#beginner cosplay

[bl00dkat]

Ren photoshoot~

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And a little treat haha ♡︎

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[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

[cisnt-critter]

For the final day have my costume, I’m still new at cosplay and haven’t made once since 2020 but I like how it turned out :D hope you had a good spooky month!

Btw the background has been avoided as it has because a- it’s a mess and b- my roomate’s stuff is really the only things in the background and I dont know if they’d be comfortable with me sharing it online

[thelittlebroccoli]

A new Squirrel’s on the block bitches!

^(not my art, comic art)

[elletudie]

the designer vs the designs but it’s all my failed attempts at sewing

[whelmed-justwhelmed]

A cosplay announcement ft. highlights from my generally less interesting notes for the project

(Finally getting around to writing / posting this so I can feel like I can actually start talking about this project and not feel weird about not having the context for it somewhere.)

Earlier this year after a generous amount of back and forth with myself on whether or not I wanted to try doing this yet and if so what I would want to do, I decided I would like to try cosplay now and eventually made a decision on what I wanted to do for that (although it was still a few months roughly before I actually seriously started working on the project). This will be my first cosplay, I’ll be cosplaying enmu from demon slayer.

I’ve been working on it for a few months now so I’ve gotten a decent amount of the stuff together for it so far, although I still have stuff I need to figure out / get together still. Ideally I want to get it done before a con me and my family are planning to go to in March (2023) but it’d be ok if I didn’t manage to finish in time for that because there’ll be another con we’re planning to go to in June (may or may not end up trying to go to more than those two but I don’t know if we’ll manage that or not, we’ll see) although that said I think I’ll be ok for time.

I plan to elaborate on the mentioned prop sometime in the near future, that and more on this project in general. I intend to put out work in progress pictures as well as pictures of finished stuff and I might make posts that are more about my more personal thoughts about the process / project.

I’ll just have to see what I end up doing, but I can say there’ll be wip pictures and finished pictures if nothing else.

[concerningjedis]

Ordered fabric for geonosis / arena battle padmé cosplay!!

My deadline is April for Star Wars Celebration Europe. I’m starting on the top first, as it’s the most detailed bit of clothing. I want to get the clothing parts down before I start any of the more complicated parts like the boot covers and the belt.

I’m really excited, this is my first cosplay ever and I’ll try to post progress / updates when I have them

[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.

[snezka-049]

We went to anime fest

Yes, I worship a jar of lavender

[eman-cosplay]

Here you can see my whole metal arm of Eustass kid cosplay <3

And yea i love one piece

[cookiewoli]

GUUUUUYS PATHEA POSTED MY COSPLAY OF MI-AN ON THEIR ACCOUNT !!!

[nuppu-nuppu]

Testing my Gojo cosplay for desucon!

Does anyone have any wig styling tips 😭

[sartanism]

Facial hair test for my Harry cosplay wip :^) The hair crepe is a bit too light but I will dye it when I finish the makeup and outfit

[lovely-hikari-cosplay]

💜🐺🌙 Freaky, Fierce, and Fabulous!🌙🐺💜

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2 months overdue, but I finally finished my Clawdeen cosplay project!

Every year since about 2018, I go to Spirit Halloween and try to find something that I can use to test my costuming/makeup skills and create a stage/contest worthy costume or makeup

Last year, I wanted to fix up their new Monster High costumes and chose Clawdeen as she was the most derivative of the box art. I got most of the alterations done in August, but then got extremely busy with school which took up a lot of time and mental energy.

I also just recently picked up shoemaking, and spent a LONG time making and remaking patterns as I DESPISED that they made Clawdeen’s boots legs warmers instead of shoe covers (and I figured a shoe without a toe puff or heel counter would be a good place to start)

Anyway, despite these hang ups, I decided not to give up on this and knew I could knock it out during winter break, and she’s finally here! 💜

[olivethetiger]

not a boy, not a Boxtroll, but a secret third thing

[merri-berri]

My old hometown held its first ever anime/cosplay convention, a perfect opportunity to improve my Percival King cosplay!

And this time I actually have proper picks to show off it all!!

Things I added/remade:

-All the decorative bands are made by tablet weaving, a traditional nordic weaving technique

-I made new gloves! I bought the last ones but these are self made

-I lost the old paper tie so I knitted a new one (it's sewn to a fabric thingy so it stays in shape)

-Shoes!

I even entered my first ever cosplay contest with this. I didn't win, but I did get an honorable mention prize for entering, and compliments about my crafting techniques

Finland has a way bigger con-scene than I imagined! And a lot of them are pretty small and chill too which is nice