#beginner cosplay

[bl00dkat]

Ren photoshoot~

★★★

And a little treat haha ♡︎

Photos were taken by my friend Angel [doesn't have tumblr]

Follow me on instagram: @/_xen._cos_

Character belongs to Gatobob

[elletudie]

because I’m obsessive and have zero chill I’ve decided I’m going to make every dress Danielle wears in Ever After (1998) (ok maybe not the breathe dress tho idk, I have the pattern but there is a LOT of beading 😅)

I’m starting easy, with her work dress. The blue one she wears while working around the house.

You’ll be able to follow my progress in the #danielletudiedresses tag

[cosplaytutorial]

Hey! I found this blog while looking for cosplay tips

I'm going to start making my first ever cosplay soon, so I'm looking for some tips!

I'm hoping to thrift as much of the outfit as I can but I'm guessing I'm gonna have to alter a lot.

But of course I have to choose a character with so many details. . . (I may simplify)

Anyways, any tips for this character? If you wanna look into him more it's Martin from Rune Factory 5 but I have refs all around

Hello there!

I love to see that you are doing Rune Factory cosplay!

That said, some parts of this will be very easy to thrift and modify, and others will need a little creativity and perhaps sacrificing of accuracy. I'd suggest something with fewer armor details for a first cosplay, but that's still doable with some work.

I'm coming at this from the angle that you are thrifting due to both skill level and budget.

From the top:

The grey shirt will be quite easy. Find a white or light grey ribbed shirt or sweater, cut off the sleeves and sew the edges so they don't fray. If you got a white shirt, check the fiber content -- I'd recommend a natural fiber like cotton -- and dye it to light grey. Use the cutoff sleeves to test the dye.

If you can't find a sweater with ribs, you can get one without the ribs and sew with a twin needle to fake it.

The vest is going to be difficult to get from a thrift store and alter due to the shape. You MIGHT be able to get a blazer or vest in the correct color and alter it, but that would probably be more difficult than making it from scratch.

If altering: remove the sleeves. Cut off the lapels and the collar. Cut open the front to the correct shape, and add the side dart to fit it, as well as fitting from the side seams.

If making: Alter a pattern to have the correct front opening shape, do a mockup, and take it in to fit.

Either way, you will need to sew on the brown leather portion and then line the vest. You can add the straps yourself by sewing them out of the same fabric as your vest.

The apron is easy -- simply take a rectangle of fabric, hem it, and sew a strip of fabric onto it so you can tie it around your waist. For the pockets, I'd do patch pockets and glue on fake rivets (painted googly eyes, anyone?). The zigzags can be done just with topstitching.

For the pants, you can buy the widest leg pants you can find, paint on the stripes, and take in the bottoms. You can use the excess fabric you cut off the length of the pants to create the cuffs.

For the armor, look through our website for armor tutorials -- I'd recommend foam for budget reasons.

Good luck! This will be a challenge to thrift most of, but with some mods, you can probably get something close enough.

—Fabrickind / Q&A Staff / Twitter

[marlie-cosplays-again]

Hey there

I'm Marlie and i’ve been attending conventions for about 20 years and sporadically cosplayed for about 10 of those years. For the last 10 years my health, my schedule, my finances, my…exhaustion has prevented me from putting my all into a hobby I truly love.

For the last 2 1/2 years I have been unemployed and just absolutely depressed about it. But this last January I got involved in Community Theater through some of my friends. Being part of something big and creative has been a giant mood booster. I'm personally more of a backstage person and was lucky enough to be under the wing of a professional Stage Manager for my first production.

I then painted the whole set for the next production, took a break, and then came back to Stage Manage the huge end of the season show. I'm now Stage Managing the first show of this theater's 68th season. It's been a rocket of a fast track but I love it. And all of it has reminded me how much I miss cosplay.

I've finally gotten another job after 100+ applications, and while it doesn't pay well, it does pay.

I then stumbled onto Sarah Spaceman on YouTube and ended up binging a few of her cosplay builds and watching her con vlogs. My husband ended up watching them with me and we both are just aching to create like this again.

So we're going to.

I haven't touched my sewing machine in years and everything I did before was based on reasoning through my partial retention of pattern instructions and some advice from my mom. So I'm gonna start over. Back to square one. I'm gonna be thoughtful about the process. I'm gonna surge the hems. I'm gonna line the coat. I'm gonna do it right(my own ADHD self definition of right).

And I'm gonna compete.

Do I expect to win? Not really.

But I want to create with such pride that showing it off on stage is the only way I can find peace.

So that's what this is. Just a place to put my thoughts. My build sketches. My process and progress. My lessons learned.

Thanks for hanging out.

[fabrickind]

Can you teach me how to sew

Hello there!

It's kind of hard to teach someone to sew over the internet, but there's plenty of instructions and videos out there, as well as the resources in this blog.

If you prefer hands-on instruction, look for community college fashion courses, local sewing shops that have classes, or local parks and recreation district classes. Also see if there's any local sewing meetups or if you have anyone in your life who can teach you.

If you're local we can discuss my rates for me teaching you in person, but I don't have much time or energy, unfortunately.

I hope that helps you find somewhere you can learn! :]

[fabrickind]

Adding prev tags in here:

#also something for cosplayers specifically:#try not to pose for photos anywhere inconvenient!#don't stop in front of stalls or in the middle of walkways#lead the photographer to an empty space nearby#it's much more polite and you'll get better photos!

Which is also very important! Also if you aren't a cosplayer and want to stop to chat with a friend, check your phone, etc., don't stop in the middle of a walkway. Cons are crowded enough as it is and we need to keep traffic flowing both so people can enjoy the con and for safety and accessibility reasons.

Post-covid cons have had an influx of attendees who have never been to a con before, and that's great! But I've also seen a rise in some slightly inconsiderate behaviour so I'd like to do a little post on what is generally considered good manners when attending a convention:

1️⃣ Ask before taking photos, whether it's of cosplays, stalls, traders, or merch. It's very rude to approach a table, take a photo of their stock without asking, and leave.

2️⃣ Don't comment on the prices of merchandise at exhibitors' tables. If you think something is too expensive, keep it to yourself; traders need to make money from their art and have likely already priced items fairly. Related, but in general don't make negative or jokey comments about someone's merchandise in front of them. Or at all, honestly.

3️⃣ Don't try to haggle or ask for bulk discounts. Conventions are not farmers' markets or retail stores.

4️⃣ Please try not to take up too much of the exhibitors' time by chatting. It can be really exciting to meet a creator, and a lot of traders are really friendly and enjoy talking to customers, but please remember that this is also a workplace for traders and they need to sell. If an exhibitor excuses themself because there are other customers waiting, this is usually a good point to thank them for their time and say goodbye so they can continue working.

5️⃣ Try to avoid placing anything on the exhibitors' tables, including bags but especially drinks and food. This can at best mess up a display and at worst ruin merchandise, putting exhibitors out of pocket.

6️⃣ If you are waiting to look at one table in particular, be courteous of neighbouring tables. Do not stand in front of other tables because you are queueing or just standing chatting with friends, as you are likely blocking other potential customers from seeing that table.

7️⃣ An extra point raised by @pppondi - feel free to ask to have a look through books and comics, but don't read the entire thing then put it back. That's why they're on sale, so you can read them!

☀️ I really do hope this helps someone! Some of these guidelines might not be obvious but it makes for a better con experience for both you and the exhibitors; traders are less stressed and you get to interact with happier creators. If you have more suggested guidelines for people who are starting to attend cons please feel free to share, but also remember that a lot of shy, anxious, and neurodivergent folk attend cons. I'm trying to be constructive, not just list "weird" behaviour.

[awesome-opossum-after-hours]

BEHOLD: the ProductiviTron!

(aka my homemade Reagan Ridley cosplay)

also yes, the top 2 were giving the middle finger. they asked me to change that for the cosplay contest so that didn't last long

[pippenpaddlopsicopolisthethird]

Today's cosplay post is a tutorial! I sat down and put together a full breakdown on how I use fabric painting to get my cosplay details. In this world where it seems like everyone on the big social media pages has an embroidery machine, a desktop laser cutter, and a heat-transfer vinyl workflow, I feel like sometimes we need to get back to basics and understand how to achieve clean finishes without a $2k overhead.

Video is fully captioned using the script I read from (not auto-generated captions!) And includes timestamps for different parts of the process. I recreated Marcille's t-shirt from one of Ryoko Kui's illustrations in this video, but it's useful for way more than just shirts!

I've never tried my hand at video tutorials before so I hope this is helpful!

[fabrickind]

Hello there!

This her?

The thing with cosplay, especially as a relative beginner, is that you will mess up. I've been cosplaying over two decades and I still mess up. You often have to learn how to live with some mistakes, how to fix others without buying more material, and how to mitigate making mistakes in the first place.

That said, I think you can do this -- Genshin designs are notoriously hard, but this one is one of the more beginner friendly Genshins I've seen because it's relatively simple shapes in the clothes without a lot of extra detail and greebles (Genshin LOVES greebles haha).

For the wig: go very very slowly if you trim it and use thinning shears rather than scissors or regular wig shears. This will allow you to take off a little bit of fiber at a time and then reassess. Be sure to mark where the bangs sit on your head rather than on a wig head, since that may not match up. Thankfully, braids are pretty easy to take out and redo, and this wig doesn't need any sort of heavy styling, so you're good. If you do use heat styling, use the lowest heat possible as to not risk scorching the wig. You can always unstyle it with more heat (like a flatiron).

For the sewing bits: make a mockup! Or two! This doesn't have to be expensive: go to a thrift store. Buy sheets and tablecloths. Or use worn out sheets you already own. That's fabric that is free or extremely cheap. By making a mockup, you can know how things will fit before you cut into the good fabric that's more expensive and harder to get, and you'll learn on something that's less precious because oh well, those sheets were unusable anyway. You can also do armor mockups with cardboard if you have any scrap laying around. Worst case you can pattern out the armor on paper and tape it around yourself to see if it fits and looks right and adjust from there.

For the hoop skirt: I'm not entirely sure what you mean with the size and where you want to remove boning. That might work but it also might not, since hoop skirts work by having the hoops hold the fabric in place, so the shape is often determined by the fabric. If you remove a hoop but the rest of the hoops are in the same shape, it won't really change the shape and just make it floppy in the area that you removed a hoop. That said, if you are looking to make the hoop skirt shorter, removing the bottom hoop can do that. I also always recommend a petticoat over a hoop, even just a small one, to hide the bones of the hoop so they don't show through the outer skirt fabric. If you get a hoop that's smaller than the amount of poof you need, a bigger petticoat can help refine the shape on top, as well.

If you want to make a hoop smaller (that is, less poof), you need to remove length from the hoops themselves. They're long, flat pieces of steel in a casing, and if you remove length and reattach them together (difficult and potentially dangerous, use eye protection if you attempt it), that is what will make the hoop have less poof. Honestly, unless the hoop is pretty much straight out, I wouldn't bother and just use it as is, since different images seem to have her skirt at different poof levels. If you want smaller poof, I'd recommend using a petticoat (like a lolita fashion styled one) if you can afford to buy something new for it instead of the hoop.

As always with cosplay skirts, but especially ones with hoops (they swing like a bell), wear shorts or bloomers underneath so you don't have any accidents.

Also remember: you can ALWAYS remake things later. Not happy with how it turned out for this con? Cool, save up money to remake that piece for the next con. This has helped me with my own perfectionist tendencies haha

I hope that helps! Have fun with it :]

Wrestling with being super excited to work on my cosplay and being nervous about ruining the materials I have because I'm not made of money and if I fuck up something I can't always just buy more of that thing, 😬😬 this is especially true for the wig. And it's a short with and it's not even especially spikey.

I'm less afraid of the actual sewing part because I already bought a little more fabric then I needed incase I messed up 😭

Even down to like I bought a hoop skirt but I worry it's tooo much and I may have to take out a row of the boning and try to add in a seperate material for a softer skirt fluff. But I don't have money to buy another hoop skirt if I fuck this one up. AHH.

It doesn't help that I am an unshakable perfectionist, and I want to make a design that feels as true to the source as possible, with the only additions being that I chose unique fabrics to give the outfit a more lived in and realistic feel.

It also doesn't help that this is a fucking genshin impact character and their outfits are so so soooo fucking stupid to try to do accurately in real life due to all the floating bits.

[gimpyimpy]

Dysmorphia cosplay update <333

The head is ALMOST DONE I just need to color the stretched face skin and make the wooden circle and im all set (and maybe connect the flesh strechies with project clay to make it look more fleshy)

I have no idea what to do with the rest of the body tho blehhh ((ALSO THIS IS MY FIRST COSPLAY EVERRR AAAA!!!))

[thepurpleclownz]

“HELLO LGBTQ COMMUNITY”

After three days he’s done!!!

This came out way better than I expected for my semi-first time doing something like this.

There are some nitpicks though. The paint seems a bit too yellow, at least for me. It don’t show up as yellow on camera though. His little beak thing is also crooked a bit, but it’ll be fine.

I’d love to make a full-body cosplay of Gabriel but I do not have the time nor the funds to do so sadly. If I did extend on it, I’d probably just make his props (Swords and his spear). As of right now, if I were going out in cosplay, I’d just put on a dress and the helmet and call it a day lol.

I’m thinking of making a V1 or a V2 helmet next. Maybe I’ll work on it during the summer but idk yet.

[just-sauntered-vaguely-downwards]

My first ever illustration on an iPad. I think it may be finally done? I could literally keep adjusting things forever probably, but for now at least I’m saying it’s done.

This started because I was obsessed with this jacket @shoemakerobstetrician posted and kinda all went forward from there. Fighting my adhd urge to overshare about my dormant art background and all the details I went insane doing, but maybe I’ll do that in another post.

[fabrickind]

Hello there!

This question is so broad as to be nearly unanswerable, so I'll just point you towards a few things to get you started.

As for where to get the clothes and accessories: there's four main ways to go about this.

Make the clothes from scratch. This works best for anything you want to make from scratch and is often your only option for fantasy garments that don't exist irl and aren't sold as premade costumes. If you are entering in a contest, you also have to make. This would involve finding a clothing pattern that is similar to the garment you want to make, buying fabric, and sewing it. If you're a beginner, start with a simple garment like a pleated skirt or some shorts. With Joann closing down, I'd say Fabric Wholesale Direct (online) is your best bet for cheap fabrics, though some Michael's stores have fabric as well. (Assuming you are in the US, since I don't know about other countries.)

Buy clothing that is similar to the character. This works best for character who have clothes similar to real life clothing rather than pure fantasy clothing. For this, I would recommend becoming familiar with clothing terminology so you know what you search for, and then combing through online shops/amazon/wherever for what you need. You can also find items at thrift stores or out of your own closet that are similar, but that requires in person hunting. Anything that is in this category can also be modified to better suit the character, such as by dyeing the garment, painting a design on the front, hemming the pants into shorts, etc.

Buying a premade costume. This works best for popular characters where companies can make a profit by selling premades, and unfortunately the size ranges tend to be narrow. Look around on sites like Doki Doki, Uwowo, Mic Costumes, or even Amazon for premades, and look up reviews with photos to make sure you're getting what you want. Watch out for tariffs if you are in the US and buying from China, however.

Commission the outfit. This involves paying someone with expertise to make the costume for you, and since you're paying for materials and skilled labor without the benefit of factory setups and economies of scale, this will likely be pricey.

You can also do any of these for any part of the costume: say, make the distinctive skirt, buy a basic button up shirt, paint a pair of shoes, commission the sword, and buy the character's jewelry as a set online.

If cost is an issue, your cheapest will likely be to thrift clothes and modify them, though all of the first three of these can end up being the cheapest or most expensive option for a particular character once you price it out, depending on the design and what is available. (Say, buying a whole premade costume for a Genshin character who has 9324579 accessories and gradients and prints will likely be cheaper than making it, but making a character that has a simple outfit will likely be cheaper if you thrift the materials or get cheap fabrics, and making something specialty like a boned bunnysuit will be cheaper than paying a commissioner, etc.)

There's a secret fifth option, too, that might work depending on the character and your budget: buying used. If you want a premade costume of a popular character, you might be able to find it for cheaper on a used cosplay like like Lumikha or on a used clothing site like Poshmark or Mercari. This depends on what is available for sale, though, so it may take some time to hunt down exactly what you want.

For a small budget, I'd say to choose a character you can either buy the whole costume used or where you can use items from your closet and thrift the rest.

If you're interested in making things, feel free to take a look through my blog for advice, and to look through other, similar blogs.

I hope that helps! Good luck :]

cosplay tips ?

do you guys have any cosplay tips , like for wigs , where to get the reight clothes , accessory and stuff or anything ???

because i'm trying to get better at cosplay but always the same advice lie clothes softner and website who are WAY too expensive for me (no hate toward them)

any advice will be cool ..... please i need help

[chiveebee]

Majora’s Mask / BOTW/ TOTK Cosplay.

Sorry for the horrible lighting, I have no idea what was wrong with me that day to think that it was good. Some shots look kind of creepy good with the mask tho..

⊹ ࣪ ˖

Mask is made by “DysaniaProps” on Etsy! Me and my dad had a wonderful experience purchasing from them. Their work is incredible.

Sadly I’m not sure where my dad got the leatherwork done because that was something he was more interested in than I was;; From my eyes it is also great quality though!

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[inkk-gutzz]

Jere Jere ★ Fire Endless Night!

Man i feel like a fossil every time i remember the fnaf rebornica au from waaayyy back in the early days of fnaf- i kinda miss it in a bittersweet way, and ol jeremy still has a special place in my heart.

so heres a drawing of the weeb himself cosplaying gumi! i tried to do a perspective drawing but i literally dont know what perspective is-

[kericius]

I cosplayed Ichi the witch (WIP) at MCM for my first cosplay