Before I post my cosplay plans and wishes for 2016, I thought it’d be nice to look back at my costumes of 2015.
Clicking the links will take you to the respective tag on my tumblr, where you can see more pictures and info on each costume. If there’s no link attached to a costume it means I simply haven’t shared any pictures of it on tumblr, yet.
Hope Jensen ||| Hilda Fabool ||| Cersei Lannister
Nausicaä ||| Wendy Corduroy ||| Emmy Altava ||| Ruby
Elizabeth ||| Cotton Candy Maid ||| Aurora ||| Tiki
Seven new costumes! It may seem like quite a lot (for my standards), but Ruby was a gift from Elynn (only had to make some small adjustments, the costume was pretty much flawless!) and Wendy was 90% closet cosplay.
The above list doesn’t count in the four costumes I sewed for (and with) my sister, though and I also redid some parts of my Aurora costume.
Overall, 2015 was a good year, not least because of the whole bunch of awesome cosplayers I met at Gamescom, where I got invited to by Ubisoft Germany. (Still feeling both honoured and humbled by that, but it was awesome and I will forever be thankful!). Quality-wise, however, I really need to step up my game - especially Hilda is in dire need of some improvements. I also will not count on other people keeping their promises about group projects again. Lesson learnt.
I also realised that -as you might have noticed- I struggle a lot keeping this blog updated. I really want to write detailed WIPs (for my bigger projects, at least), but I hardly even manage to post normal photo sets of finished costumes, let alone write down tutorials and/or rundowns. Nevertheless, I will always try to answer any (politely phrased) questions about my costumes, so if you want to know something (be it a wig shop recommendation or construction advice), just send me a message. I usually answer questions privately, unless I think the answer might be of general interest.
As usual, a special shout-out also goes to the lovely photogs who took the beautiful pictures above and who should be totally followed by everyone who likes to look at stunning cosplay photography:
Links will take you to their respective FB or tumblr pages
Andy K |||| Franky |||| Amapolchen |||| Michael Hellwig |||| @ladydeadpooly
My (temptative) plans for 2015 will be posted tomorrow!
PS: For reference: My original wishlist for 2015 was this. I think 4 out of 6 planned costumes isn’t that bad...