Cosplay progress #1

Since this blog's getting a bit underused, I decided for now I'll use it for cosplay progress! :D

For those curious, I'm cosplaying my own thief design from Final Fantasy and my sister's cosplaying a red mage. We're gonna be at the Midlands MCM Expo in Telford on Febuary 18th.

So right now, I've got pretty much everything I needed from shops bought, including boots, shorts, socks, shirt and the things I need to make the rest.

Today me and my mum spent the afternoon cutting out all the pattern pieces we needed for both me and my sister's cosplay. So hopefully I'll have a funky green waistcoat to show you all soon ;3 Same goes for my bandana and sash. I got my measurements and all that sorted, just gotta cut them out, add hems and all that good stuff!

For those wanting some photo progress, I got a couple to show how it's going ^^

Taken a month or so back. May have overknee socks, may have knee socks, we'll see. All that's missing is the stuff I gotta sew myself X3

And now for a glove :P Got some tweaks to make to this still, such as sewing the top of the glove to give it more definition and make the fingers not so wrinkly. Other than that, it fits like, well, a glove!

Should have more updates soon. With the expo next month, I really gotta get cracking, huh?

Sonic - Fleetway style!

Been on such Sonic buzz lately, especially for the UK Sonic the Comic. After starting work on my entry for the Sonic CD contest, I wanted to see how much I could draw from memory.

Not a huge amount, but I haven't drawn Sonic consistantly since I was 11, so I think I'm improving a lot since I started doodling everyone again a couple of weeks ago! :D I didn't even know I could draw Knuckles, seriously XD

Then went on Painter and did some more referenced doodling of my fave psycho.

It's only rough, wondering if I should carry on with it. Anyone think I should? I swear I'll draw him actually destroying something one of these days.

Well, back to sewing and working on my Sonic CD pic! ^.^

Sophie doodles

Need to start using this place for sketches and all that again, so here's a few of the main girl herself ^^

Drew this last night and my heart melted X3 Little Sophie asleep with a big squirrel plushie, so cute!

Practising an upward angle. Sophie looking up at the night sky :)

And finally, a proper layout for Sophie's room. I know it was really blank this first chapter, but I didn't really decide on details to add by the time I drew it, so I've now got a reason why there wasn't anything in it. These are some of the items she has in her room (the posters are on an inbuild wardrobe she stores a lot of things in too).

It's not much, but I'm busy working away as much as I can, so I'll have more to post soon! :D

Thieving time~ ;3

Finally got all the gems sorted for my little loot pouch on my thief cosplay. Bought 3 packs for scrapbook gems from The Works (99p each, can't really lose X3) and glued the halves together.

They certainly pass the shiny test XP Now I just need the pouch to but them in...

Still need to finish my dagger too so I can make that tutorial for it, heheh ^^;

As for other updates, I'm nealy halfway through toning my Manga Jiman entry. In a few days I should be all done! :D Gonna feel weird not posting a new TrickSong page tonight, but I've got one page left as my buffer and I'd rather wait the week to use it.

Today was a good day ^^

After heading to HobbyCraft to pick up some more stuff for my thief cosplay, we headed to nearer the centre of Nottingham to a shop called Twisted Playground. Wanted to go in there for ages, but we finally did today 'cause of a certain giant purple dragon hung outside the shop >3

....Yes, I mean Spyro XD My sister got the big guy, while I found this li'l guy.

Doesn't he hide my face no nicely? XD;;; Spyro says hi~ <3

Amazing shop tho', had so much there and me and my sis had a nice talk with the owner. Definately going back, I wanna explore that place way more.

Also been applying for jobs, so handing in CVs and getting smiles in return makes me happy ^^ Better than a 'sorry, the position's been taken' emails I get barely hours after applying online X_x

But anyways, after a 13 year wait, I finally have my Spyro plushie :D I think my sister's is lifesized, but my room's tiny, so she can keep him XP I'll get her to post a pic soon.

'Til next time!