She's here!!✨ Our third book is a guide through the wonderful world of ballgowns, dividing these complicated cosplays into easier to tackle elements. Learn all about corsetry, petticoats, skirts, and most importantly - the planning!
Available at:
Bringing the light with this cosplay reveal!! ✨
We were over the moon when
@riotgames
asked us to collaborate to bring Vayne's new Before Dawn cinematic look to life, as part of
@LeagueOfLegends
Sentinels of Light event. We hope you love it as much as we do! 📷by
@Sam_Saturn_
I just finished the fourth wig for my Ghibli series: this time inspired by Ponyo! This wig started as an
@ArdaWigs
Luthien in Aqua, with additional fiber wefted in around the crown for both the new partline and all of the teasing required for the wave shape.
Cosplayers, please remember to ASK PERMISSION before making another cosplayer's design. Some may ask you to wait, some may want to keep it uniquely theirs, and please respect that choice!
It's disheartening to see someone wearing your design before you could cosplay it yourself
We all love our giant cosplays, but when you don those huge gowns and wings it's important to go out of your way to be considerate of your fellow attendees! Cons are crowded and it's unfair to force people to dance around you - or risk damaging your outfit! Some tips to consider:
Hey it's my new favorite cosplay "critique!" Reasons I love this: 1) Helga's chestpiece is a sculpted silicone prosthetic. I chose to make them that size. 2) Cosplay Makers care more about hems than plastic surgery. 3) Until they can sew my cosplay for me, boobs != craftsmanship.
I love how this Squirtle wig turned out! Everything here is made from wig fiber save for the foam base under the shell; I had lots of fun trying out this new curl teasing technique.
Aqua Buttercup & Wefts from
@ArdaWigs
#cosplay
#pokemon
#pokemoncosplay
Wig Month continues! No Face was a fun design, and I ended up teasing the bangs into a "hand" to hold his gold. No Face himself is still my favorite part though, and he's made from
@ardawigs
foam clay and hair wefts.
Extreme Wig Styling book Kickstarter:
Oh right I forgot what happens when I cosplay characters that normie men are interested in, especially when I don't show 'enough' skin.
I didn't French seam this dress for you, boys.
Extremely over this Cosplay Contest trend where it's acceptable to publicly smack talk your competitors and obsess over winning as the "next step" to cosfame. These are COMMUNITY events. If winning is your obsession, you need to take a step back and think about why you cosplay.
This is not an acceptable response when the original artist asks for credit, be it tagging a cosplay photo or crediting a design! Permission is not a legal obligation but a respectful thing to do within our community. Always respect your fellow cosplayers & demand accountability!
✨Demon Lord Helgasercle✨
Cosplay:
@Cowbuttcrunchie
Photography:
@worldofgwendana
I hope you guys have enjoyed seeing Helga's progress - there's still a LOT left to do but I think Katsucon was a really good trial run for C2E2! Let the phase 2 crunching commence!
Three days until Katsucon and one costume.... mostly finished? This group consists of three original designs, inspired by cosplay and needlework!
#cosplay
#katsucon
#katsucon2018
Photo 1: How you envision your big, awesome cosplay group going.
Photo 2: What your big, awesome cosplay group ends up doing for 95% of the time. 📷
@Impl0der
Friend: So what's your skit about?
Me: It's staged as an interactive video game, which turns into metafiction when the characters admit they're just cosplayers on a scripted stage but need to complete the game anyhow.
Also I get to yell at a 10 foot tall video of Edgeworth.
Bring back that love for characters and shows that makes you want to cosplay them with your friends for years! You put a lot of work into that outfit: show it off for more than one con!
Nobody likes fast fashion cosplay trends, so keep wearing what you love!
We're so excited to announce that we've gathered our favorite extreme wig styling techniques into one massive 100 page handbook, and it's available now on Kickstarter!! Please check it out and spread the word if you love extravagant wigs as much as we do!
The Howl's Moving Castle wig for our Ghibli group is finished! I'm a big fan of asymmetrical designs, and both the feather and diamond sides of this wig are made completely from
@ArdaWigs
hair fiber. Can't wait to wear these at Colossalcon!
After a full day of
@HolidayMatsuri
where everyone seemed so careful wearing masks, it's disappointing to have returned to our hotel, only to be confronted with this.
Covid doesn't disappear after midnight. Please be more considerate and consider getting tested if you attended.
Oct 1 is our anniversary! 😀 We've been married for four years now, but cosplaying/making stuff together for 15! We also finally have a few new couple photos from this year, so yayyy us - progress! 🎉
Photography by
@charleslanphoto
and
@amiephotos
Continuing
@silhouettecos
's
#cosplaydetails
trend - detailing is one of our favorite parts of cosplay and fandom design! It was.tough picking just four cosplays for this image, but these are some of our favorites.
Keep it secret.... keep it safe💍
We're skipping Dragoncon this time, but that's not going to stop us from throwing back to a favorite cosplay group from recent years!
Our second book is finally here!!! 🎉 We wrote a one stop shop for creating our favorite invisible thigh highs, boot covers, painted shoes, dyed tights & other footwear inside this little book - plus two patterns!!
Pre-Orders include 2 free prints too!
How many demons can dance on the head of a pin? 🔥
I got some quality moves in during a
#GoodOmens
test run of Elizabethan Crowley and our articulated wings, which are remote controlled for optimum shenanigans. Dragoncon, here we come!
@neilhimself
@michaelsheen
#cosplay
Who remembers that time I performed over 100 wig dye tests? 😀
@ritdye
and
@JacquardProduct
polyester dyes are a great way to permanently color any synthetic
#cosplay
wig. For folks who want a true-color version of this guide, you can find it in
@cosplay_culture
's Sept-Aug issue!
I have no idea why
#Charizard
is trending on twitter, but here's my contribution!
Charizard-inspired wig for my old Pokemon set, created from
@ArdaWigs
fiber and glue.
TFW a cosplayer tries to shame you for stealing a tutorial.... that you yourself posted the original guide for half a decade ago... because that cosplayer is too young to remember where it came from.
We've come full circle, folks. We are now the crypt keeper.
To the Bus!!🚀
This is my finished Magic School Bus design for this year's Her Universe Fashion Show, complete with a LOT of bus embroidery and a custom bag!! I've had Ms. Frizzle on my list for a while, so this was a perfect chance to turn that design into reality!
The first piece of Princess Bubblegum's shoulder sculpt for Katsucon and the Cosplay Met Gala is finished and in the process of being cast! This was sculpted from sulfur-free clay, over a quick and dirty corseted foam body double. It's also really difficult to photograph nicely.
Something we often say to cosplay competitors at their judging feedback sessions:
If you don't place, it's not necessarily because you did something wrong. It's because someone else did something really great.
𝕴 𝖑𝖔𝖛𝖊𝖉 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝖒𝖞 𝖜𝖍𝖔𝖑𝖊 𝖗𝖔𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖓, 𝖈𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖒𝖕𝖙𝖎𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝖍𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖙. 🖤
One more for the road. From The Locked Tomb by
@tazmuir
Photo by
@ALeeStudios
| Harrowhark design by me
Princess Bubblegum details! It's always great running into Acksonl (IG) and I love how these highlight videos capture details that are tough to see in a single photo! My favorite parts of this cosplay are definitely the canvas portraits and resin cast corset pieces.
#katsucon
This weekend we released The Art of Extreme Wig Styling into the world! We've met so many amazing folks, and it's those crafters and friends who inspired this project. Our dedication page got pretty long, but there's so many more people we're glad we've met through this hobby. ❤️
Ponyo's dress is finished! Sometimes interpreting simpler outfits is the trickiest, because there's such a fine line between recognizable and just recreating the outfit. Up next: proper photoshoot images!
I'm apparently starting a Cosplay Church. 🙏💀 Come ye to comment with your current project, and pray to your Cosplay Saints that your hems never pucker.
Photo by
@ALeeStudios
| Harrowhark design by me
From The Locked Tomb by
@tazmuir
Four days until Katsucon and Marceline the Vampire Queen is finished!
We're so excited to wear these both on Thursday and Friday, as well as to the Cosplay Met Gala at 2pm on Fri. (Attendance is open so stop by to see some cool designs and meet some fellow crafters!)
✨GIANT THREAD OF BLACK FRIDAY COSPLAY SALES✨
Our favorite cosplay tradition is finally here! Check out this thread for this year's sales, share with your friends, & comment with new deals.
I also want to remind everyone to be safe & considerate by shopping online if you can!
Thinking about 2011 when a judge tried to skip past me. I stopped her & asked if she had any questions - she sarcastically replied "No, we can tell you're perfect" and walked away. I didn't enter another contest for 5 years.
Kind, motivating cosplay judging is so important!!
Princess Bubblegum's halo crown looks yummy, but don't eat it - that's resin! This is constructed from worbla, foam clay, wooden skewers, and candy, clear coated in resin. Still need to gold leaf and weather it for Katsucon next week.
Hey, conventions! It's amazing to see so many cons move to an online format, but remember that creating online content still takes time & effort! I've now seen multiple cons ignore the basic rules of crediting & compensation - going virtual doesn't mean you can forget about these
It took us YEARS to realize there's a secret "finished garment measurement" sizing on pattern pieces, which contains the true sizing without an extra five inches of totally unnecessary ease some commercial patterns add so that you too can sew a tent. Check the ease; save a life!!
Facts that always surprise people!
1 "Cowbutt Crunchies" is two people-
2 -and is named after our cats
3 Neither of us are pro cosplayers; we work fulltime in software & admin
4 After work we craft for 40 hrs/week
5 Our Patreon funds go to cat charities; we've raised 25k so far!
I had to delete that last tweet because I am a big idiot and slapped a typo into it, but YES this is my craft room when it's not covered in filthy cosplay garbage XP
@Aicosplays
I should take some photos of what it actually looks like now, but this is the unrealistic dream:
Ten years of cosplaying together, Twitter edition!
It's tough to pick a single decade glow up photo but we thought this was a good example of the direction our cosplay has gone in! Bring on the fancy.📷
@Sam_Saturn_
"Cosplay what you want" is a great mantra, but whenever I see it used to justify bad behavior I feel like there's an unspoken second half that we should begin adding.
"Cosplay what you want... so long as it doesn't hurt anyone else."
Finished up the wig scales for Charizard! This is a similar technique to my fish scales that just involves bending the wig fiber and gluing it into place, but I thought the spikes looked more dragon-ish!
#cosplay
#wig
#Pokemon
I love cosplay highlight videos!! Superpower Reviews on YT recorded this video of my Lady Loki gala dress at Dragoncon, and I really like how you can see the movement of the train here.
Absolutely disgusting behavior. Moderately Okay Cosplay has deleted his socials ahead of the firestorm, but when he comes back, we do not need animal abusers in our community. You all know we never get involved in this kind of stuff, but this is too vile to ignore.
If there is anything I want you to read from experience with ModOk, it's this.
I was crying while writing this so ignore my poor grammar.. Reliving this was hard..
If you want to call me a liar, fine. Just never preach to believe victims again.
Does your gown touch the floor? Add a loop so that you can easily pick it up and hold it while walking! Do not just trail your train behind you - not only are you forcing people around you, but you run the risk of it getting stepped on and damaged!!
Goodbye,
#katsucon
- we had such a great time!! I'm so glad we managed to finish up Princess Bubblegum and Marceline; can't wait to improve on them and wear them again!
Photography by
@Sam_Saturn_
and
@DTJAAAAM
Come closer, Sen. What would you like?
My Spirited Away wig was one of the first ones I designed! No Face is constructed from glue-saturated fiber, wrapped around a foam clay base. I'll be posting the finished wig once it's done, as well as a big wig announcement on the 1st!
Ivysaur is the second wig from my Pokemon starters set! The flower and leaves were made from wig fiber and tacky glue instead of Pattex - it took a while to dry but it's pretty sturdy!
Wig and Cosplay:
@Cowbuttcrunchie
Photography:
@Sam_Saturn_
#cosplay
#pokemon
#pokemoncosplay
✨Cosplayers are real guests! ✨ You are worth compensation for your time!✨
I'm so happy to see cosplayers push back against businesses who want free content and free marketing. Judging, hosting panels and sponsored content requires effort, and you deserve compensation for that
Why you won't see me as a guest at OzCC again.
We are resource they don't consider worth compensating.
If your career NEEDS exposure, go!But really, there's no way they approached me or the other local guests thinking "these award winning artists need our help!"
PLEASE! Bye OzCC.
It's our two year anniversary today! Some folks don't realize we both run this account - apparently we look alike in cosplay, but I don't really see it. 🙂
📸 By Sara Lynn Photography on FB
On whether it's "okay" to copy someone's cosplay: I think we need to remember there's a big difference between ideas, techniques and design.
Ideas & techniques are meant to be learned from and shared!
A design belongs to the creator. If you want to copy it ask permission first!
Mononoke Spirit for our Ghibli wig group! Unfortunately we got rained out so photos for this may take a while... We're hoping to shoot this summer though!
Wow this weekend has been insane!! I was blown away by the craftsmanship in this year's Crown Championship contest and it was amazing meeting such talented cosplayers from around the world! Also a huge congrats to
@kinpatsucosplay
& Thedingoatemycosplay for their 2nd & 3rd wins!!
Added that final row of hair spikes to Charizard, which means this last
#Pokemon
wig is all finished! Whenever making spikes I always blend fiber together for more of a pop, and this one was done with teal, light blonde, and fire orange fiber from
@ardawigs
#cosplay
#colossalcon
Finished up our Good Omens wigs for Dragoncon this week! These took a weird about of styling because I'm being super picky about curling and the color, but I really like how they turned out!
Does your extra large cosplay have sharp bits or unfinished, snaggable edges that stick out on the ends? Fix this before heading to con. Don't be that person whose 6ft long cosplay snags on someone's fabric or stabs someone. Remember that this is YOUR responsibility!
Bi Pride is the second design in our pride wig set this month! 🏳️🌈 I was worried the colors for this one might be a little dark, but I think it photographs well together!
🍃In ancient times, the land lay covered in forests, where, from ages long past, dwelt the spirits of the gods.🍃
Ghibli Studios Fashion Shoot - Princess Mononoke
Cosplay:
@Cowbuttcrunchie
Photography:
@Sam_Saturn_
I love seeing these Megan Rapinoe posts because they remind me how much we're pressured to downplay our accomplishments. In 2019 I won the Crown Championships of Cosplay and am always wildly hesitant to bring it up, out of fear that even mentioning it will come off as showboating
Finished the base of Marcy's gown! This is a custom motif we designed, inspired by Gothic cathedral architecture. There are 23 individual pieces that each required about 2-3 hours of stitching time due to the multiple layers needed to satin stitch and cut out the window frames.
Will I ever finish Naktis? It is a mystery. >:D
This is one of those cosplays that I'd make completely differently now - 2017!me made some strange choices. Still though, it's good to be ambitious even if you don't totally know what you're doing!
Photo by
@sorairo_days
Also on a more upbeat note, some progress we've been making both on Bubblegum and a matching gothic cathedral Marcy for Katsucon and the Cosplay Met Gala:
Funny how outsiders constantly demean cosplay as being childish, attention-grabby, and not worthy of serious respect.
But when people want to justify racism, blackface, and hate speech, now it's "art".
For ultra large cosplays that can't easily move, try to set up your photoshoot spot in a corner or anywhere out of the way. Do not occupy bottleneck locations like stairs, hallways, and doors. This will help with the flow of traffic, and your fellow attendees will thank you.