It should come as no surprise at all during these stressful times that most cosplayers, costumers, and hobby sewists are spending more time making masks, gowns, and ear savers than what they would normally sew. Many such as Yaya Han, Angela Clayton, and Bernadette Banner have made many to be donated which is incredibly commendable.
Personally, I do not have the luxury to spend a lot of time making masks, and the ones that I have been making are not exactly appropriate to be donated to hospitals, nursing homes, etc. The ones I make are more for the every day person, who would like to have one for their essential shopping. Why do I not have the luxury of a lot of time to sew like so many well known costumers and even some of my friends? Currently, I am classed as an "essential" worker as I work in food production. Because I am up at 5am, and get home around 3pm, I am exhausted by the time I'm home and don't want to do things that require hyper focus. So I work on masks on my days off, as either asked for by friends or coworkers. This blog illustrates how I have been making them for myself, my family, friends, and my coworkers.
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None of us like admitting that we weren't able to complete our projects to what we wanted for the event that we intended to wear it to. We've all been there at some point in time. So far already for this year, I've done it twice. Both for competition costumes and it's only February.
Every cosplayer is guilty of this, we will set insane deadlines with unrealistic expectations of what we can do in the set time frame. We will sacrifice sleep and eating for the sake of finishing a costume on time, rushing pieces that really shouldn't be rushed, and in the end being very dissatisfied with our work, and then promptly questioning where it all went wrong. And then we do it again for the next convention. I'll admit to having done this more than probably 5 times.
But, in my last year or so of cosplaying, I've not been doing that to myself. If I don't make the deadline? I don't sweat it, I just set the project aside to finish for a later date. It won't kill me if I don't finish a particular costume in time. There are more conventions that I can wear said costume(s) to. For a lot of newbie cosplayers, and sometimes even more experienced, it's hard to go shopping for fabrics and know exactly what you want, or will work for the costume that you're working on. Speaking from experience, and seeing friends' experiences, this can be very frustrating. So I've put together a little guide to help you in choosing fabrics for your cosplays.
NOTE: This is only a small little guide to help you in the right direction. I claim no authority to be an expert. I was actually honestly going to make this into a video, but I don't have the time for getting all nice looking and sitting and filming and editing right now with Anime North crunch going on. So a blog it is!
I'm planning to start doing a few of these, relating at least to conventions that I myself attend or have attended more than once and can give some handy tips to survive specific conventions! I've been asked a few times over the last few months of what would be the best things to have in your hotel room. And after going to enough conventions, I think I have a list for you!
I've been seeing people talk about how their parents view their cosplaying, how their parents disapprove, think it's weird, or even very immature and only for kids. This seems to be a very common opinion, which is honestly rather sad. There are worse things you could be into - like getting drunk every single weekend to the point you don't even remember what the heck you did.
I've been at that with my parents. In fact it took me a few years to get my parents to accept and understand it. This is about my experiences of getting my parents to understand why I cosplay, and how they were when I first got into it. With so many conventions popping up each year, it can be exciting to think "oh look there's this new con let's go!". The sudden onslaught in growth of conventions the last few years (especially since 2012/2013) has been overwhelming to man cosplayers (and convention goers in general).
Costorial = Cosplay Tutorial
I'm going to start doing these kinds of blog posts to help out cosplayers. If you find my costorial blogs useful, let me know! As the title for my first costorial says, this one is about preparing for a big costume. This could be very helpful to especially new cosplayers looking to tackle a big cosplay. |
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