#cosplay tutorial

[dayryze]

I don’t think it’s helping… but IRON LUNG IS OUT ON YOUTUBE SO YIPPEEEEE

[silhouette-cosplay]

How I’m making my silk feathers for my Vax cosplay! These are honestly super simple, but a really effective look especially with certain fabrics!

(I am actively embracing the raggedy effect and not finishing the edges of these because I love a distressed look)

[ctrl-shift-alt-9]

do you have a full costume reference breakdown for simon? looking for art reasons

I sure do! Sorry this took me a week!

Note: I do not have access to the official costume guide due to being a brokie. I spent many many hours scraping and eyeballing this.

Simon Full Costume / Outfit Breakdown + Reference Images

Hood

Fun idea! Simon's hood was originally white, most likely. I'm sure these guys either bought this piece pre-distressed or they did it themselves.

This is a good starting point, but it would need to be modified:

5D x Crisiswear Wasteland Hood - twill

Crisiswears Wasteland hood layers perfectly with anything; this is truly a hood for every occasion and outfit. Collar is not connected to th

Tunic & Pants

MAN AW21 / ONENESS

A sci-fi fashion brand crafting futuristic clothing, dystopian silhouettes and post-apocalyptic couture. Explore avant-garde designs, cyberp

These are art pieces and practically unobtainable. This is probably going to be a "make it yourself or close-approximation" scenario.

Detail note: Simon has a black re-fitting seam on his pants, meaning they got too small at one point. This was also part of the original pants design, but I personally like the idea he's had to repeatedly "grow" out of his clothes.

Knife Sheathe

That little rounded cut in the middle of the leather really threw me, but I found it! Took me an hour and a lot of yelling at Google Lens.

This is Simon's other knife holster (the one on his back that everyone has been struggling to find photos for, even me!) I was blessed with this knowledge by a friend who has access to the style guide.

Belt + Pouch

British WWII Era Officer Web Set: Holster, Ammo Pouch & Belt

Original Item: Very Few Available. These WW2 era sets are in virtually unissued condition and are comprised of “unblancoed” Khaki Web Revolv

Pouch. I was also gifted this knowledge from someone who bought the style guide.

The Harness™

Scrolling through kink gear to find this was a trip and a half. I've been blursed with some foul knowledge. Holy hell.

Yeah, by the way, this is actually, officially kink gear. This is not a bit. This is not a joke. It's kink gear.

Do with that what you will. I'm just the guy who told you where to find the harness. *my voice fades away into echoes*

Boots + Spikes + Gaiters

I've seen some people recommend these:

NEOS Voyager Glacier Trek SPK Overshoe with Heel

But I'm actually more inclined, personally, towards different, because his boots are olive green with a lighter sole. I can assume the color of the actual boot is lighter as it's supposed to be well-worn in the movie.

There's a really chunky high-arch, and it appears he's got some spikes on the boots. It's kind of cowboy-esc. There's a high-chance these are no-lace tanker-style military surplus boots. I'm sure these costume designers chose some weird unobtainable brain of hyper-niche shoe or some shit, so... yeah these are definitely shoes meant for armored vehicle operation. They don't have laces because they'd get caught in machinery (or at the very least, the laces are covered with a buckle).

These are kind of a rarity, so here's a random Ebay listing of military tanker boots in a similar color:

Corcoran Men 10" Coyote Tanker Military Boot CV2600 *Made In USA* Tan Size 6EE

Here's another close-contender option. I like the stripes on these.

I noticed there aren't any spikes on Simon's boots, so I went with a rubber / mildly studded version. It's got similar strap patterns. I bet you these were used so Markiplier didn't eat shit on-set. In a canon way, though, I wonder if these were his, or if the COI issued them for labor purposes. I wonder what they did with the spikes they pulled out.

These were NOT hard to find on Amazon. They're snake gaiters!

Headband + Gloves

I originally assumed that the headband was sweater material, but after something akin to critical thinking blessed me, I realized they used a hat (I caught onto this from the tunic reference image from Demobaza! Simon had a beanie at one point before he broke it down into a headband). So, grab yourself a beige beanie and snip that thing!

I think these are just some nondescript wool gloves, honestly. Here's a close contender:

Addendum Inference

People from Iron Lung hoard their belongings on their person. If you want to add depth/detail to your Simon cosplay, put trinkets/ties/similar things to the headband scrap cloth on him. It's okay if they're not from the movie! He's a hoarder.

Simon is a soldier. Almost everything he has is military-issued. He wears a lot of tactical items and once carried multiple weapons on him, not just the knife from his mom.

Dude's a freak on the down-low. There are no excuses.

If you end up buying shoes with laces on them, pull them out and use them for other things. The smallest details matter. That man would see a shoelace and see a million uses for it.

The headband is also his hair tie.

His clothes have been refitted at least once.

Thanks for the ask, and I hope this is a helpful resource for you!

[bukkitbrown]

Giant honey dipper prop tutorial!

[radcatcreations]

Many many (MANY) were asking so here is my elastic strap system that makes my jaw move

Huge shout out to @ terr.hedgehog on TikTok for getting me started with this

Hope this answers everyone’s questions and helps with your own cosplays!

Also please ignore all the unfinished areas, this is still very much a work in progress

#tadc #tadccaine #caine #cosplaytutorial #tadccosplay

[mizu-of-edo]

Mizu's katana/naginata part two - getting the shape right

After 3 months I'm back in my hometown again and I can continue working on katana/naginata.

Firstly I reinforced connecting points with one or two layers of worbla.

Now when "functional core" of staff is ready and good working, all that left is to make it looks like naginata instead of plastic pipe with screws.

I had to decide how long the handle comparing to blade should be

So here are some useful info I collected:

The handle of katana is usually 1/3 of its length

The length of blade itself is called nagasa, and how much shaku (about 30cm) it contains determines the type of blade

Katana has typically 2 shaku, which is 60 cm so whole sword would have 90 cm, and I tried to follow these measurements

(for curious ones wakizashi has 1-2 shaku and tanto has below one shaku)

Good to know, but where exactly blade ends? On habaki or tsuba? I couldn't find this info now to confirm it but I remember I find somewhere that nagasa (blade length) ends where habaki starts, not on tsuba which surprised me a bit (look at photo below if you're not familiar with these strange names)

After taking million of screenshots I sketched how handle of katana should look and what dimensions each element should have. I had to adjust it a little because my blade is narrower than it should be, so habaki is also smaller to make smooth transition between thin blade and thicker tsuka.

This screenshot was the most useful for this part:

To make tsuka I glued pieces of polistyren to pipe and when the glue was dry and secured I carved it with tapestry knife until I reached desired shape.

Also my impatient flow arsty ass had to start learning some tricks during the process

Next step was wrapping tsuka in worbla, to make it stronger and then add leather. Oryginal tsuka of katana are made with ray skin which has very characteristics texture, full of tiny "bumps" that makes these skin really grippy, perfect for sword handle. I could buy real ray skin but I don't have a heart to put that poor ray on plastic, it'd be act of desecration. Luckily I had some fake leather with kind of similar texture.

I glued it on worbla and sew to be more secured.

And when I was done with this part I realized I'm not quite satisfied with my tsuka shape. After adding layer of worbla and skin it's cross-section became too much angular instead of oval. I predicted it'll add some thickenes so I carved tsuka smaller that I wanted it to be but I didn't predicted adding layers could change the shape.

It really bothered me for a while (ahhh my perfectionism) but this time I decided to let it go. Some imperfections aren't worth changing and accepting them are also good lesson 🙃🙃🙃

Well now its time to make tsuba, and all decorated elements so: habaki, fuchi and kashira

Soooo were going back to screenshots again, I tried to capture Mizu's sword from every frame possible, I didn't recreate patterns 1:1 (I was carving worbla with soldering tool, and its tip isn't small enough to make all these fine lines, I had to simplify it a bit) but I tried to recreate its vibe and overall composition, see for yourself

I love how perfectly reverse the colors are at this point xddd

I reinforced the tsuba with worbla, it's the most standing out element to it could be damaged the most

I think it's a good moment to tell you about some interesting fact about Mizu's katana design, and her overall character design

Because as you can see the tsuka (handle) of her sword is just ray skin (samegawa) , traditionally it's also this cord thing wrapped around (tsuka -ito). We can also see the little dents on tsuba after hammering, which gives the effects of unfinished, not perfect and made improper, not following traditional rules.

(the oryginal concept art shows even better the vibe of this katana so I'm also showing it to you ^^)

For me, it fits Mizu so well omg.

But I also see it in her clothing, the way she wore her kimomo is also against traditional rules (it should be tucked in Hakama) which makes our Mizu fashion baddie of Edo I guess xdd

The last part was to get the shape of sticks, pretty simple just long rectangles of Eva foam ^^

And here we are, when we have functional base, now in proper shape, only thing that left is to get out katana some colour ^^ see you in part three

Btw, today I finished my summer semester, I'm extremely happy to be able again to work on my cosp again, I want to start painting katana tomorrow so I wanted to finish this post to do some repetition for myself xdd

[covidsafecosplay]

Free Pattern w/ Tutorial: Simple Belt Bag by Sew Very Crafty

This free tutorial, found here, teaches you how to make a simple belt bag!

The CovidSafeCosplay blog and its admin are unaffiliated with the patternmaker or website, and are simply sharing the resource. Blog admin has not personally tested this pattern. Please thoroughly read the pattern and tutorial for full instructions.

Do you have a favorite free pattern resource? Share in the comments or via a reblog! Bonus points for those that are free, include image descriptions, or contain detailed tutorials for newbies to follow.

[888xiicos]

How to Paint Rubber Shoe Soles

Are you a cosplayer? Are you painfully stubborn and tired of every video and tutorial out there about painting shoes telling you not to paint the rubber soles? Me too! So I did it anyway.

Here's a full break down of how I did it complete with suggested materials and pictures!

Apologies to those that use screen readers, Tumblr is NOT letting me add alt text on desktop, so I would greatly appreciate anyone who wants to add an image description in a reblog. I'll try to write one up and add it to the end of this post later, but you are free to beat me to it!