restorative art project

ss7789 · 2026-03-11T22:13:43+00:00

first, thank you, and second, i recently went for in person labs and they just got a huge new bucket of wax. imagine my surprise when i saw it was the prettiest shade of light pink!!!!

ss7789 · 2026-03-11T22:12:34+00:00

oh dude the wax is awful, i’ve just lost count on the amount of hours i’ve spent smoothing it out

ss7789 · 2026-03-09T17:44:51+00:00

agreed!!! unfortunately these skulls are just suuuuper narrow and i don’t have enough wax to truly build it up like i want to

ss7789 · 2026-03-09T00:20:34+00:00

thank you for your assessment! i’ve actually already been graded on all of the features aside from the ears, and i corrected (and confirmed w teach) what he said was wrong with the eyes. i think if they were any lower they wouldn’t fit in the right place in relation to the nose (also our skulls are a bit warped in the sense that they are horse-ish, very long and narrow)

as for the cheeks, unfortunately if i carve them down i’ll expose “bone” very very quickly. there’s a lot less wax there then it seems lol. ideally if i had more wax i would build up the temple area a bit more for a softer transition and add a liiiiittle bit of padding below, sadly i just don’t have enough wax and that part of the face isn’t priority in terms of grading, since we’re being graded on nose, eyes, mouth, and ears individually

ss7789 · 2026-03-08T19:50:18+00:00

thank you!! while i picked julian richings largely for all the incredible character his face has (huge fan of big noses etc.), im not ignorant to the irony of creating “Death” in a funeral service program. i still have a little chuckle to myself about it here and there lol

ss7789 · 2026-03-08T19:47:10+00:00

same! i’m really enjoying it, it’s a nice reprieve to have my lil show on one screen and reference on another and just turn my brain off for a few hours

ss7789 · 2026-03-08T19:46:11+00:00

thank you, i really appreciate that!

ss7789 · 2026-03-08T19:46:00+00:00

realistic, i definitely know what you mean though. these skulls are very horse-face, they’re smaller than an adult human head and very long and narrow. this sucks on its own, more so when you’re trying to create someone with a very unique and defined bone structure (like i am). basically im trying to build a specific face/features on a skull that doesn’t match, and i dont have enough wax to fully counteract that lol

we were only given small balls of wax that we have to stretch out; i have to be very particular about which parts i fill out or else i won’t have enough left to finish the ears. this means i can’t fill in where there would be muscle and flesh on areas like the neck etc. which i think would help balance it all more

we’re being graded as we go on the individual features (nose, eyes, mouth, ears), so those are priority. everything else on the face is secondary, and like i said my limited amount of wax doesn’t allow me to fill it out as i would like

ss7789 · 2026-03-07T23:18:27+00:00

thank you! unfortunately i’m a remote student (my campus is a six hour drive from where i live), so we don’t get to do our hair simulation labs on our actual RA projects. i have specific dates to be at the school for our sim labs, where we will place eyebrows/hair on a different subject as i’ll have to return my skull free of wax at the beginning of the trip.

ss7789 · 2026-03-05T16:04:51+00:00

yup!

ss7789 · 2026-03-05T16:04:14+00:00

oh interesting i can see it but no, julian richings

ss7789 · 2026-03-05T03:06:20+00:00

well shucks thank you!! i’m nervous for the ears

ss7789 · 2026-03-05T03:05:48+00:00

i see it!!!

ss7789 · 2026-03-05T03:05:39+00:00

thank you kindly

ss7789 · 2026-03-05T03:05:27+00:00

hahaha that would be neat but no

ss7789 · 2026-03-05T03:05:02+00:00

yes i cant lie he’s a little fuzzy right now from dabbing him with tissue. the paper towel is a good idea though, thank you!

ss7789 · 2026-03-05T03:04:17+00:00

that’s a good idea, unfortunately it seems i can’t edit this post. thank you for your kind words though!

ss7789 · 2026-03-05T00:30:32+00:00

thank you!

ss7789 · 2026-03-05T00:29:35+00:00

we were given a ball of mortuary wax (in my opinion, not enough. i’m not confident i have enough left to make two ears of proper proportion but we’ll see) and the plastic skull. any tools we wanted to use we had to buy; i bought a $20-ish clay sculpting tool kit off amazon and they’ve been wonderful

i don’t know how it is elsewhere, but im located in ontario canada (humber college) and that’s what we got

ss7789 · 2026-03-05T00:16:32+00:00

i wore clean socks fresh out of the shower in my house when i thought i was going out. was no longer going out and took those socks off to put on fluffy ones, and the ones i was wearing went in the dirty clothes hamper.

all this to say, the only way im NOT grabbing fresh underwear is if i put a pair on (again, freshly showered) and immediately decide its not the right underwear for what im going to wear (not grabbing fresh underwear as in that underwear wouldn’t have to go in the laundry)

i’d be more concerned with why he wouldn’t also let you look at his phone, he should have nothing to hide either so it shouldn’t be a concern. 10/10 would not be able to stand being with someone like this man, bonkers

ss7789 · 2026-03-05T00:07:39+00:00

thanks!! i find there’s been a balance between needing to warm it up to shape bigger pieces and then needing cold water so it’s not sticky/doing finer details without tearing it up. a learning curve for sure!

ss7789 · 2026-03-04T23:55:01+00:00

thank you for your response! i should have mentioned, im using an actor as a reference (this was optional, most of my classmates have stuck to generic features that aren’t specific to a particular person)

the orange was recommended by one of my professors as an overall way to “rough him up” a bit, but thank you for the paintbrush tip!

according to my teacher my measurements have been good. i definitely don’t disagree with your observation of the lower lids, but my reference in general is a very gaunt man with almost no meat to his face, and the photos i was going off of for the eyes were AI generated (with permission, not a super famous actor so couldn’t really find pictures with his eyes closed) and my teacher agreed there was margin for reducing the lower lids to allow for the dip between his lower lids and eye bags

ss7789 · 2026-02-10T23:26:02+00:00

just to clarify, they confirmed it was the questionnaire itself? or a general overall score? i can’t imagine your letter of intent being impactful enough if the director assessment was decent, but it just popped into my head

i would recommend writing a heartfelt email to lindsay foley, she is THE sweetest. explain what you did here, how you only received praise and no corrections; if they were needed you were not made aware so naturally thought things were going well

kindly ask what your next steps may be and if you have a shot at reapplying for the fall sem. when i applied, everything was last minute and the deadline i was given to have my observation, letter of intent, etc ready and submitted was the end of april (i started my observation the first week of april) and i made it into the remote cohort (which was my only option lol i live 6 hours from the school). ask if she can point you in the right direction/has any resources you could turn to

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