#costume work

[papabirdurskeks]

Happy Spooks everyone!

I scared so many people today and confused many gender wise hehehe

[dduane]

Trying on clothes

...Not me. Him. :)

This is a "medieval outfit" set from a digital art maker whose work I hadn't previously come across. Got it on sale and am now putting it through its paces.

(All of these dForce-supporting digital outfits claim to be able to move well and drape properly when your character changes position. Some of them actually do. Some of them, though, are hilariously badly rigged to the point where you wonder how the maker managed to produce the sample shots. The only way you can work out what you've got is to run a character through a sequence of increasingly difficult poses and see how many of the costumes continue to work correctly.)

Anyway, I'm not doing that today: just casually testing some of the materials that come with this new set. The one above is the "default" set. It doesn't look too bad—the main problem with it being that it's currently canonically difficult to get the new king of Arlen into colors so light. (While outlawed and on the run, Freelorn was for years unable to wear his normal black-and-white livery, lest he be recognized and promptly killed for the dead-or-alive price on his head.)

This colorway would be a bit more along his preferred lines.

...A bit. Not sure about the gold striping and cowled shoulder. (I don't know yet whether I can vanish the stripe. An experiment for later.)

ETA: Yeah, that materials region can be vanished, all right. Not sure the results are quite what I had in mind, though. :/

...Now I'm going to have to see if there's a way for me to fix that problem and keep the background texture without it looking like a kludge. (Quick answer: Probably not.)

(sigh)

...Anyway. This texture would be another story. If that blue were silver or grey, he'd be all over this one.

...It's also difficult to see in the above shot, but the designer has done some nice detail work on the patterned parts of the textures. (click here to see the shoulder/collar area)

Meanwhile, some of these are just too "Dost Thy Mother Know Thou Wearest Her Drapes?" for Lorn to ever even allow them near his closet. (And honestly, other fabric textures like this one are making me wonder what the designer was thinking of. Oh well.)

...Anyway, no more of that. This is a bit more like it.

...And there'll be time enough later for more experimentation. (While puzzling over the question of why the hell the maker hasn't provided any boots with this. The ones in the images above come from some other outfit....)

Though as usual the real question is: How will this look with a swordbelt?... :)

[zenophrenic]

What should I name this clown fella? 🤡👁👁👁

[starryflix]

So I have my own birthday party coming up soon and the theme is 'my hyperfixations'

and I don't do shit half assed so I started to sew a Spock shirt from TOS with all of the things I could find-

in part because I have no time for the shipping of costumes and the majority of what I could find online didn't look right.

here's the final yield and the materials... I am working on a low budget and only have a week and a half to finish this and seeing as I do not have access to a sewing machine everything will be hand sewn...

I also – instead of using an actual undershirt with a slightly higher collar – am sewing on the look of the undershirt.. both for sensory issues as well as lack of ability to find a good, fitting shirt.

I've currently got to the point where I am first sewing the collar together to then sew it to the shirt later... and I finished one seem but I guess I will be updating this post as this project goes along.

I want to emphasise that I am sewing everything by hand and am embroidering the Enterprise logo with the science department emblem on the shirt myself as well and have to hand sew on the ribbon I sourced as a "best I could find" for the ranking insignia on the sleeves~

[beehindblueeyes]

Thinking about how the hair lady was making a great point on how hair works with the character and tells you a lot about them. Same as costume design in how it reveals little details.

Then the doc proceeds to show her just moving everyone’s bangs every five minutes and I think that’s hilarious.

Also the fact they freshly applied the blood onto banks before certain shots. It’s dark because of blood more than it is rainwater and I’m :(

Also Miguel’s little ponytail

[almachroma]

Look, I'm actually making progress for once

[silverlyrawolf]

So there are 2 versions of my costume. The simple and full. I think I’ll be merging a few aspects of both in the future. But yeah. Lots of green. Hehe. Thank you for the help!

[cat-cosplay]

It's been years since I made a scabbard. But I fell into it just like riding a bike. 2 layers of leather, hard under soft for look.