Thread: Skeleton Gir from Invader Zim

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Some of you might know of the mad lab, a site that has a halloween prop building contest every month. this months contest involved using bones, so i came up with a cheap fast way to make and paint them.

in making Gir i figured out a lot of tricks i'll be using later, from quick bones to how to age them.

to start take a paper towle roll and cut it from top to bottom,


roll it slightly tighter and tape in place. this will be the backbone.


The front of the rib cage was cut from the carboard bottom of a 24 pack of water.


The rib cage was made of tightly rolled newspaper and cut to fit.


The hups were cut from the same cardboard as the ribcage, a slice was cut from the bottom to help them curve a little.


A ring of cardboard was taped to the bottom of the spine to act as a base and suport fo the hips.


Tape the hips in place and cut out the holes.


Girs head started out as a plastic bag shaped with tape, because the top of his head is flat i made it upside down.


Now its time to start papermachieing. for the body start with the hips to make sure you have a strong base.

the bones were made the same way as the spine except with toilet paper rolls and two small paper balls taped to each end.


once everything is dry sketch out the face you want, then cut out the eyes and remove the paper from the head. make sure you save the eye cut out because they will be put back in.


Take a sheet of newspaper and fold it over again and again until its about two inchs wide then fit it into the eye hole. slip in the eye cut out letting it sit about an inch away from the head.


Gir's fingers were cut out like this.


then they are cut halfway up and folded slightly to give them depth.


his atenia was another roll of newspaper with a ball taped to the end.


the antiean is then tapped to his head.


Now its time for painting. i'm the first to admite i'm not very good at painting but i finally figured out a good way to do it. first everything got an almost flesh colored covering.


Then make a small amount of brown paint, add water in about a 2/3 mixture. take a papertowle and wad it up, dap it in the liquid and dap it on the bone lightly.

repeat with green, which while not very visable helps bring out the age.





now just hot glue the bones together, paint the eyes and ateniean and you're done.

Pretty amazing job you did on that !!!

oooomg it's GIR...I'm somewhat thinking of doing a Johnny theme this year....lots of gore

Haha, That's great. My kids would love him!

What a great-looking character and very helpful tutorial!

Thats an awesome tutorial!! your skeley turned out great!! This year will be our first with doing any paper mache stuff, this will help alot!!!

great job........................

Job well done! That looks great! Thanks for all the tips!