Combining some of the techniques from my Beholder Army and my other Cthuloid Monsters, I pieced together these two variant beholderish-- for lack of a better term-- things.
The first started out very beholder-like but ended up looking somewhat grellish:
It's got the one central eye, 12 eyestalks, 4 large tentacles and 7 drooping tentacles. The beak was carved off of a dollar store triceratops and affized via hot glue and toothpicks.
The second is a more recent creation that I put together over the last couple of days:
And a close-up at a slightly different angle:
This one has one central eye, 12 eyestalks, 4 small dangling tentacles, and 11 large tentacles (which makes the "octobeholder" a misnomer, but I still think it sounds better than "cephalobeholder").
Both are affixed to Huge bases. Here's a shot with a man-sized mini for size comparison:
Construction methods were the same as the previous beholders. White craft foam spheres marred with a wood-burning tool for that rocky carapace look, pipe-cleaners for eyestalks and tentacles, coated in plumbers caulk and painted with craft paints starting at dark purple and dry brushed with plum and pale green. Eyestalk eyes are dots of hot glue, the central eyes are plastic doll or teddy-bear eyes. Slobber effects are dots of hot glue pulled out of the mouth and allowed to cool.
The large tentacles are formed by twisting together three of four pipecleaners of varying lengths (the largest were made with 5", 4", 3" and 2" lengths), the eyestalks and small tentacles are usually one or two pipecleaners. Once glues in place I melt the fuzzy stuff off with the wood-burning tool (not sure how toxic that is, but I assume everything is toxic). I've started mixing my plumbers caulk with a bit of black paint, it makes the first coat a dark grey and saves me an undercoating.
Picture quality is low because I am working with the phone in my camera.
The first started out very beholder-like but ended up looking somewhat grellish:
It's got the one central eye, 12 eyestalks, 4 large tentacles and 7 drooping tentacles. The beak was carved off of a dollar store triceratops and affized via hot glue and toothpicks.
The second is a more recent creation that I put together over the last couple of days:
And a close-up at a slightly different angle:
This one has one central eye, 12 eyestalks, 4 small dangling tentacles, and 11 large tentacles (which makes the "octobeholder" a misnomer, but I still think it sounds better than "cephalobeholder").
Both are affixed to Huge bases. Here's a shot with a man-sized mini for size comparison:
Construction methods were the same as the previous beholders. White craft foam spheres marred with a wood-burning tool for that rocky carapace look, pipe-cleaners for eyestalks and tentacles, coated in plumbers caulk and painted with craft paints starting at dark purple and dry brushed with plum and pale green. Eyestalk eyes are dots of hot glue, the central eyes are plastic doll or teddy-bear eyes. Slobber effects are dots of hot glue pulled out of the mouth and allowed to cool.
The large tentacles are formed by twisting together three of four pipecleaners of varying lengths (the largest were made with 5", 4", 3" and 2" lengths), the eyestalks and small tentacles are usually one or two pipecleaners. Once glues in place I melt the fuzzy stuff off with the wood-burning tool (not sure how toxic that is, but I assume everything is toxic). I've started mixing my plumbers caulk with a bit of black paint, it makes the first coat a dark grey and saves me an undercoating.
Picture quality is low because I am working with the phone in my camera.
