J-popcon 2011

It's been a week since J-popcon ended, and I figured this would be a good time, to talk out about the con and all that.

Friday I arrived with Mie, dressed as Alto and Sheryl, a very fun twist, but I liked it non-the-less. Eventhough I find it hard being girly, being totally square and very un-ladylike, haha.
We arrived early to pick up our tickets, and get some lunch before the rush started.
It mostly just were a day of meeting up with friends, chatting, getting into the con-spirit and all that, good times. We took Louise and Aybike with us home, because we could 8D

Thank you, Liv for the shot

Saturday we left Aybike at home and took Ken with us instead, I've never seen a more brilliant cosplay, suiting any person better than this, I don't even.
We met up with all of the cosplayers entering the show, at Øksnehallen, right next to the con, started changing into costumes, suddenly having a meeting late, then starting rehearsals, and I don't really don't want to get into everything that went wrong and was bothersome, because that's not what this blog is for.

Thank you, Silas, for the shot

The show started on time, and it was all over pretty quickly I must say, and after that we went to the con-halls, since we'd been "cooked up" all day, after this point I don't remember much, other than I changed clothing around 9pm, had some dinner and then went to the disco.

Sunday was mostly just walking around and talking again, not really extremely exciting.

As for now, I don't have any proper shots of our costumes, since we didn't really take any photo's ourselves, so you will have to make do with this, and the ones, some of you can see on our facebook.

If you're interested, here's a recording we found on YouTube of our skit;

SDotP: Layers and Chrest

This weekend have been dedicated fully to the start-off on Kaito.
My very lovely cosplaypartner, Kiba, arrived friday, to help and be my sparing partner in this, I must measure up!
I started out, running by the patterns I'd chosen for the different parts, and then started cutting up, some of the fabric. The pants got tossed to the side, since I don't really need any sudden help with them (for now).

The shirt/jacket itself, actually have five different kinds of fabrics all together, but it's not something you'll be able to tell, unless you're wearing it. The outer layer is the exact same fabric all over, the see-through bottom you can see in the picture below, and oh god, it looks so nice, you won't even believe it!
Front piece is lined with red, as you can see below and above to the bottom-right, which I find a lovely contrast to everything the costume will have going on. Nom.

If you know me on facebook, you might have seen me ranting, about me and the chrest that I had to redo, and since I could, I did that tonight. I also altered it slightly, since this would be a neater version, when parted down the middle.

The chrest I'm using for Kaito is the Khanda symbol, of Sikhism, representing "The Coat of Arms" ; truth, willingness to fight, and one God, never beginning, never ending. How this translate into the story we're going to perform, I'll let you think about.

SDotP: Fabrics and Armor

 Sheryl's fabric on the right, SO EASY.

Yesterday I went to buy fabric with my dear cosplay partner, Kiba.
Took us the good side of two hours, to get everything that we needed, alternate cosplays as well. /SO MUCH FABRIC
But now we're set for the actual sewing part of this cosplay. At least it seems like we are.

Today we've been talking armor and how we should actually put together the spine, thankfully, we had pretty much the same idea, with a few alterations of course.
Browsing eBay, we've also found what we want to make our armor out of, very great, much cheaper than expected as well.

 

We've also bought our wigs, and are totally excited about receiving them. They'll be so beautiful!

 

Not the actual wigs, but an estimate of the colors.

SDotP: Drafting Armor

*scarlet demon of the pavement

I've been working a little on how I want to put together the armor for Kaito.
I want it so I can bend my body and limbs, without any problem or discomfort, so it will be a very demanding project, once I get into the MAKING of it, but as the title says..
I've made some small 3D drafts of what I've imagined it to be, so far.

This first picture is the body armor, yes. It's very simple, but it is only paper, so no greater details.
I might add some more ribcage armor, but it really depends on what I'm going to work with in the end.
The long choppy piece, will also be armor, which will follow my spine, as if the armor actually is a piece of me.

This is the 'prototype' of the armor rings, which I'll make 10 of total, all to fit each individual finger.
Since it's paper, I couldn't bend out the shape as it's supposed to go, but I've gotten a feeling of how I need to put it together and what size it'll be in the end.

Future plans: J-popcon 2011

Just a quick one, to let you all know what I'm up to, the next few months.
Plans again partain my lovely partner in crime, Mie. /<3

For friday, we're doing Macross Frontier, which I'm extremely excited for, it's one of my most treasured series, and I'm happy it gets much more spotlight , than it've had in the past.
To mix things up a bit, I'm going as Sheryl and she as my Alto.


I've went over a few outfits, and originally decided on the green tunic one, but I changed my mind to one of her jumpsuits instead. Very excited to be a girly girl.

Saturday we're keeping up our Vocaloid trend, and going as the vocaloid adaption of Scarlet Demon of the Pavement, featuring Kaito, me, and Meiko, Mie.
Also going on stage with this, and working hard on making this a perfect skit. Imo, we'll either make or break, but I hope we'll succeed in make a show people 'll remember.

All in all, I think this J-popcon will be one for me to remember.
I'm very excited to see everybody else's cosplays as well.