Life Casting with alginate and plaster bandage
This was my initial project in college was so I could learn how to lifecasting with alginate, fiberglassing, casting silicone and painting silicone before attempting anything in my final project.
Finished life cast
Me and Louise life casting
Me sticking cotton balls on the alginate to help attach the plaster bandage better
Louise applying the bandage over the cotton balls
Model before
Model after
Alginate Life Cast
Hot chavant poured into cast
pouring the hard expanding foam to back chavant sculpt
Chavant cast from life cast,
Wasn't a great cast. her nose and eyes got damaged and had to be resculpted
Close up on details on chavant cast
skin texture
Eye lashes
Practicing skin texture
Fibreglass mold- positive
Fibreglass mold- negative
First brush cast of silicone
First Pull
Second pull with some pycho paint and pigments
Close up of silicone skin
Internal mech and silicone skin