Here’s a less confusing picture:
Now you are complete, time to go be a creepy clown!
Hope this is useful for everyone!
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