Leigh Quincy Creates

Inspiration found and Inspiration shared.

[solarexalt]

I keep having to explain to friends what I mean when I say,

“I am super low on spell slots.”

So, I made a graphic to explain it better.

Feel free to reblog but please keep credit [@SolarExalt] if you use it. :) 

[theleighquincy]

Lying Cat Plush

So as a much belated Christmas present, I decided to pull from a mutual comic book favorite and make a plushie Lying Cat from the Saga Series.

The view from the front! I wasn’t sure how to do the classic “lying” speech bubble so I have it hanging from his mouth on a sign. 

The side view! 

The view from the back!

Merry Christmas! :-D 

[teefury-deactivated20170828]

- Screen Printing 101 -

Learn more about how some of your #TeeFury tees are printed!

Read more > http://goo.gl/9BZzOb

[theleighquincy]

TeeFury missed a few steps between the product approval and the customers being happy in their shirts. I took the liberty of helping fill in the gap.

Step 9. Sell products to customers without any advance notice of the production delays you are experiencing.

Step 10. Delay shipping the product for several weeks beyond the 3-7 days promised on your website, receipt, and order confirmation page. Do not update any of these to notify the customer you are experiencing shipping issues.

Step 11. Do not respond to the bulk of the customers’ emails asking about the status of their orders. 

Step 12. Ship products to customer in such a sorry condition that 4/5 shirts already look years old (and no, they’re not “vintage”) or are pixelated to the point the design is barely legible. Variation: Ship the wrong product, wrong color product, or wrong sizing. 

Step 13. Again, do not respond to the bulk of customers’ emails requesting refunds or exchanges because you shipped the wrong product, size, or sub-par quality product.

Step 14: Selectively respond to all complaints on social media, offering platitudes and empty “in the coming months” promises to fix the issues. Be attentive towards some customers and blatantly ignore others. Do respond to all those who are offering a compliment though.

Step 15: Continue ignoring the bulk of customer emails. 

Step 16: See that random customer gets their orders corrected while the rest have to file PayPal disputes and BBB complaints just to get a refund. Repeat until out of business.

[fursuit-tutorials]

Hi! Quick question, any tips for making a fursuit on a kind of Low budget? I know they take a while to make, and I want to spend my free time making one for next comic con.

Yep I have a little tip…DON’T Fursuits are expensive for a reason no matter if you make them yourself or buy one

[theleighquincy]

I mean no offense here but this isn't necessarily true. If you live in the states, there are a lot of options for getting good fabric at a good price. My husband did a Rocket Raccoon and a Beowolf/Grim from RWBY fursuit and he utilized every sale going on at our local fabric store when they brought in fur fabric for Halloween. He was getting good fur fabric for under $10 a yard and the carefully patterning every piece to make the fabric go as far as possible. He ended up making two great fursuits for under $150.00. A lot of the cost with fursuits is your time or (if you live outside of the USA) the materials. But it's not impossible to do it on a budget. Stack your coupons, watch the sales, and know that a lot of fabric stores won't stock up until Halloween season. Plan carefully and look for places you can get scrap upholstery foam for shaping. Most importantly, don't give up.

[theleighquincy]

Hi I was wondering if you were still selling the bases for roses shield?

Hi Dreamingonwings!I have actually temporarily stopped commissions until January/February and when I reopen, I will no longer be offering the blank bases. I will, however, be producing a tutorial very soon with more information and options for DIY bases. :-D 

[theleighquincy]

Hello! I emailed you about commissioning a shield but I never got a response...

Hello Anonymous, I’m sorry for the late response - my Tumblr messaging has kind of been on the fritz. I have temporarily discontinued commissions until late January/Early February as I’ll be producing another tutorial with more DIY information so that I can stop doing the 1/2 completed or blank shields and start selling only the complete shields. Please stay tuned! :-) 

[theleighquincy]

do you have any photo's of your shield in action?

How do you mean, “in action”? 

[theleighquincy]

African American Wonder Woman Pop Vinyl (Custom)

So I’ve got this friend who wants more diveristy in comics but is such a fan anyway, she adores Wonder Woman and collects any and all artwork she can find with minority representations.  With Christmas on its way and Post-Thanksgiving Sales netting some savings on Pop Vinyls, I thought... it’s time. It’s time for an African American Wonder Woman Pop Vinyl!

This Pop Vinyl is made from a Storm Pop Vinyl figure. It’s based off a combination of armored/clothed Wonder Woman varients my friend likes. The whip is terraflex-wrapped floral wire. The armor and diadem are also terraflex scraps, and all the paint is Americana brand acrylic paint. 

[pangolinfox]

The process of turning a Godzilla Pop Vinyl figure into a Beowulf ^__^

Had some spare TerraFlex from cosplay, so that’s what his spines and skull are made from. His ears are craft foam :p

[mkkitten-blog]

like how do people find their person?

like what do you do?

[theleighquincy]

I always feel so bad saying this because it sounds like one of those platitudes parents tell their kids when they don’t have the answer, but honestly... be yourself. That’s the most important thing you can do. Be uncompromisingly, confidently, brazenly you.  People grow and change but are their heart, there is something in them that makes them “them”. When I met my person, I had a lot of ideas about who I’d be by now in my life - I had a lot of things I’d given up on doing as part of those ideas. 6 years later, here I am cosplaying when I thought I never would, having friends I would’ve thought were too cool for me, perhaps reading and writing less than I would’ve liked several years ago, and still not my “goal weight” or appearance BUT I’m happy. And I’m me. I’m just 27-year-old me instead of 21-year-old me. I’m still me. And my person is still my person, even though he’s given up some things he thought he wanted to pursue 6 years ago too. 

Be yourself and love yourself. Grow and change your mind and question and FIGHT. Do you, snapdragon! People love you already in so many different ways - friend, accomplice, sister, heroine, daughter, space-mom - you just need the right time and space for your person. He’s out there and you’re already what he’s looking for - be unabashedly you and make it impossible for him to stop himself from talking to you. The only way we can find our person is to be our own person - that way they can recognize us when they see us. <3

[theleighquincy]

What was the step after you glue the two pieces of insulation foam together and can u reply back before tomorrow it's Halloween

For which costume?

[pangolinfox]

Watching this again today it struck me how important this scene is. It’s played up for comedy a lot that Po is motivated by food, but the value of the scene is the recognition of accomplishment (or at least potential to learn) by non-traditional means.

Shifu confesses a minute or so later that he can’t teach Po in the same way as the others, but says that it could be his fault, not Po’s. His willingness to accommodate the panda’s potential in a new way meant that Po was able to achieve things he had been told consistently by everyone around him he would never be worthy of.

I’ve seen a lot of people who are isolated by stoic and outdated education systems where they should have every ability to succeed in their passions. They’re told that failure to adhere to artificial structures is a failing or disability, instead of each being asked how they find it easiest to learn or what they find most interesting. There are assumptions on all sides that everyone else is filling in the gaps when nobody is.

The most famous quote about aptitude is possibly by Albert Einstein: “Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend the rest of its life believing it is stupid”. He had others too: “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education”, and “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education”. These are awesome piece of encouragement, and illustrates beautifully how easy it is to judge others on arbitrary and incongruous attributes.

So don’t be discouraged. One failure does not eliminate any of your work, nor any of your successes to this point. If you’re still trying, you’re still improving.

[theleighquincy]

I am Kintsugi Cosplay and I approve this message. 

[theleighquincy]

Genderbent Lewis from Mystery Skulls “Ghost” music video. I’ll post other pictures as I have them - you can’t see it here but I have bright pink tights and a black skirt. :-D 

[theleighquincy]

Thanks for answering my question and I swear your the only person who shows how to make roses sword which helps a lot thanks again

I’m happy to help! :-D I’ll probably post a basic tutorial next weekend or so - but really all I did was cut the shape out of insulation foam twice (leaving space around the “final” sword for sanding and shaping), cut the hilt and handle off into a separate piece, glued a dowel between the two “blades” to keep it sturdy, glued the half of the coconut bra onto the blades, glued the handle onto the coconut bra, and the rest was sanding and carving until it was time to paint. The “flower” at the bottom of the blade is craft foam cut and glued into place.Tip! Green insulation foam can be hand-painted with acrylic paints without any primer but it cannot be spray-painted without a protective sealant. The aerosol of the spraypaint will eat the foam. The cheapest sealant is Mod Podge or Elmer’s glue - just paint a coat or two on  the entire sword and then you can spraypaint without damaging the foam. I found spray-paint really didn’t speed anything up - I ended up using a heck of a lot of acrylic paint by hand but PlastiDip spray-paint is a GREAT base for said painting - it smooths everything out in a way that acrylic paint won’t without multiple coats.Also, dependent on the coconut bra you can find for the guard of the hilt, be aware it may be “textured” to look more like a coconut - I ended up sanding the texture off of mine and then using wood putty (the kind used on hole repairs?) to smooth over the guard, blend it into the handle, and fill in any gaps. It can take a while to dry but it doesn’t have nasty fumes like Bondo, is cheaper, and usually non-toxic. :-D 

[theleighquincy]

Hi I was wondering what did you use for the hilt of the sword and also how long is the blade

Hello! I used green insulation foam (the kind sold in 4 ft X 8 ft sheets in hardware stores) and one cup of a coconut bra for the hilt. The bra is the “guard” of the hilt and the green insulation foam was glue together, carved, and sanded into the shape of the handle and pommel. I hope this helps! :-D 

[theleighquincy]

Oop! And the blade is 25 inches long. :-)

[theleighquincy]

Hi I was wondering what did you use for the hilt of the sword and also how long is the blade

Hello! I used green insulation foam (the kind sold in 4 ft X 8 ft sheets in hardware stores) and one cup of a coconut bra for the hilt. The bra is the “guard” of the hilt and the green insulation foam was glue together, carved, and sanded into the shape of the handle and pommel. I hope this helps! :-D 

[theleighquincy]

Hey! This may be a silly question so please excuse my lack of knowledge since I'm not much of a sewing expert, but did you use a machine to sew the zipper in for the SU Cheeseburger backpack?

Hello! I apologize for the delay in response and I hope I’m not too late to help! Firstly, it’s definitely not a silly question. Secondly, I hand-stitched the zipper into the cheeseburger backpack. It worked for me simply because of the way I was having to manipulate the zipper, but I’m sure more experienced sewers could’ve probably done it in half the time with a machine. For me though, hand-stitching gave me a lot more opportunities to correct myself, adjust the fabric or zipper, and make sure whatever I stitched was staying in place. I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any more questions. :-D Good luck with your cheeseburger backpack!