Sculpting Prosthetics: Reptile Skin

[@Spacecookie-]

This is so very useful to me. I'm currently in the middle of drawing a lizard-man bust, and now I understand appropriate skin texture and surface shapes. Thank you ever so much for taking the time to make this video and for also sharing your knowledge.

[@Beckawoo]

I coud sit and watch these kind of videos for hours!

[@wsdasdad]

and i can sit and watch you for hours!

[@Amanda-ly5cn]

I can't even begin to tell you how appreciative I am for your videos. My husband and I are stationed in Alaska right now and there are no schools or classes available near us, so I've been trying to learn everything that I can on my own until we move again. Since I have no prior experience working with any aspect of special effects I come back to your channel a lot. Kiana, or Freakmo on here, recommended your channel and I'm so glad that she did. Thanks for being so inspiring.

[@artsculpture1024]

Great tutorial, good info, presented in an easily digestible form.

[@ChrisEllerby]

Fantastic video. Really love the idea of airbrushing on the Baldiez and doing a test paint. Great opportunity to identify any troubled areas in the sculpt before going through the mold making process. As always, love your videos and would love to see more! Thanks so much for sharing your work.

[@AHeadC]

This is a great tutorial, I've seen others trying to do scales and such but they don't look anywhere near as lifelike. Thanks :)

[@TheArchemidies]

I just got turned onto your videos. I have loved FX sculpting for a few years now, doing a little bit of plain stuff for a friend here and there a while back. I love your videos and they are really inspiring stuff; making me want to again invest money and further practice the craft.

[@stuartbray]

thanks man. appreciate you taking time to say so.

[@antoniopezzella2174]

that painting membrane is so clever! i was looking for somethin similar since long time, thank you!

[@HenkJanBakker]

Amazing. You have so much more love for the work than for the result. And that's a good thing. Absolutely inspiring.

[@lindaschexnayder6785]

Thank you, so much for sharing this is just what I was looking for. This was so soothing to watch while in the car waiting to drop off my daughter at school.

[@dm-hstudio]

You voice is extremely soothing and I like to just listen while sculpting

[@stuartbray]

Thank you! Have you heard our podcast, Battles With bits if Rubber?

[@vladisartdesign7080]

very nice and interesting technique. Thanks a lot for the video

[@christopherazzopardi2062]

Excellent tutorial! I learnt a lot from it. Well done!

[@stuartbray]

Thank you. I appreciate your kind words!

[@noemid1458]

Thank you so much for your techniques they are amazing very useful . how you explain and you show us step by step exactly what you're doing. just amazing work thank you 👍😃

[@mariaconsuelogarcia3886]

Alucinante el trabajo , un gran gran artista , enhorabuena!

[@Mike5401]

Great video and techniques! I just learned some new techniques and skills to add to my arsenal. Thanks!!

[@GratuitousSets]

Brilliantly done instructional video! Apparently, I'm watching them all too quickly! Please, Sir, can I have some more? (The texture vids are my favorites)

[@thibautknapp233]

Hey there! Thank you so much for this video! Are you gonna make a video of the next step like making the mould of this reptile skin? That would be so helpful!

[@stuartbray]

I have videos on making appliance moulds here on my channel. Not this particular piece but the process is the same. Once you know how to make a cheese sandwich, making a ham sandwich ain't so difficult: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6TFZ3aopLGXq8U

[@Thekrhiya]

Greatful and inspired videos. Good technique. To be continued. !!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@gothic7821]

Thanks for sharing this. Your use of the parfilm and cap plastic, here, is brilliant. Do you recall if you used the acetone solved plastic, or the alcohol solved? I'm not sure it matters, because of the epoxy parfulm. Just curious. Until now I had never actually considered the occasional usefulness of painting the sculpture before it's been moulded, but I do see how that can be useful in certain circumstances. Very cool. Just a side note: Over the past few years, I've learned a great deal from you and Todd. Although we've never personally met, I have a huge amount of respect, appreciation, and gratitude for you both. Thank you, (and Todd, both) for your respective contributions in helping me to become a better artist. 🌻

[@yaltynai2387]

thanks for all of your tutorials,those videos had really taught me a lot,hope you have a nice day :) from the other side of the earth

[@stuartbray]

Thank you! Appreciate your time and for checking the videos out.

[@AshSchultzArt]

Awesome. I'm hoping to make my wife into Medusa for Halloween and this really helped me figure out how I was going to do the reptile skin textures!

[@IanAlderige]

Perfect! This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you.

[@MarbleFlesh]

Oh my goodness. That was beautiful.

[@Trashgriffin]

Can I marry you? Your tutorials are so amazingly helpful! I love how you show everything in great detail and explain every step, this is very encouraging because you really show how simple it can be just to get started. Thank you, master.

[@stuartbray]

Glad you like it! I like to explain things in the way I would like them laid out.

[@karenchavez6203]

U

[@stuartbray]

Ha ha. Thanks...I really enjoy explaing things in a manner which I myself would like to have had them explained to me.

[@Artsyfultastic]

You're awesome :) I seriously get like goosebumps watching your videos because you've got such talents! Even the tongues you made in another video are disgustingly beautiful :] please continue to make videos! They are thoroughly enjoyed!

[@michaelman9281]

Thanks! I'm thinking about making a part-dragon Halloween costume, and this is going to help a lot!

[@decorativemoldingsfromplas210]

Beautiful work.

[@plaurie93]

Could u please do a tutorial on building a resin jaw and moving lips for a latex mask no animatronics though .

[@FROMENJAY]

Excellent tutorial! Thank you so much, Im going to transfer the techniques to use on sugar paste icing for a life sized bearded dragon sculpted cake. So glad I found you!x

[@bloodynature1307]

Great tutorial! Thanks for posting!

[@Lighthazzles]

Exquisite technique, thanks for this.

[@catherineaverillartwork]

I love the disclaimer "can turn to ice cream, or...burn your house down"

[@groenfan851]

Ahoyhoy! I have been an through a house fire when I was 3,due to being" gifted" with the ability to reminisce something that early has made it impossible to work with any tool that produces fire or heat. I have always been a 1987 kid but am trapped in a mortifying modern time. I would give my soul to the devil himself just to be able to bring back animatronics from the 60s - 80s and have a g3 powermac computer in my home right now. I've always adored and grew fascinated with animatronics science I was about 4! I wish I could give up my memory for the ability to work on these majestic pieces of equipment but I guess I'll never follow my heart.

[@MirandoCamando]

What an amazing video! Can i ask what is the hardness of the clay you are working with? It looks like this would work better with a leather hard consistency.

[@stuartbray]

It is 55 grade - which is hard to quantify. It softens with heat and hardens when cold so keep a hairdryer and a can of plumbers freezing spray to affect the changes you require.

[@jordanmesser4981]

I was just wondering if it would be possible to create those in sections and then apply them to a manikin's face later? If not is there any other way to do that? I'm working on a project that would requires me to assemble it live and I'm trying to save time on assembling it. Any help would be immensely helpful.

[@kiera2867]

amazing as always!

[@thenar]

Stuart, I enjoyed this tutorial much. Thanks. Say hello to Todd for me.

[@BlushLoungebySneha]

Hello what material what used to fill the brass tube to make the appliance. Couldn’t understand. This was done before using it to make scales

[@stuartbray]

Car body filler, bondo or similar from auto repair stores

[@MisterAlterEgo]

Awesome! This is exactly what I needed. Thank you.

[@jamesporter6125]

Thank you for making this!

[@rahsadeen4571]

(May-23-2021) The creative artist mind is awesome. I can really appreciate the work. Good friggin job... 😳 WHAT THE...! ? 😯❗ You peeled it off!? OMG, i truly missed the point

[@nightmaresinblossom3278]

Hello Stuart, I was wondering what type of syringe you used? and where you bought it from please? I would like to try this method however I am unsure how I would go about purchasing this. Thank you

[@stuartbray]

Syringes are available online from laboratory supplies, veterinary and medical supplies etc.

[@nightmaresinblossom3278]

Thank you very much

[@jeroenscholte8939]

Thank you for this video. Very usefull for me. I want to sculp a dragon so i'm very exited with your video's. Ther are clear and helpfull.

[@afosbinder96]

Very useful tutorial! Thanks!

[@stuartbray]

It's my pleasure

[@staurofilake2007]

What paint did you use over the baldcap..?

[@barsiebarsie]

What colours did you use? Could you type all colours code and producer?

[@josephine9975]

you're a genius.

[@vireshkumar6816]

ultimately... prosthetic informative... I salute u..

[@hectorguzman8435]

What’s the name of that liquid clay that you are using??! Where can I find it and the syringe used to apply it??

[@stuartbray]

At 9:50 I show the liquid clay being made. It's plastiline mixed with lighter fluid. If you Google 'syringe supplier' I'm sure you'll find a laboratory equipment stockist that supplies needles and syringes. Don't get too narrow a needle as this is a thicker liquid and we are not looking for painless injection. I'd say a mixing needle is the size you want, maybe half a millimetre to a millimetre inside bore.

[@ianjones6478]

Thank you so much for sharing

[@angelsandfaes]

very good information. thank you

[@DarkVisionArtDesign]

Wow! What type of clay is this? Chavant oil based clay?

[@stuartbray]

It is a plastiline, oil based clay. It's from Jacobson Chemicals in the UK but comes from a French supplier.

[@robertauti9019]

As usual your tutorials are mind blowing and extremely helpful, now I am working on a medusa piece and have been having troubles balancing the scaly body, now I feel I can work faster using the pipes as aid instead of just applying one scale after d other...now I have a quick question, I'm trying to do a reptilean tongue, with d fork like tips, can u help out on this?

[@stuartbray]

I guess...what is the problem?

[@robertauti9019]

I think I made it a tard bit too wide and too long, for some reason it looks more like a tail than a fork tongue

[@stuartbray]

Roberta Uti Send me an email with pics!

[@georgemartinez1720]

Great idea

[@alexbauer3325]

Nice! Is that WED clay by chance?

[@alexbauer3325]

Oh I see it melts when heated by a torch. WED clay would do dry up and stiffen instead.

[@alexbauer3325]

The bit on the tubing tools just before 6:30 is priceless. I'm learning things! Thanks so much for sharing :D

[@stuartbray]

Thanks. Nope, plastiline. Oil based ckays, usually used for appliances because water based clays will dry and shrink when sculpting thin things with fine edges. Chavant and Monster Clay are common in the States, in Europe these are popular also but I also like Plastiline by a company called J. HERBIN based on France which have been involved with waxes etc for about 300 years!

[@SimsMagicMovies]

amazing work as always :) what type of clay do you recomend for sculpting, and then moulding with plaster that won't loose its shape, and something cheap and takes good detail? thanks :D

[@stuartbray]

Plastiline like Chavant or Monster clay is best. As to plaster - there are better materials than plaster but in the UK, Crystacal R is good and the US its Ultracal 30.

[@SimsMagicMovies]

thanks :D

[@SimsMagicMovies]

oh and btw, does an oil based clay good for sculpting? and it doesn't dry with air right?

[@stuartbray]

Sims2 MagicMovies yeah, its better for prosthetics and does not air dry at all.

[@groenfan851]

Ahoyhoy! oh, nice job, by the way! I wish I could've followed my true destiny to restore beaten up animatronics . they really are fascinating!

[@jamesjddj23]

When colouring the sculpt after with bald cap, could you do this with latex also? or would it damage the sculpt for moulding?

[@stuartbray]

Latex itself doesn't actually damage the sculpt. However, if you intend to mould this and make silicone appliances then you many find the latex may still leave some residue of sulphur which can prevent silicone from setting properly. It is known as 'inhibition' and latex is commonly used in FX. As a result it usually need to be kept away from anything that involves silicone. For example I no longer even use latex gloves as touching moulds with them could cause the silicone to inhibit.

[@jamesjddj23]

+stuart bray Thanks for the quick reply! Is there a way to remove the residue of sulphur from the sculpt? or should I just avoid going near it with latex at all costs!

[@stuartbray]

I've had moulds which cleaned ok and others that didn't. I just avoid it to be safe.

[@Jercroft1]

Great job!

[@romankampelmacher4685]

What's the airbrush brand? its weird, doesnt have the top trigger

[@stuartbray]

Román Kampelmacher It's a Grex, but there are many brands that don't have a top trigger. This is a pistol grip, which is rather more comfortable and used in all the airbrushes and spray guns for tanning and painting cars in the body shop. You can hold it for hours comfortably.

[@sprinxit]

Okay first off that was just plain AMAZING! But to get to the real point of this comment, I would like to ask how someone could get into this field of work. I'm 14 and really have my mindset on getting a career in a theatrical makeup profession similar to this, can anyone tell me good colleges or schools and places to start interning so I can get started on this path? Please and thank you!

[@AA-ky4qg]

Hey anyone who sees this post, atm I'm not making prosthetics (i d love to learn special effects makeup though, but I work on sculptures a lot and think those molds would be useful for new projects, so is that wood putty in the tube?????

[@stuartbray]

It is plasiline- if you watch the video I show you how to make it.

[@stuartbray]

Zane Woods car body filler

[@georgemartinez1720]

Do you make your own sculpting Tools

[@stuartbray]

I have done few blog posts and videos on making your own tools: www.learnmakeupeffects.com/making-tools/

[@stuartbray]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3PKp3ZnmK6nY6c

[@sonatamiaou]

amazing!! i go to try!!

[@donandkaren1119]

where do you get your clay sculpting tools?

[@stuartbray]

The loop tools are largely home made, otherwise Tiranti in London or The Compleat (their spelling!) Sculptor

[@ELINSFXMAKEUP]

awesome!

[@sergiofabianrosales9121]

Gimme sincerious, What time you expended, to finalize this mask??

[@stuartbray]

How long did I spend in total sculpting? About 6 hours.

[@Handprintornament]

well made video

[@flacidsalad7631]

jesus staurt, you're fucking incredible

[@ludoviko888]

muito bom!! obrigado

[@MrDermo1974]

stuart did i miss something ,. did you put latex on this as you were painting it ???

[@stuartbray]

No, but I did apply cap plastic before painting it so it could be peeled off afterwards to mould. It's at 11:30

[@MrDermo1974]

thanks stuart ,. im new to this ......so is the finished peice ready to be applied to your face ? thanks

[@stuartbray]

Nope. This is just the sculpt. It needs moulding and then casting out appliances from that mould using silicone.

[@alexanimationgoofy]

can u make a tutorial about making other tools? :D

[@stuartbray]

Alex Sdraub I should, huh?! I do have a few posts about tool making but good suggestion: www.learnprostheticmakeup.com/Make_your_own_sculpting_loop_tools_revised_sept09.pdf www.learnmakeupeffects.com/making-tools/ www.learnmakeupeffects.com/sculpting_tool_for_prosthetics/

[@uhhh_jade]

What kind of air brush do you use ?

[@stuartbray]

The one I use here has the product code 'Airbrush BD-116' and is£35 from this place: www.airbrush-pro.co.uk/ For cap plastic though, generally the smaller spray guns used to paint cars are better, known as 'High Volume, Low Pressure' guns or HVLP gravity feed guns like this: www.rapidonline.com/catalogueimages/Module/M300081P01WL.jpg

[@oddity4650]

Could u also use clingfilm to round the top bit instead of making tha tool?

[@stuartbray]

Not sure what you mean, I suppose if you warm the plastiline then to some degree it can be smoothed using plastic. I'd still need tools for the rest of the sculpting.

[@oddity4650]

@@stuartbray I mean like if cling flim was on the clay etc then, u used like a bit of pipe etc, with no clay etc shape in it, so when u push down on the cling film using the bit of pipe etc, it might also push on the cling film to make round edges on the clay etc, altho it might need to be thicker material than cling film maybe.

[@stuartbray]

@@oddity4650 yes, I'd suggest a thicker plastic. Also put a little alcohol on the plastiline and smooth it out through the thick plastic with firm pressure

[@donandkaren1119]

where did you get this plasticine and what grade is it/

[@stuartbray]

it's by a French company called J.Herbin. It's 55grade and I like the grey although they also make an ivory colour too. That shows up every bit of grease and dirt so I don't usually ever use the Ivory!

[@iseetheWAYVision]

I love this

[@TheHarpbender]

Excellent tutorial......... learnt a lot :)

[@jeancarlossantosencarnacio5309]

Awesome

[@chrisegan4510]

what ink colours did u use?

[@stuartbray]

FW acrylic inks and Liquitex acrylic paints. The greens were olive mixed with raw umber I think.

[@TigerFXde]

GOD OF SCULPTING!

[@ka5p3r]

amazing video again thank you for sharing. im gonna have to hit up home depot for some pipe tomorrow :)

[@piercefitzgerald145]

is the plastelina from tiranti?

[@stuartbray]

No, Jacobsons Chemicals.

[@piercefitzgerald145]

brilliant, thanks stuart!

[@YaashRajpoot]

sir plz tell me which clay is used how to make

[@stuartbray]

Plastiline - oil based clay. I have used the Grey grade 50 from J. Herbin, but other brands such as Chavant NSPwork well.

[@YaashRajpoot]

@@stuartbray sir plzzzzz tell me the respi of clay making

[@stuartbray]

@@YaashRajpoot I don't make the clay - I buy it.

[@YaashRajpoot]

my dear sir @@stuartbray but its not available in my country essayli

[@drew1586]

You sound like richard hammond

[@georgemartinez1720]

Awsome

[@sabinekather7078]

👍👍

[@polimuaart6998]

looooooooooovveeeeee

[@robotneva]

plastilene?

[@stuartbray]

Yup. Oil based clay, plastiline is a type of modelling clay which doesn't dry cause there is no water in there.

[@robotneva]

similar to plasticize?

[@stuartbray]

Is plasticize a product or a verb in this instance? Plastiline is like plasticine.

[@robotneva]

a product . sorry auto correct

[@stuartbray]

Yup, its just like clay but oil based. You can buy different types and they have different softnesses depending on your preference. In the UK its cold more than it is warm so I use a softer grade than if it were 90 degrees outside 70% of the year.

[@10us101]

dynamite

[@RealmWalker]

Lol They Live on Flat Earth.

[@plaurie93]

Could u please do a tutorial on building a resin jaw and moving lips for a latex mask no animatronics though .

[@georgemartinez1720]

What tool did you use to make those lines

[@ampeyro]

What material do you use? i tried plaster and playdough, but they react in awfull ways with the silicone, latex and polyester of the molds, and clay cracks

[@stuartbray]

I use oil based clay known as plastiline. There are a few brands, including Monster Clay and Chavant.

[@ampeyro]

I think i's the same, but for some reason, the oily component gets absorbed into the mold material and messes with the curing.

[@stuartbray]

Do you men the plastiline absorbs into the plaster cast on which you are sculpting? And also that the surface of the silicone mould or appliance made from it is tacky or not setting properly? That sounds like inhibition, where the process of the two silicone components 'crosslinking' is compromised. It may be due to sulphur being in the plastiline. There are 'sulphur free' plastilines like Chavant which are better for use where silicone is involved.

[@ampeyro]

stuart bray Yes and yes, and the same with polyester mould, i also tried to use a thin layer of liquid latex, but it turns into goo if i leave it for more than two or three days, i think i will have to use regular clay, even if i can't recycle it.

[@stuartbray]

Water based clay isn't great for appliances. The edges dry and crack quickly as the water evaporates. Send me some clear pics of what you have done and what the issues are so I can see. Email me [e-mail]

[@donandkaren1119]

What did you use to fill in the scale stamps?

[@stuartbray]

Car Body Filler for repairing dents and damage to car bodies. You'll get it in auto repair shops. Brands include Bondo in the US, Isopon P38 in the uk.