Rue (Magna Carta II) @ Otakon 2010

photo credit: thislonlyflower

This costume was surprisingly pretty easy for me. (I must be getting used to HTK...) I love my poufy bloomer shape! I experimented with gradient dye. It's very subtle but I kinda like it that way. I also tried using pink insulation foam for the pumpkin and daggers. The daggers and pumpkin stem didn't quite make it. The pumpkin was "fixed" with wire and the daggers remade for fanime from styrene? some sort of thermoplastic I had laying around for another project and super sculpy.

I think I'll make her shuriken weapons for the next MC2 meetup.

Reworn for Katsucon 2011

photo credit: Neoqueenhoneybee

Reworn for Fanime 2011

 

photo credit: EBK, masakocha

Marzana (War of Genesis 3) @ Otakon 2008

photo credit: Spooky Electric

Neoqueenhoneybee and I got back into WoG3!

Oh, man. Marzana shows more chest than I have ever shown before so I was all wrapped up in my cape for most of the time I wore this.

And wig fail! I couldn't keep the wig on my head when I attached the giant gravity defying ponytail so I had to go without.

Costume-wise, I was very happy with it! The pleather, though, does need some sort of lining...

I tried out the competition. I knew I wouldn't win with an unfinished costume but the experience was eye-opening! Definitely interesting but I was so cold during the masq. Eh heh heh...


I do plan on remaking Marzana for a desert shoot sometime in 2012. Looking forward to it, in fact!

Azel (Magna Carta: Crimson Stigmata/Tears of Blood) @ Otakon 2005

photo credit:  unknown

Again, a lot of details are missing but I did learn a LOT from making Azel!

The top was remade at least 3 times before I liked the shape of it and I was sharpie-ing the design on it while waiting in line for the badge so it's another last minute costume.

The orange parts are quilted with just a little bit of paint to help show off the seamlines.

I actually really loved the fabric for the pants and armwarmers! Unfortunately, I resorted to using some sort of  puff paint because it was the only one that was opaque and had stretching abilities. I shouldn't have worried about the stretching.

I learned about props! I experimented with paper clay and dowels (neckpiece) and balsa wood (sword).

Overall, Azel was a lot of fun to wear! Bonus pic! Remember when it was all the rage to photoshop your cosplay with the source? Haha...

The OUIWoGMCCG started to fizzle out a little. Only Soni joined me in MC cosplay this year. She was a very pretty Rith. ♥

Ruchielu Chelsea Descralda (Magna Carta: Phantom of Avalanche) @ Otakon 2004

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My first try at bloomers! FAIL.

Also quite incomplete but the major pieces are there.

The sweater was a lucky find in a thrift store that got amateurishly altered to get the vertical pintucks. The lanterns were two plastic cups glued together and painted. The tails had posterboard inside them. (Hey! I didn't really understand interfacing at the time...) And the staff was just a flagpole with sharpie marks and a pipecleaner, hot glue, and ring necklace mess.

I also tried to use my own hair again. Ha.

This was not a happy costume for me. The sweater was old and itchy and combined with Baltimore humidity, I was just not in a good mood most of the time.


This Otakon, the OUIWoGMCCG returned! Neoqueenhoneybee as Adora and Don Raphael as Calintz, both from Phantom of Avalanche.

Felicia (Magna Carta: Phantom of Avalanche) @ Otakon 2003

photo credit: Neoqueenhoneybee

Oh, Lord. Can we just not talk about this costume? It was very rushed. And... and... crushed velvet. .__.|||

Also my first wig. Complete with hot-glue ahoge.

My lack of skill is showing but I've learned a lot of 'Do Not's making this costume!

The only thing I was proud of in this costume is the painted obi tail. Because I'm not that good at painting but that design came out pretty nicely!

This was the Otakon Neoqueenhoneybee and I dedicated to HTK. And with her cousin, Don Raphael, and our friend, Soni, we were the representing members of the OUIWoGMCCG (Official Unofficial International War of Genesis and Magna Carta Cosplay Group) at Otakon.

Sherazard (War of Genesis 3) @ Otakon 2003

photo credit: unknown

Sherazard's dress was very simple and only the neck scarf thing gave me some trouble. The hand guards were simple foamies. Best thing about the costume was that I could wear sneakers and no one would know! So comfortable...

The dress was made from a heavy short pile velvet though. While not the best fabric choice, I think it worked out ok.

This was the Otakon Neoqueenhoneybee and I dedicated to HTK. And with her cousin, Don Raphael, and our friend, Soni, we were the representing members of the OUIWoGMCCG (Official Unofficial International War of Genesis and Magna Carta Cosplay Group) at Otakon. Neoqueenhoneybee was WoG3P2 Joan, Don Raphael was WoG3P2 Saladin, and Soni wore Neo's Beramode costume.

Carlos van Tairun (War of Genesis 3: Part 2) @ Anime Expo 2002

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So. Neoqueenhoneybee and I discovered Korean artist Hyung Tae Kim and War of Genesis 3. Even though we weren't very skilled, we wanted to promote his awesome arts!

Making Carlos was... interesting. I had picked up a shiny rubberized? pleather-backed? denim at a fabric warehouse and I took up inspiration from the gold leaf in leather bound books and ironed-on gold leaf onto the non-denim side of the fabric. Since it was plastic, it melted just a bit enough to stick to the gold leaf! And amazingly, the gold leaf I bought also stuck to printer ink! So the dragon was an inaccurate dragon grabbed off the internet and printed on paper. I then ironed on foil to the paper which stuck only to the ink, then ironed on the paper to fabric which was stickier than the ink. Presto! Gold leaf transfer.

The waist cape and sword sheaths were pretty fail though. I remember struggling a lot with metal coat hangers...

And we didn't exactly discover wigs yet. ^^;;