Bonnie Five Nights at Freddy's (How-To) | 2015

Since the online game "Five Nights at Freddy's" became a social media basically blast of awesome and popularity, I had been getting non stop requests to recreate the characters in a body paint tutorial. I see a lot of cosplays in the future! I am also part psychic.




Products Used:
Global Body Paint (Purple, Magenta, Dark Blue)
Graftobian Pro Paint (White, Silver)
BH Cosmetics Black Eyeshadow (Take me to Brazil Palette)
MadeULook 10 Piece Brush Set

Now a whole other thing separate from the tutorial, making the bunny ears! Because I wasn't prepared to be molding, casting, and spending a zillion hours making bunny ears, nor just buying bunny ears at the store (it IS around Easter time, you know!) I just made them out of paper! Easy stuff! Remember, if you're looking for something more sturdy, channel your inner child and paper mache them! I am sure I will have a blog post in the future on how to do that as well.

For now...

Paper purchased from Michael's Craft store for under $1.00! I purchased two sheets, just in case I messed up. If you have construction paper laying around, that will work as well! 

1. Place the paper on your head in a creepy fashion (optional on the creepy fashion), just to see how high you want to make your ears. Trust me, trying to eyeball it off of your head, you more than likely will make them too long! Also leave a little extra room that you'll be bending later on (read later steps)

2. Use a pencil to draw a line where you want your ears to end, and just cut that section off. Theres no reason to keep it! Be sure to start drawing your ear out off to the side, so you have room on the same sheet of paper to cut another. 

3. Sketch out roughly what you want your ear to look like, and cut it out of the paper. You may fold your paper in half to get two done at once.

Ear number one cut out, with room on the side of the paper to cut ear number two. You can be a one earred rabbit, I really don't care. Or triple earred.. up to you.

4. Use your body paint to paint the ear the same way you painted the body (see tutorial for body painting instructions) I also wanted to be sure to incorporate the metal element in the ear, so I left a space in the middle for some "mechanics" HEADS UP: The ears WILL start to curl as they dry, since you are just using paper, and the paints are water based! You can hold them down so they dry flat and crisp, or let them curl because you're going to bend them anyways. I suggest holding them down, just in case. 

REMEMBER: If you are bending your ears, you will see the other side as well! It's best to paint both sides.

5. Bend the bottom of your ears, so you have a tab to glue onto your hat later on.

One ear done! Black was added to the base, to create a smoother transition from my hat later on.

Look mom! I'm a rabbit!

6. For stabilization, I used one straw (no idea the price of one single straw), and cut it into two pieces. You may make them as long as you'd like, it is a matter of eyeballing it. I then hot glued each side of the straw shut, just so I had a flat edge to work with. Adjust your ears of how straight you would like them to be, then glue one end of the straw to the tab of the ear, and the other to the back of the ear itself. This is ugly from the back, but if it were being viewed from the back, I would go with a different technique, or if you are lazy and would like to just do this and don't really care, just paint the straw silver to look like a mechanical part. Be creative!

"Work with what ya got!" Things don't ALWAYS need to be expensive to get started with general costuming.

7. Your ears should be totally stable, and not flopping over now! All you have to do is hot glue them to your hat. It's easiest to put the hat on and mark where you would want them, then just glue the tabs down.

Any tight black beanie will work, just remember that the hot glue will be staying on it, so don't use any hats that you absolutely do not want to completely ruin for the sake of being a rabbit.

I like to use my black hat when using a black background, because let's face it. I would rather I didn't have to wash a ton of paint out of my hair, and bald caps can be uncomfortable to wear and/or can irritate my skin since I am constantly filming tutorials, and generally playing with character creation every single day. Black on black will blend. It is all a matter of illusion. 

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Lex