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  • when i was going to draw us
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    when i was going to draw us

    March 18, 2003 /

    OH! I forgot. I want to re-do mine, ash’s and cath’s pictures for lazy eternity, so I was going to draw each of us as a character. I was thinking either… Stick with powerpuff girls… me as blossom, ash as buttercup and cath as bubbles. LOTR girls… don’t know who would be who yet, but arwen, eowyn and galadriel. Hogwarts…

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  • when i was going to draw us
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    when there was too much advil

    March 18, 2003 /

    So this morning I was not feeling good, was in one horrible evil mood and made a very loud, angry post about various things I wanted to bitch about! And then blogger ate it. That just ticked me off even more! I was in that wretched mood until I took 3 walgreens knock-off Advil… I usually take 1 but I…

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  • Sketchblog: Wizard Kevin
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    Sketchblog: Wizard Kevin

    March 15, 2003 /

    Kevin is a wizard

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  • when kell went crazy
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    when kell went crazy

    March 15, 2003 /

    No TV and no beer make Kell something something…

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  • when i was going to draw us
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    when we were in jackson

    March 13, 2003 /

    Things! -Have not read book for homework due tuesday. -Too hot to draw. Palms sweaty. Yuck. -Got new clothes. Costume stuff. Faramir action figure. Hellsing v. 4. X-Men 1.5. -Saw My Big Fat Greek Wedding and The Four Feathers. Big Fat Greek Wedding was cute. Four Feathers was boring. -Went bowling. Did not win. Did batting cages, hit all but…

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  • Arwen wig!
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    Arwen wig!

    March 10, 2003 /

    I got a new Arwen wig, to go with my chase dress and the new one I’m making later this year!

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  • when it was time for spring break
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    when it was time for spring break

    March 9, 2003 /

    I’m off to my grandmother’s for the week. I’ll still have limited net access as usual (1-2 hours late at night when no one will be telephoning. and I have to share that time with the others :P) Bye bye!

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  • More Integra progress
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    More Integra progress

    March 7, 2003 /

    Realised I had a jacket that would work, and better boots that would work. still need to finish the belts and cross pin.

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  • when i made a to-do list
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    when i made a to-do list

    March 6, 2003 /

    I’ve been wanting to do a little daily comic strip, just a silly sort of thing… I may test run it next week while I’m gone in the daily sketch and see how it feels. The thing is – and the reason I’ve avoided doing comic strips – is that I’m not good at that punchline at the end it…

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  • Yuffie progress!!
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    Yuffie progress!!

    March 6, 2003 /

    I got my sweater but haven’t done anything to it yet, it’s just tucked up here. Also got my shoes and socks!

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  • Integra Hellsing progress
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    Integra Hellsing progress

    March 6, 2003 /

    Got my suit in and altered! Still need to find better boots, make the cross pin, and finish the belts.

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  • when i made some little fighter icons
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    when i made some little fighter icons

    March 6, 2003 /

    Oooh these were supposed to be my sketch for tomorrow but I wanted to see them all together. madison is my least fav, he looks odd. miles is like all strong and kung-fu-y too. The girls were easier. Like, fer sure. I am still in the mood for making these, so I’ll probably start on the lesser sundowner characters next…

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  • when i was going to draw us
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    when i thought of doing a cartoonathon

    March 5, 2003 /

    My school is having this Cartoonathon. I think that’s what it’s called. You get sponsers… and they promise to pay, like $1 a page or something. And then for 24 hours on… um, March 28 I think, everybody gets together and draws a comic. If you finish 10 pages in the 24 hours, your sponser pays $10 to the charity…

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  • when my phone embarrassed me
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    when my phone embarrassed me

    March 4, 2003 /

    So class this morning sucked. The main reason was what happened about halfway through our critique. We’re all sitting around critiquing, you know, the teacher is talking and all…. when from across the room I hear this familiar little “boom ba boom ba” I think, “that kinda sounds like my….” And at that point it went into the loudest part…

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  • when i was going to draw us
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    when i ate crackers in bed

    March 3, 2003 /

    You know I can usually find ANYTHING to write in my blog about, but… today… nothing! Can’t think of a thing to write about. Weeeeell… I did finish my Kodocha tapes… am sad now. But I got more on the way. And… um, I shouldn’t eat crackers in bed. That is all.

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  • Sketchblog: Wizard Kevin
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    sketchblog: HHR

    March 2, 2003 /

    The trio… I did this at Katsucon and finished it up with markers later on.

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  • when i was going to draw us
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    when we played the buffy board game

    March 2, 2003 /

    Ash came over tonight and we finally got to play the Buffy board game she gave me for Xmas. It was fun! Next time we play it it’ll be even more fun since we’ll know what we’re doing a little more. I was the good team (Buffy Willow Xander and Oz) and she was the evel team (Master Spike Drusilla…

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  • when i was going to draw us
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    when we needed a chipmunk beanie baby

    March 1, 2003 /

    Hey Ash! Do you still have all your beanie babies? If so, do you have, like a little chipmunk one? Or something close to it?

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  • when i was going to draw us
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    when i found hewlett-packard doujinshi

    February 28, 2003 /

    Oh my GOD, that was fast!! I had 3 HP doujinshi arrive in the mail today. Much sooner than I expected. (hewlett-packard doujinshi)

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  • when i was going to draw us
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    when I almost did an Anya costume

    February 28, 2003 /

    Ahhhhhh pull me back from the brink!!! I almost just emailed a guy about joining their buffy costume group at dragoncon. As ANYA. A SINGING Anya. Shoot me now. I mean, what was I thinking?!

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My Costume History, Day 130: Alyss from The Lookin My Costume History, Day 130: Alyss from The Looking Glass Wars, for Dragoncon 2010

I felt like my Dcon 2010 lineup was missing something. I was reading The Looking Glass Wars at the time, and got to the art in the middle and saw this dress - THAT was what I needed.

I started by making a base dress out of this peachy pink taffeta - modified a wedding dress pattern with an empire waist and a big skirt, adding the puffed sleeves. Once I had the base layer made, it was time to start adding ruffles. Bought a ton of poly chiffon, cut it into strips, and dyed it all. I cauterized the edges of the ruffles, then started sewing them onto the skirt. I did what I could on the machine, but as it got bigger, I had to start hand-sewing them on.

The collar area is a layer of chiffon and a fitted choker, and I added some red beading to all of that. Also added the draped panel of chiffon at the bust and at the end of each sleeve.

The standing collar I made by altering the Snow White pattern piece for that - it’s a layer of cotton and interfacing, and then the layer of gradient dyed cotton gauze over the top and hanging from it. It does all snap on - but I don’t think I’ve ever completely taken it off of the dress, I do unsnap it in a few places for storage purposes but otherwise it stays on! The “loops” over the collar are made of clear tubing with some scraps of chiffon stuffed inside, beads glued on, and hand-sewn onto the dress.

The wig is I guess an early form of helmet wig? LOL We took made a plaster cast of my head, painted it the collar of the hair, and then I glued the wig to it and styled it from there, so the head shape never collapses. The upper part I made out of foam and glued the hair around. I built the crown into the wig - it’s all made of craft wire, various beads and such, all hand-sewn into place into the foam base.

I debuted this at Dcon 2010 - and I had a particular pic I wanted, in this chair in front a red painting, and I got it. EXACTLY what I had in my head LOL. I haven’t worn it since, except for the white backdrop shoot not long after. I keep saying I’m going to take it out for a cool photoshoot somewhere, but still haven’t had the opportunity.
My Costume History, Day 129: Lady Gaga, for Dragon My Costume History, Day 129: Lady Gaga, for Dragoncon 2010

I wanted to do a Gaga costume! I had several on my “maybe” list, then saw her at the Grammys in this Armani Prive dress. The choice was made.

I started this by making a base corset out of cotton and canvas - I altered a stays pattern, raising the neckline. Once I had the base layer made, I covered it in layers of white & lavender organza, & added my eyelets to the back.

The skirt was fun. Chase helped me build a wire cage, & we engineered a panel that fits under the bodice that holds the whole thing up. I made a mockup out of scrap fabric around the frame, then used that to cut out my layers of the organza, & hand-sewed it around the frame.

The bodysuit is made of a nude mesh - cnce I had it made, I put it on myself and started hot-gluing sequins to it (I tried doing this on my mannequin, but it was sticking TO the mannequin). The shoes aren’t exact - but I could not find the same kind of shoes nor did I trust myself wearing those shoes with this, so I just picked something that would give a similar silhouette. Once they arrived I added sequins, then put them on with the suit to make sure the sequins on the suit “connected” to it.

The “hoops” were the most frustrating part. Initially I was going to use metal hooping, but it was too heavy. Switched to light plastic boning, and covered it in some silver holographic tape. The tape would not stick though, so in the hotel room at dragoncon I was still adding clear tape over the top of it all to keep it all together. The hoops all snap onto the bodice at 2 points. Bought the wigs.

Getting downstairs at Dragoncon in this was interesting. I went down the stairs with sandals on this switched to my real shoes! And as soon as we got downstairs, the snap broke off the hoops, so Chase had to tape them on me.

Despite that I did get to wear it for a few hours and I was overall really happy with it. It was a really neat project and I loved wearing it. I did the white backdrop shoot not long after, and I love how those photos turned out! A few years later I did sell it - because I just had nowhere to store the skirt anymore. (Should’ve made it collapsible!)
My Costume History, Day 128: Mara Jade/Arica from My Costume History, Day 128: Mara Jade/Arica from Star Wars, for Dragoncon 2010

I’d wanted to do Mara’s dancer disguise for ages. Having not done a Star Wars costume in 09, I decided to do this for 2010.

I found a blue stretch netting for this, but it was a little too light, so I painted it all into a darker blue and it ended up with a cool gradient effect I really liked. Assembled the leotard with a skintone spandex lining layer. The symbol on the front I made out of a layer of the chiffon from the skirts, backed in some lining fabric, then basted onto the front panel of the leotard. After I had it in place, I went back over it with some embroidery floss to give it some more texture.

I made the skirts using my Huttslayer skirts as a reference, just adding the side panels. They are made of a poly chiffon I picked up at Hancock - they are lightly stitched onto the leotard in a few places, and the left side closes with a snap. I made the cape sleeve things out of the same chiffon, attaching them to some silver bangles and black leather cording at the top, and the upper back is attached to the leotard. My tiara is a piece of silver thermoplastic cut into shape and it ties on under the wig.

Now the drama here was the boots. Some of the references showed her wearing thigh high black boots, so that’s what I went with, since I had these suede black boots from Yuuko I could use, and I thought the suede was a nice tie-in to Huttslayer. I put this on at Dcon and the second I got downstairs... one of my heels broke off. I was like... ok, I can power through this and hobble around for a bit. A few minutes later... the other heel broke. All of my pics of this are me in the hallway outside our room with broken heels LOL

After Dcon I took it to a cobbler that said it could not be fixed. They weren’t made right. So I glued them back together myself and wore it to GMX later that year, where they broke again of course. Glued again for the white backdrop shoot the next year - but you can see in the side photos one is already broken again LOL

So I haven’t worn it again since then. One of these days I will replace the boots and bring it back out. I swear.
My Costume History, Day 127: Ame-Comi Supergirl, f My Costume History, Day 127: Ame-Comi Supergirl, for Dragoncon 2010

I told yall I was obsessed with the Ame-Comi line of DC character statues - & the 2nd version of Supergirl I thought was SUPER cute & I had to make it.

I started out with my fav bodice pattern & made the base out of some blue cotton and spiral steel boning. The outer layer of the bodice is my blue spandex, and it laces up the back. I added the spandex circle skirt to the bottom. The tricky part here was the cut-outs on the side - I should’ve just done them with skintone material, but I really wanted them to be “real” cut-outs. They don’t sit exactly right, but they work.

For all of the yellow stripes on the suit, I made a pattern on the costume on the dressform using tape and transferred it to paper, then used that pattern to cut out some yellow marine vinyl I had. In previous projects, I would’ve hot glued this on, but instead I hand-sewed it all. I was really happy with the end result and was glad it wasn’t glued on.

The sleeves are separate and really just long gauntlets, but are made of the same blue spandex with yellow vinyl stripes. The collar piece is foam - Chase cut it and added all of the little details for me, as well as making the “S” symbol in the front. It all velcros onto the suit along the top edge. The cape is just a square of some red fabric I had in my stash, and it velcros to the underside of the collar.

I bought the boots at the second hand store and covered them in some red spandex, and added the yellow stripes to those too. I did change the shape of the boots from the figure - I did a high/low sort of thing instead of straight across, just felt like that would look better on me.

I debuted it at Dcon 2010 and loved it!... except the wig. I had bought the wig online but I did not like the look of it. So when I took it to GMX a couple of months later, I instead wore a different blonde wig from another costume (Gaga) and liked that so much more. I brought it back to Dcon 2011 with the new wig as well.

Need to reshoot this on the white backdrop one day - for some reason we only shot like 10 photos of this? It’s on my (very long) reshoot list...
My Costume History, Day 126: Donna Troy from Teen My Costume History, Day 126: Donna Troy from Teen Titans, for Dragoncon 2010

I was buying my fabric for another costume I was doing that summer, but the site had a minimum buy, and I hadn’t met it yet. So I dug around their site looking for something else I could use, and found a black stretch velvet with silver glitter. Bingo, I could easily put together this Donna Troy look I had on my wishlist.

Initially I planned to self-line it, so I bought enough to do that. Fabric arrived, and I altered a basic bodysuit pattern for it and got the pieces cut and assembled. But when I went to try it on with the lining added, I realized... velvet lining was not a good idea LMAO. So I removed it and just finished the edges. But that basically left me with 2 identical suits - so I finished the edges on the lining layer and sold it! Nice.

The boots I had already bought for another costume I was doing that summer, the wig and gauntlets were my Wonder Woman pieces. I made the collar from my velvet with a velcro closure and a star I got at the craft store. The belt was a piece of silver leather belting and it velcros closed in the front, under a metal “buckle” Chase made for me.

Easy project! I wore this to the Wonder Woman shoot at Dragoncon that year, and shot it on the white backdrop not long after. I did enjoy the costume, but didn’t see myself wearing it again, so I sold it a few years later.
My Costume History, Day 125: Black Widow from Marv My Costume History, Day 125: Black Widow from Marvel Comics, for Dragoncon 2010

So as I mentioned in my last costume history post, I’d bought this wet look black spandex suit to use for a Black Widow costume, and I also ended up using it for Julia from Cowboy Bebop. I also used it for my Selene (Underworld) suit as well - so I got a lot of use out of it!

This comic style Black Widow costume was easy to put together - bought the wig, had the boots. Chase made Widow’s Bite bracelets for me out of dowels around a piece of black elastic.

I made the belt out of a bunch of metal button cover kit panels painted gold - the center symbol panel is a wooden disc I painted. I attached them all to a thin gold cord which I tie on in the back. Not the best option for a belt but it worked fine for this quick easy costume.

I’ve worn this a few times over the years - and nearly every time I wear it I wear a different wig with it LOL Which I felt worked for this costume! The original wig was a long curly one that I used for Dcon 2010 and the white backdrop shoot, and later I switched to a straighter cut for an Avengers shoot when I brought her back to Dcon 2011. When I wore this to the Avengers midnight movie, I used my own hair curled.

I haven’t worn it since then, but I do still have it. Suit’s still in good shape - I just had it out to shoot Julia on the white backdrop a few months ago. So it’s around should I need it again.
Princess Leia art project part 7: Boushh disguise Princess Leia art project part 7: Boushh disguise
Princess Leia Art project - part 5 and 6 Decided Princess Leia Art project - part 5 and 6

Decided to lump Bespin Escape jumpsuit and End of ESB dress into one post since they’re both retreads of previous costumes.
Princess Leia project part 4 - Bespin Leia As a r Princess Leia project part 4 - Bespin Leia

As a recap to this project: 
 I was having so much fun redrawing and simplifying my older Padme project pieces that I decided to draw some Princess Leias to match. 

I did actually start trying to do a Leia version of my Padme project back in 2018. I got about six of them done before I got distracted and quit.  So it’s nice to finally revisit this idea. While these versions aren’t done to the same level as the original Padme pieces, I do now have all the line work if I ever want to go back and completely paint them.

These Leia pieces I’ll be posting over the next few weeks have been really fun to do - they’re much faster to draw than Padme, not only because they aren’t as complicated but also because I have all of my own costumes to reference 😹
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