wip: pokemon trainers

Youmacon is right around the corner. This means that for the next month we're going to scramble to put together another cosplay for our group. This time? First generation Pokemon gym leaders and prominent characters.

We have a pretty good dabbling of characters, too.

Brock!

Misty! (on the left)

Lt. Surge!

Sabrina!

Giovanni!

Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny!

And of course, Gary Oak.

 We're planning on meeting up with a Bug Catcher and Jigglypuff gijinka at the con, too.


This is our status so far:

Brock 20%

Misty 100%
here are some pics of the shoes and wig

Lt. Surge 20%

Sabrina 75%

Giovanni 90%

Nurse Joy 30%

Officer Jenny 40%

Gary 75%


and just finished our badges (and Gary's necklace) this past weekend!

We don't have every gym leader, but I think we're managing a pretty decent turn out.
Sabrina and Misty will also be carrying around plushie Haunter and plushie Psyduck, who are also in the works.

I'll update again soon!

what this is all about

Hello!

I suppose I should make it clear right here at the beginning, that this blog is going to be a kind of cosplay documentation of all of the outfits my friends at MSU and I have made so far and our plans for the future. I felt bad always spamming photos on FB when I know that the majority of my friends on their don't care/think it's really nerdy, so on this blog I will be mostly photo spamming shoots of us, as well as my favorite few from each con we attend/have attended, and maybe concepts/wip shots/planned shoots for the future.

I hope whoever ends up stumbling across this at least enjoys our attempts at making these ourselves. As the blog is titled, we have absolutely no idea what we're doing, especially when it comes to sewing the costumes ourselves. None of us have really any experience outside of these cosplay outfits with sewing machines/making clothes. Winging it so far has worked out reasonably enough! But I should mention that if any reader has any advice for us, we'd love to hear your input!

Aaand that's all for now, I think. Look for updates! We've got 4 cons under our belt already and three more planned for this year, so I will have plenty of photos to share very soon!


P.S.The domain name for this blog is subject to change, as is the name, seeing as I just wanted to start working on it and didn't care what I had to write down for either..  I'll be sure to warn any followers when it does change and provide what it's likely to change to if they care to know.

fourth cosplay: assorted final fantasy

The bulk of our group, outside of being avid anime and video game lovers, have a thing for Final Fantasy. Who doesn't?

The problem we had was deciding on a game to focus on....but then we thought, why not have one from each? Mix it up a little?

So we ended up making our own Refia (FFIII), Lightning (FFXIII), Cid (FFVIIAV), Yuna (FFX) and Rinoa (FFVIII). *because Lightning's jacket ended up compromised about a week before the convention, it is incomplete in these photos*

Rinoa

Our Rinoa!

Refia

Our Refia!

Cid

Our Cid!

Yuna

Our Yuna!

We're planning on keeping these up/revamping them for later cons that we don't have time to make things for. What do you think?

(also, I'm sorry the pictures look blurry sometimes. I'm not sure why blogger keeps doing that to them when I upload them...)

third cosplay: kokiri children (legend of zelda - ocarina of time)

At the same time as the Harada twin cosplay, we wanted to throw together some really quick characters from Ocarina of Time, and nothing was easier than a gaggle of Kokiri Forest children. We bought on sale greenish roughly woven fabric, slapped it together, belted it and then followed suit by making hats like Link wears in the game. 

kokiri children

The Kokiri derive their names from Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Da, just putting two of them together. So here we have Dati, Rela and Fare.

The ocarinas weren't just for poses! Rela and I bought one each and a song book (all of the songs you learn in OoT) so that we could have a few memorized by the time of the con. It was fun to play them in the planters because the sound would echo out into the escalators and since it's such a well known game, people would turn their heads saying "isn't that the song of storms?"

Someday I'd love to do a real cosplay of the Legend of Zelda cast. I have so much respect for that series.

second cosplay: harada twins (dnangel)

After seeing so many people in outfits that they'd created themselves at Ohayocon, we decided to make our own the for the next convention we attended. That ended up being Youmacon. It just happened to be that my friend and I decided to do the twins from one of our favorite manga and anime series, DNAngel, together to the convention that Vic Mignonga (Dark's voice actor in DNAngel) would be attending. Needless to say we were very excited to meet him, and he recognized us right away, calling out to us "Oh! It's my twins!"

Here are the anime versions of Riku (left) and Risa (right) in their school uniforms, followed by our finished outfits.

Riku Harada

Risa Harada

We bought fabric and made our own patterns for the jackets and used youtube videos for pleating the skirts, the shirts we bought at Goodwill for under $5 and tailored them to our size, and the shoes were lucky Payless BOGO buys. Due to starting these in early October, we didn't hem anything but the skirts simply because we didn't have time. I know both of us would like to go back and maybe redo the vests as their close up quality is rather poor with the rough edges. Still! I like to think it wasn't bad for a first try at making them on our own.

first cosplay: sailor scouts (sailor moon)

*WE DID NOT MAKE THESE*

For our very first convention together, we we convinced by a friend to come together as the Sailor Scouts (she would be our Sailor Moon) and go to Ohayocon. We mused making the costumes ourselves, but being new comers to the world of cosplay we wimped out and bought the best looking costumes we could find off of ebay. The wigs and shoes we hunted down individually, and this is what we ended up with.

the original scouts and their sailor moon

prismacolour

sailor mercury

sailor venus

sailor jupiter

bang.

Unfortunately, our Sailor Moon got tangled up in school work the weekend of the convention and didn't end up going. We found plenty of lonely Sailor Moons at the con, but it wasn't the same ; _ ;

We also didn't manage to get single shots done of each of our scouts, but I have a feeling that we'll break them out again at a later con.