I’ve been getting a lot of emails asking for templates of armor pieces from my Karliah cosplay, as well as Hawke and Fenris from DAII.

I’ve been thinking about going back and remaking them all, on a nice vectored PDF with files of all the pieces, but it would take some time.

Because of that — if I were to release PDF files of my templates, I would probably charge around 10 bucks for them.

Would you guys be interested in me doing them even if they weren’t for free?

A day’s work!

I showed you guys my ‘Man in the iron mask’ sculpt last week, and figured I’d show you the matching shackles. They will be molded and casted four times to complete a full shackle for each hand, with some chains and such.

I haven’t been showing much cosplay progress lately because school has actually kept me quite busy — so I figured I would show you what I’ve been working on.

This is my sculpted mask for my Advanced Projects class. We get to do whatever we want as a senior project, and I wanted to do some prop making. So this is my design for the Three Musketeer story, “Man in the Iron Mask.”

It’s sculpted in Plasticine, gonna be molded and then casted in brush powder aluminum. I also have some shackles to make, and three or four pommels to make for the musketeer swords.

Also! Check out my tiny little senior studio! Yay!!

Hatsune Miku, Feather Sword Singer (Altiel Card) - Vocaloid, Cosplay Progress

Progress progress progress… I’m getting there! Got the skirt done and the top nearly done, cape is nearly finished and the armor is almost finished.

I can’t decide if I want to weather the armor or not… I think I’ll decide later once I add the top half of the armor on.

Still gotta add gold designs inside the cape… gotta add some more blue trim, then make all the petal trimming for the thigh highs and gloves, dye a tie and make a sword!miku

Photos of my Karliah cosplay from Skyrim in the PCC Masquerade!  I won 1st place in the gaming category!

It really, really depends on what your making. Cause Fenris’ armor would be different than say, Avelines, or Karliahs from Skyrim which would be hugely different that Daedric armor. There are tons and tons of ways to make armor, everything from cardboard to actual metal casting. So it really depends on what your making, what your budget and time deadlines are, and what you are comfortable with or tools you have on hand.

I would recommend looking into both games (or whatever you interested in) and choosing a costume. One you have a costume in mind, you can narrow down ways to make it rather than going from a million ways towards one costume.

BUT! I will send you all my favorite armor tutorials to inspire you. Starting from easy to work with/cheapest to hard to work with/more expensive

Craft Foam Armor
Paper Mache Armor
Cardboard Armor
Vinyl and Craft Foam Armor
Vinyl over EVA Foam
EVA Foam Armor
Wonderflex Armor & Expanding Foam
Leather Armor
Pepakura Armor

Karliah (Nightingale Armor) - Skyrim, Cosplay Progress

The makeup is giving me issues. OTL 
I’ve discovered that making ‘Dark Elf’ look good is pretty impossible without their bone structure. Not to mention, grey skin looks really, really bad in certain angles and light. It doesn’t help that I’m doing this at night with cheapo florescents. I want to get the contouring of Karliah’s face down, maybe do something different with the lips…But once I do the photoshoot outside in the beautiful daylight forest this weekend, maybe things will kinda work.

In the meantime… I may just ONLY wear the mask and never show my full face at conventions. I shudder at the bad angles and lighting that may happen (flash photography oh gawd)….

Lawl Wtf do I do with my hair?

This ‘Dunmer’ skin is confusing my brain. The makeup is so light that I keep forgetting that it’s even on. And I look in the mirror and I’m like WHOA.

Karliah (Nightingale Armor) - Skyrim, Cosplay Progress

So my Karliah is preeettty much finished (besides my slow drying archery bow ಠ_ಠ). I have some things to fix though. My belt is out of whack, so I wanna buy a new one and re adjust the side panels of the skirt closer to the front.

I’ll post pictures of my face makeup once I stop being finicky with it.

This is probably the number on question I get on tumblr so I decided to write it up…

 Click here for the process and tutorial of how I made our Dragon Age Armor.