First off, I recently quit my job at Subway, due to some bad customers and complaints about coworkers that I won't get into...(Not to toot my own horn too much, but they're already begging me to come back to work for them), anyway that gave me some much needed time to binge anime and relax! I got really into Kiznaiver and Monthly Girls Nozaki-kun, as well as the new Ace Attorney Anime! (I'm actually waiting for crunchyroll to upload the new episode as I type). I also got to play more games! The biggest plus though, is that I have more time to draw and work on cosplay! Our latest cosplay endeavor was to create costumes from a french cartoon that took my childhood by storm back in middle school! A show I would rush straight home after school to watch on Cartoon Network's MIguzi! I'm of course talking about Code Lyoko!
So, the characters Logan, Ami, and I decided to become were William Dunbar, Aelita Schaeffer, and Odd Della Robbia respectively. While Ami and I chose to recreate their season 1 appearances, since William wasn't in the first season, Logan chose to go for Xana Possessed William, and the end result was pretty spectacular!
After leaving Logan alone to work on William while I stressed over every little detail of Odd and Aelita's outfits (Ami's still not a very successful seamstress), I finally feel like I can trust him to make his own costumes...so long as they don't require complex wigs. His wig did turn out pretty good though all things considered! He ordered and styled it himself, I was a proud Senpai!
Ami on the other hand caused a lot of trouble the night before our meet up! As I toiled away air-brushing Logan's cosplay I told her to make her leggings...which I will tell you now, was a mistake...she made a pattern that would have worked....had it not been so small, she gave no room for seam allowance, and didn't cut the fabric out along the stretch...making the fact that it was stretchy pointless....This was at nearly 2am...and I was freaking out! Luckily, Logan's leggings from his Darkar cosplay were the right color and nearly the right size...after patching in some excess fabric to make the inner thighs roomier to account for her more feminine curves, (thankfully this was hidden by the skirt) we were saved! Our costumes were all really well received and they made my Senpai, VDR cosplay's day! (if you don't know her work, you should really check out her facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/vdrcosplay/?fref=ts )
As I was saying above, I also got some time to draw recently, and while thinking about remaking my first cosplay, Deidara which I did around 2009, I decided to draw a realistic rendition of him from his Akatsuki Inception, if you're no stranger to my blog, you probably know I'm rather fond of him, so I gave this drawing a lot of effort and love! Let me know what you think! Also If you want to keep up with us and all our cosplay WIPs, check out our facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/konspiracycoslay/?fref=ts I'm currently posting updates on my Zack Fair cosplay over there! Until next time!
