It’s not a hard guess to who is next? Jack Skellington! Better yet, I will be modeling a Female Jack Skellington Costume! That being said, the tutorial works just as well for either a guy or girl, but I am all for bucking gender stereotypes.
Jack Skellington Bat Bowtie
I will start off with Jack’s Bowtie, which can be quite iconic on it’s own. For a more simplified version of a Jack Skellington costume, you could go with just a full black outfit, this bowtie, and full makeup and still be identifiable.
What you will need:
- Hot glue gun (and glue)
- Black felt
- Pipe cleaners, preferably white or black
- White acrylic paint & a paintbrush
- Paper, pen, and scotch tape, all optional
Instructions:
1. I started by first free-handing the shape of one bat wing with a pencil on a sheet of paper while referencing a picture of Jack. Once I had it the way I liked it, I taped it to the felt and used it as a guide to cut out two bat wings. It helps to leave a bit extra towards the inside of each wing for overlap, as you can always trim it off later.
2. Take two pipe cleaners and bend in half, then twist the two bent edges together so that you have all four ends shooting off from a central point. Hot glue this to the felt with the central point at the center of the bat, and trip the pipe cleaners so they do not extend past the tips of the felt.
Note: Make sure to keep in mind which wing faces which direction so you glue the pipe cleaners to the actual back of each and prevent yourself from ending up with two of the same side wing.
3. To get the bat face, I traced out just half of the face, then folded the felt so it was doubled over, and cut once to get a symmetrical face.
4. Now, set your two wings close together, and hot glue your bat face so it joins each wing.
5. Flip over your bat, and cut another pipe cleaner in half and use one half on top and one on the bottom that span the width of each wing to hold them together from the back and hot glue them to the felt.
6. Finally, flip your bat back over and paint abstract lines on the wings using the acrylic paint and give your bat little angled eyes, and if you like, just the barest hint of a nose.
7. Finally, to use for the costume, you can either hot glue a ribbon so you can tie it around you neck like a bow-tie or necklace, or, you can push two jumbo bobby pins over a pipe cleaner and use it to secure to your costume.
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