Animal Crossing Cosplay

Part 2: Horns

The next part of my Chevre build is the horns. These took a lot longer than the ears, but mostly just because the steps had a lot of drying time in-between. Because I’m impatient, I actually started these while I was making the ears to cut down on waiting times.

To make the horns, I used foam clay, a plastic headband, sandpaper, spray paint, and painter’s tape.

The horns themselves are made from a foam clay base. I rolled the clay into roughly the shape I wanted and smoothed it as best I could with my hands. It didn’t need to be perfect because I would be sanding it down later.

The foam on these are very thick, so they took a long time to become fully solid. Not letting it dry long enough will cause it to become misshapen if you try to sand it and soak up any paint you try to apply, so I let my horns sit in the sun for about two days to make sure they were dry all the way through.

Once they were dry, I started sanding them down to remove the fine cracks and smooth them out a little bit. I used a high grit sandpaper (moving up from 100 to about 800) and did it by hand so that I could work slowly. If you want to skip this step, you can. Foam clay takes acrylics and spray paint very well already, so it isn’t necessary if you are happy with the polish. I’m just not good at sculpting, so it’s always required.

Next I chose my colors. For this I used a pretty basic spray paint. The base needs to be the lighter color because it will be harder to cover up, so if you choose orange and brown for example, make sure that the orange goes down first. In this case, it is the yellow. The horns got a few coats of yellow until they were solidly covered. The spray paint I used only took about half an hour to dry but because I was going to be putting tape over it, I waited just a little longer.

Next, I taped down the portions that I wanted to stay yellow. For Chevre, the tips and base are brown on her model, so I chose two spots for the yellow stripes in the center. Then it was spray paint round two!

After everything was dried, I fastened the horns to the headband by dremeling a ridge into the base of the horns and hot gluing them to the band. This will keep them from sliding or rotating like wire or magnets might, although those would work just as well if done tightly.

And done! The next tutorial will be the makeup, hair styling, and final presentation.

See you next time, la baa!