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  • Art Post: A whole mess of SunDowner oekaki pics
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    Art Post: A whole mess of SunDowner oekaki pics

    February 27, 2002 /

    I decided to post all of these together – these were all done throughout Feb 2002. I couldn’t get the expression on Qudiar’s face to look right, he looks far too happy. Kyte is good though. My second oekaki! a huge improvement over the first, cause I realised how to use layers. Heh. Still a bit sketchy and rough though.…

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  • when i had a contest
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    when i had a contest

    February 26, 2002 /

    Because I’m too lazy to update the index page. If you’re planning on sending me a pic for the SunDowner fanart contest thing, the last day to send in is March 1st (friday). Yeah 😀

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  • Art Post: Auron (FFX)
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    Art Post: Auron (FFX)

    February 26, 2002 /

    Auron is my favourite character. This picture got a little messy (I couldn’t find any good references of his sword, darnit), but I love the sleeve. Yes, the stupid sleeve is my favourite part. (oekaki was an online social drawing system.)

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  • when i didn’t accomplish anything
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    when i didn’t accomplish anything

    February 26, 2002 /

    A Meryl action figure! Ash’ll be happy… now where’s my Milly action figure? I had this uneasy feeling all afternoon, and I don’t know why. It certainly couldn’t have been class (I made an A+ on my second essay… so far so good!) I spend most of this morning wrapped up under blankets, thinking it was 30 degrees out, only…

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  • when i didn’t accomplish anything
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    when my sailor mars was sold

    February 25, 2002 /

    Ha! My Sailormars is being sold on ebay again… still using the same pictures of me in it, and pieces of my auction description. It’s not a size 10, I’ll tell you that LMAO Maybe it’s a different one and they are just using my pics and description? Weird. Yesterday was a great day. In the morning I got up…

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  • when i went to dinner
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    when i went to dinner

    February 24, 2002 /

    I had to go out to dinner with my grandparents and parents last night. And Ash’s parents came along. To my right I had my mom, gramma, and Ash’s mom, and to my left, dad, granddad and Ash’s dad. They were all talking about something different… and I was there in the middle by myself. I don’t like this pic…

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  • Art Post: Gandalf oekaki (Lord of the Rings)
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    Art Post: Gandalf oekaki (Lord of the Rings)

    February 23, 2002 /

    Gandalf and Shadowfax, done in record time because I had to leave… messy watercolours but I’m happy with it all the same. There are a few things I would have fixed, but this is just an oekaki after all. (oekaki was an online social drawing system.)

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  • Art Post: Ron and Hermione (Harry Potter)
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    Art Post: Ron and Hermione (Harry Potter)

    February 23, 2002 /

    For Tanja’s Valentine Project, the only couple I think will ever really happen… or, that is, should ever happen. I did a really rough sketch, scanned it, and used my lovely new tablet I got for Christmas to do the rest. I love my tablet!

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  • when i didn’t accomplish anything
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    when i couldn’t figure out oekaki

    February 22, 2002 /

    If anyone out there can help me with this — or knows someone who can help me with this — please let me know! I cannot figure out this oekakibbs. I mean, I got the regular one set up (the one that syste.ms/oekaki explains how to set up), but that’s not the one I want. I want the Shi-Cyan Paintbbs.…

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  • Art Post: Harry Oekaki
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    Art Post: Harry Oekaki

    February 22, 2002 /

    A little Harry oekaki… sort of a mix between the “Odd Glowing Harry” from the Super Freak Out 3, and my Lulu oekaki from a few days beforehand. (oekaki was an online social drawing system.)

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  • when elfwood destroyed my gallery
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    when elfwood destroyed my gallery

    February 20, 2002 /

    ARrrrrgh Elfwood. I now have 3 pictures left in my gallery. Fine, they can take down my Harry Potter stuff. I don’t care. I would have taken it down myself when they said “no more fanart,” but THEY were saying Book Fanart is OKAY. But why did they take down my Another Place, Another Time? Because it’s not so in-your-face…

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  • when elfwood rejected my lupin pic
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    when elfwood rejected my lupin pic

    February 20, 2002 /

    Elfwood gallery was updated… but they didn’t add my Lupin pic. Rejected cause it didn’t fit. rar.

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  • Art Post: Rikku oekaki (FFX)
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    Art Post: Rikku oekaki (FFX)

    February 20, 2002 /

    I saved the linework of this one, because I think I want to recolour it in a bright sharper way someday. I think that would be more suited to it. Her face looks a little too manly, I could have fixed that but I didn’t notice it until later.

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  • Lulu, Misato, Rally and She-Ra updates
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    Lulu, Misato, Rally and She-Ra updates

    February 19, 2002 /

    We cut the pattern for Lulu’s skirt today. As soon as my credit card payment clears, I’m going to buy the red material for Misato. Once that happens, I’ll be on the way with everything for Animazement except Xiaoyu. How about an update? Lulu – have grey fabric, have fur, various bits of jewelry, and a wig. Patterns for everything.…

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  • when i didn’t accomplish anything
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    when i saw holy grail cosplay

    February 17, 2002 /

    LOOK!! At Katsucon today!! Holy Grail cosplay!! Oh my god, that’s so great.

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  • when i didn’t accomplish anything
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    when i changed cath’s computer settings

    February 16, 2002 /

    Cat has her own… er, profile (? is that what you call it) on my aunt’s computer now. I went in and changed some stuff. I switched her desktop from Frodo to Gimli, and made her startup sound an old wav of her singing I Will Survive. I wish I was going to be there when she logs in next…

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  • when i didn’t accomplish anything
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    when i missed valentine’s day

    February 15, 2002 /

    So here it is, 11:30 at night and I’m still at my aunt’s on her new computer. I think it was around 10 I gave up and decided to spend the night. I’m the only one still up. This is a great computer. Nice scanner, great printer, cute little flat screen and a keyboard just like mine. Plus… roadrunner internet……

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  • when i didn’t accomplish anything
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    when i updated

    February 14, 2002 /

    Dere, I updated… I didn’t realise I had so many oekakis. And one is missing. Some of that stuff (the issue 7 designs and the cosplay) should have gone in 2001, but I didn’t feel like moving it… I’m going over to my aunt’s tonight to work on their new computer. They want some stuff set up and all that…

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  • Art Post: Valentine’s Day!
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    Art Post: Valentine’s Day!

    February 14, 2002 /

    Just a quick silly oekaki of Piper and Indy for valentine’s! Hehe, I’m quite happy with this one. I was going to use this as my backup Valentine if I didn’t finish the Gandalf in time. I think this may have been better…

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  • Art Post: James and Lily oekaki (Harry Potter)
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    Art Post: James and Lily oekaki (Harry Potter)

    February 14, 2002 /

    A little oekaki that I started on, but got called away from and didn’t get to finish. I sort of like the light, unfinished look anyway. (oekaki was an online social drawing system.)

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My Costume History, Day 131: Illyana Rasputin/Magi My Costume History, Day 131: Illyana Rasputin/Magik/Darkchilde from New Mutants, for Dragoncon 2010 When Chase and I went on our first date in 2005, I told him about 2 dream costumes I wasn’t sure how to do myself, one being Kingdom Come Wonder Woman (which we did in 2007) and the other was this one - Magik’s armor from the Inferno series. I’d played around with figuring out how to put it together as far back as 2004 - when I had that silver suit I eventually used for Dazzler, but I didn’t think all spandex would look the way I wanted. So for 2010 we decided to finally make it happen. The base of the costume IS all spandex - it’s a silver spandex leotard and matching leggings. From there, Chase and I built up all of the armor. It’s all heat-formed plastic we formed over casts of myself on a vac table - the chest piece, back piece, hip panels, thigh pieces, shinguards, biceps, gauntlets, and hand plates. Once we had all of the pieces cut to to shape and painted, we got velcro placed for everything. The shoulder pieces were made from 2 plastic garbage cans cut into the shape and painted, and the base of the helm was a kid’s helmet that Chase added extensions to, and the spikes. The horns I bought online, painted, and they velcro onto the helm. I made the tail out of a piece of tubing covered in black faux suede and painted - it ties on around the waist and feeds through the back plate. Chase made my sword using a kids foam sword as a base. I was sooo happy to have finally made this costume - but it was a totally pain in the ass to wear. All that armor was hot, it pinched as I moved. Honestly, I hated wearing it LOL But wear it I did, I wore it to the Marvel photoshoot at Dragoncon that year. Got a few good photos of it and then put it in storage until I finally got it out in 2015ish and shot it on the white backdrop. I’ve tried to sell it several times because it just takes up a lot of room, but I’ve never had any interest. So it’s still here, in a bin. I’ve thought about getting it out and jazzing it up with some more details and wearing it again - might as well one of these days, it’s not going anywhere else at this point!
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.
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