Oct 2, 2022
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Merry Samhain / Hallowe'en to all, and Happy Natal New Year to my favourite character, Wei Wuxian of the Chinese drama The Untamed / Chen Qing Ling! Here are pics of my Wei Wuxian cosplay (his archery tournament outfit), which I wore to Dragon Con 2021, and others that cosplayed Untamed / Mo Dao Zu Shi characters there too! Please do not repost these images, only reblog!!
These first pics were taken by professional photographer Bryan Humphrey. Lan Wangji was played by @seekerofpatterns, and A-Yuan was played by NightstalkerM, of The (Mis)Adventures of a Plush Wolf.
The first photo here was taken by vela_lyrae (on Insta), the second and third by Seekerofpatterns, the fourth by our friend, and the last pic was taken by one of my con roommates. The first pic includes my friend @lokittysarmy as another Wei Wuxian; I don't know the Wei Wuxian cosplayer in the second pic, nor the Jiang Yanli in the third. Seekerofpatterns was Wen Ning in the fourth pic.
I learned how to make a playable PVC flute for my Chenqing (although just how playable it is is debatable, LOL). I sculpted the bamboo nodes put of Apoxy-Sculpt. I bought the tassle-charm.
For the wine gourd, I painted a Pom Wonderful bottle. I had to wing it when I made my hanfu boots. I bought a ring-belt, but I added the studs, and I made the belt-tip out of Apoxy-Sculpt. I made the waist-cinch, and 2 versions of the red under-skirt (for the red under-shirt, I just made a collar, not a full shirt). I bought the wig.
As for the outer-robes, I spent about ten hours tracing elements of the robe pattern from a screenshot in photoshop, until I had a working repeating pattern file (which I uploaded at Cafe Press to make the facemask). For the skirt panels, I traced the pattern in white pencil with a light-box, but the fabric for the shirt was thicker, so that didn't work. Instead, I had to cover the back of the pattern sheets with white conte, lay it on the robe fabric, and draw over it, pressing the conte onto the fabric. I then traced over that with the white pencil. Finally, I painted over the pencil. It took me probably a couple hundred hours (with 2 cousins helping me for about 1.5 of them). And the shirt isn't finished -- I only had enough time to bother painting what you could see. Even then, I was painting till right before we left for the hotel!
The vest was painted freehand, and took me 4 days. (There's at LEAST 3 different versions used in the show!)
For A-Yuan, I bought the wig, and styled it. I made the robes, belt, and jacket. (See pics here.)
So yeah, that was about a year and a half's worth of work, but the positive reaction at Dragon Con was worth it -- I'm so glad other people were enthusiastic about him too!
“It’s Okay... You’re The Doctor Now” - Digital Oil Paintings
Last month’s big project for me was something very special. The two people portraying the Tenth Doctor and the Thirteenth Doctor/Rose are Ryan Jones and Essay Hood. He always cosplayed Ten and she was always Rose... but Ryan, unfortunately, passed too soon. Shortly thereafter, Jodie Whittaker was announced as Thirteen and Essay looks SO much like her. It was like Ryan was reaching out and saying “It’s okay. YOU’RE the Doctor now.” So when I saw the comic cover (originally drawn by Giorgia Sposito and Arianna Florean), I wanted to paint it as Ryan and Essay because it was like they were reaching across the time streams to find each other. The second painting is based on a photo by Bryan Humphrey. They may be my favorite couple I’ve never met. ^_^
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This past weekend I was lucky/blessed/privileged to attend ReGeneration Who 4 in Baltimore, Maryland as a 40th birthday present from my family.
Peter Capaldi was a dear to everyone there during the two days he was in. The lines for his autographs and photo ops were huge and I never saw so many Twelfth Doctor cospayers in once place (and Chicago TARDIS has quite a few to their name). It was a wonderful experience and I will be forever grateful to everyone who helped make it possible.
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