Scales

I have decided to create a part human, part fish hybrid for my final hand-in, similar to a mermaid. For my prosthetic piece I was debating between attempting to make a piece that looks like scales for half of the face or whether to mould gills for the sides of the neck.

 I googled how other people may have carried out creating scales using a prosthetic on the face and found an image similar to the kind of appearance and texture I would want to achieve with my prosthetic below ...

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After experimenting with the moulding clay I don't feel I will be able to achieve great results if I make a scaled prosthetic for the face, therefore I am going to move forward with the idea of making gills for the sides of the neck. This way I can use makeup to create a scaled effect on the side of the face and it gives me more of an opportunity to experiment with what kind of makeup look I would like on the face.