okay since people asked, here it is the first part of my horns tutorial
aradia’s are probably the most difficult, anyway the step-by-step process is basically the same for all horns.
mind that some like karkat’s or equius broken horn can be done without a skeleton due their size. probably terezi…
Click on it, this is fucking great.
I designed these! For CONvergence, the convention I volunteer for. Basically, we want to address sexual harassment at our convention. We want to state not only do we believe in creating a safe places for all our members to play/party/squee, but we are actively helping people get out of those situations. We also want our members to know that they can step up and help when they see this kind of behavior going on. With almost 5,000 members and 15+ parties nightly, we need the help of our grand volunteer staff, AND our members at large to create the fun, geeky, safe, atmosphere everyone deserves. My favorite is “costumes are not consent”, Whats yours?
Yeah, for a curcy girl like me, thats awesome! I always find it a bit akward to dress myself into a “skinny” character. But hey, what are thin friends for?!
(via thelittlecosplaythings)
So Charlie is 5 and wants to be soarin’ this year for CONvergence. I am making foam wings and ears right now. I think we’re going to go down the path of blue hoodie, blue jeans for outfit. flight suits in his size run like 70 bucks and I don’t have the time to sew one. For the hoodie, I plan to sew on the yellow bolts and attach the wings to the back. His cutie mark will be painted onto his jeans. I am thinking of making a “tail fall” (like a hair fall) out of blue yarn on a rubber band so I can just attach it to a belt loop. then the jeans are still usable afterwards! yay! He has blue goggles already. I plan to put some spay in blue in his hair, and of course, get a picture of him eating pie! The best part is, he has a little girlfriend, she is dressing up as princess Celestia, I can pull of pinkie pie with the stuff in our closet, and her step mom is going as flutter-shy! Its gonna be great! I can’t wait! lol.
A lot of folks at pax were asking about how I made all the hard “feathers” for my “femris” cosplay (shoulder pauldrons, shinguards, gauntlets, etc), so I have put together a mini tutorial of how I make feathers. Alas the maintenance guy was unable to fix our fuses so it had to be done on my mac instead of my art pc, so it’s not the prettiest tutorial ever.
Some additional notes: If you look at real bird feathers, you’ll notice that they don’t actually have those notches that everyone associates with feathers. This is because the individual shafts of the feathers themselves have barbs that hook onto each other, which also allow the bird to get airborne (among other things). Birds preen their feathers to prevent these hooks/barbs from coming apart. So these are much more stylized than real bird feathers (also somewhat cheaper- so save all your wonderflex scrap!) if you want to get all technical about it.
Generally I make a feather to step 4, then start another feather (rinse, repeat) and do all the notches at the same time. Beware of making too many notches as this will impact the structural integrity of your feather!
Also make sure that you connect like side with like (one side of wonderflex is smoother than the other, I use the smooth side as the outward side on my feathers). I also recommend attaching the feathers to whatever you’re attaching them to (pauldron base, shinguard, gauntlet), before gessoing/painting.
For my pauldrons, I used black acrylic gesso (1-2 coats) first, then several coats of a mix of green, black, metallic silver (sparkly), and grey arcylic, followed up with a glossy acrylic varnish (depending on what you want, you can also get a matte or velvet varnish).
these feathers were pretty easy (if time consuming) to work with, so a good alternative for real feathers when you want it to look like a feather but not act like a feather (so good for a lot of DA2 armor where some concept artist went crazy with feathery armor…)
(hopefully that was understandable and comprehensive, i’m recovering from a con plague, so i’m not sure how lucid I am)
(DONE, I don’t even have a costume I could use them on, but I am making them…. mncostumegrrl.tumblr.com )
(via cosplayinamerica)
So this what we’re going for, I think, there are some modifications he wants to make to it. But I really love the new outfit. I am working the belt buckle tonight. My finger tips a raw from wrapping wire for the frame of my Ursala costume. I plan on using foam for most of the armor, but I have NO IDEA how I’ll pull off the boots… oh well.
So, I got Charlie’s MLP wings glued.
But I think the wire might not be strong enough to hold them up and out. I am planning on attaching them to the back of a blue hoodie (He’s going as Soarin’ of the Wonderbolts) So I think I might need to try and add more wire inbetween the foam…. yay. lol
