Fimo White for the body (or pick any colour you want, there are glitter options!)
Fimo Translucent White (for the teeth)
Clear glass Christmas bauble
Glass eyes. Roughly 9 per mimic. Do not use plastic, those need to be able to take the oven baking of roughly 100°.
First step: Make a bunch of teeth from the Translucent White Fimo. I use a baking pan, because it has the perfect curved edge to make the teefies curved.
Bake. Repeat till you have a bunch of teefies.
Put a noodle of white fimo on the baubles. This is the general shape of the mouth.
Add the already hardened teefies.
Once you have added enough teeth, add lips with White Fimo. Personally, I flattened a noodle and put two layers of that on. It's a fantasy creature, do whatever you feel is right for you. :D
Bake at 100°.
While this is baking the teeth and later the lips, you can prep the glass eyes. If your eyes come with wire hoops, clip those off and embed them in the Fimo.
I use roughly 9 glass eyes of different sizes per mimic.
I placed the eyes on a flattened bit of white fimo. Use white in any case if your eyes are see through: The white fimo here will make them look their colour. Then add lids. Same deal as with the lips, it's a fantasy creature, there is no right or wrong approach. Go wild.
Once the baubles with the lips finished baking and are hardened, place the eyes on the bauble, where you feel they might work for you.
Do that on ONE HALF of the bauble. Not both, will be hard to hold the bauble and not squish what you already sculpted if you do both halfs at the same time.
If you don't feel confident about how to get it right yet, start at the bottom.
Fill the space between the eyes and lips with white fimo.
Smooth it. I used the back end of a round pencil for that, since I don't have tools for sculpting, I just improvise.
Add whatever texture you feel like. I like swirls.
Since I'm not too great at smoothing out rough bits, I put some texture and warts on it.
One side done.
Bake at 100°.
Careful, the glass eyes get hot and stay hot longer than the rest of the sculpt or the bauble.
Repeat the eye-fitting and sculpting on the other side. NEARLY THERE!
Bake at 100° for the last time! :D
(yes, this is the same image every time. <3 )
Congrats to your finished mimic!
Personal request: please do share your mimics with me! <3 I would love to see them all~! <3
I only made six though. Dunno where the seventh one came from.
I finally got to do this and delivered the last of my Christmas monsters <3
Thank you @drachenmagier for sharing the tutorial on how to make these. It was a lot of work, but the result was certainly worth it. I mean look at that cute gnarly face! And best of all, my tea loving D&D buddy appreciated the gift <3
And I just couldn't resist making their teeth from glow in the dark material xD Because what wouldn't be a better way to spook a person than a sudden smirk in the dark in the general direction of the Christmas tree. (I did warn all who received these just so they wouldn't be shell shocked for life.)
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(Or not really but close enough. Also a side order of armour.)
I picked up this technique from this tutorial years ago, then adapted it further. You can use it to imitate leather, and with a few changes also to make thin armour parts, such as Vincent Valentine’s gauntlet as in the last picture. It won’t really work for thicker armour; there are plenty of tutorials on how to make EVA foam armour to be found online.
Back to fakey leather; you need the standard 2mm craft foam/fun foam/EVA foam/foam of many names, white glue, a brush, shoe polish, mod podge/podgy glue and a sponge.
You want to have most of the shaping and decorating done before you start. For example, for Athos’ pauldron I had already glued the three layers of the main piece and the fleur de lis shield together (UHU glue works well, all purpose glue is also okay), but had left the two upper strips and the straps separate to be attached after everything was done.
It is also easiest to do any embossing when the pieces are still flat. Foam won’t take an awful lot of detail, but with some patience the results can work quite well. You can use paper embossing tools for this, but make sure that the point isn’t too sharp or it will tear the foam. The back of a knife also works. My favourite tool for it so far is actually a letter opener. Drag across the foam for the first shallow line (it will spring back a bit) and repeat as many times as necessary without cutting the foam.
One layer of craft foam isn’t very strong by itself, so you either want to have at least two layers glued together or a single layer backed with fabric. If the final result includes stitching, definitely attach fabric or the thread may pull right through the foam. Cover the back of the foam piece with white glue, then smooth fabric onto it. Use cotton or linen (not synthetics), so that the glue can come through the fabric. When it is dry, cut the fabric along the edges of the foam, then brush another layer of white glue on the fabric. This makes sure that the fabric is firmly stuck and that the edges won’t fray.
(If you want to imitate metal armour, dilute the white glue a bit with water for the first couple of layers covering the whole piece; the fabric backing as well as the front and sides of the foam. This allows the glue to saturate the foam. Follow that with a few layers of undiluted glue, letting it dry in between layers until it’s stiff enough. The end result can be spray painted.)
Most importantly, when you glue layers of foam or foam and fabric together make sure that it dries in the shape it’s supposed to be. For Athos’ vambrace I wrapped a towel around a bottle to have something roughly the shape of my upper arm and then tied the pauldron around it while the glue between the layers was drying. Once it is dry, it will hold its shape. You do not need to heat the foam to do this! Heating it is inadvisable since foam is somewhat toxic. Foam is also a little stretchy, so you can carefully stretch it for an extra curve. Glueing fabric to it will help it hold its shape.
This is the point where I added battle damage to Athos’ pauldron by cutting grooves out of the top layer of foam with a stanley knife. The knife needs to be very sharp to prevent ragged edges, so use a new blade.
Now for actually making it look like leather! Rub several layers of shoe polish onto the foam, letting it dry between layers. The resulting colour depends on the colour of the foam and the polish. Use black foam and brown polish for dark brown ‘leather’, white or grey foam for lighter shades and so on (the Gondorian vambrace in the picture before last was made using white foam for the top layer and black foam for the bottom layer).
Then use a sponge to brush a layer of mod podge onto it. Mod podge is a glue varnish used for decoupage and is water resistant when it is dry. Two or three layers will do, and for a smooth finish dilute the mod podge with a little water for the last layer. Leave it to dry thoroughly. It will remain a little tacky, which can be solved by smoothing a little talcum powder onto the surface carefully. This also removes a bit of the shine, for a slightly more worn look.
Finally, assemble the piece, sew the bits that have to be sewn, paint decoration etc. As a general tip, if you want to make an object that looks like leather, treat it like leather! Add stitching, add metal grommets and so on. That goes a long way in making it look convincing.
Zoo Miami’s Lion Cub Makes His First Public Apearance
For the first time in Zoo Miami history, a Lioness and her cub went on public exhibit together. First-time mother Asha and her three month old male cub K’wasi thrilled zoo guests last week as they explored the exhibit and interacted together.
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Send a number to my ask box along with a character of your choice, and I’ll draw up the ensuing ensemble! (If the character chosen wouldn’t wear the option given… go ahead and sub in something else!)
DRAW YOUR CHARACTER WEARING…
Underwear
Casual clothes
Work uniform
Night clothes
Swimwear
Formal gala garb
Lounging, lazy-time stuff
A party outfit
Date night threads
Something outdoorsy
Interview outfit
Tourist/travel wear
A costume!
Their sick day scrubs
Summer clothes
Winter clothes
Um, spring clothes?
Why not - fall clothes!
Workout wear
Last minute throw-ons
The most expensive thing they own
A fig leaf
Feel free to add, subtract, or alter as you please to fit your character bunch!
I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard
Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.
Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.
Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.
Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.
SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.
SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.
Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.
Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.
Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.
Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.
Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.
What would you suggest for someone who is trying to get better at anatomy? Any tips or tricks? Body anatomy but I also find like... noses and eyes to be a bit difficult > U <;;
Hmm! I know that feeling. I’d recommend… I guess this is gonna sound cliche, but observation and practice.
(cutting this post as it gets long with some references and whatnot)
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