Data Sphere

Hi and welcome to my Cosplay blog!
In this thread I'll be posting my Infinity Cosplays and from time to time (as has been asked for) some other stuff.

Please click the buttons below to get to the overview posts or browse the following pages.

Asura - Starter Pack edition (1.0)


Details:


Making of:
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Pictures:


Extra: Made by Yasbir!

Chimera


Details: Click the pictures to see the Making ofs!






Pictures:


Extras:
Chimera Dansen
Outtakes





I didn't link the banners yet since Data-Sphere doesn't allow img in signatures atm. May add them later if they should be enabled.

Specialist Sergeant



Coming soon...

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Maru holder 1
yay !!

Maru wrote:Maru holder 1
yay !!

:P ;)

Oh, and I share your signatures request! Banners on DS now!
Also fancy member titles and Like-buttons!

Yashia wrote:Oh, and I share your signatures request! Banners on DS now!

Go ask on this thread, they're considering turning them on

Yashia wrote:Also fancy member titles and Like-buttons!

That i saw in another thread mentioned as "not our style", so it's probably not coming.
Then again, if you do want likes, over there at Reddit we have flairs (hopelessly incomplete for now, not even Tohaa is there, i'm planning to revamp them from scratch soon), and the equivalent of both likes and dislikes, plus sooner or later i'll add emotes (no size limit, i can add more on demand and can be animated).

o w8 this forum works with Animated Gifs !! good (i got feve somewer .... )
.. strange i don't remember Make up picture ..

History Lesson 1
(Repost of the old forum)

We'll start with my very first cosplay.... [fading into a flashback]

Summer 2011. Little Yashia was obsessively playing a MOBA1 game named League of Legends. Browsing the forums she found an announcement respective the GamesCom2. It said people coming to the Riot3 booth in a LoL4 cosplay would get fancy stuff like posters and shirts.
I knew what cosplay was from my time in the Lolita5 community but my opinion about it was very low. In that time cosplay was the top of being nerdish for me. Lolitas always have to fight people saying they were dressing up, because for a Lolita it is fashion, not costuming. Cosplayer are a Lolitas non official foes, since they really are dressing up and people tend to mix it up. Cut a long story short: I thought I would never ever be cosplaying!

But there I was, being a LoL addicted wanting that shirt, poster, whatever Riot would be able to give me, so I threw that thoughts away and pondered what champion6 could be easily imitated. For the records: I still didn't consider me cosplaying! I just was dressing as a LoL Champion to get that merchandise stuff!
Most champions were out of the list because they were monsters, animals, or whatever else creatures that couldn't be impersonated simply by dressing and doing some cheap accessories. Finally I had the winning idea: I had these pirate boots from a theme party in my closet

so I only had to take a leggings, a top and a shirt (all in my closet), make some stuff and I'd be able to make this lady:

Miss Fortune!

The needed accessories were made out of felt, the patterns drawn on with a perl pen. And so I'd made my very first cosplay!

I was terribly nervous7 to go to the GamesCom like this! It was my first GamesCom and then even in this getup!
But I should be surprised. The responses were awesome! Even though I didn't put any greater effort in this costume people were happy to see me, recognized me as Miss Fortune, asked me for pictures! I even was invited to the stage and talk a few words.
Only negative response was that one guy in the forums who called me "old and rancid" but that wasn't too bad, because 1) he made such comments on all females with a bra size under DD and 2) well, that really isn't my best picture!

After my first positive experiences with cosplaying I was into it. I had also met some really nice cosplayers that I chatted a lot with and so I made the plan to redo my first attempt and make the "let's see what I've got in my closet" a real cosplay!

I bought a brown leggings and a red wig, went crazy on the try to do applications on fake leather and sewed a top. Total working hours were about 56. Well... I'll never be that quick again!
And so I made my first rework and the final version of my Miss Fortune:

(I reached the top 10 of a LoL costume contest with this one, btw )

1 Multiplayer Online Battle Arena
2 Very big gaming convention in Germany
3 The company that developed League of Legends
4 Short term for League of Legends
5 Fashion style from Japan that has its patterns in child clothing of the Victorian era. Has nothing to do with the novel by Nabokov.
6 Heros that can be played in the game
7 To be honest: I'm still super nervous every time I'm in cosplay out of my home

1. Ironed the leggings so it got a crease.
2. Roughly cut out the patches.
3. Sewed on the patches and made the creases stand out.
Unfortunately I'm dumb! Terribly dumb! I made the outlines of the patches go up and down like in the artwork. What I did not is to pay attention to sew them on in the right way... >_<
There were two possibilities to sew them on: The right one and the wrong one. I catched the wrong one. Both times. At the top and the bottom. I'm so stupid!
Have to think about reworking the pants. Since I'm not a good tailor and sewing stretch fabric is really nasty that would probably make it neater. Pricier too.
4. Cut off the spare fabric.
5. Framed the patches and the creases with purple stitchings.
6. This is how it looks in the end. The patches point in the wrong direction and buckle because they are non stretch on a stretch leggings (See the Fun Fact!) Me no gusta


1. I used an orange strap that was too wide, so I had to cut...
2. ...and serge it.
3. The larger strap has a level difference so I made it like you see in the pic...
4. ...for getting this look.
5. Took some spare styrofoam and covered it with fabric.
6. The covered styrofoam with buttstraps (Seriously? This is your word for it?)...
7. ...and with buckles.
8. Cut felt.
9. Sewed the thingy to the strap...
10. ...and both straps together.
11. The first part of the holster, the belt, is ready.


1. Cut out fabric and some cardboard, sewed on a press button and colored the upper part of the cardboard black.
2. Sewed a holster out of these parts.
3. Made a strap the same way I did before.
4. Sewed the strap to the holster and the holster to the belt. (The press button is for closing the holster)
5. The holster is finished! I didn't make a new gun but used the one from the Asura. That isn't completely authentic but the gun is a really small detail. I guess this Chimera killed an Aleph guy and took his gun.

1. Designed a template for the pattern and transferred it to the violet fabric.
2. Made a sewing pattern from newspaper and cut the orange fabric.
3. Sewed the violet patterns onto the orange fabric and cut off the spare fabric as close to the stitching as I could.
4. Neatened the edges.
5. Roughly cut out fabric for the lining and sewed it to the orange fabric.
6. Cut off spare fabric, neatened the edges and – very important! - cut off the parts that would wave and cut in the parts that would strain when turned inside out.
7. Turned fabric and lining inside out and ironed it.


1. Took a piece of the orange strap and a nice buckle...
2. … and sewed them together.
3. After a hard process of recalling mathematical principals to find out the needed sizes, I cut out four quadrangles.
4. Added white stripes the same way I did the applications on the first layer and sewed together two quadrangles each.
5. Sewed together both layers and the strap.
6. Added the zipper. This was the first time I sewed a zipper. Guess which side was sewn first and which second!
7. Voilà! It's a skirt! I'm pretty satisfied with the outcome, though it's a tad wide and one side of the zipper isn't neat.


1. Cut the fur in the right shape and colored it like I did with the ears, but this time I not only took black but also several shades of grey (Yeah, yeah...) to get a smoother result.
2. Brushing the fur ended in a bag of colored lints and a big mess on my floor and my shirt ...
3. ..and a new stylish nail polish! ^_^
4. But the result was worth it

By the way: just brushing and inking took me more than two hours!


1.Sewed the fur together.
2.Doing so put the fringes in order by sewing them in and if I don't want something on the tail, then it's ordered fringes!
3.So I pulled out hair for hair till I had (nearly) all out.
4.Cut a wire and put it as core into the sewed fur.
5.Used filling wadding to give it a shape.
6.Sewed the end together.
7.Voilá, we have a tail.


1.Used a strap and a buckle to sew a belt...
2....and sew the tail onto the belt.
3.While being worn the tail hang down a bit sad, so I took some spare foamboard to stabilize it...
4....but that lead to a gap between body and tail. I'll have to adjust it when I'm doing the skirt.
5.This is roughly what It'll look like in the end. When the adjustments are done I'll give it the final shape.

1. Cut some felt and used a pearl pen to add the green dots.
2. Cut off the sleeve of the shirt.
3. Cut purple fabric to the needed size and sewed on some buttons.
4. Sewed the purple fabric into a sleeve...
5. ...and sewed that to the remaining sleeve of the shirt.
6. Sewed the ends of the felt together...
7. ...and sewed that with some stitches to the sleeve so it stays on place.


1. Sewed together orange and purple fabric and added a felt square.
2. Made some fabric straps.
3. Replaced the sleeve of the shirt by my own version and sewed in one of the fabric straps.
4. The other strap got a buckle and was sewn on the sleeve with some stitches.
5. Glued a second square onto the first one.
6. The second sleeve is finished, too!


1. This was the unprocessed inverter of the EL wire.
2. I used some cardboard pipe to extant the inverter and to hide the wires.
3. Cut some pipe isolation with my thermocutter...
4. … and used a cutter knife to cut back the sides to fit on the cardboard pipe.
5. Glued it on one side with acrylic and did the same at the other side.
6. Painted the raw handle black. When this pic was taken I only painted cardboard and isolation. The inverter was glossy, the rest dull. Later I also painted the piece of the inverter that can be seen to achieve an uniform look.
7. Cut some foam rubber and glued it on.
8. Voilá: A handle!


1. Took the smallest pipe isolation I could find.
2. Sliced the isolation with my thermocutter (handy thing!).
3. Cut in the shape.
4. Used acrylic to glue the slices onto the EL wire.
5. And this is what it looks like now. It's not 100% identical to the original, but I like the EL wire core. Thank you so much Librerian_samae for that idea!


1. Cut the needed shapes out of wonderflex.
2. I know it doesn't really look that way, but I painted the pieces in black, gray silver and black silver.
3. Glued some foam rubber to the EL wire.
4. Heated the wonderflex and put it onto the EL wire/foam rubber. Heated wonderflex sticks by itself.
5. Did the same at the other side, shaped it and pressed the edges together so they became “sharp”.
6. Did the same with the other pieces. (Here you can see the different colors!)

1. These socks were a present from my sister. Since I don't really like pink I never wore them.
2. Dyed the socks orange. It isn't the exact same color as the rest and it didn't end really neat, but it'll do.
3. This were the boots before...
4. ...and after I finished my cruel work (Te he!). I cut off everything that would be in the way (foldings, loops etc) and cut the front to be the tongue of the shoe.
5. Took a piece of fabric and wadding each...
6. … and sewed them into the tongue.


1. Wrapped the boot including my foot into aluminum foil...
2. … and wrapped that with duct tape. I think it looks pretty cool! Probably I'll set a new trend with this!
3. Cut the foil/tape off the shoe. What does this remind you of? I think it looks like chocolate wrapping! ^_^
4. After cutting off spare pieces I received a sewing pattern for the shoe covers.
5. Sewed the shoe covers...
6. ...glued them to the bottom of the boots...
7. … and sewed them to the top.
8. Glued on rubber foam pieces.
9. Sewed Velcro to some fabric, added wadding, sewed it together...
10. … and onto the boots.


1. This were the working gloves without any changes.
2. Cut of the fingers and the lower part of the glove and made it much tighter.
3. Sewed some wadding onto fabric to achieve the ripples. Primarily I planned to sew a cover and put that around the original glove, but that didn't really work out so I had to come up with another plan.
4. Plan B included coloring the glove orange...
5. ...and gluing the fabric only onto the top of the glove.
6. Sewed a stripe of fabric, separated two distinct chambers and filled them with wadding. After shaping them I sewed the stripe onto the glove.
7. I sculpted claws, painted them bone white and dry brushed them off white. I left the lower side bone white so it is darker than the rest and looks more natural.
8. Cut fur to finger fitting pieces and shortened the hair from its original length (left) to the needed one (right).
9. Sewed the fur to fingers and glued them inside the glove.
10. Last but not least I glued the claws to the fingers.


1. I did the same preparations as at the left glove, I only left the glove long and added an extra bit of fabric as base for the comlog.
2. Prepared some white fabric...
3. ...and some orange one with wadding inside...
4. ...to make this from it...
5. ...and sewed it on.
6. Used the rest of the straps to make this, then figured out that it is way to long and removed it again >_<
7. Used only the orange ones instead.
8. The glove is ready for carrying the comlog!


1. Made a paper pattern and used it to cut out the parts from foam rubber and Woblas.
2. Heated the first layer of Woblas and pressed the foam rubber parts on it.
3. Heated and pressed on the second layer.
4. Turned the inner parts down and neatened the edges.
5. Shaped it.
6. Sprayed on a base (for painting plastics) and applied the first layer of paint.
7. And this is the result 4 more layers and the spray varnish later.
8. Inserted the EL panel and its inverter by using UHU patafix. ^_^
9. It glows!

As I already mentioned before I had a lot of spare furry (1). I used this luxury to do a lot of experimenting to test some dyeing methods.
I ended up with a really thinned down acrylic paint that I brushed upwards (2). I took a ivory colored fabric and blended it pink, cut it into a triangle and brushed the fur again after it was completely dry (3).
The two parts were sewed together (4) and filled with wadding (5). After sewing the ears to the wig (6) I found the pink not striking enough, so I recolored it (7).
Together with the fangs, make up and lenses the head is finished!


1. This is the powder used for the teeth. Anyone else thinks this looks illegal?
2. Some drops of the liquid coming along with the teeth added and the powder gets pasty and nearly lucent.
3. Filled the mixture into one fang, ...
4. … placed it onto my tooth and waited. As you can see spare mixture squeezes out around the edges. This is intended to give it a better stay. After waiting five minutes the instructions manual allows to continue with the second fang.
5. When both teeth are placed you have to wait another 15 minutes before you're allowed to remove them. Though the manual tells you the teeth aren't easy removable I got nearly afraid to never being able to remove them again. They fit really tight!
6. After letting it dry for 24 hours the spillover at the front can be cut off. The one at the back should be left for a better stay.
7. And this is what it looks like if worn. The fangs are now far better removable but stay on really good. I have to admit I didn't think they would be this good! They aren't completely white, so they look very natural! ^_^


1. Tuck the hair under the hair net and primed my face with skin toned and white make up.
2. Phased the white down, added some shadows and painted on the snout.
3. Painted a fur like texture into the white and some whiskers on the snout.
4. Made some very smokey eyes.
5. Painted on the symbol under the eye and colored the eyebrows, gave the white some more structure and increased the shadows beneath the nose.
6. Blended the structure in the white out, put on the teeth and the circle lenses in. The lenses are really cool. I like them a lot! ^_^
7. The final result with the wig. This was just testing. The final make up for the Cosplay will probably look different.


1. This is a piece of Kobra Cast. Like Wonderflex it's a thermoplast (Can be deformed by heating it) but has the advantage of being bendable in two axes and being sewable. It doesn't simply look like plaster, it indeed is designed to be a plastic plaster!
2. Luckily it's nearly eastern and styrofoam eggs are available in nearly every size ^_^ I used it to shape the Kobra Cast. As you can see it undulates easily so it takes a bit patience to get it smooth.
3. After cooling down I cut it in the needed shape.
4. Cut little slices in the corners of the plates and attached magnets.
5. Since Kobra Cast is very rough and flexible it needed to be covered. I used Woblas Finest Art. This is a thermoplast, too, but has a much smoother surface than Kobra Cast.
6. Primed and colored it but I found it very dull so I bought a glossy varnish.
7. This is the plate after applying the varnish. I was playing the thought of giving one of the plates a faction or unit symbol, but fluff wise the Chimera is an undercover agent, so that wouldn't fit very well


1. As for the Comlog I again started with the foam rubber and Woblas parts cut out.
2. Attached magnets to the first layer of Woblas, heated it, pressed the foam rubber to it and added the second layer.
3. Neatened the edges and shaped it.
4. Made a second part to fit on the top of the back plate, neatened the bottom edge but left the upper edge as is to have something to glue it to the rest with.
5. This is what the back plate looked like after the construction part.
6. Took some neon green cardboard and coated it with a fluorescent paint.
7. Painted the back plate. After drying I roughly cut circles out of the cardboard and glued it in with the hot-melt gun. (The bubbles you can see are from heating the Woblas again and again... very annoying... >_<)
8. Thanks to the fluorescent paint the circles glow in the dark! ^_^
9. Sewed tabs with magnets on them to the bolero to make the back plate stay.
10. And this is how it looks when attached.


1. Primarily I planned to use the shirt as base for the armor, but while getting experience with it I recognized I had to do it differently. So I cut off the bottom part of the shirt so it won't be seen.
2. I shaped a skeletal structure using Kobra Cast. We remember: Kobra Cast has the advantage of being sewable!
3. Sewed on the upper part of the buckle...
4. … and some straps.
5. I glued in the violet fabric but by hindsight I'll remove it and glue it in again after painting the breastplate.
6. Roughly cut out foam rubber...
7. … and glued it onto the Kobra Cast by step by step heating foam and cast, shaping and pressing them together, waiting till it was cooled down and heating the next part. After everything was applied I cut off the spare foam rubber.
8. I used a soldering iron to burn in a line. It didn't work very well, so I ordered one for doing poker work (decorating wood or leather by burning patterns in it). That's the fifth toy I bought simply for cosplaying...
9. Glued on the bottom parts as I did before. The breastplate is now prepared for getting “Worblified”!


1. This was the breastplate after the first part.
2. I removed the violet fabric and covered the plate with Worblas...
3. … and painted it.
4. Cut out foam rubber...
5. … and attached green paper board painted with fluorescent paint as I did before at the backplate.
6. Reattached the fabric and glued on the foam rubber.
7. It's not really perfect, but when worn it looks much better.

1. This was what the zipper looked like after my first try. It wasn't really neat and the skirt was too wide.
2. I unraveled the stitches and sewed it in again. Much better!
3. The tail hang down a bit sad so I glued a piece of foamboard to it, but that caused other problems. So I removed the foamboard and added a second strap that supports the first one instead.
4. I left the topmost part of the tail unpainted because I thought it'd never been seen. Due to differences from planing to the actual outcome it will be seen, so I belated colored that part, too.
5. Bent another wire...
6. … and put it into the tail.
7. Together with the second strap the tail now stays up perfectly while still naturally swinging when I move.


1. Painted a shadow on the shoulder plates to accentuate the kink.
2. Bend down the last part of the Comlog to be closer to the shape of the artwork.
3. Now that the position of the shoulder plates is fix I enforced the fabric around the magnets with Kobra Cast and neatened the sleeves of the jacket.
4. I took the sleeves in to fit better into the gloves. Now both sleeves are much tighter.

History Lesson Part 2 (Repost)

So, last week I told you how I came to the hobby itself.

After "reworking" (read: making a real cosplay ou of it) the improvised Miss Fortune I was hooked on the cosplay thing. I learned to know many super nice cosplayers and a Riot staff member joined our Skype-Chat to organize some things for the upcoming GamesCom. At that point I got the proposal to be supported with the material costs for my next cosplay. Only preconditions: It had to be something "big" and I had to blog the progress in the German and the international forum. So my second cosplay was born: Judgement Kayle! (Btw this is where my blogging passion comes from, too! )



I could only afford it thanks to the financial help of Riot. When I look at it now I see so many things I would do differently today but back then in 2012 it was the best I could do. Some other cosplayers said it was quite good for a second cosplay, it had LEDs worked in for example!
Here a few shots of the finished cosplay:



A designer asked if he could use one of my pictures for a personal project and made this out of it:

It was used as background for a poster for a very small manga convention.

By the way:
The wings had a wing-span of 2,5 m (~ 8 ft 2)! I couldn't move at the full convention, so I was outside most of the time.

Oh, and me in action!

Hi Yashia! Happy to see you've taken time to copy your awesome cosplay works to Data Sphere! I'll be following your work and I hope to one day encounter it in person on a big infinity event!:)

Thanks Scorch!

So, the official forum isn't closing. Since I already got that far with my (not anymore) migration I'll keep this thread anyway.
I guess most people around here are in the officials, too, but I like the idea of having everything collected neatly at one place

So just for the completeness here the...

History lesson part 3

So, you know how I came doing cosplays and what was my second cos.
Today I'll show you my worst cosplay ever!

I just had played Tales of Graces f and had fallen in love with the character Sophie which is an adorable teenage android.

So I of cause wanted to cos her. I'm happy with the outcome of the shoes, but the rest... I guess I simply shouldn't cosplay cute little girls, since I'm neither cute nor little!



Only upside is, that it only costed about 144€ and were about 30 working hours.

omph ..

Yashia wrote:So I of cause wanted to cos her. I'm happy with the outcome of the shoes, but the rest... I guess I simply shouldn't cosplay cute little girls, since I'm neither cute nor little!

"Cute" is disputable.
Little... I guess a little less

Maru wrote:
omph ..

That terrible? Oh my, then better moving on quickly: