Tools needed:

- Foam of various thickness

- Hot Glue Gun

- Marker

- Ruler

- Scissors 

- Electric Turkey Carver

- Pins

- Fur

- Fabric Marker (Prismacolors work awesome!)

- Upholstery Thread

- Yarn

- Curved Sewing Needle

    - Heavy duty Electric Trimmers with varying guards

Foaming:

This will be just a general synopsis of the foaming and furring process. Once again your goal is to make something balanced and flowing. I tend to think the more measuring and marking out you can do on the raw foam, before cutting, the better off you will be in the end. So, for example, when cutting out cheeks, cut out two rectangles of equal length and width first and then shave off from there. You will have better luck having even facial features if you do this. 

I use both the electric turkey carver and various scissors to cut the foam into its desired shape. Hot glue is used to attach the foam to the mesh. In areas where you are having trouble keeping the foam in place use a bit of yarn to hold it down. 

The key areas to work on with foam are the muzzle, around the eyes and the cheeks. I basically foam in that order. The top muzzle's sides are formed with two pieces of cut foam, the bottom usually out of one piece, and then thinner pieces are added to the top and bottom.

Try your best to give as much depth to the eye area as you can. This gives you more options for eye position and helps give your face additional dimension.

Otherwise just add cheeks, a bit to the ears to give them depth and any other areas you feel need to be brought out.

Furring:

First rule of thumb: the lay of the fur runs away from the nose!

When furring I tend to draw and cut out the parts I need and trial fit them on the head before actually cutting the fur. 

Next I pin in place, make any adjustments that are necessary and then hot-glue. HINT: Do not hot-glue the absolute edges of the pieces of fur if possible. The key in making fur flow seamlessly from one piece to another is to sew the edges of the pieces after gluing. If you glue to the edges it will be extremely difficult to sew these edges smoothly and effortlessly.

I tend to fur from the muzzle back. I glue a section, go over the edges with the thread and curved needle, and then go onto another section until you no longer have a naked head!