#hack cosplay

[zeldamomoe]

"I wouldn't have made it this far without you. What am I to do when you start doubting yourself?"

BlackRose was my number one dream cosplay as a kid! I loved .hack//Infection, Mutation, Outbreak and Quarantine so much. I originally made this costume in 2015, but this is my rebuild from 2020. For the armor, everything was made out of EVA foam, and the breastplate base was an old strapless bra I had lying around. I re-purposed the tights, loincloth fabric, and wig (just re-styled it) from my 2015 cosplay, as well as the sword that was built with the help of my brother-in-law back then too. Everything else was created new, and since I was furloughed at the time I had all the time in the world to get everything perfectly how I wanted.

I even designed the tattoos myself on Illustrator! They're available for purchase on my ko-fi.

Photos by my partner & edits by me

[dreamcastexe]

[a-ladyman-in-waiting]

I went outside once more lol

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Plus, I have an update!!

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Behold!!

My answer to the flapping loincloth!

Results are mixed.

Pros:

- doesn’t flap in the wind willy-nilly

Which means that I don’t have to fix it constantly nor do I have spend money buying supplies. Yay ^<^

Cons:

- The skirt still flies up when I spin.

Welp.

Le tags: @skyethewolfwizard @slimylittlemaggot @mayhem-moth @ladyofspoons @the-trash-eating-llama

[dirtyriver]

"I think I should get an award for Hack/Slash purely on the grounds that it would be funny."

Hack/Slash: Back to School #1-4 + TPB by Zoe Thorogood (also cosplaying as Cassie on the back cover of the TPB and writing her own pull quote)

[curtvilescomic]

exclusive cosplay cover to Hack/Slash Back to School

Cassie Hack cosplay by Zoe Thorogood

[luthiest]

02.14.23

happy valentine’s day to all who celebrate,,, 💌💌 i have midterm papers due this weekend but i also have an anime convention im going to that’s been in the works for a while :’) i’ll let y’all know if i prevail

🎧 : no surprises - radiohead

[adorebunnycos]

Making Vex and Grog

These costumes are near and dear to my heart because they get a lot of love when we wear them.

Vex'ahlia is definetly one of my lazy-girl looks because she uses my hair, natural eye-color, and the peices are super comfortable. I made my Pauldrons from fur, cutting out the shape, sewing right sides together and then attatching them on with safety pins. The tunic is a dress from Amazon that I butchered. I cut a slit up the side, made it shorter, deepened the neckline, added the blue trim to the sleeves and collar, and then added the pin to put it all together. This whole costume was about $70 dollars (including the boots), and is so worth it. HACK: For elf/fairy ears, attach them with a thin layer of eyelash glue where they make contact with your skin so they stay on all day and you do not lose them.

Grog was a bit harder, but so much more rewarding. His battle kilt is made from a 7 dollar Kylo Ren belt we got from the Disney store outlet. Then I got some leather-looking cotton fabric and glued it to the inside to connect it, added the front peice, and then made the "buckle" out of craft foam from Micheals. Then I added the trim to make it look barbarian-y. His "skin" is a shirt that I painted with his tattoos, and bodypaint I did on my boyfriend. This entire costume took about $50 dollars to make, and it looks so good! HACK: Remember to set. Set. Set. That makeup with powder and spray so it does not budge.

©2024 Perez, Ashley

[whimsicalparadox]

We livin the dream (driving a subaru)

[thenerdysewist]

Making a Masking Tape Pattern

It's an old cosplay hack. You wrap a part of your body in plastic wrap (cling film), and then apply duct tape or masking tape over the plastic wrap until it fits to your body. You can then draw on the shape of the garment and seams, and it should fit perfectly to your measurements.

Over the weekend I was attempting to use a bodice pattern I already had to make a leather chest plate for a D&D Ranger Cosplay. After several failed mock ups, in which the curve for the princess seam just wouldn't sew flat, I gave up and looked for a different pattern. My usual online sources for free patterns failed me, and I decided to try my hand at this age old cosplay hack.

Step 1: Wrapping Yourself in Plastic Wrap and Tape.

I was able to wrap the plastic wrap around my entire torso, but not so much by upper back. For that I required the help of my mom. I was able to apply the tape to my front half, but for the back I once again needed the help of a second person.

Step 2: Marking the Seams

Once I was wrapped in tape, I took a sharpie and drew on where I wanted the seams. I marked a center front line, a center back line, a shoulder seam line, and a side seam line. I also marked a front and back neckline, and drew on the curve of the princess seam so that it curved over my bust to my waist to account for the natural curve of my bust.

Then my mom cut me out of the tape up the center back line. Note, be sure you are thoroughly wrapped in plastic wrap before you start applying tape. I didn't do as good a job as I thought I did, and disaster struck.

Thankfully the tank top I was wearing was one I'd had since high school, so losing it wasn't the end of the world, but maybe wear an old shirt you don't care about if you do this, just in case.

Step 3: Making the Pattern

Once free of my masking tape cocoon, I cut apart the shell along the seam lines I drew. That left me with three wobbly tape pieces. The seam over the bust held its 3D shape once cut apart, so I added a notch in the curve to make it lie flat.

Then I traced the shapes onto some parchment paper (but any big enough piece of paper will do) and added half an inch all the way around to allow for the seams and hems.

Step 4: Mock Up

Before I cut into the very expensive fake leather I bought, I wanted to make sure the pattern fit. So I cut apart a mock up from another project to make a mock up for this one.

Half of it fit great, half of it came out super wonky, but at that point I'd been working on this for 6 hours straight, so I decided to wait and fix it the next day. I got up the next morning and cut another mock up and stitched it together.

This time it fit perfectly, and I cut into the leather.

Step 5: Final Fabric

I cut out the pattern one last time, this time in the fake leather I purchased.

Then I stitched it together, and tried it on using clothes pins to hold it shut.

As you can see, it fits perfectly. I have some buckles coming, and then I'll be able to finish it!

Normally I would have saved this for when I completed the project, but I was really excited and proud that I learned a new technique! I wanted to share that excitement with you.

[zeldamomoe]

"That wasn't Aromatic Grass...right?" 👀🌿🌱🌾

I got so annoyed at Elk saying that every time I went to a dungeon w/him😂 Here's some Elk photoshoot pics from last year. Thanks again to @royalspacefish for gifting their cosplay to me!

📷My partner Raph, edits by me!

[lilith-devi-nyx-elsword-theorist]

Aura, Zefie (Aura's daughter) and Morgana.

I got different eyes for Aura, since both my CU and CE are both Aura's with different eye's one is Nereid eyes, the other is Lapis eyes.

Zefie who was from the manga.

and Morgana who doesn't have a physical form from last I checked, the last check was about 2 months ago so maybe something was updated in the actual canon part of the series.

look I love the .hack// franchise, I've grown up on it for how I never understood it as a child, and here I am where it's on my list of things I would talk about.

this isn't to spite a certain other series, since well I'm glad they got their attention, but sometimes I think that they would be burned out from how many releases while we're over here with only A game that had a resurgence and an extra volume.

Do I want the .hack// IMOQ game rereleased in todays day and age? yes.

[tipsy-scales]

2B the machine also said to hurry

[a-ladyman-in-waiting]

Warning: Skirt shows off groin

Image in place.

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Note: this is a showcase of how my solution did not prevent my skirt from flashing my groin.

I honestly thought that the stone chess table was high enough to negate the groin shot.

I thought wrong.

Le tags: @the-trash-eating-llama @ladyofspoons @skyethewolfwizard

Reference photos lol

[badgerclawsaresharp]

Hi there! I was wondering how you made the mask for your Baron from the Baronies cosplay? I'm thinking about cosplaying them myself and I wanted to know whether you had any tips you could share. Thank you!

Hey, thanks for asking! I made the whole Baron cosplay on a whim over the course of like four days, so there's a lot of things I would do differently if I made it again. That said, here's how I made the mask!

The mask itself was a circular frame I made out of craft wire, with strips of construction paper curving across it to give it shape. And then I, uh, duct taped some sunglasses in there so it would actually stay on my face lol. There's definitely better ways to do this, I was just working with what I got.

The outside was a single piece of model magic that I rolled out really thin, and then cut out the eyes/mouth/scars with a crafting knife. The big tip I have here is for the eyes--use cheesecloth! It's the best thing ever! Cheesecloth folded/layered many times is still pretty easy to see through when it's right up against your eyes, but gives the appearance of solid cloth from a distance. I just dyed some a dark grey/black, and stuck it between the paper frame and clay.

I hope that helps! Best of luck making the roëmænce partnær!

[edgeofthemultiverse]

[retadoesthings]

Macha / Maha /  マハ from .hack//SIGN Photographed by Mira Ojamo in Finncon-Animecon 2011

I made this wonderfully strange cosplay in 2011 for a costume competition and although the clothes are a wonky (I was still a baby when it comes to sewing and I think I made this cosplay without any supervision from more skilled friends), I actually still quite like some construction choices I made.

My favorite parts:

I definitely wanted to include Macha’s giant red eyes in my execution, but I also didn’t want to completely lose the ability to make facial expressions. The “reverse balaclava” was a compromise between these two points. Whether or not it looks good in hindsight, I’m still not sure, but I stand by the choice anyway. The eyes had two layers of sunglass lenses glued into them; red lenses on top and mirror lenses underneath, to make the eyes reflect light in a creepy, cat-like way. I dig that!

It’s hard to tell from the pictures, but I had little whiskers too. One of the oddest things I’ve used for cosplay; those were originally parts of a table disco light of some sort. Like, stiff but also kinda bendy plastic sticks, about the thickness of a fishline, that used to light up in different colors and rotate when the light was on? (Incredibly hard to describe. Internet search didn’t help at all.) Anyway, I took a few sticks, painted them black and glued them to a tiny black pearl, which I then glued to my face.

The overall design with the half white, half lilac skin is fun. The skin doesn’t cover my whole body, of course; it’s just legwarmers, gloves and balaclava. The ears have steel wire in them to make them sturdy but bendable. In the top pic you can even see the pink imitation leather details on the paws!

If I’m not having a fake memory right now, I think the dark brown fabric used to be curtains. I also think I ran out of it, because the sleeves ended up TOIGHTTT. I don’t recall that being intentional.

Then the baby shaming part (aka some pictures I took (while laughing) when I got rid of this costume in The Great Cosplay Purge of 2019):

Incredible craftmanship on the left, incredible effort on the right. The ribbon was attached to the collar with a safety pin, because of course it was. Why attach something properly when you can throw a safety pin at it? It used to be an inside joke among my friends that all my (competition) costumes always used to have some secret safety pinned part.

(”Used to have”, I say while thinking about the latest competition I’ve been to. I safety pinned one of my cosplay partner’s costume parts in place. Just last month. But it was sort of an emergency so that doesn’t count, okay.)