Welcome to the family, Worbla's Pearly Art! We made the same bracer 3 times out of regular, black and the new pearly Worbla to compare them! And the results are.....
- Regular Worbla: Worbla’s finest art stays the best for foundation parts and large surfaces in general. It’s the strongest, but unfortunately also the least smooth. Working with this Worbla gives you sturdy pieces but you’ll spend more time priming the surface for that smooth finish. Unprimed, it has a coarse structure and doesn't really make metallic paint look pretty. With primer it becomes fairly smooth, but wouldn't look convincing for items that need to look like metal. I've seen really pretty armors that used the contrast between primed and unprimed for extra texture though!
- Worbla’s Black art: Black Art has a tendency to tear a bit more easily than regular Worbla. This is easily fixed by pushing this tear shut. You won’t see anything of it later. But truth be told, Black Worbla is in its best element when used to sculpt little details. For priming you don't need as many coats for black Worbla as regular; 2-3 coats should do the trick. On the unprimed surface colours weren't quite as opaque. For even colours (and extra smoothness), definitely use a primer.
- Worbla’s Pearly Art: We really love this new Worbla! It's smooth and elastic, easy to work with and photographs beautifully! It’s more elastic/stretchy than Black Worbla and therefore doesn’t tear as easily. It even worked perfectly for sculpting the details. It's definitely the smoothest out of the three, even when unprimed. Without primer the paint sort of behaves like watercolor, which is very pretty, but it's hard to get an even surface. With primer, the paint is easy to get even and opaque and it has an incredible shine. One coat of primer is plenty - if you're going for high gloss, you can do two.
Before we started our live crafting session [We stream these sessions on our Twitch channel] we also made a little poll: Regular Worbla vs Black Worbla. And we ended with 41 votes Regular vs 65 votes for Black.
So if you like Black Worbla you’ll probably also like Worbla’s Pearly Art. Pearly Art is closest to Black Worbla but even smoother! We are definitely going to be using Worbla’s Pearly Art for our next cosplay project!
Check out our materials (Worbla + foam + primer) sponsor CosplayClues if you'd like to try it for yourself! :D
