Hello, today I am going to show you how I made some wands inspired by Harry Potter.
Specifically, I'm trying to recreate the ones from the films of four characters
Luna Lovegood, Tonks, and Fred and George Weasley.
And if you're wondering why I'm making these four wands in particular,
The Luna one is for a friend and the other three are for cosplays I'm working on.
But the methods I used could pretty much be used for any wand.
So the materials I used are all things I had lying around.
Firstly chopsticks. These chopsticks have square ends which isn't ideal
Because it means you end up with weird square wands, but they're what I have.
And then glue, string, air drying modeling clay,
Scissors, a teeny tiny bit of craft foam, a pencil,
Toothpicks, or more accurately, a toothpick, because I only ended up needing one of those.
And acrylic paint and paint brushes.
So let's start with Luna Lovegood's wand which is by far the easiest.
It's a relatively plain wand, lightly coloured, and with a gold sort of vine design on the handle.
Also note that this is Luna Lovegood's first wand, because she has two wands over the course of Harry Potter.
I started with marking out the design with a pencil, and then glued on string in the design I had made.
And after it dried I painted it, firstly all over with a very light brown, and then I added gold details on the string.
I also dabbed and smudged little bits of gold paint all over the rest of the wand
Because I thought it just added a bit of a sheen, a magical sheen.
Then Tonks's wand, which is quite a weird shape.
If you look at pictures of what Tonk's wand actually looks like, this isn't exactly right, but it's near enough.
I started by modeling the, I don't know what to call it, the nobbly bit. I modelled it out of clay.
I cut a sort of spade shape out of craft foam, and then made an indentation in the clay with a toothpick
So that when they clay dried I could glue the craft foam to it like so.
And then it was just painting again. The base coat was a light brown but darker than Luna's.
I added stripes of a slightly darker brown, like so
And I also smudged some gold paint on this one as well.
And now Fred's wand, I like this one, I think it's fun. It's a darker brown and the handle looks like a pinecone.
I made the pineconey bits out of tiny curved bits of modelling clay which I glued on.
This took quite a while, and I was worried for a lot of it that it was going to look terrible
But I think that when all the pineconey bits are on together it looks okay.
There are other methods to making wands I have seen,
My favourite being using a glue gun to model everything, or most of the things, out of glue.
I really love this, I think it looks great. Unfortunately I couldn't get it to work for me.
My glue gun doesn't have settings so the glue got really hot very quickly, and was impossible to mould at all.
Maybe with practice I could have worked it out, but I ended up just going with clay and string instead.
Anyway, onto the painting of this wand. I used dark brown for the base
And for the clay bits I used a black paint.
Now finally, George's wand, this is also brown and black.
It's apparently based on a broomstick, which I can see
I think it's my favourite of these four. I certainly think it would be the most comfortable to actually use
because the handle is relatively normal.
So I first modelled the handle out of clay
And then once it had dried I added the detailing, which was all made out of string
Wrapped around where the clay meets the chopstick, and also in a crisscross design on the handle.
The main body is in dark brown again, with the detailing in black.
And the very tip of the handle is also black.
So there you have it, four wands from Harry Potter. I'm relatively happy with how these turned out.
I mean, I do think Tonks's wand is a bit weird, but I do like the others
And although they do look a bit handmade, they're not a world away from the wands I was trying to recreate, so yay!
Thank you so much for watching my improvised wand making.
If you were going to make a wand from the Harry Potter series whose would it be?
Or would you prefer to make your own original wand, because that would be cool.
Anyway, I hope you have a great day, and I will see you soon.