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Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: March 13th, 2016, 5:44 pm
by Yashia
And a bit for the Reverend again:
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Finally the belt got some straps, too. Now it's complete!

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: March 18th, 2016, 8:52 pm
by Yashia
Harleys tights are complete! :) Only true with lots of clinch bolts! <3
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And you can now find me on Twitter, too! @YashiaCosplay :)

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: March 18th, 2016, 9:09 pm
by Mob of Blondes
Heh, be careful to avoid slaping knees. :ohdear:

Painted tights? PremaidPremade? Image search (leg overdose :embarrassed: ) shows many, but so far none with same layout.

Edit: typo.

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: March 19th, 2016, 10:24 am
by red harvest
Twitter? Isn't Instagram better for photos though? ( I avoid social media like I would avoid a rabid skunk, so I have no clue.)

Very impressive on the H.Q. Cosplay, but, Bitte, tell me that you will protect your knees somehow. Bumping into something with those studs there will hurt.

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: March 20th, 2016, 3:49 pm
by Yashia
Mob of Blondes wrote:Heh, be careful to avoid slaping knees. :ohdear:[...]

red harvest wrote:[...]Very impressive on the H.Q. Cosplay, but, Bitte, tell me that you will protect your knees somehow. Bumping into something with those studs there will hurt.

As a kid I climbed hundreds of trees and rubbed all over every kind of floor. Slapped knees are nothing new to me ;)

Mob of Blondes wrote:[...]
Painted tights? PremaidPremade? [...]

The first one. Premade? Come on! You should know me better by now! ;) :lol:
I used opaque red tights, died the black parts with fabric paint (and acrylic paint after I ran out of fabric paint :D ) and applied the clinch bolts with a hammer. That was a long and loud procedure... :suicide:

Mob of Blondes wrote:[...]Image search (leg overdose :embarrassed: ) shows many, but so far none with same layout.

:lol:

red harvest wrote:Twitter? Isn't Instagram better for photos though? ( I avoid social media like I would avoid a rabid skunk, so I have no clue.)[...]

I'll be needing good knowledge of some social media for work soon and since I have no experience with Twitter until now, I'll be learning by doing. Since you can "tweet" pictures, too, it makes little difference for me. Seriously, where's the big difference anyway?

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: March 20th, 2016, 7:45 pm
by Mob of Blondes
Yashia wrote:
Mob of Blondes wrote:[...]
Painted tights? PremaidPremade? [...]

The first one. Premade? Come on! You should know me better by now! ;) :lol:
I used opaque red tights, died the black parts with fabric paint (and acrylic paint after I ran out of fabric paint :D ) and applied the clinch bolts with a hammer. That was a long and loud procedure... :suicide:

Painting all that black except four rombs... dedication.

I would glue some EVA foam snips behind the metals, just in case.

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: March 21st, 2016, 7:23 pm
by Yashia
Mob of Blondes wrote:Painting all that black except four rombs... dedication.

I would glue some EVA foam snips behind the metals, just in case.

Of course! ;) If that makes you happy I'll see what I can do ;)

But now: Update for the Healer!
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This will be one of the shoulder plates for Reverend Healer. The surface still needs smoothing and paint.

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: March 28th, 2016, 5:59 pm
by Yashia
The Reverends shoulder plates:
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and Harley Quinns bat:
https://twitter.com/YashiaCosplay/statu ... 7222362112

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: March 29th, 2016, 1:03 am
by Mob of Blondes
Do you see a Druze in your future? You may want to copy this reference. Nice trick for the hairdo.
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Also, do you think a bat with spikes is OK? I mean, with the on going level of arseholiness to cover the spread ineptitude, or lack of acceptance of impossible things being impossible, I don't know... maybe if all rubber and obviously clownish.

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: March 29th, 2016, 3:37 pm
by Yashia
Mob of Blondes wrote:Do you see a Druze in your future? You may want to copy this reference. Nice trick for the hairdo.
paint
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Also, do you think a bat with spikes is OK? I mean, with the on going level of arseholiness to cover the spread ineptitude, or lack of acceptance of impossible things being impossible, I don't know... maybe if all rubber and obviously clownish.


I like the Druze really well, but the hairdo is indeed a problem. Where you can see the girls sculpt in the picture you would see the wig cap at the cosplay. That's pretty ugly... I'll do some tests with other wigs and see if I can come up with a solution, but it will definitely not be like in that picture.

As for the bat: I made the pink bands that the spikes are attached to detachable. So I can take pictures with spikes and detach them for the con. It's way too dangerous to go with killerspikes to a con!

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: March 29th, 2016, 6:47 pm
by Mob of Blondes
That girl has dyed hair, with 4 cornrows over the ear and then painted lines to extend the effect, so it looks like shaved. The left over black zones are a problem, but I think she didn't went white first or has grown back a lot.
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Dyed hair and cornrows
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If you mean you would use a wig and it would be hard to do with that... no idea. Do a version with own hair (instead of "mask+wig" as many previous cosplays)? Tint hair slightly (highlighting, lowlighting, streaks or whatever... change the shade a bit) if you were going to do it for normal live anyway (probably not blue)? Multicolor, with yours for tricky zones, and wig for extra parts?

(Always learning new words :v: )

Plus, if you scroll up in the link I posted, you can find another picture. No blue hair and even simpler hairdo.
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Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: March 29th, 2016, 9:40 pm
by Yashia
Okay it's like this:
My natural hair is dark brown. If I wanted to due it in another color than black or very subtle shades of other dark colors (like the dark purple I had two years ago), I'd need to first bleach it and then I could dye it in the final color.

That's way too much work, money and hair structure for just one cosplay!

I really dig the blue hair and would like to do the Druze, but a wig would be necessary.
If I do this hairdo with a wig you can see the wig cap through the strains.

As I said: I'll do some tests someday. Maybe a variation could work. But since I have several cosplays on my to do list that I get paid for, the Druze is pretty far in the future anyway.

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: March 29th, 2016, 10:46 pm
by Mob of Blondes
No idea was about how hard to get it done. Currently watching a TV series where they later have interviews and they manage to pull all kind of things, but they don't explain how hard in most cases.

If you need color tests with pictures, just ring.

Getting sponsors? That is new IIRC. Congrats.

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: March 30th, 2016, 5:24 am
by Errhile
Yashia wrote:I really dig the blue hair and would like to do the Druze, but a wig would be necessary.
If I do this hairdo with a wig you can see the wig cap through the strains.


Gotta ask my friend (also a cosplayer) about hair spray. She does pretty radical colour changes as far as I can see.

Might be a solution. Then again, might be not.

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: March 30th, 2016, 5:43 am
by Mob of Blondes
So "paint your head" is not insane? Now that I know searching is not a waste, I found a spray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFgZb1Gsaqs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5ZeYpyPZOY but those looks a bit "glued"; other brand maybe, this one only as transition to wig at best. Also found references to "cream".

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: March 30th, 2016, 9:50 am
by red harvest
Those sprays can look pretty weird in real life. At least the ones I've seen.

Sponsors for Cosplays? Awesome :D

The shoulder plates look just right. The lettering, freehand? I should try something like that on my Rev-Healer mini. It only been waiting to be finished since, uhm, since right after GenCon...2014. :facepalm:

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: March 30th, 2016, 12:01 pm
by Yashia
red harvest wrote:[...] Sponsors for Cosplays? Awesome :D [...]

Not sponsors really. I'll have a commission and some paid-to-attend-cons this year. Maybe I'll get the materials paid, too, but that's not fix yet. Harley Quinn is one of these projects.
And all I wanted to say is that these projects have priority from my "own" stuff.

red harvest wrote:[...]
The shoulder plates look just right. The lettering, freehand? I should try something like that on my Rev-Healer mini. [...]

The lettering itself is freehand, yes. The symbol itself is made with the help of a template.

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: March 30th, 2016, 8:47 pm
by WookieeGunner
For the corn rows, could you attach a hair extension backwards (so it naturally falls on your face instead of laying against the wig) and then flip it over to cover the bead?

Thinking if you used something like this to attach each row:

http://www.featheremporium.com/Hair-Fea ... beads.html

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: April 3rd, 2016, 12:10 pm
by Yashia
Double wig power:

Did some minor changes to the Reverend Healers wig and made that neckband:
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And I finished Harley Quinns wig, too.
Harley Quinns wig on Twitter: https://twitter.com/YashiaCosplay/status/715128950939377664

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: April 4th, 2016, 8:08 am
by Errhile
Well, I've asked my local cospalyer on the Druze Hacker hair problem, and she suggest bleaching and dyeing only individual streaks of your hair, without having the chemicals get into your hair follicles and thus damaging them. Says she has done that multiple times, and damage to the hair was minimal.

Now, regardless on your decision on using this advice (or not), I'd suggest you do some more research if possible: I'm hardly an expert, and didn't understood half of what she was telling me...

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: April 4th, 2016, 8:38 am
by Yashia
Well, it's really kind that you all try to find solutions for that, but as I said it's still not decided yet if I'll cosplay the Druze AT ALL and if WHEN.
So maybe focus on first things first and solve that problem when it's eventually in line, okay? ;)

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: April 4th, 2016, 9:15 am
by Errhile
Well, from what I've seen so far, the Reverend Healer is going to be as stunning as your other projects :)
...still, as for me, I'm afraid nothing is going to match the fun (fur? ;)) factor of the Chimera...

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: April 10th, 2016, 2:21 pm
by Yashia
Yeah Errhile, I too think Chimera was one of the funniest Infinity Cosplays! :D

Today I've got the finished top for you:
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And Harley Quinns sleeves here: https://twitter.com/YashiaCosplay/status/717659943831224320.

Oh, and the overview post is updated with the comparison of the real top and the concept art one.

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: April 12th, 2016, 2:21 am
by Claudius Sol
That's... really damn convincing.

Well done!

If you don't mind... How did you go about creating that? Was there a base shirt that you made some slight modifications or did you create those patterns and cut and set them, yourself?

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: April 14th, 2016, 12:19 pm
by Yashia
Claudius Sol wrote:[...] If you don't mind... How did you go about creating that? Was there a base shirt that you made some slight modifications or did you create those patterns and cut and set them, yourself?


No base shirt, no. I made it completely from scratch.
I used a pattern for a common T-shirt and modified it to have the Healers open décolleté. Then I cut the patterns from "flex foil". This is usually used by copy shops to print writings and patterns on shirts and needs a specific machine to be applied, but you can also get it via eBay and apply it with a common smoothing iron. After cutting the fabric I ironed the patterns on (this needs some pressure), sewed on the decorative stitching at the back and sewed it to be a shirt. Then I sewed the hood by a pattern I designed on my own (again the patterns are from flex foil) and sewed it to the shirt.
After that I only had to add details like the fake leather at the neckline, the buttons on the revers and the straps.

I hope this was understandable. If there are any questions left unanswered let me know! :)

And the skirt for Harley Quinn can be found here: https://twitter.com/YashiaCosplay/statu ... 0596927488

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: April 15th, 2016, 2:35 am
by Claudius Sol
Yashia wrote:
Claudius Sol wrote:[...] If you don't mind... How did you go about creating that? Was there a base shirt that you made some slight modifications or did you create those patterns and cut and set them, yourself?


No base shirt, no. I made it completely from scratch.
I used a pattern for a common T-shirt and modified it to have the Healers open décolleté. Then I cut the patterns from "flex foil". This is usually used by copy shops to print writings and patterns on shirts and needs a specific machine to be applied, but you can also get it via eBay and apply it with a common smoothing iron. After cutting the fabric I ironed the patterns on (this needs some pressure), sewed on the decorative stitching at the back and sewed it to be a shirt. Then I sewed the hood by a pattern I designed on my own (again the patterns are from flex foil) and sewed it to the shirt.
After that I only had to add details like the fake leather at the neckline, the buttons on the revers and the straps.

I hope this was understandable. If there are any questions left unanswered let me know! :)

And the skirt for Harley Quinn can be found here: https://twitter.com/YashiaCosplay/statu ... 0596927488


I think I got most of it. I'll have to see about learning something more from your advances. Having just moved and still in a little unstable of a situation, I'll have to try for a new costume for GenCon2017, rather than this year.

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: April 17th, 2016, 12:05 pm
by Yashia
@ Claudius Sol: Looking forward to it! :)

Just a minor thing, but important, too: the sleeves!
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Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: April 24th, 2016, 11:18 am
by Yashia
The complete arm looks like this:
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The overview post is updated with the comparison shot.

And Harley Quinns blouse: https://twitter.com/YashiaCosplay/statu ... 4787028993

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: April 25th, 2016, 11:34 pm
by Claudius Sol
Oh! Very nice! I wasn't entirely convinced when it was just the sleeve, but that cam together very nicely.

Re: Yashias Cosplay Blog [Reverend Healer]

PostPosted: May 1st, 2016, 2:24 pm
by Yashia
And the skirt is done!

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You can find the comparison shot in the overview post :)