tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64336085532741025132024-02-21T02:13:21.851-08:00Amandas cosplay~I'm a 16 years old girl from Finland who enjoys cosplaying, drawing, reading, anime, manga, Homestuck among other things~ This blog will mainly contain cosplay progress pictures, and therefore I won't update too often, but hopefully often enough to keep you guys entertained~ If you want to ask something, don't hesitate to do so ^^Anmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14990614262109160049noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433608553274102513.post-86701255744138941012015-03-05T05:18:00.000-08:002015-03-05T05:18:09.392-08:00Misato pictures!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm finally getting to writing something about Desucon, yay go me it's only been like 3 weeks. In my defence I have had a lot to do in school <span style="font-size: x-small;">(and should totally be studying for an exam now, but hey, let's get to posting those Misato pics instead. Yeah, that's the smart thing to do) </span>but here you go, some pictures of my finsished Misato cosplay :D Most of these pics were taken on Sunday since Saturday was sort of busy, and because of the freezing cold it wasn't much fun to go outside for a shoot, so most of them are indoor pictures. We did take some outside too but I was too stiff from the cold to pose properly so they looked kinda meh. Terefor many of these are taken in Sibeliustalos mysterious indoor lighting, but anyway, my Misato cosplay from Desucon;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last one shows the zipper detail on the sleeve really well. I won't be writing much more in this post, I'll try my best to get a con report together within a reasonable time frame, plus maybe some pose that touches the topic of Misatos wig. But that's for later, see you then!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">/Amanda</span>Anmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14990614262109160049noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433608553274102513.post-49397742335563115062015-02-05T00:19:00.000-08:002015-02-05T00:19:46.024-08:00Frostbite incoming!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only one week left until Frostbite! Hopefully everybody is finishing up their costumes nicely and won't have to stress the last few days before the con weekend. My cosplay plans for Frostbite are pretty straightforward, I'll be cosplaying Misato from Evangelion both Saturday and Sunday, unless I have a change of heart and decide to bring something else for Sunday. I feel pretty tired of most of my simple school uniform cosplays though, and I don't want to bring anything elaborate for Sunday, so most likely I'll just rock Misato both days. I'll get there pretty late on Friday, so Friday is a no cosplay day.</span><div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I'm still not 100% done with Misato, but most of the pieces are starting to take shape. I made the dress in a couple of hours, and a pair of green socks to wear with the boots. I still have some buttons to attach, and some details on the jacket to make. Then there is the wig, I'll have to style that sometime next week as well. But I don't think I'll have to have any sleepless nights before the con, so I got that going for me, which is nice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Also, another reminder of mine and <a href="http://hanskunca.blogspot.fi/">Hanskus</a> discussion circle on Saturday! I'm looking forward to hosting a program and it'll be totally fun, you should all come :DD *shameless advertising*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, are you going to Frostbite, and what are your cosplay plans? :) I might be back with a wig post sometime next week, otherwise I'll be back after Frostbite with a traditional post-con post~ See you next time!</span></div>
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Anmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14990614262109160049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433608553274102513.post-18827267344315792942015-01-19T12:51:00.002-08:002015-01-19T12:53:07.075-08:00I have a jacket! And a wig!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm back! What is this, I have written more blog posts in the past week than I did during the second half of 2014! Anyway, before I get to cosplay stuff I want to do some shameless advertising and tell everyone I made a twitter (<a href="https://twitter.com/AnmandaCosplay">AnmandaCosplay</a>)! I mainly made one to follow the con twitter accounts, but I have posted some stuff on there as well, so if you're feeling it you should go check it out. I'm always looking for other awesome cosplayers to follow on there as well :3 I'll try to get a link in the "Other sites you can find me at" box on the right as well. But now, back to the important stuff.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I managed to finish the sewing portion of my Misato jacket during the weekend. There are still some details to be added, like the badges on her sleeves for example, but nothing major. I made the jacket first because she wears it all the time, but she does change outfit quite many times during the anime. I'm actually choosing between two different outfits of hers, so I'll put up some pictures of the two at the end of this post, and I'd love to hear your opinions on which one looks better :3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Anyway, I'm eager to show you the jecket in all its glory, so here you go, my <span style="font-size: x-small;">almost</span> finished Misato Katsuragi jacket;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aaaaaaand it's not even fully finished in the first picture I decide to show haha. Too bad. I did finish up the sleeves though, you'll find a picture further down~ Anyway, I'm really just trying to showcase the lining here. It was all hand sewn into place since I knew no better way of attaching it haha., but I think it looks really neat <span style="font-size: x-small;">(especially after I ironed it. Which was after this pic was taken. Of course. My planning skills get an 11/10)</span>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I of course had to try it out in the middle of the night yesterday when I realized that I had a long, black top in my closet. One of Misatos outfits consists of this jacket and a tight black dress, with black shoes, similar a pair I already own. When I realized I had a top that could pass for a tight black dress I just had to try it on. I'm sorry for all these bad mirror shots, I don't have anyone I can ask to take my picture since I live alone ._.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And I found another picture that makes the previous one quite useless. Oh well, in this one I've tried everything on again, however, as you might see, I got my wig in the mail today, yaay. A review is going to appear some time soon, but I won't focus on the wig in this post, it still needs heaps of styling and cutting. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this picture the collar is quite visible, and I really like how it turned out. Making it was a pain, since I had to make my own bias tape from scratch since I wanted a perfect match with the red color of the jacket, so I didn't even bother checking out the selection of bias tape in the store. BUT, I did come up with some cool tricks for making the painful process of making bias tape just a teeny tiny bit less painful;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, in this picture I have already folded it the first time, which is the most tideous part of the process, but I used the exact same technique for that. I'll explain what's going on in this picture in a little more detail. First I started out with a 4 cm wide fabric strip that I cut on the bias of the fabric <span style="font-size: x-small;">well yeah, it's called bias tape for a reason. </span>I then folded it in half and ironed it just slightly so I'd get a crease in the middle of the strip. Then the oh so painful process of folding over the edges to achieve the look in the picture started, but this is where I managed to save myself some frustration using a heavy book <span style="font-size: x-small;">(great use for your school litterature btw). </span>I folded the edges and pressed them with a hot iron, and then as soon as I lifted the iron I placed the pressed, hot part under a book. This way the fabric cools down under the pressure of the book, and you get nice flat bias tape instead of having the edges you so carefully folded and pressed stand right up like this -> \__/ This is really useful when working with heavier fabrics that don't want to stay put no matter what. Eventually the bias tape will start sticking out on the other end, and you have yourself a nice little bias tape pressing machine, just pull the end sticking out and the parts you just pressed will slide in under the book. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or you could just buy a bias tape maker. If you don't know what it is, look it up. It will amaze you. I would have ordered one if I wasn't so eager to work on this costume. I didn't want to wait weeks for it to arrive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, and I made her necklace pendant too, that wasn't a very interesting process, I made it out of some grey clay, and here is the result:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, very interesting indeed. It is not perfect and I might remake it since I have more clay, but I'll see how I feel about it later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And finally <span style="font-size: x-small;">(yeah I said I'd finish but I wasn't really done. Psyche.)</span>, the two options I have for her outfit. I'd love to hear your opinions on which one to make, I really am having trouble deciding. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The second pic is not an official one, but you get the general idea. The one with the dress is probably a bit more common, but she does wear both outfits in the anime multiple times~</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Now I promise I'll quit writing. This have been a very text heavy post, but hopefully you enjoyed the progress pictures and my awesome bias tape making tip. As I said, a wig review is going to be posted in a few days, see you then~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>/Amanda</i></span>Anmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14990614262109160049noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433608553274102513.post-16365534444097766852015-01-17T10:16:00.003-08:002015-01-17T10:17:44.752-08:00Misato progress<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been working hard on Misato the last week, and I've gotten pretty far on her jacket. It is a really fun project, since there is so much more to it that I thought at first. I'm glad I didn't decide to make this costume any earlier in my cosplay career, even though it's been on my cosplay list for quite a while. I'll get to the pictures then~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The entire process began with my machine refusing to do a zigzag stitch. After much frustration and some sewing machine cleaning, I managed to resolve the issue. I feel like these first wobbly zigzag stitches I managed to do are worth sharing, a lot of work and not so pretty language lies within these bad boys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I then proceeded onto adding some details to the back piece of the jacket. Nothing special, but it's a detail easy to miss since it's in the back.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I the attached all of the pieces, and worked a bit on the lining as well. I remade the applique on the front of the jacket after this picture was taken, since it looked hideous. Oh and I also made an inner pocket, that you can't see here since it's on the inside. But I sort of fell in love with pockets after making Sinon, so I just had to put one somewhere on this cosplay as well~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here you can see the remade applique. Looks a lot better, with sharper looking triangles. I also added the zipper at this point, which is kind of hard to see since my phone is really blocking it. I also started adding the facing for the inside. The red strip hanging out of the jacket is the facing that I haven't attached yet. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(I'm not sure if it's called facing if it goes all the way around the hem of the jacket though?)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yay, MORE mirror selfies. In this picture I have attached the facing all around the jacket. All the edges are really neat looking for now. Adding the facing was thefinately one of the most nerv wrecking parts so far. It was one of thos steps that is supposed to make everything look prettier. If it had turned out bad, I wouldn't have known what the heck to do. Luckily it turned out ok.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yay, neat edges ftw! <span style="font-size: x-small;">Yes little fold left of the zipper. I see you. You're not gonna exist for much longer >:( </span>This is how the jacket looks like closed. Or well, how the bottom part looks like closed haha.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And finally, a shot showcasing the inside and the facing. All that is left is to add the collar and the lining, which probably is going to take forever, but I like pretending that I am almost done. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Anyway, that is it for this post. Hopefully I'll finish this jacket somewhat soon, and you'll all get to see how it turned out. I have a wig on its way as well, and it reached Finland yesterday (Friday) so I'll most likely get it some time next week. I'm thinking about doing a review again like I did with my Sinon wig, so maybe you'll get some of that as well. Take care~</span><br />
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Hopefully I'll get working on this costume soon enough, but as of now this is how far I've gotten. I'll keep you updated on the process, and hopefully I'll have an awesome costume for Frostbite! Until next time, take care~</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I mentioned in my earlier post, I made a Cubone gijinka for Desucon this summer, and since I haven't gotten around to posting pictures of it yet, I figured I would post some now, more than half a year later haha. The dress is really simple, the main piece of this costume is undoubtedly the dinosaur head, which is at least supposed to resemble a Cubone skull. All in all this was a very quick and rushed project, but I do actually have some progress pictures of it as well, so I'll throw those in at the end of this post for those of you who are interested :3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> All in all, this is definately not one of my favorite cosplays, but I guess it's kind of cute. It was however fun to make and wear a gijinka costume, so that will for sure happen again *hint hint* Anyway, I'll finish this post with a picture of Cubone, just in case some of you don't know how this little Pokémon looks like;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I moved away from Vaasa to Turku this fall to attend university (another reason not much cosplay have been happening), so yeah, there's that. BUT, I do have cosplay plans for the future, and the next con I'll be attending is Desucon Frostbite in February. <a href="http://hanskunca.blogspot.fi/">Hansku</a> and I are hosting a discussion circle on Saturday at 12:30, so everyone is super welcome to join us for that!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Yeah, that pretty much sums up my short where-I've-been post, hopefully I'll have some more actual content for you sometime soon(ish) when I get back to working on costumes. Goodbye for now~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>edit: It seems my editing looks waaay different when I put up the pics here, all except the last two ones.... I'll try figuring this out, but if anyone hav had a similar problem, please do tell</i></span>Anmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14990614262109160049noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433608553274102513.post-11524571049610406042014-05-07T11:38:00.001-07:002014-05-07T11:38:27.564-07:00Cosvision plans!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is there even a need for me to make this post? I mean judging by my previous posts I'm pretty sure you know what cosplay I'm debuting at Cosvision this weekend haha. But in case you really can't guess, spoiler alert, it's Sinon.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since I'm really busy with work and such I'll probably post the rest of my Sinon progress pictures after the con, and of course I'll write about the con itself as well. I'm as usual interested in who of you are going to Cosvision, and what your cosplay plans are, so if you want feel free to comment/link your blog/whatever :D. See you there!</span></div>
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Yeah you can totally see how it looks like, especially in the first pic /sarcasm/. After this first coat I decided to get things goinf with this rifle. Sinon uses her rifle all the time basically, so it wouldn't look brand new all shiny black at all. So I decided to add some wear and tear to it like so;</div>
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Yay, it looks like it has been used. The parts that are still white in this picture were painted respectively. The stock and handle will be painted to look like wood, and the magazine will be a silver metallic color, but lighter than the rest of the rifle. All of this was done in one sitting, so I only have pictures of the finished product left to show you. Take a moment to prepare yourself for the glory of my Sinon cosplay rifle, a replica of the Hecate II;</div>
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Hairspraybottle for scale haha. But yeah, there you have it. If you have more questions than this post could answer you are free to ask them and I'll try my best to answer. I'm now definitely too lazy to write anything else today, but I'll throw in a picture of me wearing the full cosplay (minus the scarf) so you can see how it is coming together;</div>
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Not 100% done yet, but it's definitely getting there. And it needs to be getting somewhere, i'm supposed to compete in this cosplay in less thank 2 weeks. Yikes. Anywho, I'll hopefully update again with some more stuff concerning this cosplay <span style="font-size: x-small;">(does it ever end?) </span>so until then, bye~</div>
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Anmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14990614262109160049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433608553274102513.post-10435334809965963682014-04-23T12:33:00.000-07:002014-04-23T12:35:41.337-07:00Wig review<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good day everyone! I decided to make a post that differs from my usual ones, I'll try my hands at making a wig review~ I don't know about you, but at least I like to read different kinds of reviews, and I figured it'd be nice to make one myself for once, so here we go;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I ordered my wig from the cosplay.com wig store <a href="http://shop.cosplay.com/wigs.html">(link)</a> and just from hearing that some of you might already go "Oh no..." (or fuck yes, what do I know) and it is true that this company has a bit of a bad history and a bad reputation. However, I ordered from them since I really like their selection of colors, and they were the only ones who had a wig in the light blue shade I wanted. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I'll start off with how fast I received my wig. Or more correctly, how fast I didn't receive it. It took a whopping 3 weeks before they even shipped my order, a total of 15 business days. On their site it says "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">By default, wigs ship in 5-10 business days,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #777777; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">unless otherwise noted</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">". I call bullshit on that since it took way longer. I emailed them asking what was taking so long, and I did get a nice reply explaining that it was on its way from the manufacturer to them so they could ship it.Which to me sounds like the wig I ordered was out of stock, although I couldn't see this anywhere on their site. It shouldn't take 3 weeks to get an order shipped in my opinion, unless you warn the customer beforehand.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> The packaging was sort of only semi good. The wig was wrapped in a net like usual, but the bag it was in wasn't a ziplock bag or anything reusable, it was a really wrinkly plastic bag. And all that was inside of a USPS package of course. If it wasn't for me usually using the bags my wigs are shipped in for storage as well I wouldn't have any complaints, but since I do, a reusable bag would have been nice.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> And finally the most important part, the actual wig. It was just like pictured style wise, and I had expecting nothing less since they do use only thier own pictures. One thing I noticed though is that on their site they state that the inside caps are the same color as the wig, instead of black and beige like other wig companies usually have. Well guess what, in my light blue wig the cap was surely beige. However,this doesn't bother me personally, but since they actually advertise their caps being the same color as the fibers, it'd be nice to apply that to reality as well. Something else they advertise, and definately deliver, is a blend of different colored fibers in the wig to make it look less solid and more realistic. I love it when wigs have that feature, and therefore I love the blend of the wig I got as well. I can distinguish at least 3 different colors in there, and they work well together creating a nice shade of blue. The overall thickness of the wig and the quality of it are definately above your usual eBay wig. I'd place their quality right next to the quality of the wigs from </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">matchwigs.com <a href="http://matchwigs.com/">(link)</a>. And I do like matchwigs a lot. Another plus in my case was the sizing. The wig fit me nicely, it wasn't as small as some chinese eBay wigs I have, but not as big as my Epiccosplay wig. In other words, a perfect fit. But I do have a small head, so you people with really big heads should maybe look for your wigs elsewhere.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That'll be it for this post, I'll be back shortly with more progress post. This is no empty lie, I do love flashing this cosplay all over the internet if I get the chance, so you'll get more of it, I won't </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">have it any other way. Bye for now~</span></div>
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Anmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14990614262109160049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433608553274102513.post-3047508102273122892014-04-10T13:13:00.000-07:002014-04-10T13:29:14.479-07:00Posting craze! About rifles and scarfs this time~<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't think I have ever been as active of a blogger as I am at the moment. But I'm super excited about Sinon and this entire project so you'll just have to deal with it haha. But I shall try not to ramble very much as I usually do in my posts, so I'll stop beating around the bush and show you what masterpieces I have created this time around.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Kicking off with a fancy scarf that I made yesterday in a couple of hours. The design is really simple, and I chose to make the scarf like a tube sort of thing for more thickness, since Sinons scarf does look very big. I chose fleece for the material because hey, it's a scarf, so that works, and because it gives an accurate look to the overall piece. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And now for, at least according to me, more exciting stuff! The monster and most important piece of this cosplay, her rifle. I have never made something like this before, so it's really all trial and error. But I like it, I definately enjoy making it more than I thought I would. Which is great since it takes forever to make. I've used cardboard as my main material, with a side of camping mat and craft foam. That cocktail of materials may seem a bit so-so for something that is supposed to look like metal, but I find that with enough patience, gesso and sandpaper, most things can become really nice and smooth. I have yet to finish the rifle, so I'll make a part 2 about its making later on. But I really do feel like I want to share what I've made so far right now, and I welcome all feedback, both positive and negative, so that I can fix anything that doesn't look quite right, and maybe polish something that looks awesome even futher. So please, if you have time, it'd be nice if you left some feedback so I can make this prop look awesome :3.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Further detail was added as you can see in the pictures. I added the end piece on the barrel and those things where the barrel connects to the body of the gun. I have no idea what function those fill, but hey, they look cool. In the lower left picture you can see the scope coming together, but it's still far from done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And finally, a shot of the rifle in the state it is in right now. I just attached the barrel handle whatever and added some detail. I'm soon going to get the whole magazine and handle and all that on there, so that should be really exciting. Hopefully it all sticks together and doesn't fall apart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> That's all I've got for now, I hope you enjoyed and maybe even learned something. I'm realizing I've definately underestimated cardboard as a material, it's quite cool to work with really. But yeah, bye for now, I will post a part 2 about this rifle project later on, so stay tuned~</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14990614262109160049noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433608553274102513.post-26433189809332474702014-04-04T13:00:00.000-07:002014-04-04T13:00:17.765-07:00Scary weapons and weird pants<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm back with another Sinon progress post! I'm dedicated to documenting all that happens with this costume, and so far so good. Since the last post I have pretty much finished the jacket, finished the pants and gotten working on her rifle, which is a major pain in the ass to make but hopefully it'll look cool. Hopefully.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I'll start off with the jacket. I ordered some studs off eBay and to my great joy they arrived quickly <span style="font-size: x-small;"><strike>I wish I could say the same about my wig.</strike> </span>When I first saw them I thought crap, they're too small, but when I placed them on her jacket, <span style="font-size: x-small;">and pants and belt, this gal is all about studs, </span>they looked rather nice like so; </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moving on, I added the collar and the cuffs, attached the lining and voila, it now looks something like this;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Moving onwards and downwards, pants. The pants aren't that complicated really, even though there are multiple elements to them. I made some black booty shorts earlier to cover that part of her pants, and I later made the green leg parts of her pants. I feel like that description got a whee bit confusing so I'll throw in a reference picture for you;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Such weapon. Much scare. Wow. Yeah I don't have much, but it's slowly happening. It'd be nice to have something like worbla to work with but silly me is doing the budget version using around the hose items and gesso. So far the total cost of this is 5e, and I spent that on some shit I'm not even gonna use. So for the materials in the pics, 0e.</span><br />
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Anmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14990614262109160049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433608553274102513.post-76734182237181675782014-03-11T06:10:00.001-07:002014-03-11T06:10:42.253-07:00Future cosplay plans! Or well, plan.<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wow, a second blogpost within a week. This must be a really good way of avoiding studying which is exactly what I should be doing right now. Not like I have som really important exams coming up, noooo, I have all the time I want to make cosplay and write about it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Honestly though, I'm super excited for my upcoming cosplay. It is so different from anything I've ever done before, and so far working on it has been super fun. The character I'm making is Sinon from Sword Art Online, Phantom Bullet Arc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Another SAO cosplay in other words... This time from an arc that hasn't even aired as anime yet. I love the design of SAO characters, they're really detailed compared to many other anime designs, and the anime was decent as well. Not best anime ever, but ok enough to cosplay from it haha. I chose this character in particular since I wanted to sign up for <a href="http://cosvision.fi/en/">Cosvisions</a> competition, and I needed a cosplay that would be "contest material". This character instantly popped into my head, and I decided to go for her. I also really like the fact that her design is very different from what I've made before (mostly school uniforms, old-timey dresses, fantasy looking stuff), and I really wanted to try out making something with a more modern look. Plus, she looks badass. I mean really, she does.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> So I obviously rushed to the fabric store so i could get going with this project, and even though I was just planning to buy just some of the fabric I ended up finding so much awesome fabric that I could not contain myself and ended up getting materials for all of her outfit except for the scarf.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I started out with making the bodusuit thing she has going on, and it really wasn't that interesing od a process except for the boobie cup part. Not only did they look different in every reference picture, they were also annoying to make. But in the end I defeated them and while the bodysuit isn't 100% done, I've gotten quite some work done on it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fingers closeup! But no, what i wanted to showcase is the FUNCTIONAL pockets. I'm really way more proud of them than I should be but I mean... They work! So cool. (Those black tiny spots are leftovers from a ripped seam, so they really look even cleaner and neater for real). I also made a sleeve yesterday but I made all the applique on the wrong side, so I'll fix that before I post any pics of that wonder. That should be it for now, I'll be back later with some more progress pictures. Bye for now~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> On friday I left from Vaasa to Lahti at 16.00, (I had eaten pizza right before I left and I swear the whole train smelled like pizza after I got on) and after a lovely 5 hours-ish train trip I arrived to Lahti around nine in the evening. I then had to drag my bags all the way to Omenahotelli where a Hansku was chilling with some empty booze bottles in the trash hahaha. We decided to go to the bar for a quick drink, and having no idea what sort of places Lahti had to offer we ended up in an Irish style pub with karaoke. I'm intrigued by that combination. Anyhow, we managed to find the most awkwardly placed table in the history of tables placed in bars, and it was perfect for us, far enough away from the karaoke, and not in the "danceclub section" of the bar. We then left for Sibeliustalo and the convention so I could get my con wristband, spent some time in the gaming room and then headed back to the hotel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Saturday morning we overslept and when we got to the con Hanskus con workshift had already started, so she left to do her business and I derped around the con, took pictures, ironed my cosplay and so forth. Regular cosplay business~ I later ended up backstage, and it was really cool to see all the well made competition cosplays up close. However, when the competition rolled around I left the backstage to watch that. It was super fun as usual, and as always I felt super inspired to do cosplay after watching all the awesome costumes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> After that me and Hansku left for the hotel to relax and have a drink. Or two. Or three. And we eventually ended up going back to the con, and since Frostbite was a 18+ convention they did serve alcohol at the after party going on. I was really impressed by how well people handled this though, I saw no one that was really drunk and causing problems, and as far as I know there were no fights or people drinking too much and getting sick and so forth. Which is awesome, it's fun to party but even better when you can party and behave yourself.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> <strike>Can't say I always do that though.</strike> </span>After having some drinks we went to the gaming room since the dancefloor wasn't really our thing, and unfortunately pretty much every game was taken and no one had any intentions of leaving, so eventually we dicided to go and get some rest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> When Sunday rolled around we got up, packed our stuff and dragged them with us to the convention. We watched the AMV competition and went to a panel, and then took some quick photos of each other since pics or it didn't happen, and then I changed out of costume before the ending ceremony, because I had to get to the train on time and it isn't comfy travelling for 4-5 hrs wearing cosplay. Just no. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> All in all, it was one of the better cons I've been to lately, and I could really go on on how I liked the 18+ concept (I definately don't think all cons should be 18+, but it would be nice to have like, one a year that is), but I'll try to keep it short, although I already wrote a huge wall of text, so thank you everybody for an awesome con, here are some pics I took of random and awesome cosplayers;</span></div>
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Anmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14990614262109160049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433608553274102513.post-40607030952831311432014-02-20T14:01:00.000-08:002014-02-20T14:01:55.871-08:00Thank God... And Leafa pics!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had a mini heart attack when trying to get into blogger on the fabulous new computer I'm sitting in front of now. I could for the love of god not remember my password OR which email I was using for this account. But eventually I got in, as you might have guessed already.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> That aside though, Frostbite happened last weekend, and I must say I really had a really good time, and I really liked the fact that the con had an age limit, the atmosphere was generally a little more mature for obvious reasons, but the entire con vibe was still there. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Oh and they served alcohol at the afterparty. That was sweet.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>I did take some pics of all the other awesome congoers, however, I'll do a post containing those later, along with a more detailed description of my overall con weekend. This post is all about the costume I debuted, Leafa from Sword Art Online! If you know the character well, or compare my costume to a reference pic of her, you might notice a lack of a hair decoration and some bracelets. And the answer to why those are missing is simple, I was slacking and didn't have time to finish them in time, but I wanted to debut her so badly I decided to go without those details. But now, on to some pictures~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the pictures are taken by <a href="http://hanskunca.blogspot.fi/">Hansku</a>. We took them on Sunday in the afternoon, so we weren't all that motivated to get some really epic pictures, hence the lack of them. But these three turned out nice with some editing slapped on (especially the stair one, god that was a dark pic). I really look forward to getting some pics of this costume in summer though, it just suits her character theme so much better :3</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And just in lack of other things, have a collage of progress pics. I made the corset boning out of those things that you can't open once you pull them shut and I can't for the love of god remember what they're called. Just look at the last pic and you'll get what I mean. But they worked wonders, definately a thing to try out if you're looking for a cheap boning alternative! I read somewhere that they should really not be used in actual, lace up corsets as they might snap and hurt you. But for costuming and fashion corsets they should be fine~</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> With a new year comes new challenges and new costumes to make, and I swear I shall not be as lazy as I was in 2013 where hardly anything was produced. Not compared to 2012 at least. SO, now you're all excited about my plans for 2014 right? I haven't planned shit. There it is, I said it. I do have one costume in progress for Desucon Frostbite a month away though, I am making Leafa from Sword Art Online;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I actually hadn't watched this series earlier, but I really enjoyed it, especially the first half of the series. Ironically Leafa is exclusive to the second half but oh well, I was in love with her design even before I started watching the series, and I liked her character when I actually knew the plot of the anime, so I figured I'd give it a go. And I'm not regretting it either, so far I have made the jacket, top, skirt part, shorts, stockings and gloves and it has been relatively smooth sailing all the way. I'm definately looking forward to the end result. I am currently waiting for the wig to arrive, and once it does I might make a blogpost concerning that and the pieces I have already made of this cosplay. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really love some of the pics we got, and some are kind of meh. But that's a photoshoot for ya, can't have too many perfect pics now can we haha. It would have been awesome with a longer shoot as well, but the weather was against us and we had to rush inside as it started raining. But someday I sure as hell am gonna get more pics of my precious Gisen :3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> And I figure I could put up some info on the costume as well while I'm blogging and all. As usual the cosplay is all made by me, everything from the prop to the wig styling (which btw is kind of two colored, I liiiiiightly dyed some parts, like the roots, of it grey as I don't like completely white wigs. Gave a neat subtile effect in my opinion). And needless to say, the prop is one of my fave features of this costume. I hardly ever make cosplays with props, so this was a nice change of pace, and the insane detailed pattern on it was, believe it or not, fun to make. It took its time though, one side took about 4 hrs, a bit more. There are also other elements of the cosplay I really like, the gloves for an example deserve an extra look at. They turned out pretty cool in my opinion, especially the left one, which had a slightly more interesting design</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> With all that said, I hope to wear this costume again, maybe tweak it a little, there is always room for improvement, but I really like it, it's a fun design and Gisen is one hell of a badass. Over and out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I started my Desujourney on Friday. Me and my boyfriend got into his car when he got off work and slowly but surely we made our way to Lahti and found the hotel we were staying at. We did get there at like 8, which in my lazy opinion was too late to start putting on a cosplay and dragging my ass to Sibeliustalo, so we just chilled out in the hotel and had some food. I actually ate fairly regularly, that's a con first. And actual food too, not just sandwiches and shit. Achievement unlocked. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> So, Saturday was the first actual con day for me. We got up, got ready and I got into brand new, undebuted Gisen Yagyu cosplay. And man I felt fabulous. And I also felt like my tits and ass were showing waaaay too much, but whatever, I captured the spirit of the show damn good in that miniskirt haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Attractive hotel room pic there. I don't even think I had put my wig on properly in that pic. Or well judging by the looks of it, no I hadn't. Nothing is more sexy than a wig almost falling off your head. I had a monster of a prop for this costume as well, which you will get to see in later pics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We got to the con and just hung out a little. Since my boyfriend never had been to a con before he did hardly know where to look haha. I get why though, I don't think there are many events as colorful and as filled with all kinds of people as cons. We checked out the Artist Alley and the Dealers Room, took pictures and so on. You congoers know the drill, no need to explain it. We also went to watch the Euro Cosplay preliminaries of Finland, and do I even need to say all the contestants were awesome? I also had a photoshoot with some fellow Hyakka Ryoran Samurai Girl cosplayers, <a href="http://hanskunca.blogspot.fi/">Hansku</a> as Jyubei and <a href="http://zephfromwest.blogspot.fi/">Jäärä</a> as Sen-hime. I am still waiting for these pictures (damnit Hansku I want them, send 'em to meeee. Hahaha) but I took the liberty of borrowing the ones Hansku posted on her blog (and no, it's not my panties that show in the pic below, it's part of my tights, sorry to disappoint you);</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just a couple of close ups, as I said, you'll get to see more when I get more pics. But that sums up my Saturday. We went back to the hotel room, I changed, then we grabbed something to eat at the nearest Hesburger and went back to the hotel again where Janne almost instantly fell asleep (I exhausted the poor thing with all my running around at the con haha) and I stayed up drinking wine, celebrating my birthday by myself....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">... which leads me to Sunday, which also was my birthday. The long awaited age of 18 has finally reached me as well. But enough of that. I got up, got dressed as Tomoyo from Clannad and we got moving again. We were both kinda tired although we did get fairly much sleep, so we didn't do much, we went to see the skit competition which was a new feature of Desucon and then we watched some anime in the Anime Room and took some pictures of other cosplayers and some of me. I wanted some nice summer Tomoyo pics but in teh end I was really tired and didn't have enough motivation for a longer shoot. So I ended up with like 2 okay pics haha;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Overall I had fun, the only drawback was how tired I was at Sunday. Seriously, am I getting old or something? I shouldn't be exhausted after ONE con day haha. Oh well it was a nice con, Desu never disappoints. And now as a final touch to this post, some hall pictures of random and less random cosplayers who also were at Desu;</span></div>
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Anmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14990614262109160049noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433608553274102513.post-75642183828961608332013-06-11T13:53:00.003-07:002013-06-11T13:53:49.636-07:00Desu Desu Desu<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Guess where I'm going this weekend? Not that hard considering the title, right. Desucon of course! And now I shall reveal my awesome cosplay plans for this annual convention of Lahti. I probably should have made this post like, at least a week prior to the con, but procrastination happened (oops, never heard that one before). Anyways, behold these costume plans of mine;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haha I felt like a bit of a douchebag editing that picture with only Oz in it, as it originally did contain both Oz and Gil. Sorry for editing you out Hansku haha, just felt like having a solo pic. So everyone can adore me in all my glory of course! <span style="font-size: xx-small;">or it could just my compilation of cosplays I've made, you'll never know.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moving on, the cosplays I made for this convention were Oz Bezarius/Vessalius, depending on your preferred spelling, from Pandora Hearts, and Tomoyo Sakagami from Clannad, summer uniform version. Perfect choice for a winter convention, the summer version of a school uniform. Brilliant thinking by me there. I actually did have a sensible reason for choosing the summer one though, I may or may not come to that later in this post or the next one. Until then you can just believe I'm stupid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't have any pictures of my Oz cosplay yet. Or there are a few, but I won't show them to you, and if you unfortunately do stumble upon them in the depths of the internet I feel deeply sorry for your soul. Haha but no, in all seriousness now, there are pictures of my Oz cosplay that were taken at the con, but I didn't particulary like them, so that's why I won't post them on here. But good news, I had a photoshoot with <a href="http://hanskunca.blogspot.fi/">Hansku</a> (who cosplays Gilbert from the same series) and <a href="http://lilyoflilian.blogspot.fi/">Ilse</a> (who worked the camera) a couple of days ago, so I'll post those pictures as soon as I get them and edit them properly. Or "as soon as" might be a bit untrue, but I promise you won't have to wait several months to see them. It's something. Unfortunately our lovely Alice, <a href="http://bananascandoit.blogspot.fi/">Henna</a> aka. Momo who rocked Pandora Hearts with us on Frostbite couldn't make it to the photoshoot we had afterwards, so those pics sadly (or maybe happily to some fangirls) contain only Gil and Oz. So I might as well upload one of the pictures from the photos we took during the con, just to be nice and show you our entire group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There you go. You might be thinking that this picture isn't that bad, and think I'm stupid for not posting the rest, but this is definately the best picture from the entire shoot. That said, I'm not uploading any more pics of Oz from the con, you'll get to see the ones from our second shoot later instead, and actually get to look at nice pictures. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But then there was my other cosplay, the one I wore for Sunday, Tomoyo Sakagami. As I said earlier I made the summer version of the uniform, and I might as well tell you why. It was simply because I had all the materials needed on hand already. I didn't pay a single cent for the fabrics or the wig, I used leftovers from old cosplays. I only had to buy some accesories and fabric paints and I was all set, and it have been a dream of mine to cosplay from Clannad ever since I first started cosplaying, as it is an anime that always will be special to me as it managed to touch my heart like almost no anime ever had before. I do realize that sounds cheesy as fuck, but check it out, if it doesn't stir up your emotions even the slightest, especially the second season, you are officially a soulless bastard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That being said, I did, unlike of Oz, get some nice pictures of this costume at the con, so here you go, Tomoyo Sakagami from Clannad:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the pictures were taken by <a href="http://bananascandoit.blogspot.fi/">Heta</a> aka. Poke. Please don't mind the con armband. But yeah, I don't have too much to say about this costume in general except SHORT SKIRT. Yeah I had to say that. But damn it's hard to try making yourself look like you have anime leg proportions with anything but an anime length skirt. Oh and also, just so you all pay some extra attention to it, I just have to comment on how much I like the way the school badge turned out. I painted it myself using a printed out picture as a reference, and I really do think the end result is super neat : 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then, finally, general pictures from the con, taken by me of some of the many awesome attendants:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>/Amanda</i></span>Anmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14990614262109160049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433608553274102513.post-7653882828417307352012-09-23T07:07:00.002-07:002012-09-23T07:07:34.243-07:00Oh wait, I do have a blog<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok, I've been a shitty blogger, I really have. But, I too do (to some small extent) have a life, especially during summer I did. But that's nothing you'd be interested in, since this is a cosplay blog after all. So what has happened in my life as a cosplayer lately? Well, I attended Animecon IX in July, so there will be pictures from that later on in this post, and I also made a Meredy (Fairy Tail) cosplay which I was supposed to bring to Animecon, but the wig didn't arrive on time, even though I did order it in good time. I honestly looked forward to cosplaying her, but no, that just didn't happen. I was also planning to attend Tracon as Gisen Yagyu from Hyakka Ryoran Samurai Girls, but various health issues got in the way, and I ended up not going to Tracon at all. I'm back in the zone now though, finishing unfinished cosplays, and planning for next years cosplay season. And I have tons of unpublished progress pictures I'll show you sometime soon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But back to Animecon, on Saturday I wore my Kanaya (Homestuck) cosplay since I wanted some more pictures of her, and Rei (HOTD) for pretty much the same reason, I wanted pics of both of them in summer since the only ones I have are taken during the winter. So, here you get, some pictures from Animecon 2 months ago haha;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There you go, some pictures of me from Animecon. All of them were taken by Victoria, who gladly joined me to the con even though she isn't a cosplayer herself. She did however borrow my Alois and my Rei cosplay, so I'll throw in some pics of her in said cosplays too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aaand finally, both of us on Sunday. I had a good time, and it was fun to show someone who has never been to a con before how it is and what happens haha.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That will be it for this post, I'd post some other con pictures I took of other cosplayers, but as it was so long ago I don't know how relevant that feels. If you do feel like seeing some of them leave a comment and let me know and you'll get to see some other cosplayers than me haha. And hopefully I'll return in sensible time to tell you more about actual cosplay making and show you some of my progress pics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And then we woke up early Saturday morning to do our makeup and get into cosplay, and well, since Hansku was attending the Euro Cosplay tryouts she had her Illua costume with her, which had a gigantic katana, a huge spellbook, some armor and just LOTS of stuff in general, so this did take time. So walking with all that in several bags to Sibeliustalo from Omenahotelli was quite interesting. But yeah, basically all of Saturday went to EC stuff. Which I don't mind, it was fun being backstage and all that and kind of get a feel of how that is. And it probably was a good experience since I'll be attending competitions of the bigger kind myself in the future. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So Sunday was pretty much the only "normal" con day I had at this con, and that's also the day most of the pics I'll post are from. I was in my new Kisaragi Saya (Blood-C) cosplay for both Saturday and Sunday, and even though the overall costume is really comfortable, the shoes were killing my feet. I literally couldn't even walk a meter in them at Sunday after running around in them all of Saturday, so I had to sacrifice some accuracy and walk around in my socks only on Sunday haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, I'll now put up some pics of my cosplay as well. They're all taken by Hansku, thank you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>/Amanda</i></span></div>Anmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14990614262109160049noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433608553274102513.post-59766721353246481152012-06-08T00:53:00.000-07:002012-06-08T00:53:18.929-07:00Last minute Desu check..<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok so on my dA I promised a huge progress post before I leave for Desucon.... Well I lied, you won't get anything of the sort, instead you will get this super ultra mega awesome mini post, and you will have to suffice with that. Oh well, I can't keep all my promises, and hey, at least this is a update, always something right? Ok now I will stop making excuses and get to the actual point. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly I could point out that the (not so, as I already told my dA watchers who the character is) secret costume won't be done in time for Desu, which really is a shame, since she's one of my favorite characters ever, and it'd have been fun to wear her to event like Desucon. But I really did fuck up the wig for her when I tried to style it, and I decided that no, I can't wear that, I'd rather wait and make the entire thing look good than look half assed and ready in time for Desu. So that's it about that costume. I will provide you with pictures of it later, after Desu, no worries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But then, what am I going to wear? Well, as you might know from my previous blogposts I've also finished Saya in time for Desu, so she's what<i> </i>I'm gonna bring. You've already seen tons of progress shots of her, so I really don't have anything new for her except </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">dun dun duuuuun....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">her monster slaying katana. Yay I'm actually pretty proud of it, it's the fist katana I've ever made, so it turned out great imo. That picture only shows the handle (and my derpfece :B) but the blade is really cool looking too. Damn I never thought I'd be able to make an ok looking prop, but I'm ok with this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The blade is made out of wood, the handle out of wood and foam covered in paper mache which I then painted and wrapped fabric strips around. I didn't have time to do an actual katana style handle wrapping though. Or well, I didn't have time to learn it. Haters gonna hate. The tsuba (the thing between the blade and the handle) is also made out of paper mache covered foam. All the teeth are made out of clay, and the red-black details on the handle are also made out of foam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, I'll in other words be cosplaying Saya for both Saturday and Sunday. I was too lazy to bring some old costume, and I definitely won't mind carrying around that lovely katana for two days either <3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's it for me now, I'll be back after Desu~</span></div>
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