Death the Kid: Budget Cosplay

Death the Kid: Budget Cosplay Tutorial

Cosplay can get expensive, especially when you're just scraping together the third member of your "team" (in this case my younger brother... *shivers* ) and don't want to spend the $50-$100+ for the tailor made or official outfit...

This was simple, and quick! A black men's shirt, ribbon, and foam... a few other things...

Cut the 7/8" ribbon into 6 inch strips, you'll need quite a few of them, one to cover each button, three for each shoulder on the front and three at least for each on the back. These will be folded in half, but so that the ends meet in the middle --><-- and tack them together with just a few stitches.

Next pin them in place. Be careful, you only want to sew on the "hole" side of the buttons, so that you can easily button the shirt, we'll put velcro on the other side to keep the stripes in place later. I measured an inch or so from each shoulder stripe, the button stripes I "eyeballed". Sew these all into place.

(Be careful you don't do what I did at first after a long day at work... 4 stripes on the right and 3 on the left... How disgraceful! Epic Fail! But I fixed it!)

For the skull, sketch first on a piece of paper, then cut it out like a stencil and trace around it on the white fun foam, be sure its at least as big on the round part as your large button! Cut this out and set aside. Next cut out 3 circles (or near circles) for your skull's eye holes and nose. I used sticky-back black fun foam, but you can also glue these onto your white foam skull.

Thread a thin ribbon or cord through both holes in the large button, so that it can tie around your neck, you want this long, you can always shorten it later, but it's a bear to re-thread it. ---( o-o )--- See how the thread is on the back side, or rather the front in my case, since the curved side faces out away from the body.

Hot glue your skull on to the button, but be sure the ribbon can move still. Using a HOT HIGH TEMP glue gun will melt your foam, use a low temp one instead.

There you have it!

Kid on a budget!

Later once I get the materials for the hair I'll post that, but an idea aside from hair color/spray/ect. is crafting fringe! That fancy dangley stuff that is probably on your mom's good throw pillows! You can get it at any craft store! And then simply pin it into your "Kid's" hair or sew it into a wig!! Easy as it gets, without the mess or regret, and it doesn't take long either!

Wig: [link]

Not perfect- but not a bank breaker either! You can tweak it however you feel would be more "true to character" as well.

Once the rest of my team's stuff arrives and a day is planned I'll post the whole outfit's picture (on my brother... he's as Death pale as I am so I guess it will work... BUT NO BOOB PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!) This is planned for my friend Nikki and my new and improved Liz (me) and Patti cosplay!

Finished Team Cosplay video: [link]