Cosplay Diary: Disney's The Rescuers, Translating animals into cosplay

So for Geek.Kon this year my wonderful bf and I are going to try our hands at cosplaying together. I know, this is new so it could go very well or I'll never want to cosplay with him again. But in the wake of  Anime Milwaukee and my wonderful Pyrrha cosplay, he rose to the occasion and helped me build a lot of it. Actually he helps me a lot in general when it comes to me roaming around in Cosplay. So I figured the time has come. We are in this one together!

To kick things off Bov(my bf) chose for us to do Cloudy With a Chance Of Meatballs(2, lets face it, those foodamls). But this blog post won't be focused on that, yes I'll get to the focus part soon. I decided we should do Miss Bianca and Bernard from the Rescuers.

So you see where our problems arise? As much as I love the characters I struggled with the creative freedom to do whatever the heck I wanted with these guys. All I knew for sure is that I wasn't going to do a furry suit(so many reasons) and I didn't want to do kigurumi's(I wanted to use some of that freedom :>)

But here is my biggest piece of inspiration. Its a little thing called Disney Bounding, which I have never done for obvious geographical reasons,(Also it is not to be confused with cosplaying as the link will explain) but I follow cosplayers and artist who have. Like Mr. Leo Camacho who's Disney Bound outfit for the Rescuers inspired what direction I wanted to take this cosplay. 

I found that I want to do something like this but you know, more cosplay like. I looked around for more pictures and found some elements that I did and did not like as much. 

Like big ears, that is a no for me, I will shoot myself in frustration and it would be difficult for Bov to wear them as well. But I love the white wig and hat that HoneyKyouya has going on in this picture :>

click on name for her da page

But this one uncredited picture has served as my biggest inspiration! (found it on this Forum)

Help me credit this artist!!!!

Now I'm behind on blogging so in reality I already bought my outfit(thrift stores!) and I will probably post pics soon but I'm just waiting on the wig now. I also started the small Mouse ears and I will eventually start the tales since I don't think they'll be that much more of a hassle. 

How do you guys translate animals or non human characters to cosplay? I'd love to hear/see it! Leave comments and links!

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Hungary makeup tutorial and Hungary Cosplay Spot light!

Yup! They are back! More makeup tutorials for people to enjoy! I wish I had more pictures of this cosplay to show everyone but this will have to do. I have a lot of fun doing Hungary and I have to say I love the new wig I have for her. This is one of the cosplay's I'm most proud of :>

I actually filmed a video on how to make her dress(or how I made it). One day I will complete it and show it off to the world!

Pictures of my Hungary cosplay because I'm proud of it!

My first time wearing the whole thing :>

Pirates!

More pirates!

New wig!

Me and my favorite Canada!

Me bewlidered by ketchup

And the frying pan video!
~Lulu

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Pyrhha cosplay WIP- Cosplay in review

Ok so, I've been putting this off and its lame. It is so lame of me.... but I really liked my finished cosplay but it was next to impossible to walk in.
No joke, elevators where a night mere for me at Anime Milwaukee. I was so panicked because people would get very close to me.

So issues i had.
- Neck piece choked me.... no really, I was in serious pain
- My thigh pieces didn't fit me perfectly and so they fell... a lot... like I couldn't walk. I got cuts too..... oh gosh, typing this out makes me realize why I didn't want to write this...
- Oh ya, lost one of my gloves in the elevator.... I was also upset because the gloves where not the right color(it bugged me because I wanted them to be brown).

So ya.... It was sort of a disaster for me. I felt like kind of a failure considering real life wasn't going to well. I was losing a really good job so I knew I wouldn't be able to fund many more cosplays for a while and I really wanted to do a good job. After this I felt like a failure in general, my own life wasn't going too well and my cosplaying was going just as good.
Not to mention my weight... I'm not saying everything would have been fixed if I weighed less but it was disappointed in myself. I tend to eat everything when I'm really sad and it is so incredibly bad for my long term physical health. The pictures just made me feel even more disappointed in myself not only about my physical health but how I had failed in making the cosplay wearable.

So ya, I put this off..... I'm such a wimp like that..... but I have to start facing all of my problems head on. No more putting it all off, I need to get over all of this and start moving on. Another job will come and everything will work out some way.

Here's some pictures....

Thanks for reading... it was just something I had to get out there. Now I feel like I can actually start doing stuff for the blog again. 

~ <3 Lulu

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Cosplay WIP- RWBY's Pyrhha DIY tights plus Sphere and Foam armor Crafting sneak peak

  

So... that convention thing, ya that's closing in on me.... 

So I thought I'd share some more of my progress since everything is mostly done.... ok not really, but it is all manageable. 



So early on I ran into a problem, Pyrhha has brown(not black) thigh high socks or whatever. I did not want to invest a whole lot of money into this so I got creative. 

So I found a pair of brown knit tights that not longer fit me in the crotch area. Now these never really fit me so I found a good use for them. I cut the top parts off so I only had the legs left.(The feet where already missing because I had cut them off a year ago).

Next I measured out elastic to fit around my thigh's. 

Asides from the old tights and elastic you'll need matching thread and a sewing machine. You might need appropriate needles to sew with using the machine but I didn't and it still turned out ok.

Now for the steps(my idea of steps anyways) 

• You can either sew the elastic together right away but I don't entirely recommend it. 
• Either way stretch it out as much as you possibly can while sewing because It will not stretch a whole lot once you have sew all the way around. 
• Use pins to sort of help see how much space to leave as you sew around. 
• No really, stretch it out. If it ends up too loose the elastic is the right size for your thigh and will keep it up. 
• If you didn't sew the elastic together right away make sure to do so before you close it up. This means either pull it through the band space you created or attach a safety pin to help push the elastic through the band. The safety pin method is really helpful. Make sure to go back over your sitches a few times with the machine to make sure the elastic stays together. 
• Once the elastic is sew together finish sewing the band all the way around the top. 
• I didn't worry about the bottom opening since I'll be wearing boots with it. 

And thats what it looked like in the end! I forgot to stretch it out so it was a bit more difficult and time consuming for me but it worked well. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out :>

Anyone out there have any suggestions?

So I hope I get it all done in time, here is the sphere in its early stages. 

But you know, I'll be fine. I'll post more pictures later with even more stuff done. 

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Cosplay WIP: RWBY's Pyrhha- armor trial and error

playing with my lovely new wig

Hey duckies! So lately over here at SRP we are booking it to get done with our cosplays set to debut next month at Anime Milwaukee. And guess what? We are no where near done and we have to face finals before it so yay! Either ways, I'm going to document a bit of my journey to accomplish my biggest challenge, Pyrhha from Rooster Teeth's RWBY.

So far the corset is almost done but needs a few touch ups, the boning, and the grommets to lace up in the back. 

But that isn't what is troubling me. It is her countless accessories and armor. Not many have opened up and shared what they did to make it. Except one person who showed that they used worbla... which is very far out of my price range. 

My solution? I ran around Michaels, Joannas, a local craft store, and the dollar store. And I think its turning out very well. 

Instead of investing in Worbla I found some cheap foam board at the dollar store. Its cheap in the sense that it is pretty thin compared to real foam board.

Good news is that because it is thin it bent and curved very well and retained the shape. 

To achieve the gold look I actually didn't paint it or spraypaint it. I found big sheets of gold looking paper at the local craft store.
1) first I traced the shape of the armor.(BTW's use an exacto knife)
2) I made sure to add a half inch to the traced image 
3) Cut it out(make sure it has the extra half inch)
4) I used a glue runner(like the one scrap bookers use) to hold the paper and foam board in place temporarily. 
5) Made relief cuts so I could fold over the extra
6) hot glue gun everything that you folded over to the foam board. Don't hot glue gun any of the parts that aren't folded over.

And there you go, I did the same with the smaller parts. The ball looking thing didn't work out so I'm going to paper mache one that fits better. 

 So far its looking good. My range of motion is better than expected but it isn't great. I can only walk so fast but hopefully that will change with the addition of high heels. 
~Lulu

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