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I went looking for a site a friend of mine used to have - it was a photo essay on the process of making custom leather masks. Unfortunately, the site is gone, haven't yet heard back on what happened to it. (I also don't know if you could get a beak quite that pronounced using those techniques...)
The basic idea was to make a cast of your face using dental alginate and some plaster-of-paris soaked strips of cloth (possibly the stuff used for making casts over broken arms and legs), then filling that negative with plaster-of-paris to make a positive/copy of your face.
That positive can then be augmented with clay, wood, what have you, and I suppose you could do a papier-mache over that to get your mask. The rest of the process for making a leather mask is to use the augmented positive to make yet another negative, cast cement into that negative, then form the wet leather over the hardened cement. This is a pain - it takes lots of elbow grease to stretch the leather over bumps and push it into crevices, lots of patience to keep at it until the leather quits trying to shrink back (basically until it dries).... But the results are fantastic. If my friend gets back to me with a link, I'll post it. |
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