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Kate Photos!

21/10/2015

Working on my back-log of cosplay photos, and I'm long over-due for another photo post! Way back in June I shot Kate Bishop with fantastic photographer Elemental at Niagara Falls Comic Con, and I've finally added my favourite shots to my Hawkeye gallery . It was really difficult to choose what to post from this set - I love them all. Bonus points to Ragz Cosplay joining in for the goofy pics ~_^

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Tutorial: Pepper Potts Clipboard

20/10/2015

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Welcome to a new feature from Mai Sheri Costumes: Tutorial Tuesdays! I don't know how often these will be posted, but I'm looking at once a month for now - it depends on what people ask me about and how much writing time I have available. I post lots of progress photos of my work, but occasionally I get asked for a more detailed description of how I made something, and I decided to turn the answers to those questions into proper write-ups!

Take Note: this tutorial is not necessarily the "right way" to do things, nor the "best way", but is simply how I went about it when I made my own. Anyways, on to the project!

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Centre Island 2015

12/10/2015

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I have attended a cosplay picnic at Toronto Centre Island almost every summer since I started cosplaying, and this year was no different. The island is a pretty versatile location for photos between the parks, gardens, beaches, fountains, midway/rides, and petting zoo... and I just think it's an enjoyable place to spend the day!

I feel like I ended up going a little overboard this year though, since I doubled-up on costumes for the first time, and ended up booking 3 shoots as well. I won't normally book more than one shoot per convention/event, mostly for budget reasons, but also because I stress out trying to make sure I have enough time for everything, especially at the island where some travel is involved. In the end, I wore Cersei (got first stage of embroidery - sleeves - done just in time) and then L.A. Woman Kate Bishop, because I figured that Cersei would be too hot to comfortably wear all day, and I was right. In Cersei I shot with Alex Rose in one of the gardens, with SleepyMeow at the hedge maze, and snagged some nice unplanned photos with The Video Ninja , Everage , Very Frank , Joe's Garage , and ZombieKat89 before changing into the very comfortable Kate Bishop outfit.

I hadn't planned on actually getting photos in Kate, since it's a very casual costume I only brought to be comfy while still cosplaying, but luckily for me the timing worked out for my shoot with Burditt , and I also got to shoot again with Paul Hillier and Everage .

Both my Cersei gallery and my Hawkeye gallery have been updated with some of my favourite photos from the event, but the gallery below includes a lot more of the fun shots from the day ^_^

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Pepper Potts glove

5/10/2015

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This is my Extremis Pepper Potts from Atomic Lollipop (with Stark Reality Cosplay and Dan the Video Ninja as Iron Man and Bruce Banner respectively). It's hard to see, but something is missing (aside from a wig that hasn't spent 5 years at the bottom of a box) - the glove. Mr Stark made the arm for me a year ago - I wore it last Halloween - but I was supposed to make the glove on my own. Unfortunately, I needed more instruction than a Pepakura file provided (i.e. none) which slowed me down - a LOT. After Stark did the palm assembly for me it was on to painting, which I then really messed up. The paint that I bought (Martha Stewart satin craft paint in Habanero) went on very, very poorly. It dried both too fast and too slow, which meant that it went on very streaky and took forever to dry enough to be able to handle. And it just absorbed gloss finishes like a sponge instead of getting glossy (I tried 6? different products). And only once everything was painted with a billion super thin coats of paint did I learn that I'd gotten the colour wrong to begin with and it didn't match the rest of the arm. So Mr Stark took all the pieces that I had worked on and re-painted them with matching paint. Unfortunately, all those products were never meant to be combined, so now all the sealing and priming and painting and stuff, which was flawless when I started, has cracks and wrinkles. Just have to live with it at this point.

Anyways, I finally got the pieces back and painted the base glove and glued all the armour pieces to it with contact cement, and since I was on a roll, tossed a light in there too. Here's hoping I have an opportunity (and the confidence) to wear it again sometime now that the arm is finished ~_^

Photos of "Extremis Pepper Potts" are on my Iron Man gallery page: Click Here!

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Kate Photos!

Tutorial: Pepper Potts Clipboard

Centre Island 2015

Pepper Potts glove

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