{"id":12814,"date":"2019-10-22T10:49:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T09:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kirkd.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12814"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:20:44","slug":"mummy-halloween-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kirkd.co.uk\/blog\/mummy-halloween-sculpture\/","title":{"rendered":"Mummy Halloween sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Every year in October in the lead up to Halloween, while everyone who does their 2d Inktober shenanigans, I do my own little challenge where I try to do something new with a horror theme. In previous years I’ve done things like Jack O’Lantern<\/a>, the servoskull <\/a>and the pumpkin head<\/a> and this year I thought I’d do a bust but didn’t have any idea what it would be based on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made a basic blob and thought I’d see what would come out. After ramming a pair of wooden spheres in for eyes I stuck more blobs of sculpey over the shape and kept carving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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roughing out the shape<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My first thoughts was some kind of skull. I was just dropping super sculpey firm into place and seeing what was coming out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some basic form taking shape<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As I started to refine the shape I was seeing skin over the top of the skull so thought it looked like mummifed flesh. Taking that idea I started to lay some rough bandage shapes over the top to see how it looked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was feeling something was coming out here. I was making the bandages by running sculpey firm through my pasta machine and ripping strips roughly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once I was happy with his shoulders I added some more creases and put him in the oven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Primed with black spray then hit with some white paint from above to give zenithal priming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Getting the paint down<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Airbrushed a few different paints over the skin and eye areas. I tried to stay away from red but put some purple around the eye sockets to make them stand out a little more. The skin was mainly washes of browns with highlights of lighter leather tones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The colours for the bandages are blocked in and then washed with several different shades of ink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The base was made from a piece of rowan I cut and sprayed black before drilling out a hole to slot the wire core into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This piece will be available later in the month on Nerdy Chicken<\/a> where I will be selling more of my one off pieces and special sculptures. Now I just have to figure out what I’m doing next Halloween.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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