Daenerys Targaryen Cosplay

Hi, I am Sheridan and this is my Design Process for my Daenerys Targaryen Cosplay. Hope you enjoy!

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Daenerys Cosplay Refs and Help.

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So many lovely outfits and you’re looking, most can be made using modern patterns. You can buy some of these to made on commission or you can make it yourself. As with Joffrey, I’ll do my best to include as much information as possible and anything I don’t know or can’t find info on I’ll try and find you at least a few websites that might help.

For the hair it will have its own section so don’t look for it under each outfit. 

WEDDING DRESS

Personally I think an infinity dress would work well for this but thats up to you. It appears to be a silvery grey fabric, with part of the dress attached to silver arm cuffs. The straps are also black and silver. You could either sew these on or wear something under neath the dress, but only let the straps show. 

Not sure exactly what kind of fabric it is, it has kind of a crinkly texture, some people have made it using georgette fabric, satin, chiffon AND satin, silk etc. Its up to you. If you decide to use an infinity dress pattern, you will want something with a little elastic. But if you are making it as an all in one, can dress slip into dress, you made not need to.

In the centre, is her two headed dragon brooch pin.

Her hair is mostly loose but beautifully connected by small silver beads, in various places.

Props that could work with this are the dragon eggs, find them in the prop section XD.

Fabric Ideas:  1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13.

Straps: 1,2,3,4,5, 6,7,8,9.

Pin Brooch: 1,2 (may be selling one),3,4, 5,6, 7,8.

Arm Cuffs: 1 (tutorial),2,3.

Any will be fine.

Patterns: 1,2,3,4,5.

Buy The Outfit: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.

OUTFIT 1

This outfit seems to grow in its decorations throughout the series. So some cosplayers opt for plain and others for intricate. It appears to be a wrap dress, but made of stiff blue fabric. She wears leggings/tights/whatever in grey beneath it with …boots? Idk hard to tell. She usually wears a claw necklace with this.

A few of the cosplay ones and commissioned ones are made out of blue linen. So.. thats an option.

Fabric Ideas:1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13.

Necklace:1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8.

Double Claw Version: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

How to embroider with beads:  1,2,3,4,5,6.

Pattern: 1,2,3,4.

Buy The Outfit: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.

OUTFIT 2

Love this one and its pink version. The skirt/under dress will be the easiest to do, simple brown fabric, maybe something like suede? idk. Its been worn with a pleated white under dress/skirt in promos. But thats not what you want to know. 

You want to know how to do that blue part and the lace armour. Don’t worry. Theres an app for that. (not really… im trying to be witty..) I can’t decide if its blue and silver or blue and pale gold or some other blue pattern. I chose blue and silver. 

Fabric Ideas: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.

Lace Armour (tutorial): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.

Patterns: 1,2,3.

Spoonflower: 1.

OUTFIT 3.

Very similar to above. Except in pink with leather armour. Very nice. :) 

I think the fabric is pink with silver leaves but anything pink and silver will be fine. You may have to add the leave via painting them on or embroidering them.

Fabric Ideas: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11.

Armour Patterns/tutorials: (refer also to outfit 2) 1,2,3,4,5.

Pleather, vinyl or worbla would work for this.

Armour (buy): 1.

Spoonflower: 1.

Patterns: 1, 2, 3.

OUTFIT 4

This one so beautiful and flowy. Blue with a gold pattern. Most cosplayers agree that to get as accurate as possible, pick a blue fabric, a light fabric and sponge the gold on. However I’ve also provided you with fabric ideas if you dont want to do this.

Fabric Ideas: 1,2, 3,4,5,6,7,8.

some people opt for a more flowly, see through fabric and wear slips/under skirts with nude bras.

Shoulder and Belt Patterns/Tutorials: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.

Shoulder and Belt (buy): 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.

Beads: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8.

Assorted wooden and glass beads. Lampwork perhaps. Check charity stores for chunky jewellery or places that sell beads.

Patterns: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11.

OUTFIT 5

Dress and skirt combo in very earth fabrics and colours. A pin is worn on the left breast, a smaller worn is worn beneath, both to probably hold the halter top together. And two belts are worn over the hips of the skirt. Leggings are worn beneath with high pale boots. And gloves are occasionally worn. 

Suede or linin would work for the skirt.

Fabric Ideas (halter top): 1,2, 3,4,5,6,7,8,9.

Belts: 1,2,3,4 (findings. or you may have to make your own :/)

Pin: 1,2,3,4,5.

Its a penannular brooch. 

Patterns: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.

Buy The Outfit: 1,2,3.

OUTFIT(S) 6

Two different dress here. One white shift dress with a penannular brooch thats is its ownly decoration and a white dress, an infinity style pattern would work for, and the slave collar. She wears a bronze belt. 

No fabric ideas for this. White for one, cream or very light brown for the other.

Shift dress patterns: 1,2,3,4,5

Infinity dress patterns: 1,2. (so the wedding dress section for more.)

Slave Collar: 1,2.

Collar Tutorial:  1,2

OUTFIT(S) 7

Both worn in season 1 and if I’m not mistaken, the same episode? The first is very see through and I advise that if you plan to wear… wear something underneath, whether its a leotard, a slip, nude bra + underskirt. Its up to you.

I think its a lavender, pale lavender colour, with a thing thin white fabric worn over the top. Again no fabric ideas for this as they are plain fabrics. There are double/triple headed dragon annular brooches on both shoulders.

There might be stitching beneath the breasts, but I can’t tell.

The other dress has been called the Kings Landing Maxi Dress. I think its a pale pink but others disagree and call it lavender as well. Its up to you which you choose. The whole thing its stitched in a darker colour and held up with cords. 

Not really any tutorials or patterns. Especially not for the back. 

Slip Dress Patterns: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

Kings Landing Maxi Patterns:1,2 (might be able to help you)3(not sure about this one),4.

Brooches: 1, 2 (may be selling one), 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

OUTFIT 9

Gold or light brown scaly and pointy looking top with a layered skirt or a black/dark blue skirt with trims around it. Im sorry Im not good at describing. 

There probably wont be any patterns for the top. I can only find ones similar, but they will probably only be similar in shape and back only. :(

Fabric ideas: 1, 2, 3 (spandex though :( ), 4, 5.

Top Patterns: 1.

Skirt Patterns: 1, 2.

Sorry not much help with this one :( You could try something like burlap, a stiff fabric and paint on the scales of her top but beside that idk. Couldn’t find any cosplays either.

CLOAKS/CAPES

She has one them a few times so heres a few tutorials/patterns for you to play with.

Cloak Patterns: 1, 2, 3.

Shoulder Armour: 1, 2, 3.

WIGS/BRAIDING

You’re probably going to get a wig for this, let’s face it, not all of us were born with pale blonde hair. Sometimes its loose and sometimes its very intricate. You can buy either a pre braided wig or one for you to braid yourself. 

Lacefront wig is probably your best bet.

(fortunately someone all ready made a list of a few so I’ll start with those!)

Pre Braid: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.

Plain: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

Arda wigs recommendations: Arwen in titanium blond, Luthien in the same, Matilda, 

Tutorials: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.

Full guide.

PROPS

The most obvious are going to be either the dragon eggs or dragons themselves. Of course that might be a little hard but thats why tutorials were invented and there are many! You can also buy them too.

Egg Tutorials: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

Eggs to buy: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.

Ok..I’ve done my best with this and  she will probably have more outfits to come. Apologies for missing letters my keyboard is on the fritz. And for any double posts, kept getting distracting by new kitten. If you have any questions or more Game of Thrones requests, feel free to hit my ask.

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Part of the amazing texturing on many of Dany’s dresses come from the use of a variety of smocking techniques. On this dress in particular, there are two types of smocking featured. The bra-like top is covered in dragon scale smocking (which I’ll talk about in a later post), and the...

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Part 2 of my cosplay makeup series! This time I show my makeup process for Daenerys, which is probably the character I’ve gotten most requests to do. Hope you like it! 

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why didn’t i ever post these

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Daenerys’ Mhysa leather bandolier (for lack of a better thing to call it)

This was a relatively simple build, but I got some questions about it, so here we go.

I decided to make my leather from craft foam (since I didn’t have enough leather left over from another project to make it out of the real stuff).

(If you’re new to craft foam armour, I recommend this tutorial: http://www.entropyhouse.com/penwiper/costumes/helmsdeep.html )

I very much eyeballed the design from the few reference stills I could get my hands on and rewatching the scene over and over again, so the pattern I have may be slightly off (but it looks good enough for me).

The back piece very much follows some of the similar curves and shapes of the blue Astapor/Dragonscale dress she wears in season 3, it’s got the circular back hole and everything. On the front it crisscrosses over the bust following the wrap design on the dress and buckles in the back after getting looped through a loop to keep it from riding up.

It’s pretty simple.

My foam was actually supposed to be the pattern for my leather version, but I thought I might as well have a version on hand.

Joining the pieces: I used hot glue on the seams and underneath. You can sew it if you want (the foam might rip). In the front it’s held together with brads (like you use in scrapbooks) and sewn.

To finish the foam you can either iron it (on low heat!), or coat it in 4ish layers of watered down mod podge or watered down elmers glue + fabric glue. I do the later here because, I can go in while it’s drying with a hairdryer and heat areas until they bubble (which gives it some leathery texture). I pressed the edging details (thin outline) in with a pointy wooden thing I use for sculpture, and then I paint it by mixing a bunch of browns, coppers, and black together. I then go over it with lighter and darker coats applied by sea sponge to add the look of more texture. Then I do a coat of black on the details and wipe it off before it dries so some black is left in the indents.

Add buckles, and tadaa, you’re done!

Mhysa!

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Preview of my Daenerys costume from Katsucon. Between the dragonscale smocking, beading and other misc details, I put a heck of a lot of work into the dress and I’m so happy it’s finally done and I’m excited to wear it again! <3

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Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea Pictures by Elise

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Daenerys Targaryen - wedding dress (Please answer questions below in the comments section - you can click on the title of the post to comment via disqus)

1. How do you think this costume fits the character of Daenerys Targaryen?

2. What do you think about the colours of this costume?

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Hey guys, do you have some input you would like to give for this research project? 

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Daenerys Targaryen in Qarth (Please answer questions below in the comments section - you can click on the title of the post to comment via disqus)

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New Dany photo to “celebrate” the season finale of Game of Thrones. :<

Cosplay by me, rynninator

Photo by gamerevx

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Proper pictures of my newest Dany costume and the first official cosplay of 2015! I had a lot of fun wearing it to LSCC, even if it wasn’t completely finished yet and has a looot of mistakes on it. Wearing it along with my GoT group made me forget all about that tho <3 I was also lucky enough to meet an awesome Grey Worm cosplayer who joined me for an impromptu mini-shoot! Dany - Me/Starbit Cosplay Grey Worm - Khalid Ishmael Photography - Batbunny cosplay and me

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Your cosplay are amazing! I'd like to get into the cosplay world but I'm not sure about the cost :/ how much would you say the range for your cosplays is?

Well, my first Daenerys one from S2 was in between $100-$150 (AUD) but mostly due to the custom woven fabric, bought pants, and the leather for the skirt. I managed to use mostly scraps for it so it could have been a lot worse. Oh not to mention the wig which was $75 (AUD).My second daenerys only had 2 things, the piece of fabric and polymer clay. So only costed about $50-$70 (AUD). I’ve had other cosplays that have costed way more, like Lightning (my first ever cosplay only bought fabric for the shirt, everything else was scraps so relatively) and Vanille from FF13 (Bought online and got totally ripped off from CosplayHouse because it was more expensive and less quality than if I had done it myself and I couldn’t get my money back and they wouldn’t send the missing pieces from the costume which was advertised).  There is nothing more satisfying than the outcome though. It’s totally worth it. Start out with something small and cheap and work your way up so you don’t overwhelm yourself. I’d say my cosplays haven’t been very expensive at all. Especially cause that was money spent over 5 years or so. I never did more than 1 cosplay per year. 

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You know, I've been cosplaying Daenerys for over 2 years now. And every time the amount daenerys cosplayers increases dramatically. On Sat of OZ Comic Con there were over 20 daenerys cosplayers that I saw. It just doesn't feel special to me anymore.

I used to be recognised and people would love taking photos of me and say how much they loved my costume. And now I'm just another one of the daenerys cosplayers. 

I dunno you guys. It's lost it's flare and over the weekend I was just really disheartened. I love the process of making the costumes. But have stopped loving the actual cosplay part. 

Give me a few days, I'll cheer up. It's just still fresh in my mind.

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At Oz Comic Con I had my first creepy experience!

A mid-40's man approached me and said "Clarissa!"

And I was like "what?" and he said "Clarissa!" and I was like "no sorry" and he was like "From game of thrones!" and I corrected him "Oh, Khaleesi".

At this point I was feeling a bit obligated to talk to him but I really wanted to just wave and walk away.

He then grabbed me and hugged me! 

It felt like torture, it was just extremely creepy and I was very uncomfortable. 

He then said "Oh i should have asked you if I could hug you"

And I said "Yes, you should have"

And then I smiled and waved and got away as quick as possible.

In my past experience people have asked me for hugs and I have obliged but in this instance I already had red flags from this man who was twice my age and standing super close to me so I wanted to make the interaction as quick as possible. I practically ran away from him until I was out of his sight.  

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Michele Carragher, the head embroider on Game of Thrones, made this awesome tutorial to show how she created the dragonscale fabric that appears on several of Daenarys’ costumes in S3 and S4.

Ms. Carragher says that the dragonscale fabric was created because “In season 3 the Costume Designer Michele Clapton wanted a Dragonscale like textured embroidery that starts to emerge on three of Daenery’s costumes, which becomes heavier and more pronounced, growing and evolving as the season progresses” (Carragher).

In stages 9-11 of the tutorial we see how the textile evolves from lightly to heavily embellished. This progression is meant to illustrate Daenarys’ personal growth and the growth of her dragons (source).

Here’s a link to Ms. Carragher’s website.

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WOW!

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Don’t care about Game of Thrones but that shit is cool

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So Oz Comic Con was pretty freaking awesome. Full update and new photos to come!

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So I may have decided to do something different for oz comic con in Brisbane this weekend.. If I end up wearing a wig you will know something went terribly wrong..