Day 6 blues

Spent the better part of today ripping off all the skin off my puppet because I tried to create a tight skin layer with ace bandages like I did on my last puppet. The problem is I wanted to create that same texture for the face and it ended up looking like a demented mummy. Looked online for advice, and it seems that Latex is my best option!

First Image is a close-up of my destroyed armature. Sad, I know.. but luckily it might still be salvageable.

Second is from the Heather Zielink's "I Can't Draw" Animated short. She used latex for the hands with molds, it ended up working really well. The only problem is Latex is expensive and hard to work with so my skin problems might not be resolved by tomorrow. 

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