So, let's make few things sure first. No, I am not huge anime fan. To be honest, I had really bad assumption about animes but that has changed a little. I like sewing. I like making nice costumes and wearing them. I am seasoned larper and that used to be my reason and excuse why spend sometimes hours behind sewing machine. To be honest, when I started larping, I was horrible at sewing. It was the need for make my own costumes that made me try and like with everything else, you learn while you do. So, I learned and I think now I feel myself quite at home in the sewing world (except button holes.. they trouble me).
Anyway, my boyfriend is huge anime fan and is actually in organizing theme for local largest anime festival and I think there came the idea that mm.. if I am going to that convention, maybe I could do a cosplay (and hide that I do not belong in that world). That gave me the push to go on and try something new.. trying to copy something from animation and transform myself into anime char. I have no idea what comes out of it.. Let's see.
Anyway.. I decided to go with Irisviel from Fate/Zero (mm.. maybe because there are only very few animes I have seen and somehow I liked her, quite a lot to be honest.) Then there were few options for different outfits but I liked the casual one with red blouse the most. Also, when googeling around, it did not looked that too many people had tried it. The one with white coat seemed to be the most popular one.
So, the first thing I did was ordering myself few things I cannot do myself: that includes wig and boots.
As I have no idea how things are done in cosplay world (and I actually did not told at first to my boyfriend that I am going to do it), I just went with my own gut - searched for the wig in ebay and got myself cheap wig from China. To be honest, it looks awful currently but then I googled for few tips and I think I might be able to salvage it.
The other thing I ordered were the boots. I found quite many online shops offering those fancy looking boots but one actually looked great on the picture and they took into account all your measurements (I was worried that might be the problem.. I never find boots easily).
So, I was actually really excited when the boots arrived. They look gorgeous and fit super well... but.. I have no idea how but they had very weird black spot on them. I contacted the seller, tried to remove them but nothing helped. So, they promised to make a new pair of boots for me. Okei.. that should work.. Another month of waiting and new pair of boots arrive - one boot is brilliant - no marks. The other one - even more uglier black spots.. Like what? Anyway.. I gave up. The quality and the fit was brilliant but I think it was the packaging that hurt and even if I mentioned it specifically that I suspected the marks came from that, they packaged the boots the same way second time.. So.. I have two sets of boots and only one boot that is okey.. I will see what I can do with it, later..
Next thing I need is the brooch. That was actually I think the hardest thing. I googled around (again) and there was somebody selling those brooches made out of clay. I thought that might be little too heavy and I most say I did not liked the images they showed me of the same broach made previously.. So, I thought about some other options. One of my friends studies leather work and I asked her if she is willing to do that commission for me. So far, so good.
So, my next step was to come up with a design so that she could work on it. Some screenshotting from the anime and some time working with photoshop (maybe not the best tool for it but I'm very handy with that program) and I had design, measurments and did some mock printups to see if the size is correct.
Anyway, my boyfriend is huge anime fan and is actually in organizing theme for local largest anime festival and I think there came the idea that mm.. if I am going to that convention, maybe I could do a cosplay (and hide that I do not belong in that world). That gave me the push to go on and try something new.. trying to copy something from animation and transform myself into anime char. I have no idea what comes out of it.. Let's see.
Anyway.. I decided to go with Irisviel from Fate/Zero (mm.. maybe because there are only very few animes I have seen and somehow I liked her, quite a lot to be honest.) Then there were few options for different outfits but I liked the casual one with red blouse the most. Also, when googeling around, it did not looked that too many people had tried it. The one with white coat seemed to be the most popular one.
So, the first thing I did was ordering myself few things I cannot do myself: that includes wig and boots.
As I have no idea how things are done in cosplay world (and I actually did not told at first to my boyfriend that I am going to do it), I just went with my own gut - searched for the wig in ebay and got myself cheap wig from China. To be honest, it looks awful currently but then I googled for few tips and I think I might be able to salvage it.
The other thing I ordered were the boots. I found quite many online shops offering those fancy looking boots but one actually looked great on the picture and they took into account all your measurements (I was worried that might be the problem.. I never find boots easily).
So, I was actually really excited when the boots arrived. They look gorgeous and fit super well... but.. I have no idea how but they had very weird black spot on them. I contacted the seller, tried to remove them but nothing helped. So, they promised to make a new pair of boots for me. Okei.. that should work.. Another month of waiting and new pair of boots arrive - one boot is brilliant - no marks. The other one - even more uglier black spots.. Like what? Anyway.. I gave up. The quality and the fit was brilliant but I think it was the packaging that hurt and even if I mentioned it specifically that I suspected the marks came from that, they packaged the boots the same way second time.. So.. I have two sets of boots and only one boot that is okey.. I will see what I can do with it, later..
Next thing I need is the brooch. That was actually I think the hardest thing. I googled around (again) and there was somebody selling those brooches made out of clay. I thought that might be little too heavy and I most say I did not liked the images they showed me of the same broach made previously.. So, I thought about some other options. One of my friends studies leather work and I asked her if she is willing to do that commission for me. So far, so good.
So, my next step was to come up with a design so that she could work on it. Some screenshotting from the anime and some time working with photoshop (maybe not the best tool for it but I'm very handy with that program) and I had design, measurments and did some mock printups to see if the size is correct.
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| Mock printups.. First one had too small sides. Second one looks perfect |
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| Final design |
So, I sent the final design to my friend and I will see what she says - I hope it will be possible for her to make that kind of brooch.
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