Sickie Ickie's HG Corpsing
Okay, I admit that I'm totally stoked about this idea. (I said stoked, not stroked... tsk tsk tsk)
I recently had a brainstorm and decided to try this concept. It's vastly different from what I have ever seen before, so I excitedly lay claim as the inventor of (Da-Da-Daaaaahhhh!!!)
Sickie Ickie's HG Corpsing.
(Perhaps this is my only claim of immortality, until I get bitten by a mystical undead fanged creature...
like the Roadkilled Sabertoothed Toad?)
Simple as 1 - 2 - 3
Supplies
Skull
Red Hot Glue Sticks
Glue Pot
Disposable Brushes 1" or 2"
Let's Begin!
1 > Melt the red glue sticks in the glue pot. (Gee, that was hard...NOT!)
2 > Take your skull and decide on the pose you want. Jaw open? Closed? Classic with no jaw? (How about Jabber Jaw? "Wooo wooo wooo." If you actually understood that reference you are showing your age! ) Take some of the red glue and glue that jaw in the pose you want by dipping the brush in the glue and dribbling it on where it connects to the skull.
3 > After that cools... (Wait by making some coffee...er, too long...um...drinking some coffee...still too long?...ummm...spilling some coffee on your best shirt...yep, that's about all the time it takes...) begin by taking your brush, dipping it into the melted red hot glue and stippling it all around the skull. You'll get maybe an inch or two (three?) done at a time before having to reload the brush.
(Stippling is just a fancy word for dabbing with your brush up and down over and over again until you are out of glue on your brush, then dipping and dabbing all over again... kinda the way your 90 year old uncle does with his mouth when he's not wearing his false teeth.)
The reason I say disposable brushes and more than one is that your brush will become hard after playing with it awhile (Jeesh...gutter minds!) and you'll need to switch it out for softer bristles again. Disposable brushes cost less than a dollar each at the craft store.
I personally start with the under side of the skull, move to the top of the head, then do the face and jaw while leaving the teeth as clean as possible. (Don't bother to brush his teeth. He only swallows the toothpaste anyway.) The more strings you have from the glue, the more blood vessels, torn skin tissue, etc. you create! You can't lose!
Then stain the teeth if you want, and you are done! Now wasn't that simple? That's all there is to (Da-Da-Daaaaahhhh!!!)
Sickie Ickie's HG Corpsing.
(In case you haven't figured it out by now, HG stands for Hot Glue. )
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