The Trials of the Pumpkin Head (Building Jack Pt1)
Hey readers, I am starting a brand new puppet adventure! I want to do a whole monster series of puppets to try out some new things I have learned, and try to do things I haven't done before. I would like to do: a witch, a vampire, a zombie, a mummy, a scarecrow, a sea monster and a werewolf. Perhaps I was inspired by my time watching the Netflix original series (for children) Super Monsters. The world may never know. That is a lot of puppets so I am going to take them one at a time and work slowly. I am starting with a scarecrow. I went looking around online for reference images. I had planned on doing a burlap looking face, but then I thought that a pumpkin head might be more visually interesting. It would also allow me to do several things I have never done with a puppet before. First, the eyes would be cut out of the head like a jack-o-lantern. I also wanted to make the teeth clearly part of the pumpkin rind, and not teeth in the jaw. Normally, my teeth are made from make...