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Photo by Oscar Chang of Divideby0.com [link]

Costume designed and made by me.

I really love how these photos turned out. I thought it would be cool to do a classic old film damsel in distress shot, with harsh shadows and ominous lighting.
In under a minute, Oscar rigged up this set up and it was perfect! I was all ready to shoot some Aliens!

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New costume photoshoot! I made a 2nd version of the Space Girl outfit a little while ago from scratch - with an even more retro design, bodysuit and high collar and all. I got a new wig and gave it a beehive lol, and grabbed a mic set from Target. My gun is the only thing I used from my old costume.

I wore this outfit at Fanime (or better, after Fanime ended on Monday) to do a photoshoot with Oscar Chang of Divideby0.com [link]

He took me to this amazing lit wall in the hotel and we pulled up various furniture pieces, and Oscar used his lighting skills to set up these images. I just love them!
The one on the left is my favorite. We did some variations on the chair and I called it my Captain Kirk impression lol.

Thank you so much for shooting with me, Oscar!

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Photo by Oscar Chang of Divideby0.com [link]

Costume designed and made by me.

Oscar's lighting really made this shoot - we kept laughing at how 70's cheesecake it looked. But it was so appropriate for the theme and subject. And I happen to love pastel shiny .

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I just realize I never uploaded my other blue Felicia costume to DA.

I made this one before the pink hair Felicia, back in 2005. In the Darkstalkers games, Felicia has always been my favorite!

Photos by Consplayers.com
Costume made and modeled by me

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This easy quick spandex comic book costume was inspired by Greg Horn's beautiful artwork.
Construction-wise there is nothing much to report except that making the head band thing without any seams required some creative patterning.
My boot covers are chunky heeled instead of flat because I was actually able to keep things like my cellphone inside them! There was nowhere else on the costume to hold necessities and I would rather be inaccurate on my feet than say have an extra pouch at my waist XD.

The sais are fun to pose with.

Much thanks to Brian Boling for taking pictures of me at San Diego Comic Con 2008!

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I loved the movie "Perfect Blue" and Mima was such an easy costume to make and to wear around.

Construction notes: This costume came together easily enough, but I had a hard time at first deciding what color scheme to go with. In some scenes, the dress looks light pink with hot pink layers, but that would have been way too pink, even for me O_O. Instead I went with the promotional pictures and made the costume white and pink, with hot pink bows/red shoes. The top of the dress is boned and tailored to me, and I hand-gathered the layers to ensure they ruffled evenly and as per reference. Instead of making the garters out of the same fabric as the dress, I opted for lace, to give it more a lingerie look. The wig was interesting, as Mima's hair is so choppy in the movie. I ended up cutting and styling the hell out of a random black layered wig I found locally. I already owned the shoes, gloves and thigh highs. I got lucky and found a $5 microphone which got cut up and repainted for Mima.

Photos taken at ikkicon 2010 by Pete Ortega. Thank you!

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I'm trying to round out my DA with costumes I haven't uploaded yet...

I made this costume back in March 2006. It's based on Ayumi Hamasaki's music video "Ladies' Night" which I absolutely loved.

I totally dig my little dog plushie and the outfit I made her XD. Ayu randomly carried a plushie of a dog wearing the same outfit in the video.

You can read about how I made it and see more photos at my website here [link]

Photo by Kyle Johnsen

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Last two Deviations of RE4 for a bit, I swear!
There were too many great photos from the Ljinto shoot to not share.

I love Resident Evil so much and this is my favorite character pairing - Leon Kennedy and Ada Wong!
I made both costumes, and it's Brian as Leon, and me as Ada. The photos were taken at Anime Weekend Atlanta.

Thank you again Ljinto for the wonderful photos!

Other photos from the same shoot:
"RE4 - zombie attack" [link]

"Hang on, I'm coming for you." [link]

"RE 4 - Unwilling Goodbye" [link]

"Resident Evil 4 - Leon and Ada" [link]

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This costume is based on the "Witchblade" Series 2 Action Figure "Armor Sara Pezzini", sculpted by Clayburn Moore.
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I've had both the red dress and black dress figures for years now but never thought to cosplay Witchblade until my friend Meagan VanBurkleo told me about the Witchblade through the Ages group she was putting together for San Diego Comic Con '09.
I had been swamped all year with work, up until the weekend before - Otakon - and didn't think I could get anything done for the group. But when Meagan told me I could borrow her boots/wig/gloves from her costumes, and I realized that I had 90% of all materials needed on hand, I decided to go for it.
So on Tuesday night of Comic Con week I started making the Witchblade glove and face pieces, with what I had laying around like gems, glue, paint, foam.... I stayed up till 7am, took a 3 hour nap, then ran out to buy the one thing I needed and kept working on the glove till dinner time when I had to start packing for my flight out to the con the next morning! I was so lucky to find an old red PVC dress I've had for years, altered the hell out of it by hemming it shorter and using the excess to make shoulder straps and the collar piece, and changing the cut of the dress.

At SDCC on Saturday I met up with the girls, and all 7 of us, posed for photos at the Top Cow booth for an hour. It was so much fun to have the different Bearers together in one place, and everyone at Top Cow were so nice and generous. We all got signed books by Marc Silvestri.

I will post group photos when we get them back, for now these are some quick shots Brian Boling snapped Saturday morning.

Felicia is awesome! I made the white fur suit and styled two wigs for her - blue and pink. These photos were taken in LA (yeah, there were stares) in the summer of 2008, where I wore the pink wig and red contacts.

The suit: I altered the strategically placed fur bits in the design to bra and panties for more coverage and modesty. After doing so think I like the result more than the strips of random fur XD. Quite a bit of hand sewing was required for the fuzzy parts, especially around the fingers and feet.

The paw gloves and feet, like everything else, were created from my own pattern, built over a pair of clear boots. The clear heel gave the illusion that I was standing on the balls of my feet like a real cat! It was the fundamental element I based this entire costume around.
I sculpted three sizes of claws and Brian from Bountyhardware.com [link] cast them in plastic. They have holes drilled into them so I simply sewed them onto the gloves.

The wig: This pink wig started out as my Bubblegum Angel wig, as layered mid length wig. but I spent a couple of hours teasing the hell out of it until it was nice and poofy. I also added a ton of extensions to the back so the wig would be waist/butt length.

Photos by Geoffrey Nicholson