Okay, so after a little bit of a lull, I picked my fursuit stuff back up again. Here's what this picture in my tutorial/documentation is showing. To recap, I carved a taxidermy head down into just the face, hollowed it out, etc. (If you're seeing this new, go ahead to my gallery and find all the facts there.)
Now, I experimented a lot with the eyes. I considered this for a while and given that I was using an actual form, I didn't want to off-set them, put glass eyes on and carve out holes where I might be able to see out of. I wanted to look out of the actual eyes. My planning for this went on for weeks. I considered using ribbons, painting things screens, colored lenses, rounded beads.... I did wind up getting some cheap green sunglasses and cutting them up, then attempted to use the clear plastic from googly-eyes for lenses. This might have worked, but then when smoothing things out, the eye sockets got too big and it became a horrible mess. It was a nice theory, but just didn't work out. So I was back to square one. Then, while playing at Michael's - the craft store - I found a big green, translucent bouncy ball. I cut chunks out of it and tada! It worked. To keep my visibility, I'm not going to paint on the eyes. Yes, I lose a lot of realism because of that, but the trade-off is that I can still see.
Next, after gluing the ball chunks in, I lined the inside of the mask with some scrap fabric so that the foam chunks won't stick to my skin anymore. Yeah, the eye holes in said fabric is all jagged, but you can't tell from the outside. After the lining, I glued some thick elastic to the mask to go around my head and a little downward. This took some trial and error because if I made it too tight, it would get uncomfortable after a while. Skipping ahead, I will say that I sewed another band that fit over the top of my head to support the foam that comes next. But that's for the next post.
To Be Continued....