The Making of The Mask!!!!!!

Prom is another week to come... or 6 days to be exact... organized by KBU Student Council at One World Hotel... and the Theme is Masquerade!!! :P... well... don't really want to get a mask from the shops and having chances of people wearing the same mask as i do... i don't want that to happen so i've decided to make my own mask... well... at 1st i don't really know how to make the base of the mask... so i went to One Utama to get my mask.... it's at the lower ground floor next to a camera shop at the old wing... there's a lot of mask to chose from there... but i went and get just the basic one...

the mask somehow looks like a cartoon character "The Spawn"... :P... slightly similar actually... the idea was actually just keep the shape of the mask and stitch leather onto the mask... the leather i'm using is dark brown... and i was thinking of using white strings to stitch them... but then it will be so obvious if theres some stitching mistake that i've done with it... so instead i used black strings... :)... one more thing... i'm going to make the mask more mysterious.. i attached my old shades onto the mask... when wearing the mask, my eyes wont be exposed... wahahhaa..>!!! :P.... but then the outcome of the mask somehow looks like a superhero mask... :S... but then it will be unique... :P...

The Mask base... so plain... :S



cut off some off the eye part to get more fierce look... and d nose part for better fitting.. :P



the dots is where i'm gonna poke holes for me to stitch later...
since its kinda hard to just pierce the needle through for stitching...

stating with the eye!!! it took me close to an hour just to finish an eye... :S.... btw... i need plier to push and pull the needles as well.. even though there's hole that i poke earlier on, still its very hard to do just with bare fingers... :S



done with the eyes...



attached the shades into the mask... and cut off the extra leather at the sides... :P




starts to stitch the border.... :)




i took me more than an hour to finish up the forehead... same goes to the cheek and nose part...




the mask of Fish Bone!!!! wahahahaha... :P

fuhh!!! took me at least 6 hours to finish up this mask,.. i didn't finish it up all in one day... not a robot to do this all in 6 hours straight... been doing this mask for 3 days... :P... its damn tiring stitching it... :S... but i guess it turned out great...

the cost of making this mask
mask base = RM9.90
shades(pasar malam) = RM10.00
leather = free from KBU 3D workshop..
strings and needles = mummy punya...
labour charge = priceless... :P

hehehe... :P... cant wait for Prom next week.... woohhhooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)