Having completed "Regret", I've been cracking on with "Guilt". Bit shocked how little I've posted on it, but I guess I've been mostly repeating the processs from "Regret" for the initial build:
This one was a bit more tricky because I want it to be more naturalistic, aside from the holes, which are for two twigs, which I planned to have growing into the face, to represent the way guilt hurts and grows and corrupts. I used on-line references to try to get a 'guilty' expression, which worked well - mainly indicated by the low-brows, the downturned eyes, and the pouted lip...
Adding the branches was fun, if a bit stressful - I had a fun 'shopping' trip to the local heath, finding two big branches with lots of twigs that would give me the best hope of finding something I liked. I was focused on finding two 'hand-like' sets of twigs at this point.
(Tomgos: It's sideways! Tathos: So what! Tomgos: You need to rotate it Tathos: Pffft!)
However, when I came to place them on the mask, I found it quite hard to find ones that felt 'right' coming up, and eventually decided to have them coming from the forehead, more like horns:
I then gave everything a coat of white household paint as an undercoat, and tried to use poster paint:
Yeeesh, it didn't work out. I knew I hated it, but I couldn't work out why... I realised eventually it was two main things 1) the rosy cheeks make it look like make-up and 2) the finish was horrible! After some teeth sucking, I decided to bite the bullet, and buy some household gloss - I don't know why, but I love it as a paint - great coverage, tough finish, fairly cheap... Two coats of that, and I think we are back on track:
I really like the colour and the texture! Next step is to refresh the gold (gold seems to symbolise pain in my work, just as silver represents sorrow) and tint the mask (i.e. add shading to emphasise the contours).
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