#finished project!

[hannibal-shits-people]

I finished it!

I thought the design would be too subtle but you can actually tell it's an elephant!

I might have made it a little smaller than I wanted it to be, but it's still good and it's soft and I only messed up a little bit. I just need to weave in the ends now. I don't hate that as much as you might think

[arcadian-wild-art]

IT'S DONE!!

Four months later.... it really shouldn't have taken this long, but I'm glad I got it done :P

This isn't the greatest picture, I'll try to get another one tomorrow maybe? I really wanted to post it right when I finished

commentary under cut !

sooo the watercolor is just normal cardstock with blue and purple! I did wet on wet and actually (accidentally) left it there for a bit after finishing, which is where that bottom bit came from- the water around it soaked back in, which gave it a really cool look. I did cut off the sides where that happened though.

The little guy I drew on an ipad and then cut out with my cricut machine ^-^ ain't trusting myself to do that with scissors

Same with the umbrella! And, oh yeah, these two are actually technically vinyl stickers. So it was really easy to stick them on a piece of normal printer paper and then cut that out for the white background thing :D

The clouds I just cut out of a different watercolored paper. That wasn't the original plan but I went "screw it" and had a lot of fun arranging them. Er, I mean, that was definitely the plan from the start and it's symbolic of how our problems are more complicated than they look...

Again, definitely should not have taken this long, but thanks for sticking with me! I definitely don't think I'm going to keep trying to go in order, but I'll try to keep the blog updated with what I'm working on. Have a nice day!

[yoshi-punch]

I finished my big José Carioca project to be placed with my Panchito one!

Here’s a link to the original screenshot, as well as my sketch!: https://yoshi-punch.tumblr.com/post/167285880110/heres-a-sketch-i-finished-many-hours-ago-this-is

If you’d like to see my Panchito Pistoles project, here’s the link!: https://yoshi-punch.tumblr.com/post/166359019620/inktober-day-10-even-though-its-the-unluckiest

I might do a Donald Duck one to make a three-part set! What do you all think? Got any suggested images?

Feel free to submit images for any ideas for the Donald project! Anything from the Three Caballeros, Saludos Amigos, or any other Donald Duck film is preferable! Thanks a billion!

Finally, have a magical day or night, wherever you may be! Thanks again!

[arcadian-wild-art]

The Storm!

Nice n simple but I like it :]

sorry it took *checks notes* over a month for me to post this i uhh. I was debating whether to redo it slightly bc I used a random stock photo for one part but decided to just go with it

envy green should be in progress soon!! the number of steps is scaring me even though it would literally take like. an hour to finish lol. fun fact I was diagnosed with adhd a few weeks ago

[notso-darling]

I finished this scarf for Gus’s teacher as an end of year gift. I originally made the popcorn stitch part too short so I had to add more to either end.

I used this around the post stitch (my first time using it) to add some length.

[mischief-tea]

[nabernater]

Not dead yet!

Lots has happened since the last post, and lots of posts have been have written and discarded as well. But lets have a little benchmarking post and get up to speed!

I never actually did get around to making a tunic for my Death Eater because I found a jacket I liked with lots of delightful texture and just used that! I ended up wearing my Death Eater to DragonCon 2018 and had a blast.

Hard to menace this adorable of a Harry Potter.

After that, I decided it was time to start playing with EVA foam. So I made some horns. I had so much fun making them, but working with EVA requires some extra safety equipment, especially when you get to painting. I currently live in an apartment that doesn’t have much in the way of outdoor space, so that got to be challenging, but I overcame.

Cutting out pattern pieces.

Starting to take shape. Gluing EVA together is where the magic and shaping happens.

Once glued together, you gotta sand those edges down, it’s quite the process. I still need some practice.

Ridges drawn on but pre-dremeling.

I used my Dremel to cut the ridges into the foam.

Safety first! Sanding foam gets tiny particles of plastic in the air and bigger chunks will fly in your eyes.

Spray booth? Spray booth.

Horns!

Horns!

They were great fun, but when I started to work on a bigger project, the limitations of my workshop (largely the lack of ventilation) became much more apparent and I had to shift away from working with foam.

Then it was time for Halloween. A group of friends and I decided that we should all be Death Eaters with a lone Harry Potter. I ended up making black cloaks for all of us and it was a glorious race to finish them and I ended up breaking my serger. Great fun.

After that, I took on a project for my sister. When she was pregnant with her first daughter, she made her a ruffled quilt. When she got pregnant the second time, she started one for the second child, but since she had a kid, was busy enough she wasn’t able to finish it. So I picked it up to finish it.

It begins. The top layer was a wee bit uneven.

It starts to come together.

Ruffle the first!

Laying out ruffles.

At this point, I think I started to hate ruffles.

Finishing the edge by hand.

Done!

A very different project from my usual, it was still fun. When I passed it off to my niece, she hugged it like a long lost friend. Absolutely adorable.

Next up: duct tape dress form!

I still have to make a stand for it…but I did use it to take a picture of my finished Link apron.

About this time I tried to put pincurls in my hair, failed utterly, and had the frizziest hair of all time. Naturally, I decided I needed to do a Ms Frizzle cosplay for DragonCon 2019.

Cutting out applique layers the hard way.

Apprehensively putting together the first applique.

IT WORKED!

Decided to try using my Cricut to cut out some of the appliques to great success (even though the backing was a little jacked up).

A lovely looking earth that went SO much faster thanks to my Cricut!

Laying out the appliques. I did miss that I wound up having Saturns on the same side of the front of the dress, but oh well!

I used pictures like this to make sure I remembered the layout of the appliques after I picked everything up to transfer them to the ironing board.

After ironing all appliques on, I reinforced with a round of sticking around the edges of everything.

Obligatory full body selfie.

I had so much fun making Ms. Frizzle and learned a ton! For the first time I actually made a mock up and did all the test fitting you’re supposed to do and so everything fit pretty darn well. I will say that the sleeves were a bit tighter on the final version than on the mock up, but that could be due to fabric or the fact that there were several stiff appliques on them. But thanks to doing the mock up, the final construction of the dress took WAY less time than it normally would and I was much more confident in it. It left me lots of time to play with appliques.

The actual applique making process let me learn a lot too. Cutting all the individual layers out by hand was a pain in the ass, so I tried using my Cricut and holy crap that was amazing. I was able to get much better lines and more consistent cutting in a fraction of the time (no, I don’t get a cut for saying that). I don’t even have a Cricut Maker.

All in all, Ms. Frizzle was a success. But I’m not done with her yet.

Up next, I plan to make her planet mobile that she wears on her head in the episode and maybe put some lights in the dress to make the stars light up. I have lots of other cosplay plans, but I’m going to start there and see where things take me.

If you’ve read through this post, I’d love to hear from you. What brought you here? Are you a beginner cosplayer too?

DragonCons and Beyond Not dead yet! Lots has happened since the last post, and lots of posts have been have written and discarded as well.

[lightwxrker]

Andrew Hansen’s Hair (one gif per episode) / The Chaser’s War On Everything / Season 3

Season 1 is here

Season 2 is here