Making Angel Dragon costume head

https://imgur.com/y95EUTl



So, I may have told you that I had different kinda project going on in some earlier post.



I started creating this fursuit head somewhere around July and I worked on it every now and then. It probably took somewhere 80 to 120 hours to create the head but it is very difficult to estimate time what I have spent to this.

https://imgur.com/JEYeYJj



First I made foam base which took a week to do when I worked 4-6 hours per day. I used balaclava and 10 years old mattress foam so they cost me nothing. I had couple knives to cut the foam and I used 200-300 grams of hot glue.

https://imgur.com/7ceZdeh



Then I covered it with tape and drew markings, numbers and colors.



https://imgur.com/nvGdU1t



Then I stick the tape on paper, cut it and I traced them on faux fur.



https://imgur.com/KPnJaWX



After cutting all pieces I started sewing some pieces together with sewing machine. I stitched them together with double stitch, zigzag and standard stitch. I sewed about 2/3 with machine and rest by hand.



All the fur I bought were from kangastukku.com . I bought 6 square meters of fur for 85€. The quality wasn’t supreme but it was good enough for me.



https://imgur.com/slxd3Tg



I glue everything together with some hot glue and mostly with adhesive gel. It’s super messy bu easier to apply.

I cut eye frames from plastic cookie box, and used mesh to cover the eye holes.

I used wall paint and spray paint to color the mesh.

I trimmed everything but inner ears and neck with scissors.



I hadn’t time to work with it when schools started. Well, I guess a bit because of laziness too,

Horns are made from pine wood which I carved with knife, sanded , painted white and I applied two layers of varnish. I had only yellowish varnish but they didn’t look too bad.



I cut holes with knife and scissors and masked the around the holes so I don’t end up gluing the fur together. I used again adhesive gel.





https://imgur.com/7VEzf7N



And after lifetime and spending 120€ to this. It was finally done. Now I got only rest of the suit left to do.

Huge thanks to Matrices.net tutorial where I got most of the tips to make this head. Some Sparky’s videos were very helpful aswell. I had some crafting experiences before I started making this but I hadn’t sewn or used sewing machine for 6 years.



Let me know what you think about the head. Do you want me to post more about this when I have done rest of the suit or nah?



It is not flawless for sure but it’s still the first one what I have ever made.



Here’s two tiny GIFs from Kaelygon which I animated few days ago.





