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@daylightcosplay
A cosplayer who still has no idea what they're doing after 8 years
MOVED ACCOUNTS
DAYLIGHTCOSPLAY –> DAYLIGHT-COSPLAY
I’ve been reorganizing my cosplay accounts, and decided to move this one under a new account. A fresh start, really. This account will not be deleted, but the name changed. Once again;
MOVED ACCOUNTS
DAYLIGHTCOSPLAY –> DAYLIGHT-COSPLAY
A cosplayer who still has no idea what they're doing after 8 years
MOVED ACCOUNTS
DAYLIGHTCOSPLAY –> DAYLIGHT-COSPLAY
I’ve been reorganizing my cosplay accounts, and decided to move this one under a new account. A fresh start, really. This account will not be deleted, but the name changed. Once again;
MOVED ACCOUNTS
DAYLIGHTCOSPLAY –> DAYLIGHT-COSPLAY
A cosplayer who still has no idea what they're doing after 8 years
MOVED ACCOUNTS
DAYLIGHTCOSPLAY –> DAYLIGHT-COSPLAY
I’ve been reorganizing my cosplay accounts, and decided to move this one under a new account. A fresh start, really. This account will not be deleted, but the name changed. Once again;
MOVED ACCOUNTS
DAYLIGHTCOSPLAY –> DAYLIGHT-COSPLAY
A cosplayer who still has no idea what they're doing after 8 years
MOVED ACCOUNTS
DAYLIGHTCOSPLAY --> DAYLIGHT-COSPLAY
I’ve been reorganizing my cosplay accounts, and decided to move this one under a new account. A fresh start, really. This account will not be deleted, but the name changed. Once again;
MOVED ACCOUNTS
DAYLIGHTCOSPLAY --> DAYLIGHT-COSPLAY
Cosplay Chainmail Tutorial What you need: 🗡 Rug mat 🗡 Acrylic paint 🗡 Paper/scissors for pattern To begin your chainmail, prepare your desired pattern. Cut your pattern out of the rug mat as if you were using regular fabric and sew it together accordingly. Surprisingly, it doesn’t stick too badly to your sewing machine! Paint both sides of the garment with your desired base color (I used metallic silver) to ensure that no white spots remain visible. If you so desire, you can weather the places that would take the most wear and tear with a darker shade than your base. Adding light brown spots to the weathered areas also creates a rusted appearance. Allowing your mail to dry completely before charging into battle is a must ⚔🛡 I hope this helps any cosplayers like myself who love the effect of, but are not quite ready to take on real mail rings!
REALLY QUICK WIG REVIEW
I recently ordered Arda’s new wig Grace in Mirkwood Green. I’m super thankful they made the color in a bangless style, as I was thinking about settling on a lace front in a lighter color from another company. Waiting was soooo worth it.
I really REALLY adore this new style! I’m always keen on bangless wigs (it’s surprisingly difficult to find a good one) and this one is a perfect replacement to a lace front wig in a similar style. I definitely see myself buying another quite soon...
(review on contacts coming up pretty soon! And maybe a walk though of how I do my Shodan makeup?)
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Mumen Rider from One Punch man by @daylight-equinox
Cinnamon Roll having good day
Mumen Rider from One Punch Man” by @daylight-equinox
Sakura Con Cosplans!
Friday: Mettaton EX and Mumen Rider
Saturday: Mumen Rider and Kung Fury
Sunday: Whatever I feel like
Confession: I'm 20 years old and I'm afraid that I'm getting to old to cosplay.
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Cata: I’m turning 29 and Queadlunn will be 32. We started cosplaying three years ago. You’re not too old.
All 25-31 here. Kat and I will be 26 next week. Most of us started in our early teens.
I think that in my early 20s I definitely felt like I was getting too old for cosplay, but there were a number of reasons for that I can pinpoint now.
1. If you’re mostly into anime and JRPG, Japanese media has notoriously young casts, so when all the popular characters of the year are barely pushing 16, you start to feel ancient. Getting over that is a) cultivating a level of IDGAF by cosplaying whoever you want regardless of age and b) getting comfortable with more age-appropriate characters.
2. Early 20s is probably also when you’re starting to get bogged down by Adult Responsibilities to the degree where your hobbies take a serious backseat. Most people will have post-secondary, a job, etc. Sometimes when you don’t have time for cosplay, you end up feeling like you just can’t do it anymore at all. Getting over that is about setting goals that are realistic to your schedule. If you want to keep making a lot of costumes per year, you’re probably going to have to take on easier projects or watch your quality nosedive – you’ll have to figure out a new balance to account for your current life, and rejig it whenever necessary.
3. While not everyone is this fortunate, many young cosplayers have very little expenses (thanks, parents!) and part-time jobs that give them lots of discretionary spending money. You’re also lower skill, so you don’t spend as much time making high-quality costumes, so it’s easy to make 3-4 new costumes for every convention. I bet a lot of us have costuming histories that look like this:
high school: way too many crap costumes for various material costs
university: far fewer but better quality costumes for reasonable material costs
working: few costumes with more expensive material costs
Going from high school to university can be a shocker, too. When you go from making 9-12 costumes a year to making 2-3, you can sometimes feel like you might as well quit…. especially when the finance issues most people encounter in university make it feel like you have to choose cosplay over eating or whatever. Cut back and make do until you’re out of the early formative years of your adulthood – cosplay can wait, and it’ll still welcome you as an adult.
4. Take a break. You might just feel old because you’re getting burned out – churning out content constantly for years can exhaust you, and if you feel “i’m too old” rather than “i don’t want to anymore”, odds are the issue is you feel you can’t keep up with the community, rather than there being actual any problem with you. Take a break! I take 3-4 months off cosplay every fall when I used to work year-round. It keeps me sane now.
- Jenn
The History and (Mis)Appropriation of Cosplay
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Get Off My Lawn, You Durn Whippersnappers!
Sorry, folks, but I’m going to soapbox for a bit here.
(But first, let me say that the previous responses to the original post are excellent. My own experience is somewhat different – more on that later – but everything Jenn said above is good advice!)
Now, back to the OP. I see this topic come up far, FAR too often in the cosplay community. From an admin on a cosplay forum who shut down a thread for older cosplayers, saying, “I’m 19, so I understand what it’s like to be older than all the other cosplayers out there,” to being told to my face, “People over 30 who cosplay are just creepy,” there seems to be a lot of teenage prejudice against adults participating in what they perceive as their hobby.
But here’s the thing – cosplay has never been the exclusive domain of the young. From its inception, fan costuming was an adult phenomenon, and it’s only in the last couple of decades (and primarily in anime fandom) that the median age has dropped toward the teen range.
First off, a little history. Cosplay is not a recent phenomenon. Though people have enjoyed dressing up as fictional characters for hundreds of years, “modern” fan costuming dates back to the turn of the last century. Here’s a science-fiction contest winner from 1910:
This was three decades before Forrest J. Ackerman’s “futuristicostume,” often cited as the first hall costume worn at a convention. Ackerman and his friend Myrtle Douglas dressed up for the World Science Fiction Convention in 1939:
Even the word “cosplay” itself, coined by Japanese guest Takahashi Nobuyuki to describe the fan costuming he saw at WorldCon, dates back to 1984. (That’s 32 years ago, if you’re playing along at home.)
We have this massive heritage of fan events and fan costuming, with roots stretching back over a century, and its development has been surprisingly well documented via fanzines, personal photos, and news articles. If you look at any retrospective of fan conventions through the 20th century, you’ll see that the majority of attendees (including those in costume) were adults. Sure, some parents brought their kids along – some even dressed in matching costumes (1965, source, nudity warning) – but these events were clearly intended primarily as grown-up entertainment, punctuated with cocktail parties and awards ceremonies.
The age range widened toward the upper end as years passed and returning attendees aged. By mid-century, there seem to have been as many convention attendees in their forties and fifties as there were in their twenties. (A few gallery links below, if you want to see for yourself.)
1957 WorldCon
1961 LXICON
1965 WorldCon Masquerade
1970 SciCon
These individuals didn’t stop wearing costumes because they had reached some arbitrary age where society dictates that you have to stop dressing up – in fact, some of them continued attending those cons in costume for decades. More than once I’ve met an older fan at a con, commented on his or her costume, and then had that person pull out a pocket album of photos and proudly show me the costumes they wore in the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s.
I lay all this out only to show that there is plenty of precedent for people of all ages participating in fandom at every level, including dressing up in costume.
I was around 20 when I discovered fan conventions (Star Wars Celebration, yo), and at that time most of the people I saw at those events seemed to be older than I was. It wasn’t until I started attending more anime conventions in the mid-’00s that I began seeing events with more teenagers than adults. I chalked this up to a difference in demographic – anime cons seemed to attract more attendees in the high school and college bracket, those who (at that time) had grown up watching the anime-influenced cartoons of the 1980s, while science-fiction events drew a slightly older audience, those who had been fans of Star Trek and Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica in their original runs. Each type of convention had a different median age, but it wasn’t that either group was too old or too young to be going to cons; each age group just had slightly different fandom inclinations, based on their experiences.
So the assertion that it’s not appropriate for someone to cosplay past age ___ , some number based on the average age of cosplayers in their particular fandom, is just as ridiculous as someone stating that it’s inappropriate for a person to cosplay if they’re not at least ___ years old, because that’s the age group of their particular fandom. It’s a contrived and artificial limitation.
Full disclosure: Unlike most of the people who suggest that cosplay has an upper age limit, I never cosplayed as a teenager. I was 21 when I cobbled together my first costume for a convention. It wasn’t until several years later that I actually learned to sew and began making my own costumes for competition (I’ve shared that story previously). But though my own experience may be different than someone who started cosplaying when they were still in grade school, it doesn’t change the fact that there is nothing wrong with cosplaying as an adult. There is simply no such thing as too old (or too young, or too anything) to cosplay.
I am 34 at the time of this writing, and I am the YOUNGEST member of my cosplay group. Some of the most popular “celebrity cosplayers” are also in their thirties (Yaya Han, Ginny McQueen, Victoria “ScruffyRebel” Schmidt, et al.). I know several amazing cosplayers who started cosplaying later in life than I did, and many, many older ones who are still active in the community. Some of them are now in their fifties and sixties, but they’re still dressing up and running events at cons and even participating in masquerades, because they enjoy doing it.
And here’s a kernel from my own experience: The older I get, the more opportunities I have to make and enjoy great costumes. Frankly, I never could have afforded the time or materials to make really elaborate or complex costumes when I was a full-time student, but as An Adult™ I have more control over my schedule, and my finances are more flexible. How sad it would be if I’d stopped cosplaying at 24, with only a few mediocre costumes under my belt, because someone suggested I was “getting too old to cosplay,” rather than going on to make some of my best projects! (Not to mention all the seminars and workshops I wouldn’t be teaching now…)
So, no, OP, you’re not too old to cosplay. You may be tired of cosplaying, or you may be too busy to make something, or you may have other priorities – finding a job or buying a house or starting a family or going to grad school or pursuing a different hobby. And if you want to do something like that instead of cosplaying, that is just fine, so long as it’s your own decision.
But don’t let anyone pressure you to quit doing something you love simply because of your age. As long as you want to cosplay, go right ahead and do it. Keep doing the things you want to do until you decide, for yourself, that you are ready to stop and do something else.
Every cosplayer should read this.
There’s an older gentleman I see at cons, dressed up as the elder Dr. Jones from the Indiana Jones movies. He’s the perfect age for it, the costume is perfect, and I’m always thrilled to see him.
I’ve seen lots of gifsets of people in their sixties and older who still cosplay… and, again, I love to see it. At no age should you not have something you love to do, and be told you’re too old for it.
Reblogging this again for the added commentary. It’s well-worth the read!
My first run with my Mettaton EX Cosplay at Chibi Chibi Con 2016! There’s a couple things I’d like to improve on before I wear it again, but overall it held up nicely for 9+ hours.
Photos taken by my friend Cindy W. <3
I finally got my hands on Worbla! I decided to try our their Black Art style seeing as I need smoother surfaces for all the armor I’m making.
More Worbla WIP pics soon!
Alllllmost done with my Mettaton EX wig!
I’ve successfully given it volume, and now its time for layers/trim and hair spray!
I’m pretty busy as of late, so here’s my Mettaton makeup test from last month!
I’m planning on wearing him to Chibi Chibi Con. Hopefully I’ll post more WIP as the convention nears! Wish me luck!
As a follow up to our Making Worbla Smooth Experiment, here is the detailed write-up regarding the methods used in that experiment.
Making Worbla Smooth
There are many methods for making Worbla smooth so I decided to do a test run myself based on the primary methods others have used. The three main ways of covering Worbla have been using Gesso, Plasti-Dip, or Wood Glue. This experiment only covers Gesso with Mod Podge acrylic sealer or Gesso with Plasti-dip. I didn’t have Wood Glue available during the time of conducting the test so there will be another part to this series that will include a comparison using Wood Glue.
Method
I used 8 layers of Golden Sandable Hard Gesso and 150 Grit Sandpaper. I prefer this Gesso over any clear Gesso as you can actually see the streaks so that when you sand it, you can see the Worbla getting smoother (pictures 3 & 4). In addition, the sandable Gesso has additives that makes it thicker so that you don’t have to do as many layers or as much sanding to make it look good. Yay for that!
You’ll notice I didn’t do a good enough job of sanding so you can still see some streaks in the forth image. If I were to do this again, I would do 6 layers, sand with 150 grit, and then add another 4 layers, then sand again with 150 grit to get a smoother finish (instead of just 8 layers straight). I tried sanding only 4 layers in and unfortunately, I exposed the Worbla, so 6 layers of Gesso is the very minimum in guarding against Worbla exposure. Also, it’s very important that each layer of Gesso dries completely before you put on the next. Otherwise, if you start sanding, the Gesso will chip and take, along with it, all the layers underneath. In picture 4, you will notice this happened on the edges of the Gesso which is why the Worbla is exposed there.
Results
Picture one (left) shows the top piece which is Worbla painted without any additional work. The bottom piece is 8 layers of Gesso, sandpaper, one layer of Mod Podge acrylic sealant, and then one layer of Gold Metallic Paint.
Picture two (right) shows the top piece which is Worbla painted without any additional work. The bottom piece shows Worbla with 8 layers of Gesso, sandpaper, 2 layers of Plasti-Dip, and one layer of Gold Metallic Paint (Rustoleum brand).
Conclusion: I was surprised that the piece with the Mod Podge sealant looks smoother than the one with the Plasti-dip! I think the Plasti-dip made the items look more foam-like than I anticipated. It seems as though the Plasti-dip reacts oddly to Worbla.
Stay tuned when I try this experiment with Wood Glue.
Greg from Over the Garden Wall overalls tutorial!
Hey guys! Some people have expressed interest in the overalls I made for my Greg cosplay so I decided to make a tutorial, which will include some hopefully helpful links as well! This is my first tutorial so it’s probably trash but here we go.
Here are the overalls in question
They are pretty darn cute so you could make a pair for everyday wear or lolita if you wanted to!
Under the cut you’ll find all the info you need to make a pair!
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I couldn’t find a really good, step-by-step tutorial on how to tint/color plastic lenses for cosplay. This is largely for my Steam Powered Giraffe fanmily, because I know that anyone doing a fanbot with goggles may want to make them fancy with some colored tints! Please reblog if you found this tutorial helpful! :3 This particular set of goggles is for my fiance (Harakumo on dA)’s human SPG fan character.
DISCLAIMER:
Read and abide by all package instructions and be very careful if you are using an X-acto or other type of blade, as they are very sharp!
THIS TUTORIAL IS NOT FOR CONTACT LENSES! Nothing used in and/or resulting from this tutorial should actually touch your eyes!!! D:
These are for costume/decoration only! You shouldn’t drive or perform any kind of serious tasks where you rely on your vision for the safety and/or well-being of others and/or property while you wear goggles that you tint using this tutorial. I (kuroikii/plutopiter) take no responsibility for any injury, death, or property damage resulting from vision-impairment caused by this tinting/coloring tutorial!!!!
(I just received word from a friend of mine that “Tamiya” transparent paints work even better for this type of application, and they work in a few minutes. I believe you have to order them online… and I think you need to air-brush it on. If I try it, I will update the tutorial :D)
