GO GO Guchuko! ★★★

A duck that accidentally happened while dealing with expanding foam XD

I finally started my guchuko cosplay (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ I decided to start the costume with the hardest parts for me: Scythe and laser firing ear thingies. So far my costumes have been mostly sewing and I have zero experience in making props (okay, I did make some parts of the asunas sword but it was mostly made by my bf) so making a scythe for guchuko seemed a little challenging to say the least. But since I have spent the last few days watching cosplay prop tutorials I couldn't help but to start with the scythe, even though sewing the costume would have been a better way to start the costume... oh well I like challenges (★^O^★)

First I made a base for the skull and ear thingies from cardboard. There is a picture of the skulls cardboard base below. 

After that I used expanding foam to cover cardboard bases. With the ear things I first did other side and after the foam was dry enough I made the other side. After the expanding foam was added it looked nothing like it should have looked (・・。)ゞ They were just bunch of deformed balls ヽ(ﾟДﾟ)ﾉ

It took about 4-5 hours for those deformed balls to dry completely and after they were dry I started to carve them with cardboard knife. It was quite easy since I had the cardboard base in them and I could use it in my advantage to carve the wanted shape easily.

From random to nice-looking laser-thing

After I had sculpt all the pieces I covered the biggest holes with a masking tape. Then I added wall filler to cover the rest of the holes and waited for it to dry. It took again several hours to dry, so making props is a lot of waiting... After it was dry I could sand the surface and make it smooth (´ ▽｀).。ｏ♡  I also added base coat and now all of the pieces are waiting for me to color them.

the skull when it was carved and the same skull after the filler was added and sanded.

a sanded one and none sanded one

But that's not all progress that was made during weekend! The scythe is also starting to get its shape:

hole was cut for the blade...

and the scythe was cut. (though the parts are not attached to eachother)

For the first time using these materials and techniques I think I did quite well. I'm very pleased with how the parts look so far ( ˘ ³˘)❤ and I'm very proud of myself ^__^ (now that I said that I have a bad feeling something terrible happens while I paint the parts XD)

It looks like it. atleast i think it does ^___^

☆☆ASUNA WIP☆☆

I managed to finish the vest-thingie☆☆☆☆  ☆*:.｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆ so happyy

close-up

I'm very pleased with the final result. I like the fabric choice and I like the fact I chose to do those red details from satin ribbon instead of normal cotton ribbon (which doesn't shine). The vest has a hidden zipper at the left side. though if I had to do this again i'd probably put the zipper at the back of the vest. Because now it's a bit hard to put on and if I had bigger head, I wouldn't be able to put it on...

Then I started to do the shoes and breast armor for Asuna. I still haven't finished them, but hopefully next week I'm able to do so.

 I need to put the grey outlines to the armor and also color two crosses grey and attach them to the armor. I might also apply color to the armor itself to make it look not-so-soft XD This is the first armor I have ever made >__< the armor is made out of craft foam. I was happily surprised how easy it is to work with! I'm really looking forward to see how this ends up 

For Asuna's shoes I used some old boots I had lying in my closet. I had once used them in a cosplay, but I hated them so bad. I completely failed to alter the shoes back then and they ended up looking horrible. The white paint was peeling off with every step and (╯ಊ╰) so horrible...

I cut the shoes and made the tip of the shoe a bit rounder. After that I made the pattern for the shoecovers. I pinned some fabric on top of the shoe and drew lines with pencil where the pins were.

First pin the random fabric and then draw the lines

Then you should end up with the patterns :)

Shoes when the shoecovers weren't attached and

 the same shoes when I had sewn them and hot glued the bottom part.

To-Do-List
⌀ make belt
⌀ add lining to the white thing under the vest
⌀ Finish shoes
⌀ Finish armor
⌀stockings
⌀shorten skirt
⌀style wig 
⌀make gloves
⌀make armbands
⌀SWORD!

☆☆Finished☆☆

✓Vest

As you can see I still have a lot to do... ☆￣(＞。☆)  

Sword Art Online - Asuna WIP

Asuna Yuuki

It was at least six months ago (or even longer ago) when my boyfriend suggested that we should cosplay Asuna and Kirito from Sword Art Online. Back then I didn't know anything about SAO and I had to google those characters to know what they looked like. I wasn't that thrilled about their outfits, but I thought I could do it if I liked the anime (I can't cosplay a character if I don't know anything about it, which means I have to watch the anime or read the manga, the character is in, in order to cosplay it.) After I had watch couple episodes of SAO it was clear that my next cosplay was going to be Asuna. I loved the anime and  Asuna's personality (｡♥‿♥｡)

patterns in size 1:4

materials (thin red ribbon not in the picture)

I started with the red skirt, mainly because I already had the fabric for it. (I purchased all the other equipment later) The skirt was normal pleated skirt and I managed to get it done quite fast. The most time consuming thing in the skirt was to iron the pleats. But if I have to mention just one thing I have learned in sewing, it is that ironing makes everything look at least 10 times better (｡･ω･｡) so ironing is a must.

making pleats

Finished skirt !! 

When the skirt was done I started doing the vest part ( I'm not sure if it's a vest put I shall call it that XD) Making a pattern for it was hard, I constantly changed it a little and in the end my patterns were all messy. But at least they worked! 

Ah those messy patterns.

How it looked when I had sewn some red ribbon
(I looked too tired, therefore the duck. DUCKFACE)

All the thick red ribbon in, time for thin red ribbon

BTW it took overall 14 m of red ribbon

the outfit, how it looks and how it should look.

So that's everything I have done so far. next I'm going to make the shoes and armor and add details to the vest (●´∀｀●)

Yuzuki Yukari WIP

Yuzuki Yukari, the cutie bunny vocaloid
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I fell in love with Yuzuki's design when I first saw her and ever since I have wanted to cosplay her. I also really like her voice ♥♥♥

I had bought fabric for her lavender-colored dress long before I actually started making her costume. I found really cheap fabric which was right color for her and I immediately bought it XD! So far this has been the cheapest cosplay I have ever made, but I still have to buy a wig and shoes and buy materials for her hoodie and over-the-knee socks and loudspeakers... so I still have to spend more money on her ╮(╯▽╰)╭

The patterns for this dress were really easy to make. ( I think i'll post a tutorial in case someone else is planning to do yuzuki  (*^▽^*) ) After I had cut all of the pieces they looked like that:

And those same pieces when I had sewn them together (and iron them !)

So it started to look like a dress ＼（＠￣∇￣＠）／ After the "base" was done I added the ruffles on the top and also the see-through fabric to the bottom of the dress. Before adding the see-through fabric I had already sewn hem to the bottom of the dress. Usually the hem is almost the last things u make, but I already knew it was the right length so I thought it would be easier to do now

Ruffles yaaii

How the dress looked with ruffles

Which one to choose?

Apparently I ended up with the upper one
 (I thought it looked more like  in the picture)

When all these were done the only thing left was to sew the zipper and those darker lilac and black ribbons. and of course making and adding bows.

Ignore my weird looking legs X'DD

 

hurrrrr

(almost) finished dress  Ｏ(≧▽≦)Ｏ

I still need to put couple eyelets and some pearls at the bottom of the dress. but otherwise the dresspart is done and I can move on to the hoodie :3 (i wish I could have posted a picture of me wearing the finished dress, but I was too lazy to set timer and find decent place for the camera, lazy me （￣～￣;） )