How i made xenos nails!!
Materials
-worbla
-2mm eva foam
-scissors
-heat gun
-soldering iron (technically optional but helps A LOT)
-gesso (i used regular gesso, but if you can id buy heavy body gesso)
-P400+P600 sand paper
-acyrlic paint (just silver is ok, but black will help)
-white gloves
-hot glue
PART 1- forming the base
This part is VERY hard to explain so hopefully the diagram helps- ill explain every step here
Finger tips
1. Cut out a piece of worbla thats double the length of the finger tip you want + a little extra.
2. Heat it slightly and fold that piece of worbla in half around your finger.
3. Form it slightly around your finger, leaving a little extra space for the glove material, then cut it out with good scissors. (NOTE- if you try to form it on your finger while wearing gloves, the worbla MAY stick to the gloves. Id recommend just doing it on your bare finger)
4. Heat it up again until its very soft and round out the shape, making sure the sides stick together. If its too small when you test fit it around the glove, try to push out the walls a bit more.
Nails
Watch this video before starting this part-
1. Find a good length for your nails- mine are approx. 3 inches. Make a template and then cut the shape out of eva foam.
2. Cut out TWO pieces of worbla a little bigger then the nail strip and heat one up, sticky side up (the sticky side is shiny). Put the eva foam strip in the middle. Heat up the second piece of worbla and put it on top, sandwiching the eva foam.
3. Score all around the eva strip then cut AS CLOSE as possible to the edge.
Attaching the pieces
1. Heat up the finger tip and half of the nail. Attach the nail to the finger tip while wearing it to make sure it doesnt cave in. Use a picture from the manga as reference while doing this part
2. Once again, using a manga reference, use scrap worbla to fill out the sides and smooth everything down. This is the part where you can use a soldering iron to smooth everything out- be careful though, because you can easily burn the worbla.
2.5. I forgot to make a diagram but dont forget to curve the nails! I used a little metal dome to get a consistent curve for all of them.
3. Make little worbla balls, flatten them with something flat, then attach them to the nails while still hot.
Now repeat ALL these steps for all 10 nails! Yay!
PART 2- priming
For priming i used regular gesso because I was impatient, but if you have plenty of time I recommend heavy body gesso. It took me 12 layers to get everything decently smooth, but if you used heavy body it would probably take 3-5 layers.
I also used floral foam, craft sticks, and sticky tack for my painting setup- if you can think of a better method without sticky tack id recommend trying something else- just because i had to pick out the sticky tack with tweezers, and it took forever lol
Two things to note about gesso-
1. It doesnt self level so you need to sand it smooth
2. DO NOT DRY SAND!! Always wet sand gesso
My exact steps were this-
4 layers of gesso -> sand with P400 -> 4 layers of gesso -> sand with P400 -> 4 layers of gesso -> sand with P600
This part is very time consuming if you use regular gesso, but its definitely worth it for the smooth finish.
PART 3- painting
Before adding silver, I threw down a quick matte black layer. It tends to make metals look much better and it wont take long to dry, so I highly recommend it.
For the silver, i used decoart extreme sheen in silver, which i highly recommend. Relatively cheap and can be found in any craft store
Id also recommend having all your brush strokes go vertically if you can- it looks much cleaner.
PART 4 (final part)- attachment
I used a pair of white gloves i bought a while back at spirit halloween, but you can make them or buy them- doesnt matter as long as you like them.
This part is kinda dumb but I genuinely dont know if theres a better method… i put hot glue in the nails, let it cool for a couple of seconds, then put them ON MY FINGERS while wearing the gloves. It gets you the best fit possible but also burns a little so watch out.
And thats it! Thats all there is to it. Let me know if you found this helpful, and if anything was confusing leave a comment and ill try to help you.
As a bonus heres a picture that works very well for reference
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i really love your art style and i especially love the way you draw lyon (specifically his hair,,,,) and i hope to see more drawings from you!!
i saw an earlier ask where someone asked how to draw eliwood's hair (ty for posting that btw, it was very helpful :D) so i was wondering if you could show how to draw lyon's hair? thank you and have a great day!!
THANK YOU LYON my sweet purple prince......... 💜 ye ofc i can show how i draw his hair it's one of my very faves to draw! :) under the cut
what's up guys welcome to my tutorial where today we're drawing another sad boy. shoutout to today's sponsor,,, house renais
sooo lyon's hair splits in the middle which is nice cause despite of how unkempt it is you'll at least know in what *general direction* his hair will fall, so i start with drawing where his hair would split
i kind of see his hair as having two (very choppy) layers where the upper layer curls slightly outwards and the second curls back in. so i start off with the upper layer which reaches just over his ears
still on the upper layer, connecting it to the top of his head and adding his cowlick since we're up there anyways ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
here's where i start the lower layer, going slightly inwards just over his shoulders, very pointy almost like arrows
add some hair to the back as well ofc, it's a lil puffier back there
here's where i add some extra hair sticking out just to give him that messy look cause let's face it formotiis isn't combing nobody's hair
and then i just add some details AGAIN with the stupid circlet these rich boys seem to love wearing... what's the purpose. i always forget
that's all, thanks :)
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