Majora's Mask

This project is a mask that was based on the "Majora's Mask" from The Legend of Zelda franchise. I made this as a potential Halloween costume since the holiday is coming up soon, and I'm a big fan of the game that the mask is from.

The first image is the outcome of my project, and the second image is the original mask that my project was based off of.

Materials used:

• Paint (Colors: purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, black, white, and red)
• Elmer's Glue
• Hot Glue
• Cardboard
• Tape
• Balloon
• Paper Mache

The first step I took to begin the process was to create a base for the mask. I used a medium sized balloon for the base because the mask isn't terribly big, but any size would've probably worked well with it as long as it wasn't too small. After blowing the balloon up to a good size, I began covering half of the balloon with paper mache. Once the paper mache was dry, I popped the balloon since the base was finished. However, the base wasn't completely finished at this point. I had to add a few more layers of paper mache to the base in order for it to be more sturdy and durable.

To make the pointy looking parts that stick out of the sides of the mask, I used cardboard and tape. I cut pieces of cardboard into eight pieces, then curled them with my hands to give them a cone shape. Once I got the cardboard into a cone shape, I used tape to wrap the cardboard with so they kept their shape and didn't bend back into their original flat shape.

At first, I used paper instead of cardboard. Paper can work as well, but I later found out that cardboard was a better material for this step because it's harder to bend and can't be as easily crushed as paper.

The final step I took was painting. I painted the main base first (which was purple), then painted the mask's red design on the center of the face. Once those two things were done being painted and were fully dry, I painted all of the designs and the eyes. The last things I painted were the cones on the sides of the mask. The base color for them were yellow, but on a few of the cones, they had another hue at the tips such as the colors green, blue, and red.