Tutorialtastic Cosplay Kingdom

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who would win (giffany probably)

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The Art of Warcraft Film: Draka - by Wei Wang

More selected art for Warcraft film on my tumblr [here]

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Hela Thor Ragnarok Cosplay Headdress Tutorial: Helmet

Tutorial by:  Aerith Mon-Kishu Tutorial Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHNyhrtC660

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Absolutely nothing like the first coat of Filler Primer. Lots of sanding and prep work later, but I’m loving how this model from GSProps (and printed by Paul Karyakos) is shaping up!

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Workspace Wednesdays:  Fabric Catalog

If you are like most crafters, the longer you have a sewing-related hobby the larger your stash of fabric will get.  (If you sew and you don’t have a fabric stash, I am officially afraid of you and your merciless resolve.)  I’ve been cosplaying for about eight years and sewing for longer than that, so the amount of fabric I want to hold onto because I might use it someday is… really extreme.

What I ended up having to do to get my fabric stash under control was catalog it, put it into bins, and get it out of my actual craft room.  I need to pull something from my stash maybe a couple times a month at most.  It doesn’t make a lot of sense to keep that stuff in my primary working area when it gets used that infrequently, so I keep it my basement. You might not have a basement you can store stuff in, but everyone’s got corners of closets or other less readily accessible areas where stuff for long-term storage is asking to go.  A catalog of what you have allows you to utilize those spaces more effectively. 

This is the binder I made up, which 1) allows me to check what’s in the basement without having to actually go to the basement, and 2) is way easier to flip through than a pile of fabric that I have to re-fold because I messed it up while pawing through it.  

If you’d like to use my templates, they’re over here!  My goal in making them was to not overwhelm myself with information because I had a ton of fabrics to catalog and I didn’t want it to take forever.  The sheets are made to record a few pieces of information:

A fabric swatch. I made two template sheets, one with the swatch space on the left and one with the swatch space on the right, so the stacked pages wouldn’t be super uneven.

A brief description and enough room to note anything special about the fabric.

A super rough ballpark of how much yardage I have.

Did I ever cut anything out of this fabric before, or is it still basically in a rectangle?  Helpful for knowing if your fabric looks like swiss cheese or not.

And that’s it.  You can add more or less information based on what you think is important, but that’s enough for me to go off of.  And here’s the organized stash itself, more or less:

Another tip in organizing your storage bins: if you make it so all the edges of your fabrics are visible when you take the top off your bin, it’ll be easier to find things and take them out.  While I was loading the bins, I set them on one side and stacked my fabric up in a pile.  (The end result is the same thing as Konmari vertical clothes folding!)

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Do You guys have any advice of fabric dying / painting? I know you've mentioned using an airbrush to do it , how do you use an airbrush for it and what kind of paint

Airbrushes for cosplay are awesome!! 

Stovepot dyeing is still best for tinting an entire piece of fabric, but for any kind of gradient:

Weathering:

Or small color change, an airbrush is a really easy, quick way to do that.  For dye brands we like to use this stuff:

Jacquard Dye-Na-Flow Specialty Paint

Acrylic paint will not move through your airbrush well (or at all) unless you seriously dilute it, at which point you may as well just use dye!  These guys are $2-$4, and a great investment is buying the big set of lots of colors for even cheaper.  We like to mix a ratio of about 1:2 parts dye/water, or more dye if you need something more opaque or darker.

For really opaque projects you can also use inks like FW Ink, either diluted or straight from the bottle.  I would not use this on fabric without diluting or washing it out later, as you’ll probably end up with some stiffening.  You can expect these kinds of colors with FW Ink airbrushing:

Technique-wise, light, even coats are generally the way to go.  Similar to using spray paint, make sure you’re far enough away from your project to get an even spray. 

Bonus tips:

Don’t try to get every single last drop out of the bottle, just don’t you will regret it.  Your airbrush may start to splatter once air begins to get up the pipe, and your careful, even shading will be ruined.

Hang your project vertical to avoid any drippage.  Our airbrush also seems to work more consistently when it’s not angled toward the ground.

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So Shannon Fabrics, which is the official minky brand, makes giraffe print minky, so I ordered some! For a baby giraffe. 🙂

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Choosing Fabrics for Cosplay

Tutorial by:  Whitney Sews Tutorial Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOJMaKMpEQ

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HI!!! :D I just wanted to know how did you made the fabric to do that wavy-thing at the end on your twillight dress? Cuz its not the first time that I see a dress doing that and I've always been facinated by it. Btw, that dress is a-may-fucking-zing!

First of all thank you!! I achieved the wavy effect using two different methods, depending on which fabric type I was working with: horsehair braid for the top layer of lavender satin, and beading thread (or fishing line) + a rolled him for the lower layer of dark purple chiffon.

Top layer: Horsehair braid – This can be bought at most fabric stores and is amazing for getting clean hems on circle skirts. If the circle has a lot of fabric in it, you end up with that wavy effect when it drapes! It’s better for medium/heavy fabric like satins, cottons, etc., and not good for lightweight or sheer fabrics. I used this tutorial to learn how to install it properly.

Bottom layer: rolled hem with beading thread or fishing line – For lightweight fabrics like the dark purple chiffon I used here, a rolled hem is the way to go! Do yourself a favor and pick up a rolled hem foot for your machine, since folding and pinning the chiffon manually is a nightmare. You have a few options with the hem, depending on how dramatic of a wave you want:

Rolled hem with no wire or line = soft drape with minimal structure and will lie more flatly against your skirt

Rolled hem with beading thread = soft waves without a ton of structure (this is what I did!)

Rolled hem with fishing line = dramatic waves, like the sort of thing you see on flamenco dresses

There are lots of great tutorials on YouTube for how to do the fishing line hem - essentially you just super carefully feed the line into the hem as you sew, so that the line is encased.

Hope that helps~!

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How to Fully Line a Bodice

Tutorial by: Amanda Tutorial Link: http://kitschycoo.blogspot.ca/2011/03/tutorial-how-to-fully-line-bodice.html

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Free Seam Pocket sewing pattern and Tutorial

Here is a free pattern with step by step photo instruction for a seam pocket with facing! It’s perfect size for the Brownie Dress and the Snowball Dress from Waffle Patterns, but It’s also very versatile, so you can apply it to any other garment like jackets or coats. Download Free Seam Pocket Sewing Pattern here!

How to Sew Seam Pocket with facing

I’m explaining about facing type pocket here, but the pattern includes no-facing type, too. So, if you don’t need facings, choose a “No facing type” pattern and skip the pocket pouch back step.

<Cut / Markings / Interfacing>

1. Cut the parts and put the markings as the pattern indication. Don’t forget to put marks of the pocket open on the skirt (or other garment you make). Mark the same width of the pocket, using the pocket pattern piece. Put interfacing on the pocket open place of the Front and Back skirt. *The photo shows only right side parts, please double them for L/R sides pockets. *I use square shaped fabric pieces instead of the skirt for the explanation.

<Pocket Pouch Back>

1. Place the Pocket Pouch Back and the Pocket Facing pieces right sides together, match the marks and sew. 2. Press the seam to the Pocket pouch side.

<Skirt seam>

1. Before sewing the skirt seam, press and crease the seam lines as finished shape around the pocket open.

2. Place the Front and Back Skirt pieces right sides together. Sew the side seam until the pocket open notches. Keep opening the pocket open. 3. Press the seam open.

<Attach Pocket Pouch Front>

1. Align the edges of the Pocket Pouch Front and the seam of the Front Skirt both wrong sides up, putting the notches together. 2. Sew the front skirt seam and the pocket Pouch Front with 6mm(1/4″) seam allowance, between stitch line notches. Don’t sew the Skirt body.

3. Press the pocket to the front of the skirt. 4. Top stitch the pocket open from the right side. 

<Attach Pocket Pouch Back>

1. Align the edges of the Pocket Pouch Back and the seam of the Back Skirt both wrong sides up, putting the notches together. Sew the seam with 12mm(1/2″) seam allowance (or as much as close to the skirt seam, don’t stitch inside the seamline. ), between stitch line notches, same as the pocket pouch front. Don’t sew the Skirt body. *Use a zipper foot if your fabric is thick.

<Sew Front and Back Pocket Pouch>

1. Double stitch the Front and Back Pocket Pouch edge. If you don’t put lining, finish the pocket edge with zig-zag stitch or serger.

<Finishing>

Turn the bodice to the right side. Top stitch or bar-tack the both sides of the pocket open.

***** Voila! ******

*** Back side view ***

Hope the instruction is clear enough for you.

If you have any questions about the pattern and instruction, please contact me. If you put your photos of your creation from my patterns on your blog or other media, please share with Waffle Pattern’s address and don’t forget the tag #wafflepatterns on the SNSs!

The Brownie Dress and the Snowball Dress are available here.    Also in Etsy shop.

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Mini-Tutorial: Stretch Piping Trim

Recently during my working on Racer Peach, I was given the idea by my Rosalina to add piping to the outside of our stripe trim on our attire. Figuring out how to do this for both a stretch material, and for top-stitching as well. Eventually we came out with using small elastic as ‘piping’ and stitched it on top of our design. This gave us a nice stripe design that had a little pop to it, but was as stretchy as the rest of the attire

What you will need:

Your base attire already cut out or ready to be cut out. In this case it is a 4-way stretch fabric

Your trim cut to the length you want with ~0.25″ added in thickness. This excess depends: 

How thick your elastic is

How much fabric you intend to roll under it

Advised to do a small test before cutting final pieces

Elastic chord of desired thickness. This example is 1/8″ thick

Spray adhesive- I advise Dritz temporary adhesive

Fabric clips OR ball tipped pins OR both!

Tear away stabilizer OR coffee filters cut straight

Something to mark the fabric (light sharpie, pencil, chalk, ect)

A sewing machine with a stretch stitch and a zipper foot

Optional: Thread that matches

The tutorial is available below the cut to not overwhelm your feed :>

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“No Gelfling ever escaped from my deadly Garthim.”

We can’t take our eyes off this terrifyingly awesome cosplay of a Garthim from The Dark Crystal. This outstanding creation is the work of Portland, OR-based cosplayer and prop builder Ryan Wells.

Click here for video of Wells’ Garthim in action.

Head over to Ryan Wells’ Facebook page for lots of process photos for his Garthim cosplay as well as his previous creations.

Photos by Jeff Hinds

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This was requested literal months ago but i’ve finally gotten around to it!

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So Your Angels Have Bird Wings by squidlifecrisis

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Here is is–my very first full-length photo tutorial! Apologies for the tumblr compression, but you can see the full size version without any blurring linked at the bottom of this post. Tutorials have been my most-requested item for a while now, and thanks to my generous Patreon backers I’ve finally been able to make them a reality! Part 2 is already up on Patreon for early access, and will be coming to the rest of the internet in a month. If you just can’t wait, consider backing me on Patreon and you can check it out right now!

You can also see the tutorial at full size in a single image here

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This Week in Cosplay:

History

★ Meet the Woman Who Invented Cosplay Myrtle R. Douglas, otherwise known as Morojo, rarely gets the credit she deserves for the worldwide phenomenon.

Awesome

★ Student Cosplay Fan Delivers Presentation Dressed As Batman If you’re a committed cosplayer, there’s really only one way of delivering a presentation on the history of cosplay.

★ There’s Cosplay And Then There’s Building An Oil Tanker In The Desert Sweet Lips (real name Mike Orr) explains that Wasteland Weekend is the ultimate opportunity for self-expression. At least, for those those who like to build post-apocalypticly themed vehicles and kick dust up for a few days.

Community

★ 30 Countries Prepare for World Cosplay Summit 2016 in Nagoya Cosplay enthusiasts are preparing to descend on Nagoya City in Aichi prefecture for the 14th annual World Cosplay Summit. A total of 30 countries are competing for the title. Last year’s competition ultimately crowned Mexico’s Twin Cosplay as champions.

Meet The Cosplay Repairman He’s made a name for himself not for his cosplay, but for attending cons as Rocket’s Cosplay Repair, a one-man workshop dedicated to patching up cosplay outfits. For free.

Cosplay Contest brings families together for costume fun “I wanted to have family programming that we could spread across all three (library) locations,” Mount said. “When we have brothers and sisters who are entering the Cosplay Contest together, I mean that’s just amazing.“ 

Unmasking The Cosplay Community’s Sexism And Racism Problem “As the geek scene gains prominence, harmful behavior is becoming more visible.”

The Craft Behind a Costume “When I started, everyone thought I was weird, and people are not always accepting and tolerant, but there is a growing community in India that is very supportive and tight knit,” she says.

Comic Con’s Comments Angers Cosplay Community The Santa Fe Comic Con has angered cosplayers after the convention posted a private conversation on their Facebook wall. The convention followed up the post with an explanation that they receive many requests from cosplayers for a fully paid ride to the Santa Fe Comic Con including traveling expenses, and they were trying to support the local community instead. But the convention dug themselves an even bigger hole with the comment ‘entitled “hot chicks in almost no clothes.”‘

Cosplay Has Transformed the Community  …Worlds 2011 was happening soon, so she war-painted up and readied for the show. But people were telling her that’s not how Magic players do it. Cosplay wasn’t "a thing” here. “I said, ‘But it sounds like a convention, right? Well, that’s what I do at conventions.’” So she made it a thing.

Professional Interviews

What Do Superheroes Wear In Off-Hours? Captain America: Civil War’s Costume Designer Explains While designing those custom-molded super-suits presents a variety of challenges, Makovsky puts just as much thought into the casual clothes her Marvel superheroes wear. What sort of style do these characters have when they’re out of their iconic armor and just lounging around like civilians? Below, Makovsky walked us through her most telling casual costume choices.

Interview with Robert Kurtzman at West Coast Haunters Convention 2016 The most exciting guest for me, at this years WCHC was SFX makeup artist and owner of Creature Corps, Robert Kurtzman. Robert has been an icon in the world of special effects for over 30 years. He is a writer, director and film maker, in addition to doing his special effects and creature creations in some of the biggest horror genre hits, movie block busters, TV series’s and film franchises out there. 

Cosplay Pics

116 Amazing Cosplay Photos From Wizard World Des Moines Comic Con – Are You Here? Friday was a wet start for the 2nd annual Wizard World Des Moines. The early afternoon was a little bit stormy and as such it was a slow start for attendees coming in. But as the rain ended everyone- including the cosplayers, came out.

★ The 15 Craziest Cosplay Costumes You’ve Ever Seen Enjoy the glorious bounty of awesome on which your eyes are about to feast, and appreciate the pure heart and dedication poured into each and every one of the wondrous creations.

The Fabulous Cosplay of Ottawa Comiccon 2016 For the fifth consecutive year, Ottawa, the beautiful capital of Canada, held the 2016 edition of its Comiccon this weekend, and as expected, the event was mindblowingly popular (with 42,000 attendees!)