In progress Cosplays/Crossplays

Updated and official list for Shuto Con in April- Firday or Sunday: either Avatar Kyoshi or my (short film inspired) Wonder Woman Crossplay Saturday: Queen Elsa from Frozen in her Snow/Ice Queen gown (Pics will come soon! of progress or finished pieces) For Motor City Comic Con in May, just found out that Jason David Frank a.k.a. "Tommy" the Green and White Ranger will be there AHHHH SO excited! So I will be finishing the redo of my Rita Repulsa Crossplay (mainly the dress) and wearing that to Saturday or Sunday of MCCC :) a chronology of Rita through each stage I have done of the cosplay will be coming soon as well :)

Avatar Kyoshi Cosplay

So for Shutocon (in Lansing MI) at the beginning of April (first weekend) one of the characters I have decided to do is my favorite character from Avatar the Last Airbender, Avatar Kyoshi :) I chose to do her statue version (Seen in Season 1 episode 4 "The Warriors of Kyoshi, and Season 2 Episode 5 "Avatar Day") This version is not done as often...but I LOVE this version because it is a lot simpler than her warrior gear in other flash backs in the series. The outfit: Fan-head band, Light yellow blouse with green around the ends of the sleeves, Green robe (sleeveless), Darker green belt & skirt, Her foot wear: are brown boots, Props are her yellow and gold fans, Make-up white base, black eyeliner and mascara, red cream liner for the eyelids and lips. (will do a video for you, but if you look at a picture of her or Suki you'll get the idea) All the fabric I got for $8-10 at a used clothing store (Value World) The Robe and skirts, they are all table cloths the light yellow shirt is a bed sheet. took about 2-3 hours to sew. The fans and headband about another 2-3 hours so about 4-6 hours total to make it. Not bad and my quickest cosplay to date :) very proud of this one, head band pics coming soon!

Some of my Crossplays from this year...

This year I attended only 2 cons in Michigan. Shuto Con in Lansing, and Motor City Comic Con in Novi. As always I decided to do female characters and they all were a success, I had lots of pics taken of me and wonderful compliments on my cosplays. and as always I fooled about 80% or people at the cons in thinking that I was actually a woman,, SCORE! :D so I though I'd share with you some of the pics of the characters I did at those cons. At Shuto I did, Uma Thurman's Poison Ivy from Batman and Robin, Theodora a.k.a The Wicked Witch of the West from Oz the Great and Powerful, and Android 18 from DBZ in her Android Saga costume. At MCC I did my all time favorite character Hexadecimal the self proclaimed Queen of Chaos from ReBoot. I did her season 3 version also know as her "bondage look'. So I hope you like em :) The next con I'll be at is Youmacon in Detroit at the Ren-Cen and COBO downtown. Friday I will be Queen Grimhilde (the Evil Queen) From Snow White with one of my best friends as Snow White, Saturday we will be doing Elphaba and Glinda from Wicked the musical, I'll be doing Elphaba's Defying Gravity dress and my friend will be doing Glinda in her Popular dress but with a more One Short Day look in pink. And Sunday, I'll be doing Klarion the Witch boy from Dc Comics, most recently seen in Young Justice, with my friend doing Wonder Girl. Hope to see you there :)

My Uma Thurman Ivy cosplay: The breakdown, The wig I ordered from Cosplay Magic it was $65, The green spandex suit I got from Party City and cut the head, hands, and feet off, hemming the edges and bingo. The eye brows are Ivy leaves from Dollar Tree, cut into the shape of Uma's and painted with gold metallic paint, I also added fun foam that had glitter on one side to the eyebrows in thin cut pieces to make the "veins" of the leaves. The Gloves and Boots were Green ducktape, and the belt was green shiny sequin fabric from JoAnn's. The Bane was there at the con and he was like "Ivy can I get a picture?" and I responded "Of course Bane darling" in a Uma/Ivy tone :)

Theodora/WWW breakdown: The hat is a "Traditional Witch" hat by elope hats, I made the head scarf from black material, the corset is a pleather corset from a drag queen store (Janet's Closet)The gloves just have the finger tips cut off, the nails are Halloween witch make-up kit nails, the torn up skirt is a mix of different black materials on a long thick black shoe string, the black pants are spandex running pants I bought a long time ago from a sporting goods store, and the boots (which took me forever to find, and finally arrived 2 days before the con) I found after 3 days of searching on amazon they were $30. The broom I made from scratch, the pole is from a fallen/dead tree that I spray painted black, the bristles are decor grass from Meijer spray painted yellow and black and tied to the wooden pole with wire and twine.

Android 18 Breakdown, this one is pretty simple, The wig I bought a while ago from a year round Halloween store, a very good quality wig like good cosplay wigs, the stripped shirt is from Hot Topic, the black one is a tee shirt with the sleeves seemed ripped out and hemmed, the jean vest and skirt I got from a salvation army store, same black spandex pants from Theodora, and light brown cowboy boots I got from Arkansas 6 years ago.

Hexadecimal S3 Breakdown, Hex was kind of a challenge but turned out to be pretty easy. The 7 spike crown I made from cardboard and spray painted black with gold metallic paint to add detail, the red suit is from superfansuits.com I did an open face style so that way when I take the mask off I can get water and food when needed. the mask is a Halloween hockey mask with Crayola model magic in white over it, the eyes are from a transparent green folder, and the mouth is just painted on with craft paint. the gloves are black long gloves ordered from amazon with another pair of Halloween Witch make up kit nails hot glued on to them and painted with metallic gold paint. the spike collar is from Halloween City, the cape is cardboard covered with black duck tape, the shorts are a black spandex speedo, the garter belt and fishnets combo is from Lovers Lane, and the boots and corset are the same from my Theodora cosplay. So yeah I hope you all like them :) Will post again soon! :)

WELCOME! This is my Cosplay Cornor :)

 

My Real name is Deric, but my Cosplay alias is Jasaad (after one of my favorite PS2 Game villains). I plan to use this blog to post my Cosplay experiences, Conventions I will attend and who I will be cosplaying/crossplaying as, Yes you heard right crossplay :P I love doing female characters, I more than likely tend to fool 80-90 % of con attendees in thinking that I am really a woman and when they find out the shock value is priceless :D I love turning grown adults into blithering idiots :) So any way this new show "Heroes of Cosplay really kind of ticks me off cause last night there was just a lot of bullshit being said about the "do's and don't" of Cosplaying by some of the main/popular/"big time" Cosplayers so here is my Belief about Cosplay. "Cosplay is about embodying a character that you wish/dream of being. Making a costume from scratch or finding and buying pieces already made and altering them to work for your cosplay, doing the best you can with the skills you have/know. Cosplay knows no boundaries, if you want to be your gender or not, the key is to be confident no matter the awkward stares or whispering, as long as you look the part all the rest is out the window. The end result come convention time, owning your costume and character not letting anyone take that happiness from you. I am a Cosplayer/Crossplayer and I approve this message. So yeah that's my belief, if there is a character you want to do then do it, screw everyone else OWN IT! Talk to ya all later, more postins will come soon :)