I'm looking to cosplay sumia at anime Midwest, do you think 3 months is too little amount of time to make my costume? I'll have a month of summer break worth of time to work on it too. Also, do you have any tips on the armor?
Oh wow, first off thank you so much, I’m absolutely flattered that you would come to me! It gives me a nice warm fuzzy feeling!
Alright now on to actual important things.
I had about 3 months to finish Sumia and other costume, and ultimately the only parts I didn’t get to make were her gauntlets and her belt. Now this was due to outside stresses, like homelife, depression, and traveling back and forth to work on costume parts.
Honestly, if you have a whole month of break, and none of the stresses I did, you should be able to do this as long as you manage your time properly.
Okay! So! Sumia’s armor is very complex at first, but I’ve found that as long as you break down a costume into separate pieces, it helps you be able to organize your crafting.
Make sure to break down her armor.
Bottom layer of the breastplate
2 Cup pieces (for the breastplate)
Now this can all look a little intimidating, and trust me I felt the same way, but breaking it down helps so much in encouraging yourself.
Start with something small in order to really get yourself going. The first pieces I did were the bracers and the wing clips, they were simple and also an important piece.
From there I was able to get enough courage to continue working on the different pieces.
For her neck pieces, I noticed they were 2 pieces made into 1. So I seperated them. And then glued them together.
For the breastplate, I made one piece as regular breastplate instead of a cuped one. Then I used the details, the swirly things, as an area to shape where the cups would go.
Then I was lucky enough to have these circle craft foam shape in order to make the cups!
Honestly most of this stuff is for sanity’s sake. If you keep knocking out tasks like that day by day, you’ll do great!
I really hope this helped, and if you have anymore questions, please let me know!
ALSO! Feel free to use any of my pictures as references or just to flat use them as patterns for your armor! I know how hard it can be to find proper photos of her armor!
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