How to sculpt a Serpent bangle

I am using Cosclay and sculpting onto
a 500ml Red Bull can.
Rolling out a long piece for the body.
Wrapping it around the can.
Shaping it and pressing it down as I go.
  Cutting a groove a long the center
of the entire body.
 A teardrop shape for the head.
Blending it onto the body.
Pushing some aluminum armature wire
into the groove.
Closing up the gap over the wire and
smoothing it out with my fingers.
The mutations on this serpent are based off of the online game Ovipets
and it was a lot of fun getting everyone's mutation suggestions.
For the eyes I am using
steel ball bearings.
Using a ball tool to create the eye sockets.
 Cutting in the mouth with a scalpel.
Shaping it along the sides.
Roll out and lightly flatten a
piece for the tongue. Cut a slit, for the fork and place it into the mouth.
 To add some texture to the body I am using the handle of my scalpel and
rolling that over the snakes body.
 For the diamonds on the body, I have
rolled out a thin sheet of clay and cut diagonals with a flat blade.
Then again in the other direction.
 I started placing them onto the
head, using a combination of
small and large diamonds.
For the tail I am rolling
out short tapered pieces.
Giving them a slight curl to one end.
keep adding them until it looks right.
 Moving onto the horns.
To keep them consistent in size
I press out 2 circles and cut them in half.
Roll each half out, with a point on one end.
Bring them together
and twist them in to a spiral.
Figuring out the placement
and using a ball tool to indent.
 Place in the horns
with a bit of bake n bond.
For the wings I am rolling out 3 large teardrop
shapes and using a needle tool to create a line.
Then doing the same
with 3 smaller teardrops.
Cutting a slot into the body, for the wings to sit.
I added 4 small flattened balls to hide the
sharp join of the wings and body.
I then pressed them down with a ball tool.
Now for the long whiskers.
I roll out my length, taper one end.
And steeply cut the other end.
This end will be laying against the
side of the face.
Find a nice, natural flowing
position for the wishers to lay.
One last step before baking.
And that is to empty out the can of Red Bull.
Now that it has been baked, I am carefully removing the sculpt from the can.
Note: I should have used a thicker gauge wire.
As it doesn't stay tightly clamped around my arm.
I am using a couple of coats of PVA glue
as a base.
Then I am going in with
a black acrylic paint.
Once the coat of black had dried,
I mixed in some drying retardant
and black Shimmer pigments.
The Shimmer wasn't staying on as well
as I would have liked so . . .
I sealed it in with some more PVA glue.
The colours I choose are
black, purple and bronze.
'acrylic paint'
Painted the purple details first.
I am used a small detail brush
to do all of the bronze areas.
 I also painted around all the diamonds with bronze and the little details on the wings.
The wishers were very time consuming
and took a few coats until they finished.
I mixed some pinks in with the purple and I used
this to add some depth to the piece.
I then added some black to darken the purple
and used this to create the shadows.

Note: a toothpick works great for this.

I painted it around the creases of the horns, around the eyes and the deeper parts of the tail.
I used polyurethane gloss on the eyes
and it is finished.
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