Oh em gee finally

Yesterday I seriously spent 8 hours trying to get the shape of the "horns" for Maghda's headpiece.  I didn't even bother to take pictures of my failed attempts out of paper, cardboard, foam, test fabric.  In all it took about 6 tries of different templates to get something I'm happy with.  I'm simply not good at making flat objects (fabric) into 3 dimensional shapes that not only go out, but also go back (the horns stick out, but also flay backwards).

I only have the first one sewn... and I have no idea yet how I'm going to get it to keep it's shape while being lightweight enough to stay up and on my head.. but I have ideas!

However, I'm too excited with this little victory that I can't help but sharing:

Now, onto the second one!  (And then the detailing, the interior supports, the rest of the helmet for it to attach to... etc etc... YEESH!)

p.s. this is what my foam head turned out to be, which ended up being pretty helpful:

What better way to get a headform than to make it from your own!

So, it's difficult trying to create patterns off of my own head without suffocating myself and Dan doesn't have the patience to do it for me, so I'm creating a replica of my head to pattern the head piece off of.

Cardboard frame (yes, I did put my head upside down on the floor to trace it):

And then covered it with expanding foam!

I did this a couple days ago and I just foam the bottom half my head just now.  Tomorrow when it's dry I'll carve it =P

Then, the plan is to use that to make my pattern both for the skull cap thing itself, and the large protrusion things that are part of the helmet.  The balloon/bag method wasn't working out too well for me =(