Shoot Thorfinn

Hello!
haven't been updating here properly--'

Yesterday I had a shoot with my photographer Tânia:). I finally finished Thorfinn and debuted it. I actually started this costume two years ago, the pants and the brown shirt were the first ones I ever made and they're full of mistakesXD the dress and small cape was what i finished and I also rushed the boot covers because my sewing machine isn't sewing properly so they're hand sewed. papapapapapapa. I'm in love with Vinland Saga because I love Vikings and Nordic stuff and this manga is actually serious and the mangaka toke time to research to make accurate portraits of the characters and the time. I definitely suggest you read it:)

Now for the shoot part:
It didnt planed this very ahead, we just picked up a day and hoped for the best it wouldn't rain and thank God it didn't though it was quite cloudy. After work I went to Palácio de Cristal, dress in the bathroom and them we sailed to find cool places without people.

As usual I super suck at posingXD

 And I was always laughing

I chose this place because there was a small dungeon that fitted the theme. we had to trespass it because it was in danger of collapsing so I didn't climb it and took some poses next to it instead. 

´We didnt take many pictures, about 150 in 4 diferent locations.

My sister came later to join us to ruin the pictures as always

It was a fun day and i'm finally learning more about portraying characters which is my main flaw after costume construction, definetly doing more shoots with the costumes I have piling up around me but right now the weather is really cold so only warm costumes in the nexts few weeks.

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Iberanime + Holloween + Previews

howdy!

Ok Iberanime came and went aaaaaaaaand I really enjoyed it again but I already made a huge post in my DA with pictures so I won´t talk about it that much. i just want to add that it was lovely meeting the ladies of AC Portugal and be a part of the group and skit. I actually didnt stick to the cosplay schedule and use Alisa on Saturday and Female apprentice on sunday because of it. Onto the news>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

This year Halloween I will be celebrating with a couple of friends on the mall and later we will be watching Silent hill revelations  yoshshshshshsh. This movie will be focusing on Silent hill 3 which is Heather's game and as some of you might remember, Heather was my first SH cosplay(well not exactly, it was Lisa but that's not important right now). I really hope this franchise will have a better outcome then Resi wich now is completely boring and lame. I might cosplay and make a shoot hopefully. Maybe I'll bring Claire. I really need some pictures.
And now the previews\\\\\\\\\\\000////////////


Because I was a bit bored and my vacations are almost over here's a few previews that I made of lots of cosplays that will soon see the Light of a convention:)

I had already talked about this costume in another post and look, finished it today finally. The robe was all made with materials I had in home and I love how it came out. Altogether it took me 4 hours to finish. Its all lined and the red is the rest from one of Claire's vest:) yay recyclement of materials. I bought the Gryffindor emblem, the scarf and the tie on Ebay:). the wig I already had<3.

 Woohohohohoho I look so weird with no hair onXD. I didnt put a wig because I use my hair for this cosplay and because I was to lazy to take the wig cap offXD. I had made this jacket ages ago but I still needed to finish it as in put the light blue triangle and the fur on the collar and sleeves. Now i'm just missing her blue emblem. This is probably the next cosplay i'm using and also, because I dyed my hair red again and I have a brown wig laying around, I think I'm gonna style it and make a Korra wig.

 

Ilya\0/
I stopped watching anime a few months ago and have only made two exceptions, one of those being fate zero which my sister, enthusiastically, I may add, suggested me and  really enjoyed it. I also have to say that I'm a fan of humonculus and djiins and Ilya fits the profile:) This costume however needs to be improved greatly. I need to iron the seams and the pleats of the skirt better (as you can see in the picture) and her shirt needs to be fitted to my body a whole lot better. You cant really see but I put a lot of effort on the sleeves. My sister told me they really feel like a royal model and the fabric is really pretty too. The wig is one of those lucky biddings where only you seem to be interested in and I got a really long silver wig for around 10€. I finally am able to wear my red lenses too.

So the other exception of my anime strike was fairy tail. Its a bit long for my taste but its amazing. I adopted Natsu as my new Husbando and Lucy as my waifu. You actually already saw this last post. I sewed it in two afternoons after finishing Lucy's arc. When my sister was looking for something to wear on Sunday at Iberanime she saw this costume and asked if she could take it so I quickly finished the final bits and it was ready. She never saw Fairy tail however, what a poser, didn't even know she was missing her blue ribbon on her ponytail, her tatoo, her black bracelet, her belt or hers keysD: What you see on the picture is the costume after being worn on the convention so it needs a lot of ironing now and i would like to fix the chest area where the blue stripe seems to not be parallel like I want:(

Jean greay!!!!!

This is actually a dream costume of mine though i'm not sure i'm bringing this anytime soon, it feels like i'm nakedx_x and i'm not exactly on my best shape right nowXD or at least is what my sister keeps telling me>s.


So this is all for now. if you have questions i'll be happy to answer them.

XOXO

Wip + vacation + Iberanime

hello dears!

here's the promised journal with WIPs, I probably won't post more until Iberanime:)

So here's what I'll be wearing:

I don't know if I mentioned but I wanted to keep cosplay in budget as much as possible so all of the materials  we re already owned or scavenged in my house. the only things I had to buy were the trims for Alisa dress and a zipper and buttons for Claire´s vest.

Starting with Claire i already had her biker shorts, gloves, boots and black shirt. I just needed to make the black shorts and her vest. Her vest was the most challenging. I ended up drafting my own pattern and i really don't like how it fits>_> I already redid the pockets and they look much better but It still doesn't look very much like a vest to me. Maybe once I add the buttons it will look better.
This was also one of the cosplays on my cosplay list for this year, already did more than half of them\0/

Alisa was a big headache. I used no pattern for the dress and once I finished I realized about six flaws especially with the flare that was hard to achieve the way I wanted. I ended up making to pleats on the borders and after sewing everything together I realized I had one extra pleat on my right side OTL. The embroidery was really fun though. The circles ended up being a little to big and not really much that even (like everything I do, sight) but I really feel like a cute little russian princess with it. Even my mother said it was really pretty. After putting the trims on I liked it even more. The chemise is going to be one cute lolita chemise that I shall be confiscating from my sister's rori wardrobe. The shoes are not really that alike with her ones but they do match the dress.

I know that Alisa's wip photos look like shit but I promise that this looks so much better in real life. My camera just cant take good photos.

the right now is my biggest nightmare because I just cant seem to make the curl.

Ive curled other wigs before but this one just doesnt seem to keep the styling together at all and the fibers have alredy been showing the sings of worning outT^T.

here's some pictures:

she is died with the sharpie method and curled with the blowdrier. Hopefully i'll finish this two projects today because in in three days i'll be flying to Rome for vacation with my sister, mother and granmother<3<3<3<<3.

Which mean no last minute cosplay for me because i will only come the day after Iberanime.

here's one last wif of something my sister will hopefully wear:

P.S. Why cant i make wip journals with beautifull step by step guides and gorgeous photosT_T my journals are always so uglyD:

Birthday

oh hello there.


This past week was my birthday, I turned 21. I feel so mature:), It wasn't a big deal, I got a lot of happy birthady thanks to facebook and my sister offered me 3 games one of wich, Deus Ex got me completely hooked!! havent done anything else since I started to play it<3<3<3 Thank you sister youre the best in the world\o/ she also gave me my very first Lolita dress, its baby the stars shine bright and  a shirt and  a cute necklace that remiinde dme the brothers in Nier.

I decided to give myself a trip to midori because I wanted to check the Ecg but sadly I was very sick during the trip and decided to leave really early. I was feeling so bad that decided to buy another ticket and at 15 I was already sailing awayDX. The train was one hour late because one person committed suicide and we had to wait for the doctor to arrive to declare the death I think:x poor soul rest in peace, I always feel sad when I hear about this things:(.


I had less than three weeks til Iberanime and with this crisis I decided that I am to stop spending so much money in my hobbies and try to save as much as possible so i'll be bringing new cosplays but they will be made with a zero budget. just stuff that are around my house. It will be a challenge but for now it will be like this. I already collected a dozen wigs and fabrics that will keep me occupied for the rest of the year. This means that i changed my cosplay schedule. I will be making Claire and Alisa which are on my list on the other page of the blog:) Expect a new entrie soon



XOXO ema

Portusaki Report:)

heyheyheyehey


So Portusaki second day is over and it was my second convention of the year lol.
I had a lot of fun especially the second day but here's the full report


I arrived at around 10 am, everyone was still mounting tables, it was funny because i've never been in a vendor's place when everything was still to set up, we were next to two friends that had a drawing table and made bishies and coloured things. Here's my table:

you cant see it very well but we were basically selling wigs, manga, stickers, merchandize, posters etc.
I guess it was cool being able to sit the whole con but it also meant that you were stuck with your table and codnt leave--', Anyway all my friends stop by and kept us company from time to time. we were the farthest table and could have a good visibility from the rest of the con.

Some other tables:

Me and Tânia as Panty and Stocking

and here's some of the cosplayers:

Eyeshild

LoK and One Piece

Rouronin Keishin

Uncharted

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TTGL

Vocaloid

More cosplayers

 There were many more but I didnt ask for photos:(, Anyway later on It was Eurocosplay<3

The backstage was very chill, all contestants were talking to each other, we were five and this time there were actually more guys than girlsOo who whoud guessXD It was nice to know Carolina and Joss, and participate again with Miguel and Tiago. All costumes were very good, we all comented how it was anyone's game. In the end Miguel won as Simon from TTGL.  The best of luck to him<3

Day Two was much more relaxed than one. I walked with Korra cosplay, in this con we were actually three Korras:) and one Bolin, yay for Avatar cosplay\0/. There were many less people but I still had a great time and bought so many things, origami magnets from the origami table, a mirror and a lucky pack from the lolita table, a clock and 4 posters from Animegam,all the posters together were only 3 euros, I still remenber when there was a Saint seiya poster for 14 euros last year--'. I also ate shrimp chips, and drank chinese tea and shrimp soup.  I forgot to mention that it was so hot both days I was meltinglol.

overral it was a good weekend, its always great to meet friends again espeially my friends silvério, gabriela and Kenzo who are from other cities:) definetely looking foward to the next one<3

Portusaki in two days

As the title says Portusaki is in two days yay!!!
Finally an event that didnt got cancelled like the last two--'. This one is going to have the only contest for EC in Portugal and I gave a huge thought about should I participate or not because as the organisers of the competition like to advertise it, Eurocosplay is a competition for the best of Europe and i'm certainly not in such level. I decided to go anyway and I can say that I pushed myself a lot trying to get the best results I could give. In case you dont know here's the charachter i'm going as:

and here's some WIP

the most dificult part was the painting of the whole white fabric and the patterning:( I think I bought ten x-ato and cut over 1000 hexagons--'I also had major issues with the fabric because I bought super strechy and after painting it it got so stiff that i was basically working with paperD: On top of it the shiny loking black fabric was a nightmare to sew. I think I broke the machine twice. No matter the tension or type of stich I used it was always a fight and it didnt help the fact that in some areas I had 6 layers of fabric to sew.

Anyway is almost finished, only need to do her neck thingie and find the right shoes. I also made a simple M-6 Carnifex to carry with my skit which will be 30 seconds on stageOTL. I'm also having a small table with merchandise with my sister to make some money. Next joutnal will be reporting from the convention:)

Another update plus no pictures

This last month I sewed a lot!!

I organized my fabric and sewing boxes and kind of challenged myself to finish old costumes that got dropped and use fabric to make new ones without spending a cent.

kukuku mission acomplishedXDXD
I finished the very first cosplay I ever sewed with my sewing machine, konoe from Lamento. it was started three years ago when I knew nothing about sewing, tension, threads, stiching etc and I'm still proud of 18-year-old Ema who broke her machine the first day and had to go with her mother the next day exchange itOTL. anyway I remade the blue tunic and made another pair of pants. I also finished my Claire cosplay vest and painted the logo, finished Jill resi 3, finished Thorffin and finished Korra.

As for the cosplays I finished with 0 budget i dig around the box and found fabrics for Homunculus (on my list for this year) Gryffindor student (my sister loled and she saw it) and Sansa from game of thrones.
I screwed with homunculus pants and need to redo them, finished the gryfindor robes and finished Sansa.
The one I liked the most is Sansa dress, so pretty, I think I fell in love and I hope my sister can shoot me soon because her vacation starts tomorrow*__*


P.S. I also want to explain that cosplay really is a hobbie for me and I enjoy sewing very much thats why I sometimes sew two costumes in a day that get called half-assed to groryous cossupuray godesses desu and appearing in events and competitions isnt a goal at all. please hatter chan dissapear.

Finally some cosplay progress

hello everyone, how are you?
I haven´t posted in awhile because Dragon age and Mass Effect ate my life away the last three weeks but I think i'm recovering fine and going back to normal state gradually...

so I finally watched all 5 episodes of LoK and oh boy am I hocked... I don't watch anime anymore and never bothered with cartoons but i loved AtLA and now I'm glad I picked up this series. Its so entertaining, I really urge you to watch If you haven't, you will not be disappointed.

ya mirin bro?

cosplaying Korra came very spontaneously after searching my fabric box and finding blue, blue, BLUEEEEEEEEEEE everywhere. I also really like her character and the cosplay seemed relatively simple for me.
so I begined this Saturday by printing  the images and patterning a bit, Friday I did all the patterns and cut the fabric and today I sewed everything.
Its not done yet but its pretty close now.

some shots:

reference sheets

The blue massacre

Armbands and "skirt"

pants with her weird triangle belt

For now I just need to find and attach the white fur and figure out korra's neckline and armband and then shoes.
 I hope I cant tone up a bit and tan during the summer. I'll wear my hair, I hope it grows and I will probably wear this for Portusaki in the beginning of September. I'm really excited for a group, I will have Bolin and maybe Lin and who knows if someone wants to jump on he bandwagon with us and make a the whole probending team coughlilaxcough.


I'm also slowly progressing with Miranda's costume but it really takes so much time to make such a big stencilD: Im not sure if the four months I have will be time enough--'
Conventionwise Yesterday was Haruhi which I couldn't attend because of work but I heard from my sister that it was really fun. I also had a chance to attend Anicomics today but I let it slip because it was mother's day and met with my granny at lunch, when will I meet my southern friends again??;____;

I'll post a picture of finished korra next ttime:)

BOOOOOOOOOOOH plus cosplay preview

Sooooooooooooo you probably already heard about the sudden cancellation of Japan emotion;___________; i was really looking forward to that event but suddenly last week it was announced that japan emotion was not happening anymore and no more details or explanation was given so we all are just wondering what happened since no one knows for sure. Don't really know why the organization choose not to say anything but whatever, i'll just keep waiting for others to pop in so I can have fun^^.

Of course that again the debut of the costumers will have to wait but I decided to have a new rubrick to help me keep this updated.
I will start posting cosplay previews of my finished costumes so here's the first>>>>>>


Claire Redfield:

I first debuted this in last IberaOpo, no one really knew who I was except for two people: this guy who came to me and said "Claire" and showed me his tattoo on his arm that read "Made in Heaven" which is written in Claire's vest*__*. I was so surprised and happy to meet such a big fan. And there was a girl that I heard talking to her friend " Oh my God, cannot believe I am seeing a Claire" This are the recognitions i most enjoy when wearing cosplay*3*.


This defenetily needed of few fixings before being showed again.
I remade the vest from scratch because it was too tight and got a new pair of jeans and gloves. I need to make an observation that I know her vest seems to be some type of leather or vinyl bu my machine does not sew any type of fabric like that. I already tried and it nearly ruined it. I'm not sure if its me who does not know how to properly adjust the tension or thread but I rather not take the chance again. Sarja it was then. The necklace, belt, black shirt and gun are the same.
I'm wearing my own hair:)

ok the last one of me is the closest I have of a body shot and the real last one is my kitty that was sleeping in the bed<3

I'm wearing my blue lenses that I absolutely love<3<3<3<3
Next cosplay update will definitely be heather so stay tuned:)