Making the fingers look more realistic

Whilst waiting for my plaster jacket to set, I've had some time to revisit the finger casts I did a few weeks ago. I considered re-casting some of them, but I decided I like the slightly rugged effect left on some of them (caused by ridges forming in the alginate when removing my actual fingers from it) as it adds to the gore of them and will make them more animated when covering them in latex.

So, I then mixed up a skin tone using various acrylics and experimenting with numerous acrylic:latex mixes. Eventually, after painting each one on to practice fingers and then repeating the process until the skin colour I desired, I got it to the colour I had imagined and dipped each finger in the cup of coloured latex. To allow them to dry properly I set a board up and covered it in lumps of clay which I could then wedge small edges of each finger casts in to, and let it stand once covered in latex.

I plan to go back tomorrow and attach fake nails to them to make them look even more realistic.