I've been wanting to do a dragon character for a long time, its a way of challenging my sculpting skills with all the smaller scale details but also I love Game of Thrones so dragon lady seemed to be the best way to go. This character is half human/half dragon, the Queen of Dragons. The design I had in mind was slight more futuristic in style using the spiral dreadlocks to create a kind of dinosaurs bump down the centre.
So the first step is the sculpting, I'll admit this one did take longer then my previous ones due to the smaller scales and layering of the centre pieces. As you can see I kept the sculpt to the centre of the face with the idea to use my airbrushing skills to give the illusion of scales on the cheeks.
Like my other sculptures, the video of the making can be viewed on YouTube---> Dragon Lady Sculpture
I was worried about the casting of this sculpture just because of the layered scales, there was a major risk that the cast would break in these areas or not fully casted the areas. This is when using a silicone mould material would work best and then adding the layer of plaster. But with a lot of care I managed to get the cast pretty clean with only a few areas that required patching up.
Below you can see that moulding process as well as the finished prosthetic piece in gelatine, which was purchased from PS Composites. Again I would of like this character to be in silicone but I don't have enough to do this size piece and I don't think I have enough skills in silicone to do a big piece like this.
Some cleaning out was required with the final gelatine piece, with some scales needing to be remoulding manual on to the piece but everything worked out well.
Once the prosthetic is done and cleaned its time for my favourite stage...painting.
Below is my general setup for colouring my prosthetic pieces, I like to sit at the table to do this stage as well as mix manual application with airbrushing.
As you can see I used my Iwata airbrushing system with mel products, my brand new PAX paint products that I bought from IMATS.
I was very happy with Mel products PAX paints, thinning the paint out and using the airbrush to paint was very easy and enable me to build up the colours as well as cleanly mix them. The other good thing about them was that I would paint manually to add the finer details to the piece. I was very pleased with the selection of colours in the packs that I got.
The colour scheme was something that took me forever to decided upon, first I thought of going darker, with gold tones...then I thought about a blue toned dragon with green features. Finally I decided the red tones with gold and yellow highlights. I think that the colour scheme works really well as well as enabling me to create those darker tones of red to contouring and give the illusion that the scales are deeper then they actually are.
Another new toy that I bought from IMATS and used for this application were my new bdellium tools, sfx set, which consist of 12 fantastic brushes, each with specific uses for texturing and detailing you work. Love them! I don't know what I did without them!
I tried to create those bumps that you get down the back of dragon's back, because of how big the front of the prosthetic was I had to push the hair back quiet a bit hence why the hair is a little more lose.
The dreadlocks were given to me by a good friend and I promised her that I would make good use of them, because they are so fantastic am sure I will be creating further characters using these extensions.
The final look...I am pretty pleased with how all the elements of this character have come together. I think it worked and I have further challenged my skills since my last character create which as I mention in alot of my blogs this is my main aim. Because I can't afford the SFX school just yet, I want to make sure that my skills are challenged and developed with every character creation.
I wish I could do something further with the ears but unfortunately I didn't have any ears to attach. Contact lenses in yellow would of also rocked this look further but work with what we have and I think it had worked well.
I am very happy, my new products have worked fabulously and I've learnt some good skills as well as some lessons through my mistakes!
Here is the Application YouTube link this shows all the steps for the application.
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