Kazemon Digimon WIP

oops i didn't realise i had forgotten to post the WIP for this. so here's an update.
and the character reference from digimon, known as fairymon or kazemon.

but of cos you noticed that she's wearing bra and panties. and obviously i'm not gonna wear that in public so i sort of modified it to shorts. i used pink/purple pvc so that it won't end up looking like lingerie but more of an armour. and also cos i like all things shiny.

lined everything with white riboon so it wouldn't look so 'raw'

the neckline

with the shoulder pads

and my hot pants.

here's the boots

wing pattern is made of satin covered with chiffon, then seamed with gold ribbons

then pasted onto the boots with all the other small little parts

next the gloves. the silver-scaled cloth i used kept peeling off. urghhh.

then pasted on the wings.

that red thing in the middle wasn't very nice so i had it changed to an origami paper instead.

all the rainbow colored stuff was all cut out at once from this material i bought from philippines when i went for LoL rampage. thank goodness i had a lot left to use!

pasted them on PVC, then used sewed black ribbon rims all around. the veins were all black sticker, had to cut the individual pieces out to paste but they didn't stick very well.

i then folded clear PVC to thick rods and pasted it with industrial acrylic tape. added the elastic rubber band so i can wear them like a backpack

my mirror cuts me out perfectly. hah.

last is the eye shield she uses which is the most awesome of any character cos i wouldn't need to draw any eye make up,. hah! actually, this is the most expensive part to make. that paper in the middle costs me over $45 to import from tb at a super fast rate =_= it looks silver on the outside but you can actually see from the other side. quite cool huh.

and all the pieces combined!

i made a 2D kazemon for prop usage too. the base is corrugated board. the rest is about the same materials i used.

even made the hair out of some old purple cotton i had. haha. looks convincing??

and other props we made to prepare for ACM.

the top slits at the back as it's stuck with velcro so you can easily rip all apart quickly.

prepared a huge background which we never used cos we had difficulty pinning it up... sadsssss

our 'power' boards.

the flipside is just grass as disguise.. you can step on them to flip them to our power board.

and a bunch of pompom to imitate kazemon's power.

well, i couldn't find white color... hahahah.

150208 LoV Berserker Shoot

i decided to shoot this like only the day before since zera was free (yay!) and was frantically looking for people to shoot with me. but because it was such a short notice (like 10pm), everyone's busy. and so i decided to just go ahead myself. hah!

so this is berserker from lord of vermillion... (don't think anyone knows the character well but heheh)

went over to botannical gardens in the early morning with daniel as helper.

and zera as photog

and being the fastest fingers photo, zera ended the shoot in less than 3hrs. whee hee~ and he gave me all the photos that day. and i processed them immediately. love this kind of efficiency. so you get some previews here! really love them! the lighting's all natural, didn't even need to adjust anything. i had to photoshop some of my flaws away though, of course. the onlyy regret i have is not having enough boobs. bleah. well at least you won't get distracted. right? RIGHT?

Adekan Shiro WIP

i'm actually making costumes in my weekends..

just that i couldn't really find the time to post. but anyway here's some progress. i think i made this probably more than a year ago. a lot of my stuff are half done, either cos the finishing prop is too big and i won't have storage space to finish or i just found other projects to move on to D8

so anyway here's some ref for this girly-looking guy i'm making.

it actually looks fairly simple but i was mainly attracted to that fish umbrella he's holding (which is still not done till now!!!)

so i started with the chestplate

yeah i used painting instead of wrapping this time because well, i had the colors to use. hahah! painting is a tedious job though and i had to do like 5 layers zzzz

once you get over the painting the fun part begins - decoration and lining with laces~~

and the tassels to go along completes the set

i did the head mask at the same time too. almost the same procedure. i did chain along some beads with the tassels to string on both sides.

and then the clothes

the shorts was a little complicated - i did one in satin for the inner shorts and the outer skirt layer in the fancier fabric

and combined - ta da!

then there's the long tail on each side. i used brown brocade on one surface and white on the other one.

but i realised white wouldn't look too nice and i pasted red cloth over the white side, and lined it with further lace to cover the sides. 

last was the fishy prop that i've yet finished... i took some time to sew all the scales with gold edges..

probably handsewed over hundreds of these while watching drama. bwahwha.

and then the fins.

gold edges were sewed all over 

i did the base of the umbrella fish... but i think my mom dismantled it somewhere and i've yet continued working on this thing... 

150201 Lily Shoot

so denise wanted to finish off her photoshoot and i came over to help for her vocaloid lily.

since it was held at her house, helping out is actually pretty comfortable - comes with food too~! and adorable dogs sleeping around her couch... momo and puteh.

end of shoot in like 2-3hrs - fast!~ and i think she did a great job and zera's lightings were all awesome.

i managed to take one myself too.

she's posting some more on her page - do keep a look out~ there are some i really like but i don't think she's posted them yet.