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cat-cosplay · 1 year
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We decided to russet up an adventuring party for Dungeons & Dragons.
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operaticsheep · 4 years
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If you made your snufkin cosplay, how'd you make the dress/shirt and the hat?
i did make my snufkin cosplay! i’d love to explain my process :)
for the dress/shirt/thing, i traced a bodice pattern that i had used in the past onto a big sheet of butcher paper and drew a line diagonally extending from the armpits super far out so that it made a really big dress shape that went down to just past my knees. if you don’t have a bodice pattern, you can always trace a t-shirt onto paper and go from there! my dress/shirt has buttons all the way down the back, so when cutting that part out, i cut the pattern in half and added a seam allowance so that it would open up in the back. for the sleeves, i used a pattern i had that would be too big and flowy for snufkin’s sleeves, but i took in the seams until it looked more appropriate for the good crime boi. after assembling most of the dress/shirt, i folded over and sewed the edges of the back so that it would look neat and then added buttonholes and buttons. i didn’t hem the bottom or the sleeves because i wanted to cut them up and attack them with sandpaper to make them look more weathered. however, i did use a small amount of fray check on these areas after weathering them so that the fabric wouldn’t fray. and that’s that for the dress/shirt!
for the hat, i used this website (https://www.deliacreates.com/make-witch-hat-in-any-size-tutorial/) as a tutorial for the base. (maybe it’s just me being bad at math, but you might have to BS it when it comes to the math part in that tutorial. the formulas didn’t really work for me LOL) i made my hat out of felt because i thought it would look cool, but it turned out really floppy and droopy. not good! now that i know a bit more about sewing, i’d probably recommend using starch to make the hat stiff. BUT, me from the past didn’t know that was an option, and i instead did some kind of real roundabout operation to fix it. before sewing the brim to the cone, i added a layer or two of interfacing to the brim and then sewed some millinery wire 5 or 6/8″ from the outside edge of the brim. after that, i cut out another copy of the felt brim and sewed it to the outside edge of the right side of the brim with a 5/8″ seam allowance. after folding that layer over, i sewed both sides together probably about 3/8″ from the outside edge of the brim and around the inside edge. i wanted to cut a couple of chunks out of the edge of the brim because snufkin’s hat looks pretty weathered in some references, so i used a wire cutter and chopped through the millinery wire in order to cut out the pieces. this exposed the interfacing a little bit, but i just colored over that with a green copic marker. after sewing the brim to the cone, i colored a white feather with copic markers and then cut out a little slit or two for where the feather sits and voila! snufkin hat done! i wouldn’t recommend doing my really weird version, it looked a little funky sometimes because of the wire problem. i would absolutely recommend looking into using starch for stiffening felt hats instead.
good luck with your snufkin cosplay! if you have any more questions, feel free to send in another ask or dm me! :)
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merryscosplay · 5 years
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i.... i love how floppy you made gamzee's ears!!!! what did you use and how did you do it? im gonna be making a gamzee cosplay soon (ish) and i want to give him big floppers!!
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aaaaaa thank you
they're made of felt with spray starch (? Idk if that's the right translation; the stuff to keep clothing stiff and in form).
to my ear it's attached with an ear stud and an ear cuff on thermo plastic & velcro - but I guess those parts can be glued right on the felt, too. just wanted my base to be able to hold other floppy ears, too.
the biiiig down to that is, that the cuffs hurt after a couple hours and nobody may pull on them 🙃
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jazzarray · 6 years
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Riju Production Post
So I’m mostly doing this for my own references (and as a reminder to take more pictures while working on costumes for proper progress posts/threads), but I just wanted to take the time and put together a post on my process and methods while working on my fave cosplay to date, Riju from Breath of the Wild!
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This post will be really photo heavy. And text heavy. Just heavy overall, so watch out on mobile (sorry ahead of time) - 
WARNING for hand closeup in the last image, scopophobia,
First things first, I gathered as many reference images as I possibly could. I went into the game itself and used nintendo’s handy dandy screen shot feature to take some pics. I also lurked around online in various boards and things to see if anyone else had taken some good detail shots of things I had missed. Here are some that i found the most useful:
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Full body shots are always necessary. This one also gave me the bonus of being able to estimate how many coins to put on her skirt as well as a reference for the print inside of the skit
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Much needed detail shots of the armor she’s wearing. I wanted to nail down the shape and dimension of everything as much as i could
And, since I love a good Prop, I had to make the Thunder Helm. The construction seemed maybe not simple but not ridiculous enough that I felt I could confidently reproduce it
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Then I decided to do something I had sort of done before, but not to the extent that I did with Riju. I needed to draw everything out, write what materials would be used and where, how much I would need, the techniques I would use, etc. To save space, I’ll link to the post where I uploaded the four pages of breakdown I did for her --> here
I started on her probably later than I should have, around late Feb, March of this year (the con I debuted her at was in May). And then I messed around and didn’t get started on her as soon as I could have even after all my materials were bought.  Speaking of which, let’s do a quick materials breakdown and where I got stuff
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I bought about 3 yards of a slightly see-through, light weight black knit from Joanns. I was also able to find a heavier cotton blend printed fabric that, from the wrong side mimicked perfectly the pattern on Riju’s inner skirt. 
I drafted my own patterns. The top was essentially a slightly bigger sports bra. The skirt I think I just kinda wrapped the fabric around myself and had my sister cut the angle I wanted. I used that piece to cut the inner lining of the skirt.
I hand painted the design on the top with 3d fabric paint. Some of the colors had to be mixed, particularly the gold. And i had to mix them multiple times bc I couldn’t finish it all at once lol. That was a pain. 
JSYK, you can mix fabric paint with regular acrylic and it’ll still be just as flexible.
I stretched out the top on a cutting board I had and held it there with wonderclips lol. Bootleg, but it worked
This was also my first time working with bias tape! It’s kinda rough in some sections but it gave the top a really nice finish, i think. I also added some lil shoulder straps on with the rest of the tape I had, just for added support.
Jewelry, Belt, Armor, etc Everything not fabric was craft foam of varying thickness. Everything was either primed with glue/water or was coated with a few layers of plastidip. The detailing on the chest and belt pieces were done with 3D fabric paint
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The only pieces not foam or fabric are air dry clay and hot glue casted gems. I made my own silicone mold with pure silicone + corn starch + a bit of baby oil. I think I used oven bake clay for the negatives and just filled those babies with hot glue. Sanded down the sides to get the defined lines I wanted and painted them with nail polish. 
The air dry clay pieces coming off of the chest armor  were strung together with more invisible thread and kinda shoddily held together with hot glue. But It Worked, Okay?
Everything that needed to be put on that wasn’t clothing (chest armor, jewelry pieces, belt, the petal sash looking thing) was strapped purely with velcro. 
The shoes were just a thrifted pair of black heels and I painted the lines on with Angelus brand leather paint (this stuff is godly and a little goes a long way)  
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Here’s the base of the front of the helm unpainted. 
I used 8mm eva sheet foam and 8mm dowels the from TNT Cosplay Supply as well as some basic 2-6mm foamie sheets from any store with a craft sections (I think i got mine from michaels? and some backup 2mm sheets from walmart)
The helm was a bit odd to pattern. I spent a lot of time doodling out shapes in my sketchbook. I made some v elementary templates out of poster board and had a Lot of re-working, especially with the slightly curved base of the front of the helm, the actual mask part. I knew it had to be two pieces  because trying to make it one would make the curves at the top wrong potentially. It also gave me a good guideline for the midline of the helm itself for coloring.
Everything was held together with contact cement and shaped with a heat gun. I learned with this project just how pliable even 8mm thick craft foam can get when it’s hot. I reinforced some of the curves by scoring the curves and gluing the cut section back together.
I primed this all with glue/water mix and everything was spray painted that base gold.
I....completely freehanded the non gold sections. I painted the brown of the front of the helm first and then remembered the gold sections going down. I think I tried to sketch out the lines at first and then just went “fuck it” and free handed everything. Took a lot of careful brush strokes and correcting but I think it turned out well.
if you look closely at the pieces with the half question marks on them, you can see where I attempted to correct some lines with hand mixed acrylic and didn’t exactly get the color right lol whoops. It’s only noticable in closeups tho.
The front and back pieces of the helm were held together via velcro. I wanted them to be able to come apart, especially since I knew I was going to travel with it. The whole thing is rather Rigid so it needed some way to be more travel-with-able.
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Close up of the Helm. It was extremely light weight, if only a lil awkward to tote around. I made it way too big so it couldn’t even be worn properly lol.
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Weirdest snail I’ve ever seen
Base wig was Buttercup in Rust Red by Arda . I also got a bunch of their long wefts in the same color as well as their red jumbo braids. I used their tutorial on how to style a Rapunzel wig as the basis for how to do the braid.
I ruined my first pack of jumbo braid hair and had to order more last second. The wig was one of the last pieces to get done. 
As in the rapunzel method, the braid is separate from the base wig and attached with hook/eye closures. It was still really dragging the back of the wig down, but I managed to braid in most of the base hair of the wig into the braid to hide the worst of it. It was so long, it reached all the way to my butt, i was so happy
The styling of the front of the wig was....mostly me winging it again. I knew theoretically what I needed to do -- tease the front bang a bit, add on wefts so that the hairline looked natural. But when I started doing so, I got impatient, like I normally do. To be fair the wig turned out way better than i thought it could given how much of a rush job the hair line and the bump + pinwheels were but hey
Everything got a generous helping of got 2 b glued spray
the side loops were completely separate pieces. I initially intended to sew them into the wig, but it was easier to put on and take off when they were separate
these were fabric hoops i stuffed lightly with pillow batting and, in another rush job, glued some wefts onto the loops. The gold rings were also just craft foam
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 Aside from the lipstick, I didn’t do the best with my makeup as I could have lol
I didn’t properly plan out what to color my eyebrows with. And covering them up was a serious rush job -- I didn’t practice before hand like I should have so I didn’t get them as smooth as I wanted
I also used....regular lipstick as the color, not even a drying matte, so anytime my hands went near my face (which was often bc of the helm, I had to whip out my mirror to do a smear check
The eye makeup was lipstick as well, but a matte one! It’s colourpop, I can’t remember which shade. The lipstick actually on my lips was a cheap drugstore brand I found at a beauty store.
First pair of ears were i think from Aradani?? I can’t 100% remember; there was a booth at Katsu this year.... 
Second pair, bc i lost the first pair somehow, was borrowed from a good friend lol
Now I know how to make my own latex ears so that’ll be what I do in the future
Contacts were from Alice and Rabbit’s Shop
I’ve got a decent amount of (what I would/could have done betters)
I need to figure out a better strapping method for the jewelry. The velcro I used was pretty thick and i found multiple scratches where they rubbed against me all day (a couple of em briefly scarred lol)
I wasn’t able to isolate a good enough image for the sand seal emblum that’s actually printed on her skirt. I might just hand paint it on if I can draw a decent enough template
The back piece of the helm, the band that connected to the circle, was...a pain. Since I was in the heat, it lost its shape pretty quickly when not attached to the front part and having to reshape it caused it to crack quite badly. 
The aforementioned circular piece also wasn’t as securely connected as it could have been (i’m still trying to figure out what I could have done better. Maybe pins or something through the foam?) and I had to rush to the cosplay repair booth when I got to the con to make sure it didn’t completely rip off.
I found two pairs of black heels and neither of them fit well enough to walk in all day! so I would up taking a bunch of photos in the wrong shoes bc I had switched them out and forgotten to put the actual shoes back on lol. 
Practice the makeup!! Practice, practice practice. Especially eyebrow blocking bc mine are pretty thick and bushy and it Did Not work as well the first time lol. 
And last but most importantly: GIVE YOURSELF ENOUGH DANG TIME TO NOT RUSH
i was so hesitant to cut into anything, especially the foam, that i wound up working on things down to the wire, aka friday night before I was set to wear Riju.
Take time,especially when doing new things you’ve never done before
don’t be afraid to think outside the box and even reach out to someone, even if they’re a non-cosplayer, for help and ideas because they will probably save your ass (thanks dad)
So here is my little love letter to my Riju cosplay. It’s...admittedly in shambles kind of now. Half of my armor pieces had some bumps or breaks that are repairable but not a priority. The wig is a mess because the back kept tangling on my armor pieces. The band/back of the Helm is also a wreck, cracked to hell and back.
But!! I want better pictures of her, so I want to try and fix her up so I can at least do a decent photoshoot somewhere. I also wanna make a patricia plush! Maybe enter her into a contest??
Only time, patience, and a Lotta Money will tell lol
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truebluemeandyou · 7 years
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DIY Crochet Crown Free Pattern
This DIY Crochet Crown can easily be customized.
For pages of DIY crowns go here.
Find the free pattern for this DIY Crochet Crown from One Dog Woof here.
More DIY Crowns for Cosplay and Halloween
DIY Crystal Crown from Threadsence here.
DIY Crystal Snow Queen Crown by Cheryl Heap here.
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DIY Elvish Crown Tutorial from Rachel Ann Poling here.
DIY Beaded Crown Tutorial from Biserok here. 
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DIY Midas Crown Bead Ring Patterns from Living with Three Moon Babies here.
DIY St. Edward’s Crown $4 pattern at Ravelry here.
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DIY Birthday Candle Crown Tutorial from The House that Lars Built here. 
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DIY Steampunk Crown Tutorial from Steampunkmonsters here. This crown base is a Burger King kid’s cardboard crown.
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DIY Cheap and Easy Wire Heart Crown from Make and Tell here.
DIY Glitter Crown Using Sugar Starch from Trinkets in Bloom here.
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3 Lace Crowns here.
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kingfishercosplay · 6 years
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Haru Okumura - WIP 3 - Cavalier Hat Ever been too intimidated to cut something for a cosplay? Well...at the very least I'm past that part. So I'll try to write a more detailed process post when the hat is complete, but for now the simplified version up to this point is: - researched how to make Cavalier hats, which turned into how to make wool felt hats - bought a wool felt capeline (hat base) - made a hat block out of expanding foam - shaped the hat with steam over said block - tried stiffening it with Bickmore Kahl stiffening spray - failed miserably, and used lots of starch instead - And finally, today I made a template and cut the brim into a more triangular shape.
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justdiarythoughts · 5 years
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Uhh anybody who knows entomology type stuffs?
I found a small handful of what appear to be dead red flour beetles in my closet when I tried to go through some old costumes. The closet is real small, so it goes: door, stack of ridiculously old books I've been meaning to read for years, a pair of platform boots (which the bugs were under, I haven't tried looking under anything besides shoes as of yet), and a shoddy plastic makeshift shelf filled with cosplay stuff.
I'm wondering if the red flour beetles may have been going after my books?
Since there's no food anywhere near my closet, we haven't ever seen those bugs anywhere else (especially not in the kitchen) and I know that the way old books were bound with starch-based glues can attract other starch-eating pests. Google was of no help!
I am waiting to know, before I look through my books, because I am very squeamish about bugs. I would like to know before I go anywhere near those books again, if they are highly suspect, so I may be better prepared.
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thespaznextdoorwelp · 7 years
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Not just a pretty cloth,
One part of cosplay that is a major aspect is the fabric. If not for this none of it will be possible, but there are some more technical aspects to the different types of fabric, not just going and picking the one that looks best. First, there are different types of fibers
  i. Natural: Natural fibers are easy to die, absorbent and breathable. They are nature based, where depending on the origins of the fibers you may see higher prices.
ii. Synthetic :These fibers are strong and wrinkle resistance. They are also versatile.
 iii. Knit: Knit come in a 2-way and 4-way stitch. They are used for non-structural garments (swimwear, leotards, gloves), although they are for the more advanced sewer.
Then there is the immense types of cloth, 
 i. Broad cloth: Tightly woven flax fibers, broad cloth doesn’t stretch. They are used for shirts, dresses, sleep wear, house hold fabrics and upholstery.
ii. Bottom weights: These are strong and versatile, and some examples of this are denim and twill.
iii. Cotton Sateen: These come in either matte or satin finish, these fibers can be used for anything.
iv. Satin: Satin has a “fancy” look to it. However, you should avoid shiny satin, as it looks cheap and like a Halloween costume bought from target. Your best choice is bridal satin.
 v. Velvet: Soft and luxurious, but it can be very expensive. This fabric is used for dresses, skirts, capes and other things.
vi. Chiffon: Meaning French for cloth, chiffon is a sheer, lightweight fabric used in evening wear and overlays.
vii. Organza: This type of fabric is similar to chiffon, but has significant sheen. It is what they use for sleeves and ball gowns.
viii.Tulle/netting: A synthetic material usually found in tutus and veils and are typically starched.
ix. Brocade: This fabric is richly decorated and can be very expensive. It is used in Corsets and cultural garments.
 x.  Suede: Animal skin, it can be very expensive, but there is a cheaper alternative like faux suede, pvc and vinyl. Pvc and vinyl do not stretch.
 xi. Faux fur: An alternative to real fur, but quality is expensive. However, it will shed.
xii. Fleece: Warm and colorful, fleece is almost always on sale. 
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