How to make the Jigsaw Killers puppet, Billy, for virtually nothing

Step 2 Making the eye socket

Start by making the eyeballs:
Cut the ping pong ball in half, this will give you two eyes. Drill a hole in the bottom of each half to give you something to look through. I then had to shape the cut of the eyeball to make it fit into the contours of the face (sorry about lack of picture). Once it was sitting on the face correctly I glued it in place.

The next step is to give it that recessed look:
Start by taking a strip of news paper (approx 5cm by 30cm) roll this strip lengthways to create a thick line 7mm thick by 30cm long. This gives the piece some thickness to hold it's shape. Fold the paper round in a loop and glue the ends together to form a fish like shape. This should be large enough to hold the ping pong ball. Cut the tails and stick the shape to the mask.
This gives you an edge which you can glue right up to and make the eye balls look recessed.

Comments

[zeroriku]

i'm a bit confused here...>< do you glue the newspaper to the mask or around the ping pong ball?

[msraynsford]

I glued it to the mask, so it was about 2mm off of the ping pong ball on all sides.