I gathered that what he
chiefly remembers about it is a horrible, an intensely horrible, face of
crumpled linen.
— M.R. James
Before I can make a latex face I'll need a mould, and before I can make a mould I'll need a prototype face made of clay. Now, this'll make me seem awfully sloppy but I haven't actually drawn any sketches or made any other kinds of notes when it comes to character design. Up to this point my main concern was getting a working jaw together; if that idea hadn't worked then I'd have had to go right back to the drawing board, so I didn't want to get too bogged down with designing the final look of the puppet. Because of this I went into designing the face blind.
This will explain why my first attempt came out looking like the golem of Prague sucking a lemon.
I pressed on and eventually ended up with something a bit more presentable.
Incidentally, the polystyrene egg which I used to make the actual puppet head came in a pack of three; I used one of the other two as a base for the clay.
And finally, I dumped the thing in a tub of plaster.
To be continued...
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