Sometimes I Cosplay

and for the most part fail to chronicle my journey.

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Emerging from the upside down. Ignore the name badge, demogorgon’s still need to scan in to enter my work place. 

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Utilizing my Demogorgon costume once again for our 4th stranger things marathon party

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Emerging from the upside down. Ignore the name badge, demogorgon’s still need to scan in to enter my work place. 

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Not exactly cosplay, but for work we decorated our area to be the upside down. Coincidentally, my paint job for my Demogorgon costume really blended in with our background so I spent the day scaring adults and children who came to see our work. Ignore the name badge

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For Anime Banzai we did an Ancient Magus’ Bride group. For the first time, my costume was the easy one (Angelica) so I could focus on Elias’ costume. We worked with my brother in law to 3d print the Skull and Mike added lighting details. I died doing the trim on the Robe. 

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I realized I never posted these, but here’s the end product for angelic Valla. It honestly didn’t turn out great - the armor pieces started self destructing real fast, but I got a couple photos at the beginning of the day that looked okish. This costume really looked best in gloom - where you could see the light details. 

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Welp, procrastination is a bitch. Four days til I'm supposed to wear this and I have some wings...and a pile of unfinished armor. Sleep, how I shall miss thee this week.

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Making your own witches hat is not incredibly difficult, so I figured I’d make a little cosplay tutorial on how I made my own lwa hat! It’s pretty self explanitory, but if there are any questions, don’t hesitate to send me a message (:

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Very easy witch/wizard hat tutorial

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How to make wings without a harness

Most of the time wings that are a bit heavy needs the support of straps that goes around the shoulders and under the chest to stay up against your back. 

Harnesses works very good but if the dress etc have bare shoulders however the straps are going to show. 

This is how I normally do wings in a way to avoid having a harness for those character designs. First of all this method will not work if the top/dress is loose fitted. The wings will require some support to hold them in place on your back. I find that corsets are the best for this especially if the wings are a bit heavy but I have also used it in tops without boning.

Start of making your wings seperated on two bars. Make sure the bars are made out of a stiff material since they are going to support the weight of the wings. If they end up being to week and bend the wings will slope and gap away from your back. 

For my angel wings in felt I used 3 mm thick aluminum bars to hold up my, a bit more heavy, wings. I then covered them in worbla and connecting them using some more worbla, This creates a good wing base and makes them stay with a good distance from each other. 

In a similar way I attached an other pair of wings made out of worbla to a base, but since these wings are quite light a few layers of worbla was enough to keep them stiff and not bend. Make sure not to make the base too short since you will stick it into your back lining and don’t want it to fall out.  

One of the most important steps when doing these kinds of wings is to bend the base a bit. Most backs are not 100% flat so put the wing base against you back and mark where on the base where a gap between the base and your back starts to show. If the base is made of a thermoplastic you can just heat it up and bend it at the marking into the right angle. Otherwise, like for the base with aluminum, you can saw it of and reattach them again to create the right angle. You can of course make the angling of the base before attaching the wings but I find it easier to do it after.  When the base is done you can just stick it in to the top. I find that sticking it into the bra strap also helps the wings stay in place a bit better. I personally love this method since you super easily can take the wings of and back on if you want to sit down or walk in a crowded hallway without worrying about people bumping into you wings.

~Bubblefish (Photo at the top was taken by David Johansson)

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This could be useful for valla...

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A couple random photos I really liked of some past cosplays. Suki the Kyoshi warrior in the wilds of Idaho and Thranduil in the wilds of green screen.

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Just going through some old photos and trying to get my previous cosplays all in one place. My one and only (so far) Sakura con in 2015 as Inuyasha. Taking out contacts with nails cut to a literal point was pretty scary business. Ugh... This feels so long ago

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I loved Salt Lake Comic Con! Conventions are one of those places where the nerdiness is tangible and you can reach out and high five it. I rolled out my Easterling for the first time…and it definitely needs some improvements. This was my first real armor job and I learned a lot wearing it for a…

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I realized I never added a photo to this post. Part of that being I didn't take a ton of photos...

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How To Make A Wig Head That Has Your Hairline and Head Shape, with a wighead and less than $10 of materials!

The immediate benefits of having one of these might not be so obvious, but once I made one a while back, I haven’t considered styling a wig on a head that ISN’T of this type! It allows you to do everything but measuring bang length on a head the same as yours. Want to spike a wig and make sure your hairline won’t show? You can do that. Need to alter a wig to have a weird hairline and you don’t want to keep trying the wig on and off again? You can do that. Want to pull a wig in a ponytail but not make it too small? Yep, you can do that! Want to do a really crazy wig for someone who isn’t nearby? Get them to make one of these and mail it to you, and you can style it just as well as if they were wearing it! It’s a nearly indispensable tool in my wig-styling arsenal.

This tutorial is starring tumblr user notyourwaifu as my wonderful model! (She’s currently notyourwaiphantom for Halloween.) Similarly, if someone reblogged this during October and the URL for the jump doesn’t work, I’m only reospookywagon for October; switch the URL to “silencedrowns” and you should be fine.

That said, let’s go!

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SO …….. 

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Yep...

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So none of these photos are super great, but I threw together a female luffy cosplay for a cosplay scavenger hunt a few years ago. The saddest thing is I later lost my hat D:

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Random freakazoid adventures. For the slcc cosplay scavenger hunt where Gutierrez and I put aside our differences to get tickets and slcc15 where candle jack and freakazoid were just buddies.

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From saltlakecomiccon 17. Humanized ninetails and sandslash.

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I realized I never posted this. I joined a group of cosplayers where we each were going to create a Fandom ballgown. The group ended up falling apart sadly, but I managed to get my dragon ball z gown done and wore it anyways :D The main inspiration for the gown was Shenron appearing to grant a wish, his body coiling through the clouds.