#anpiels

[hoshizoralone]

hey!! so i'm sorry if this is weird or anything but i'm obsessed with your concept of matthew finding an elly down the line and i was wondering if you'd be okay with others drawing fanart of that / coming up with a design based on what you established (with full credit of course)! totally fine if not i just figured it wouldn't hurt to ask :]

(also while i'm here i just want to say those doodles you did of nikol and glimmer's dynamic are very special to me i think about them a lot i just can't find them on tumblr 😔 HOWEVER they're wonderful and i wanted to let you know)

yesss i would love to see it :)!! in my head i think i pictured elly as having a core crystal but perhaps to make it more of a star crossed lovers situation she should be human/come from keves. though keves could be a reference to kislev xenogears which elly is working against…. So maybe it doesn’t fit. I do think she should at least not be a cat person just to switch it up with matthew being one. hmmmm i gotta draw this more now.

also the nikol/glimmer pics, i doodled untagged on twit but still had in my archives:

[evievigilant]

happy birthday!! i hope you've had a wonderful day :]

Aw, thank you so much!!

[cosplaytutorial]

Hello! I'm looking to cosplay Noah's black military uniform from Xenoblade 3, but I'm unsure how to go about patterning the outerwear. The sweater and pants won't be an issue, but something about the jacket ensemble is really throwing me off. Any advice for someone new to patterning would be appreciated. Thank you!

Hello there!

This seems to be based off an Inverness coat, like the kind Sherlock Holmes is traditionally depicted as wearing.

I assume the part you are having trouble with is the cape assembly, which is exactly what an Inverness cape pattern will get you. The front needs to be open, which is easy to modify from almost any coat pattern with a center front opening (even a double breasted coat would be easy enough to modify to that center front opening), and it is held together in front by the belts.

The cape assembly will be the same as your pattern, but you will likely need to shorten the length of it. It also appears that the coat in question has a double cape -- I would shorten the cape pattern even further and shape it into that shape, and sew it to the longer undercape at the neck. When you sew the collar on, the edge there should be hidden.

The rest is basically changing the shapes of hems and such and adding surface decorations.

I hope that helps! Good luck :]

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