wife just finished her 2nd whitetail mount


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Not too bad for her 2nd WT mount but from what I see...

There needs to be more clay built up around the eyes, they look too "sunken in"

Ear butts need more clay built up around them as well

Lower lip is a painted in a bit thick, nose pad should not be black but appear to look wet.

Antlers seem to be uneven, Dont know if the skull cap is out of wack or just the angle of the pic.

Practice makes perfect...

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Not too bad for her 2nd WT mount but from what I see...

There needs to be more clay built up around the eyes, they look too "sunken in"

Ear butts need more clay built up around them as well

Lower lip is a painted in a bit thick, nose pad should not be black but appear to look wet.

Antlers seem to be uneven, Dont know if the skull cap is out of wack or just the angle of the pic.

Practice makes perfect...

I agree with some of that except that I think there needs to be less clay in the front corners of the eyes near the tear ducts. If you build up clay in the fronts, it gives one what I call the fish eye illusion. I did the same thing on a couple of mounts when I first got started. I worry about the tips of the ears a little bit. Are they trying to curl or is it just the camera angle? I generally paint the inside of the nose brown. The hide and the muscle detail look pretty good. That's what most people are going to look at anyway.

Its a good second effort. On my public profile, I have my first mount which most people say looks pretty good, but to me it looks like crap especially because of the eyes. The first five I did were a real struggle but, now I've built up my confidence, and I've learned now to make them look the way they should. It took three years of practice and mounting and remounting them for me to get the accuracy and realism I wanted.

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