Making My Haloween Costume

I have stated that this year I intend to go out in fancy dress as the "Alien" creature. I would also like this costume to be home made.

So... to get started I have been looking around for some good reference images to help me design and build my costume. Here are some of them...

• Original Alien Costume
• Original Alien Sculpture (very nice images)
• A.V.P Requiem Version (pointless, but encourages artistic license)
• Origami Alien, I found this awesome origami page their are some truly beautiful paper sculptures on this page.
• Atmospheric Alien, (I am not sure which film this was used) A nice list of movie monsters to contemplate.
• Alien's Costume
• A great alien costume sight with detailed construction tutorial.
• Alien Warrior model kit.
• Freaky alien shark I found this while looking for reference images Check It Out.
• Aliens Foam Latex costume, another interesting reference image.
• Awesome Power Loader costume. Wonder if he can move in it tho?
  

I began by sketching out the shape of the creatures head onto cardboard (it took
a couple of sheets glued together).
The next step is to glue the ends together and create the base shape of the creatures head.I made a card bangle to fit around my own head. As you can see I glued this inside the frame for my aliens head.The next step has been to test out the visor on the front of the mask, For this I cut out a clear plastic, 2 liter bottle and pinned it to the cardboard, It fit and took the right shape without having to make any alterations, great success!For the next step I have drawn out the shape for the jaw and cut it out of cardboard. Here is the basic shape that I will build upon.Well that's enough on the construction for now.

Here is a page with an interesting take on some classic designs, a little too erotica for my tastes but still very interesting.