Tag: deer

Painting the fur on the deer head

18 Nov Now, I’m wrapping up the steampunk deer head so I can post some airship stuff! To do this, I start adding the accessories that turn this sculpture from typical deer head into a steampunk sensation! In order to speed things up, I’m going to post a bunch of pictures in succession with captions,… Continue reading Painting the fur on the deer head

Painting the fur on the deer head

28 Oct Last time, I said I’d show how I painted the fur on the steampunk deer head. Remember that there is a tooled latex over the mâché which gives the illusion of fur, and with the addition of realistic painting, the deer mount itself begins to look quite convincing. Base coats of paint Base coat… Continue reading Painting the fur on the deer head

Steampunked ear on the deer head

14 Jun OK, now that the Grand Opening is done at The Artisan’s Bench, I’ll get back to posting progress on the steampunk deer head mount. I said last time that I would show how I started putting together the steampunk ear. I did the “live” ear last post, which was corrugated cardboard covered in… Continue reading Steampunked ear on the deer head

Steampunk deer ears

16 May Adding the defining elements to the steampunk deer is where the fun begins! Since the deer will have a steampunk cyborg aesthetic, part of it will be “natural” and part will be mechanical. I’ll start with the natural ear. I looked at my reference material and sculpted the base shape with corrugated cardboard.… Continue reading Steampunk deer ears

Adding “flesh” to the steampunk deer head

05 Apr Now that provisions for the antlers are in place, I can start to “flesh out” the deer head. I began by filling the void areas in the wooden armature with wads of newspaper, then going over that with rolled newspaper, which I fl;attened out a bit and trimmed to fit. I taped those… Continue reading Adding “flesh” to the steampunk deer head