Costume process: The mask

      

                I’m always talking about my costume that I’m working in so I decided to share a little of the process with you. I’m just going to talk about the process of making a single piece. I decided to talk about the mask making because it is a new process for me and a learning experience.

 First step was choosing the character I wanted to be.

  I chose the Golden Age Bat-Girl, because she wears a shirt and can still take on the bad guys.

Step 2 is designing the mask.

I made the base out of craft foam and covered in with a thermoplastic material.

Step 3  Apply multiple layers of gesso.

Step 4  Apply red paint The red paint dried.

Step5  Tape off edges and apply the black paint. This step in where things went wrong for me. The paint ran under the tape.

Step 6 start again  I painted it all black and will be adding the red outline.

                I have enjoyed learning an new process for making mask and will be adding picture of it once it is complete. I started this thinking it would be the easiest part and learned a lot while working it. I’m not going to let it get me down. If every Superhero stopped the first time they ran into trouble we wouldn’t have any Superhero, in real life or the comics.


Update. Here is the mask after I redid it.