This collection of Instructables offers a variety of techniques to create a fur suit head, including crafting a wolf mascot costume. The process involves gathering materials such as foam, glue, plastic wrap, duct tape, and fur. The goal is to create a realistic and wearable wolf sculpture that can be proudly displayed on your wall.
To create a wolf mask, gather materials such as EVA foam, felt, 3 wigs, and glue. Cut rough shapes, cut out room for the head, assemble the core, and create the wolf mask pattern. The center line and cut the sides of the peak off to create the face of the wolf head.
To create an affordable mascot head, gather materials, cut rough shapes, cut out room for the head, assemble the core, and create the wolf mask pattern. The first step is to create a buck shape for the mascot head, which will be used to form the Varaform.
The collection of Instructables provides a variety of techniques to create a mascot head or large headdress, including building the heads on top of a balaclava, placing foam blocks to create a general shape, and then covering them with 1 2 foam blocks.
📹 Fursuit Building || How to Make a Fursuit Headbase
Hey everyone! Ive gotten comments asking me to make a tutorial on how to make a headbase so here it is. Keep in mind I am not …
📹 How to Make a Mascot Logo | Part 1: Outline Sketch | Tutorial Video
What mascot logo should I make next? Let me know in the comments below! Thank you so much for watching my video! I hope …
It seems you might save yourself many hours and benefit from some sanding equipment to smooth your foam, instead doing it with scissors. A lot of puppet makers will use a belt sander or just different grades of sandpaper sheets to round out and smooth their foam shapes! Anyway, thanks for the helpful article!
Sorry the audio is not good. i get compaints about it a lot. Its not that the music is too loud but actually that my voice is quite low and monotoned. I myself think i am speaking loud while voice recording until it gets uploaded to youtube and i find its a lot quieter than i thought. It just something i have to fix in the next few articles as well as just finding quieter music😕 Sorry again. i hope it dosent inconvienience the article too much
I’ve had the supplies to try this out just lying around in my closet for about half a year. Trying new things intimidates me, especially when there are so many skilled artists in this craft. But the knowledge this article gave me makes me feel like I can do it now. I loved the pacing and the detail-oriented walkthrough you provided for each step. The camera angles you showed also made it very easy to follow your method of construction. Thank you so much!
this is the first tutorial I’ve watched that was actually very helpful with getting started on the muzzle and everything else. I also like how you didn’t try to get us viewers to buy custom patterns and whatnot from a store (because for me at least, the reason I’m making my own fursuit head is cuz I’m broke af). It was also nice seeing another person of color (I’m Hispanic), great job and thank you for the article!
I’ve looked at a lot of bases to see for feline shapes but a lot of them look like they could be a canine base anyway, just with a slightly shorter muzzle I don’t see that with yours! What would you say are the differences between feline and canine bases because yours look distinctly different and it’s amazing
First fursuit head base tut to really help me, I’ve used a pattern for one of my heads and it turned out good, the next time I tried to make one from scratch and it looked awful, I tore that one apart so I could use it’s bucket head base for this tut, It’s not done, still needs ears and horns but it’s the start of a dragon head base so this was clearly a versatile tutorial and so far it looks so much better than anything I’ve ever made from scratch, thank you 🙏
Beginner head maker here – A lot of this is paying attention to detail. If there’s anything I’ve learned from researching these things to the bone, it’s that there’s a pattern that a lot of people follow, and it may differ depending on the maker. Typically the order goes: Bucket base, muzzle, cheeks, eyebrows/forehead. Again, after that, it’s a lot of attention to detail. Smooth things out, use references to match the shape as best as you can. Triple check things over to be sure that the shape is right. Also, remember, remember the utmost important thing? Have fun with it. It’s something that you’re making, and you’re doing your best.
Watching someone do this patterning helped me understand how its actually done and what its suppose to look like when you do it because a lot of tutorials would explain it and show it but I was confused the entire time 😭 But this really helped and now I think I’ve got a plan for my style that I truly want because my first two suits were attempts at these types of methpds but I didn’t exevute them well
I have an idea of how I can make my OC and I’m actually going to change this up a bit 🙂 I’m sorta excited. All I need to get is the foam I sorta wanna see articles of how you fur the bases. Especially if you have a different way of how you fur them. Some start by the back while others start by the front. I’m curious of how you do it 🙂
ooo interesting, I learned a lot from this thank you!! I really like that with the disconnected jaw (or how it’s disconnected at first) this transitions nicely for people experimenting with moving jaws. If you were to make a pickable nose (or just wanted ventilation in the upper mouth for a fan or something) would you just cut into the nose foam with tiny scissors til you got through? totally fine if you don’t have an answer if you haven’t done a nose like that yet! I feel like that’s how it’d be done but I also wonder if it’s possible to just… drill into the foam, or if it’s just too squishy.
I have been perusal your article seven times now. I followed along with my two furry heads. I now came to some problems with one using the bucket head base. Is the bucket head suppose to be tight on the ears? I tried to make my own bucket head base and it felt so tight on my ears as I have it on. As I put it on, it bends my ears. Another issue I have is, my entire furry head sits on my shoulders. The solutions I tried is, add layers to the top to bring it up and made it wider. The biggest problem is, i can’t have it move along with my head.
had to fix an old foam mannequin head with paper machi since it had holes in it from hot glue can’t wait to get started on my first partial fursuit! just waiting for tomorrow so i can go to the shops to get materials, already bought some tools. even though this is obliterating all my pocket money it is 100 percent worth it. edit: got the materials ready (apart from for the eyes, i’ll get those last)
This one is well explained, last head I made looked like a demon. Anyways, I’ll save this one! Excited for mocha to not look like a disgusting piece of trash, cause back then I didn’t use a bucket head, and I didn’t know what I was doing (and plus I really want to make fursuiting in the snow articles, in ohio, it’s snowing a lot rn :3) Thank you!
Thanks for the tutorial! You’ve probably gotten this comment already, but if not, one minor point of constructive criticism for the article itself was that the music is uncomfortably loud. When I set my speakers to a volume where your voice is at a comfortable volume, the part where the music takes over is too loud. Not here to go pooing on your parade, just giving it as a suggestion for future improvements.
i’m a young teen and i’ve recently discovered that i really enjoy furries and the art behind it all, and i really wanna make my own mask. but my parents have the totally wrong idea of furries, and that really sucks for me. plus i literally have no where to make such a huge project, so i’ll have to unfortunately wait until i can get my own work shed or something
I always wanted to do this but buying a furry suit is very pricey so I was like make one!! But it still looks pricey and I have a hard time cutting out stuff and I don’t think anyone would wanna help me but this is amazing and when I was perusal and seen you perusal markiplier lol I hope I spelt it right 😊
I’m challenging myself to make my first ever suit and it’s going to be a fish which means I don’t have other suits to look at. This was very helpful especially going over the symmetry and doing a nose bridge piece which I wouldn’t have thought to do! (It solves a huge problem I was trying to figure out with my characters face shape) Thank you so much for this tutorial!
Hi! I need some help, I’m planning on making a dragon, who’s head is a bit longer and flatter, similar to a sergal, but I can’t find a proper tutorial. Do you mind making a tutorial? And do you know any companies that sell fur, foam, and mesh that accept visa and ship to the Netherlands in under a week?
I do mine almost completely opposite, like everything you do, I do completely different. No bucket, I do more of stacking and gluing, rather than carving out thicker pieces, especially with the muzzle, I make it hollow at first, rather than hollowing it out. The only thing that’s really the same is the cheeks, but that’s pretty standard. Then again, I only do moving jaw, which would be different. I just glue the arch to the muzzle, add sides, and then add padding. I also fur the nose before gluing it on, but that’s neat to see how others do it. Although I may try that balaclava method. I’ve been making ones with the face hole cut out, but that could work. I like the idea of fleece of thinner foam for filling in holes, I need to fix a brow gap in a suit, and may try that.
I’m so terrified to make this suit tbh. Also I am making a suit for both my friend and I (my first suits) and idk if I should do my friends first so I can have experience but I’m also scared that if I do hers first I won’t have enough supplies for my suit. If I do my suit first it won’t be the quality I want it to be but I’m guaranteed to have enough supplies for it. I could do hers and if I’m out of supplies for mine, but more but it could be months before they’re back in stock. What do you think?
Why was some of your foam yellow on the outside? Please tell me you did NOT use foam from an old matress? I just cant think about any other reason foam would yellow like that.. Please tell me I am wrong – that there is another reason why it is like that.. I think I have never wanted to be wrong more! Because your work is outstanding – I just cant shake the feeling of pure terror from the thought of the bacteria buildup in something like that..
Wait, where do you work out? Like, do you make a like free masks because I can’t find anything and I don’t have enough phone to make one and I can’t just buy another one because for some reason and apparently I need to know where you at because I don’t know what to make for him as he keep fighting on YouTube but it doesn’t work.