Capes!

As mentioned before, many of the Cape Eebil characters will wear capes. The Vinyl/plasticard I bought is quite flexible, so I made a cape for Debbil.

I started by making test capes out of paper. For the first attempts, I kept the collar and cloak as separate pieces, but I made them one piece for the final cut.

The cape is anchored to the Munny by the neck ring. Thus my template was essentially two triangles with a ring between them. Once I had cut the cape out, I folded it across the ring - this left a half-circle that I could then slide into the neck gap from the back. The cape and the hood needed bending up and down to make them sit properly.

Finally, I added some creases to the cloak so that it sits over his trident.

The last thing was to colour one side of the red vinyl black. I decided on red outer, black inner - opposite to Vampy. Pictures below.

POSCA enlightenment

Later the same day that I had been in Lawrence's, we were in Brighton, and I visited Clarke's Stationers. This was to be my final port of call in my search for 'thin vinyl'.

Part of the reason it's called Cape Eebil is that many of the characters will wear capes. So I asked in Lawrence's, then C&H fabrics (a multi-storey haberdashers) and finally Clarke's, where I found something 'close enough'.

After purchasing the plasticard/vinyl, I took a look around their pen department, and saw the awesome display of colour that is their 'official reseller' POSCA cabinet.

For those of you not familiar (and you sure will be if you follow this blog), these fine markers deliver an ink so thick in consistency that it covers like paint. As I discovered soon after, it goes straight on the vinyl and dries to the touch. In short, they're perfectly suited to my task here, and have become my weapon of choice in a very short time.

Anyway, I bought some, as you might imagine. They come in varying sizes. As I favour brushes, I bought highlight colours in those (White, yellow, gold and, er, black. Hm). They also come in ultra-fine, extra-fine, fine, medium, broad and extra-broad. Unfortunately, not all colours come in all sizes - I've ended up with mainly fine markers.

More Vampy WIP

Here's Vampy after a little more work. Black acrylic on his hair, jacket and trousers. White acrylic on his shirt and as undercoat for the cummerbund. The cummerbund itself was done with Faber-Castell 'Pitt' markers, which sort of work, but again, don't dry properly. Gold/brown acrylics on the chain/clasp.

New project - Vampy WIP

So, Cape Eebil is my new project for creating a series of custom Munnys (see links).


first marks



Vampy was the first Cape Eebil Munny that I began - my second Munny. He's a Green vinyl original, and at first I worked on him with sharpie markers. Bad Idea. They mark just fine, but the ink doesn't dry properly and handling it leads to smudges. I later covered the black areas of sharpie with black acrylic paint.

On this work in progress shot, I've just marked in his main features.

He's wearing a tux, cape, dress shirt and cummerbund. Smart gold buckles on his shoes too...

Around his neck is a golden clasp and chain to hold on his cape - hold on, where's that? Well, I haven't made it as yet, but it will be made from vinyl/plasticard.