I have blogged about Mr. Lo Pan a few times. But I have never posted about how I made him. I cannot draw so all of my pieces start in my head as concepts. I usually just start building, I don’t even make a sketch first.
He was made for a contest at Hauntforum.com
The contest was [...]
I have always wanted to add a grim reaper prop to the display. But I dont like “traditional” grim reaper poses.
About 2 weeks prior to Halloween I started on this piece. I wanted him to appear as if he were about to stand up. I used a full sized skeleton from Anatomical Supply Company. They [...]
I am finally gotten around to going thru a bunch of 2007 Halloween images. I have some nice pictures of Mr. Lo Pan. Here I have cut out some sections of a larger image so if you are curious you can see the detail. more detailed and textured than my other stuff and its hard [...]
For a contest at Hauntforum.com the goal was to use Monster Mud as the main component. I wanted to take it a bit further than the normal grim reaper type Monster Mud prop and really wanted to get a lot of flowing folds into the fabric of the prop. I settled on a seated figure [...]