|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 11:45 am
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat May 23, 2020 12:32 pm
|
|
|
|
Picking a Costume and Styling
Picking a costume is the most important part of making a cosplay. This will give you the right questions to think about when picking out a costume.
Who are you cosplaying?
Do you have a cosplay in mind already or are you thinking about what you're going to do?
There are three types of cosplay:
Character cosplays- These are characters from created worlds (ex. Frodo from Lord of the Rings). That means you're planning on creating that one outfit he/she/it wears in x movie/episode/chapter. This means the outfit is plan on appearance, but just needs to be planned in how you're going to create it.
Styled Character- This character is cannon as well, but you're not doing an outfit that the character wears in their respected media. This one also allows you to make a little story for the character like what happened with the musical Six in which the six wives of Henry VIII are brought into modern times and start a girl group.
Original Character: This one is one that you created. Usually this is in a made up world. This could be a fantasy, sci-fi, steampunk, etc. This means other than the rules of clothing within the world around this created, it is an open door.
The next post will deal with creating outfits.
How are you Creating it?
How do you plan on created it? Are you buying? Sewing? Mix of both?
Knowing how you're going to create the cosplay means you can plan for a timeline to complete it.
Take not that if you make it and you don't know the basic skills or have someone who knows how to do it, then you may need to spend a lot of time on Youtube or pay for classes to learn to do the making.
Budget
Do you have an amount you don't want to go over?
Another factor is how much you want to spend. The bigger the cosplay, the more armor, the more it'll cost.
If you want to go fancy, it's going to cost.
For more details on saving money please look at this thread.
This budget is more about does it look like it's going to cost some money, because if it looks like it will. There will be one more final check once you plan out the cosplay in a later post.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun May 24, 2020 11:50 am
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon May 25, 2020 4:00 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 2:53 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 9:27 am
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|