The Costume Making Guide: Creating Armor and Props for Cosplay
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| Rating | : | 4.24 (948 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1440345163 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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. She runs a successful website and travels to cons all over the world participating in cosplay and conducting workshops. Svetlana Quindt (KamuiCosplay), Nuremburg, Germany, kamuicosplay, started making costumes in 2003 and has never stopped. She has a strong following in the cosplay community
About the Author Svetlana Quindt (KamuiCosplay), Nuremburg, Germany, kamuicosplay, started making costumes in 2003 and has never stopped. She has a strong following in the cosplay community. . She runs a successful website and travels to cons all over the world participating in cosplay and conducting workshops
Tutorials cover design planning, fabricating body armor, 3D painting techniques and more. Best of all, you can adapt every lesson to use in all future fandom projects spanning video games, books, anime, movies and even your own original characters! Includes:*How to choose a costume and find good reference art*A short shopping list of necessary materials and tools for beginning cosplayers*Basic safety tips*A beautiful photo gallery featuring inspiring images from other cosplayers *Next steps--how to grow your workshop, take professional photos, participate in contests and join the cosplay community. Bring your cosplay dreams to life with your own two hands! The Best Cosplay Tutorial Guide Ever! Get ready to impress ordinary mortals with your superhuman costume-making skills. You can do it no matter what your experience level with this, the first full step-by-step technique book on cosplay--with no sewing! Internationally known cosplayer Kamui Cosplay (a.k.a. Svetlana Quindt) shows you how to easily create elaborate costumes and successful props out of items available at your local arts and craft or hardware stores: turn foam into a realistic axe, create a breastplate from scratch and use a glue gun to modify just about anything. You will even learn the best and most accessible techniques for working with specialty cosplay materials such as Worbla! Packed with more than 30 step-by-step demonstratio
Love Prop Makers My son is a prop builder and page 119 shows his talent in the King Loki costume. There is good info on working with Worbla & EVA foam. Wether you are a creator or not there is so much info and very interesting to read.. Great book! Great book! Excellent, useful patterns. Great ideas. Some great information for prop and costume making.. "The Best Core Cosplay crafting book." according to Brian S. This is the definitive beginners guide for cosplay crafting. I had bought a few of the individual books before from her website but this is a great all in one from one of the best in the world of cosplay.