How I made Darkness - The Horns

The horns and head piece were the single most daunting part of this project. While playing with ideas for the headpiece, I started on the horns by attaching various pieces of packing foam together. In this photo I had already made some progress. I took several long flat pieces and bent them over by letting them slide along as I made a bend. I used wax twine to hold each bend. From there I moved onto the next bend, more twine and so on. Wax twine worked great as it was durable and held a knot fast.

Once I had the flat pieces in the general shape I wanted I added strips of foam on the outside. This built up the edges which gave them a rounded shape.

I kept using the wax twine to help hold the shape as I moved the foam pieces around. I chose not to glue them because once glued, that's it. I was winging this whole thing so I needed to be flexible in case I needed to back out of whatever stage I was at. Eventually the shape came out to about the size and shape of the Darkness horns.

I rounded them even more with scissors to smooth out the gaps and get rid of the edges. I used paper mache paste made of two parts flower to one part water and strips of newspaper as the outer cover. Use a hair dryer to speed up the drying process. Helps allot!

Once dry I used a flat black household spray paint. Be patient and do one light coat at a time and let dry before starting a new coat. The paper mache will wrinkle if saturated with paint.