Little Pumkin Girl Color Blanks Figure

Mix and matching color blanks figures

For this Color Blanks figure, I created a pumpkin hat, ghost balloon, pumpkin vine hair, a black dress and a little decorative pumkin out of polymer clay. She is painted with acrylic paints. The grassy stand is made out of a scrub pad.

This little pumpkin girl Color Blanks figure provides quite a cheerful contrast to my other Halloween Color Blanks. If you haven’t seen my Zombie Color Blanks figure check that out too. Thanks for taking a look!

Zombie Color Blanks Figure

Step One: Creating a Plan for the Color Blanks Figure

The first thing I did was get a mockup of how wanted the figure to look.  In this particular case what I did was pose the figure in the coffin and then take a photograph so I would have an idea of how it would stand and how I would sculpt it more as a composition.  

Egg Head Color Blanks Figure in Coffin

Step Two: Disassembling and Modifying the Figure

As I do with all my figures, one of the earliest things I did in the creation process is take the figure apart and then start making any necessary cuts on the figure. For my zombie Color Blank I wanted to have the eyes glow so I needed to make holes in the eyes to see lights through. This also complimented the sculpting process because  I wanted to have some decay and have it look somewhat skeletonized.

Taking Apart the Color Blanks Figure

I cut the nose hole and eye holes and I also cut out a part of the head where it would have the brain exposed. Doing this also gave me a good area to work inside the head where I would be feeding wires for LED glowing eyes.

Step Three: Polymer Clay Sculpting

Sculpting is always my favorite part of modifying the Color Blanks figures. I really had fun sculpting clay onto the face to make my decaying zombie.  I added little black pieces that were fitted into the eye and nose cavity. There were small holes made in the eye pieces to connect the lights.  

Sculpting the brain that would be exposed out of the broken part of the skull was definitely a tricky part. The brain had to be sculpted larger than the hole and while the clay was soft I bent and place it inside the head.  I then fit it to the location of the opening of the skull as if I was patching it closed. Next I released it from the side of the head and left it free floating when I gave the head a baking in the oven. This way I still had room to work with wiring and then glue the brain up fitted when completing the figure.

sculpting polymer clay on the zombie color blanks figure

Step Four: Paint Base Coating

After items had been cut, reassembled and put back together, it was time to give the zombie a base coating of acrylic paint. The zombie was coated in greens and blues.

Zombie Color Blanks Base Coating

Step Five: Detail Painting and Sculpting of the Hair

I made and attached simple strands of black polymer clay hair after I finished up detail painting highlights and shadows with various acrylics. For the coffin I painted brown and gray acrylic paint and then poured on rubbing alcohol to the still wet paint. This can create various aging and cracking effects in the paint depending on the ratio. It helped to give more of an aged looked to the coffin. The alcohol itself evaporates away. One of the zombie’s arms was cut in half and then a piece of wire and hot glue was added to create bone tissue. For the rotting chest area, I cut a hole in the chest and used hot glue to make exposed ribs.

Zombie Color Blanks Details

Step Six: Wiring Up the LED lights in the Color Blanks Figure

I added a rocker switch to the back of the coffin, added a connector for a 9V battery and some wires to go up to connect the LEDs inside the head. I then assembled the Color Blank Zombie figure back together. The battery was housed inside the coffin. If you are not much for wiring RoseArt has new illuminated Color Blanks figures that come with LEDs that make them glow!

Wiring for Zombie Color Blanks Figure

Finishing Touches

Once the figure was completed, the LEDs were tested and then I took a hot glue gun and started making strands of webbing all over of the coffin. An easy way to do this is to add globs of hot glue to an area and let it cool for a few seconds and then take the glue gun and touch the glue. The glue will stick and allow you to stretch it down to another area. Repeating this process the hot glue will be stringy and will stretch out to create web-like strings.  Thanks for taking a look!

Zombie Color Blanks Figure

This Halloween Color Blanks figure had a pumpkin head and I was immediately inspired to see how I could transform it into something different. I took out my plastic clay and started molding pieces to make the face look scary and added spikes to the head. 

To modify the feet I extended some pieces of clay to create sharp toes. The teeth were created by taking some wooden sticks, much like popsicle sticks that you can purchase from a craft store, and cutting them up into little wood squares. I then painted them with acrylics and stuck this directly into the soft, unbaked clay.

I stuck my Halloween Color Blanks figure in the oven at about 250° suspecting that it would need to be baked at a little bit lower temperature because of not knowing how easily the plastic would melt. When I took the figure out of the oven everything looked pretty much intact except the hands got a little bit warped and bubbled from the heat.  In this case it lent itself to the modification and making my figure scarier but I would need to solve this on future custom Color Blanks. From the heat warping of the plastic figure it could also not stand correctly anymore. The solution I found was to mount the figure to a base with glue. I ended up using a base that I had from another figure that had broken a long time ago.

I finish my Color Blanks figure with a mixture of acrylic paints, sharpies and micron pens to achieve the desired look. If you get a chance check out some of my other custom figures too!

Customized Halloween Color Blanks Figure