Mask Making

 These are the masks I used for inspiration. I chose the blue Chinese mask and South American mask because they reminded me of cartoons from when I was younger, those being Avatar the Last Air bender and Emperor's New Groove. The other two  I chose because I just found them interesting to look at, and I liked the animal like detail they have in them.
The blue Chinese mask is demonic type mask, that uses large teeth, large horns, and a wrinkled brow to express angry and violence. Deer Dragon mask is a dragon like mask that has a built with a muzzle to make more dragon like look, where the deer aspect comes in in the way the antlers are built. South American mask  is a human like face that is male going by the beard-like structure. The final mask is obviously suppose to be a hybrid of human an animal with the slit nose but human mouth and brow.
The elements that I found to be in the masks were balance, all of them are very symmetrical. They also used texture, for instance in the silver Chinese mask, the lines that are engraved in the mask help make the mouth snarly and the nose like an animal's.  The South American Mask also used texture to show what I believe to be a beard.  On the Deer Dragon mask pattern is used to show scales of the dragon, but there are also patterns used on all of them to keep them balanced. There is also a great use of form to make them 3 dimensional and more realistic. Color is also used to show contrast between pieces of the masks and bring forth certain aspects, such in the blue Chinese mask that white of the eyes and teeth immediately shows contrast of the blue skin, making you notice them. Shape is also used in the South American mask.

The sketches are above.

This is the finished mask. In it I used balance, unity, color and lines to make it. Lines were used in the eyebrows, golden strip from his mouth and the hair at top. Unity is used in the colors as the black, red and god seem to go very well together. The balance comes from me attempting to make it as systematical as possible like the rest of the masks. I used color ti make certain things stand out, like the white teeth and horns. The bright gold to make detail stand out against the black.
I like my mask. It's kind like a demon but more playful. I really thought about the two Chinese masks when creating and wanted to keep in with their theme. But I also wanted to add my own twist which is why he is smiling and looking rather jovial. I also made him black to nod to the blue mask, but gold to add an element of  South American Mask.