Wesley's Weekly Presents... Monster Hands
Yes I know, I am still, as we say indisposed, with a variety of things going on right now. But really this isn't a bad thing, because Indy Mogul's own Arissa Beck, made up a wonderful tutorial that she rightly deserves mad props for.
Check it out, and tell Arissa how much you appreciate her hard work.
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Supplies
- Pair of latex gloves
- Liquid Latex
- Crème make-up
- Spirit gum
- Cotton balls
- Face/ baby powder
- Brushes and Sponges
- Crepe hair
Take one of your gloves and powder the inside of the glove. Even if the gloves are pre-powder. This will aid you in removing them so they don’t tear.
After you’ve powered the inside liberally, put your glove on. Start by gluing your index and middle fingers together with your spirit gum. Next glue your ring and pinky fingers together. *tip: if you have trouble holding your fingers together while the spirit gum it drying, wrap a low tack masking tape around your fingers to hold them together.
When you know your spirit gum is dried carefully remove the glove. To make my application of the other steps easier, I stuffed the fingers and palm with cotton balls and toilet paper. Fill the glove until it is firm.
Thinly spread several of the cotton balls apart. Start by filling in the gaps between the glued fingers. This will give a fuller look to your monster hands and help blend the fingers together. I usually follow the structure of human hands when adding more cotton. I will build up the knuckles and accentuate the veins. You can add the cotton however you’d like to achieve the look you want.
After your cotton is applied add another layer of latex over the cotton. The cotton absorbs more latex so this layer will take much longer to dry. Again the hair dryer is your friend.
When you are done with the top, use the same steps to add detail and texture to the palm. Apply cotton all over the hand to give the whole surface a creepy texture.
Now it’s time for the make-up. If you don’t have the certain color you need, remember you can always mix one. I didn’t have any yellow or enough green so I mixed some colors. I always buy several tubes of white crème make-up for this purpose. I found an airtight container, squeezed some white crème make-up into it and then added food coloring as my dye. You can do this to achieve any color you could possibly need with some basic color theory mixing knowledge.
First put down a base of a medium green color all over your hand.
Then add shadows and highlights on your hand. I darkened my green by adding small amounts of brown to it. And I used a little green and yellow as my highlights. Highlight the knuckles and veins. Shadow the sides and insides of the fingers, as well as the valleys between your knuckles and veins.
For the palm I made the whole area a few shades lighter. I added details and lines with my shadow color.
To add a little more depth and detail, I used a textured sponge dipped in brown. I spotted the hand lightly all over.
When your make-up is done, you can add fake nails. I just clipped these and shaped them with scissors to make them more monster like. I then brushed some black crème make-up on to them.
Un-stuff your glove and it’s ready to wear after 24hours to let the make-up completely dry. You can also add a light layer of hair spray to help seal the make-up. Just take care of them and you can use them over and over.
I made two examples. A swampish monster and werewolf or beast monster type hand. These can both be applied to the costumes Indy Mogul has shown you in the past.
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Thank you so much to Arissa again! Make sure to leave her some rep for her FANTASTIC project.
While I hope you all have enjoyed the guest blogs, I promise I will be back next week with a new big build that I think you guys are really going to dig, and some new things that I am hoping you'll equally dig.
That werewolf hand is awesome!
Will you perhaps be getting your own regular FX makeup slot on Indy Mogul? I think you should :)
Wow Arissa thats brilliant! The werewolf hand looks great!
Damn, that's really good. Nice one Arissa.
Before you painted The hand looked like clay face from batman!
Wich is a good thing! Great Job AB.
That was awesome! If you get more time you should do some more tutorials! Mad props to Arissa (Wes said you deserved them)
This looks so cool! Fine fine work
Woah that was by FAR my favorite weekly how-to! No offense, Wes, but that was just...amazing...
Wow!! The werewolf one is amazing!! You should have shown pictures of that one
Awesome!!!!!!
That is so cool!
I like the wolf hand
It looks terrible , , , Nah I kid I LOVED IT!!!!! I'm going to use this method for my movies, thanks dude
Fantastic!!!!
great job on this tutorial! I love how these apply to past indy mogul episodes, very useful.
NIce and very useful tutorial!
the wold looks great!
but the swamp monster...
you shouldnt have glued the fingers togerther and you should have glued some grass and moss on!
the wold looks great!
but the swamp monster...
you shouldnt have glued the fingers togerther and you should have glued some grass and moss on!
the wold looks great!
but the swamp monster...
you shouldnt have glued the fingers togerther and you should have glued some grass and moss on!
sorry about that!
Cool Great job Arissa
looooooovvvvvvveeeeee this!
can i buy the werewolf one?