I want to make a raven spawn. and was thinking that a good base to start with would be a black panther and maybe a ghost rider head. if anyone has a good hood/cloak tutorial so that I could keep as much articulation for the head as possible please tell me.
Your best bet would be to sculpt the hood on the head separate from the body (ala Desaad from DCUC). I usually use some blue painters tape on the body of my figures when I sculpt long hair or something like this to keep the sculpt from sticking to the body.
I've never seen a Raven Spawn so I'm not sure if this helps, but I have a Azrael hood if that would work. Like I said though, not sure if the hoods are even remotely similar.
-Finn