RB''s Motivation: Puppy cat progress?

So it's been awhile. College is still weird and tiring. Life is still stressful and doesn't really make sense. IT FUCKING SNOWED YESTERDAY AND I'M PISSED. But on Friday some strange things happened. It finally hit me that Daisho was this coming weekend on the 21st as in Friday. So I started packing up all my shit. And I realized, I still didn't have my puppy cat stuff put together so I started on that.

I just really needed to do the eye brows and do a makeup test. Since he's all white I wanted to test out the white creme makeup, since i was going to have to use it for Notepad eventually anyway. 

I got the idea for the eyebrows from Kibi who told me to make obnoxious large ones. 

I folded over some masking take and cut them to shape, then painted them with acrylics.

Here's my pale ass face with some cheap ass creme makeup. I went subtle because ppc is a casual closet cosplay and this stuff is thin as fuck.

oh god worse lighting showing my greasy complexion. Them brows are real! I smoothed them down with this tutorial.

I also went in with eyeliner to get that soulless look. I might go lighter or none at all next time we'll see. I also did the nose as well. I really got to get some foundation to cover my brows completely. At first I didn't think I needed to since they would be covered but I know now

I added on the eye brows with body glue used for rhine stones and you can see the very edge of my brows peaking out

Aggressive selfie. I added some liner under my eyes as well to try and get the fill shape. I also tried to make it completely white and cover over my dark circles under my eyes. I also erased a lot of the nose because I felt it got too distracting but I went down to the mouth to get that full downturned frown.

At first I just wanted the makeup test but I got excited and put on the rest of the outfit: the jacket, bell, wig, and some throw on ears from a loveless cosplay. I'm going to make small brown ones and a tail later but this was the only thing available at the time

But this is basically the look I'll be going with at Dash

All the cheap shit I used: black, brown, white(beige) pencil eye liner. Foundation, white creme face paint, body glue, blue stick, rubbing alcohol wipe, (disregard maxi pad), mashing tape, paint, time and effort and some strange motivation

And in other news Emmie gave me my Ruby Rose waist cincher. It straightened my out a little tot much for no boning. Waiting for the lacing to come at the con 

Here's one of the reasons nothing has gotten done. I live for observational drawing. That is the only reason I go to school sometimes is to swim through the bullshit for that small bit of confidence when I do a drawing and I realize why I came here. 

Here's the other reason. I GOT A JOB FINALLY and craigslist didn't help one bit other than bring me A LOT of rejection. I finished day two today (11-16-14) and I'm already stressed. These past two days haven't even been busy and tomorrow is supposedly to actually be busy. It's not a secret I'm not really looking forward to it. But I'm going to try and trudge through it even when it gets rough

At least I got two free sandwiches so far. And the staff seems really fun

-RB OUT

RB's motivation: So it's been awhile???? We've been working hard

So let's start with I've been in college for a month and a few days now. It's been different, that's for sure. I've gone through phases of fatigue, anxiety, shit I forgot to eat, why am I doing this, I have no money, oh man this is awesome, can't believe I live here, I hate this city, I'm awesome, I suck, I wanna go home, why can't college be the weekend all the time, and why the fuck don't we have a TV guide button? It's been quite a ride so far and we're just at the start of freshman year. 

This is a fun bonding experience with friends.

This is my relaxation because I get homesick a lot more than I thought I would. A very close bookstore with cats walking around

And a really awesome vintage store which i got a bunch of swag from. SO far they sell wigs, sailor senshi outfits, and casual elsa prom dresses for halloween costumes. 

Besides the fun times in Milwaukee, and the schoolwork, I have been working on cosplays and I'll say I am so damn close to finishing Ruby Rose AND Notepad now.

Here is one of the biggest things I accomplished. Notepad's headdress

I used quite a few things, gold card stock, masking tape, gold colored acrylics (quite a few brands), black spray paint, a paper plate, hot glue, soho glue, and super glue. As well as real pencils.

Above is a WIP

Above is the completed look of the front. Below is the back. Hopefully no one will get so close up they can see all the flaws and unevenness. I'm planning to remake it in the next few years b/c new cosplays will be expensive as fuck. But for now I am pretty satisfied

Also worth noting is I can actually pull a real pencil out of the back when I need to write shit down, for funnies. It's kind of difficult to do in a jiffy but it's a nice touch I think.

Now onto the veil. Beautiful torn fabric from Diva off a halloween sale. Here I am with my greasy hair checking the fall and length. And there's my beautiful cellphone that I have now! That I paid for with my own fucking money!

The full veil is pretty heavy and goes down to probably mid calf or ankle. I will have to drape it over my shoulders help balance myself. I'm going to have the stiffest neck from this I know it.

Here it is all together. It's attached by two barrettes glued to the base of the headdress that clip to my hair. There is also a cut in the fabric that the clips slide through to get to my hair. It's a weird system and very different than what I planned originally but things change because of complications as we all have learned so far. 

Originally in concept that opening was going to be for a clamp like hair clip to fit through and grab much more securely to my hair as well as the veil. But that fell through since the clap became far too big after the golden stuff was added. I didn't expect it to make it so much smaller but it did and I rather change the plans then have the clamp break the whole thing.

I was actually very happy at the time

ANd then there's Ruby. She was kind of a pain to get done because it was the start of getting into the groove of "I'm in college, it's hard, I don't have a job anymore, school's actually important, I have to wake up again, what is lack of alone time?" LIIKE seriously all i did was hem lace to a shirt and skirt. And it felt exhausting. 

Watched the social network during the whole process of the skirt, good movie, very david fincher.

Recycled an old Hell Girl skirt and extra red lace from my prom attire

And used even more to do the boots. Now this was a real process. Since I can't sew into the shoes, since they're a rubbery material and shoes I decided to attach it to velcro on the inside

The velcro is hot glued to the inside of the shoes while the lace is sewed to the detachable part of the velcro. So if I want the boots to look normal again I can just take out the red lace. 

I know in the actual design everything is ruffles but honestly I like the consistency of the red lace here much better. Plus it's my own very personal spin since it came from my prom attire

Last but not least I got my wig yesterday! From the Cosplay Chaos Fox since she's doing much better and back on her feet doing commissions.

I really like it. Gives me the emo phase I couldn't afford to go through in middle school. Also fits well and goes with my natural hair incase things peak through.

-waist cincher via Chaos

-bullets

-make the pack

-makeup ideas

Once these are done we can do a giant test run pre con hopefully! Because there are things I did not document that are completely done

Also I made a tumblr! rbvonsrp.tumblr.com

-RB out

RB's motivation: Pearl + Puppycat Progress PS Ruby Rose

Alrighty! Honestly Notepad is becoming my life, after she's done it's probably onto Elsaba more than anything bc it's best to do ones that will take the most work FIRST.

Though Pearl is still going to be a slight challenge. Here's her latest progress. I don't want to show it here bc it's in a real raw stage but I did cut up the shirt. Originally it was a teal peplum shirt with a BOOB WINDOW. It was stupid and annoyingly uncomfortable. SO I GOT TO GET RID OF IT!!! I will have to use parts as patterns for later when I get the real fabric....

I will also have to dye the shaper into the pink color it is. But once I get the shirt done for Pearl all that's really left is the wig, the forehead jewel, and just makeup tests.

It looks ok orange, but I need it pink

Then there is the surprise that is puppy cat. This is 90% done. All I need to do is make the jacket out of tha flannel material. I couldn't find my white one for the test run, here's a cow sweatshirt. But all that is here will be at Daisho, this might be a sunday outfit with how low maintenance it is compared to my other two

I bought the shorts, reusing pearl leggings, reusing Kugelmugel wig, made pouches for the braided pigtails for the Siamese aesthetic, reusing boots, and made the bell collar

Close up. I took a collar off a pink shirt and just added a button to close it up. Bought the giant bell, it's very annoying, almost went deaf. Added a key ring to the bell and walla here we go. I call it the comfort bell. Probably my favorite part of the outfit so far

Finally Ruby Rose update. I made pretty good progress on her I think. I got the shirt from savers. Reusing the skirt from an old Hellgirl cosplay. May iron it out later. Found the perfect crosses at Party city since they sell nun costumes. Took them off the chains and just glued on stick safety pin things. Tights and beautiful boots by Target. Petticoat as well by Party City. Thinking about buying the cape from there with thinking about how much fabric I'm gonna have to buy this week......money

I honestly keep foregtting about the belt and cincher bc I have no idea about them really. I don't know if I have time to make the cincher or where to get a belt that large and flexible. I'm thinking the bullets from party city again. And I knwo I'm gonna press and spray a rose, real or fake idk. Learned that from the Cosplay fox. And maybe wait for the wig to arrive. 

And I thought I might have time to make the scythe. Pssh. Did I mention I move into college, Wednesday the 20th?

-RB out