PROCESS AND MATERIALS

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So I started by making the core of the sculpt with some scrunched up paper and chicken wire to keep the shape strong and then start adding the chavant! I decided to use chavant as I find I am able to add more detail without it just looking 'messy'. It also meant that I did not have to cover my sculpt or wet it over night, I could just come and go as I pleased, without worrying about it drying out.

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Once I had finished with the sculpt I began to do the detail layer of the silicone mould, later adding thixotropic to the silicone in order to create a thicker and stronger coat of silicone so the mould didn't tear. Then, of course, I added the keys to locate the pieces of the mould into the correct part of the fibreglass jacket.

I chose to do a fibreglass jacket to ensure that the silicone mould was solid enough to keep its shape once I started to do the castings.

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I made my casts out of a resin skin (with a layer of fibreglass) and hard expanding foam. I decided to fill with hard expanding foam so that the final product was lightweight and easy to carry around.

During the casting process, I added pigment to the resin to give The Serpent a base colour I could later build on.

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Now for the finishing.

Unfortunately I couldn't save the teeth or the mould, in fact I had to completely destroy it in order to get the silicone out of the mouth at all. I used Miliput to cover the seams and make the teeth so now it doesn't look like anything went wrong at all!