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ATTENTION COSPLAYERS See this shit? This shit is about to change your life. This packet of stuff is called Instamorph Moldable Plastic. You literally buy a packet of this shit, and you can make any-fucking-thing.

You open it up, and you get little plastic pellets that look like this.

Doesn’t look like much, right?

WRONG.

When put in hot water (140°F, 60°C.), these pellets melt into a kind of putty-like stuff, that you can mold into whatever shape you want. They make the coolest cosplay accessories EVER because they’re plastic - they’re moderately lightweight, they’ll survive being dropped and banged around, and they’re waterproof. I made Nepeta horns and Meenah bracelets for my homestuck cosplays, but it can do a ton of other stuff too.

Also, the whole project takes maybe a half hour - 10 minutes to boil the water, 2 for the pellets to melt in the bowl (it leaves no residue, so you can use a regular mixing bowl and a spoon to pull it out of the water), a few minutes to sculpt and then a few minutes for it to dry into a completely solid, plastic whatever-you’re-making.

AND THE BEST PART OF THIS IS THAT THIS SHIT IS SO CHEAP

YOU’D EXPECT IT TO BE REALLY EXPENSIVE BUT IT’S NOT

I got a container on Amazon.com for $10, but here’s the actual site so you can check it out some more. http://www.instamorph.com/

YOU CAN BUY PIGMENT PACKS

INSTAMORPH PIGMENT PACKS

A glorious fuck-ton of perspective angle references (per request).

Perspectives Tutorial by DerSketchie

TUTO - male reference pose by the-evil-legacy

tuto - women ref poses by the-evil-legacy

Foreshortening Practice by Bambs79

How to Draw Manga vol. IV - Dressing You Characters in Casual Wear

HUMAN PROPORTION: SIMPLIFYING THE FIGURE USING GEOMETRIC FORM AND GESTURE by The Helpful Art Teacher

Basic comic interpretation - different camera angle by diaemyung

Figure drawing video series.

Part 1 - Introduction (above)

Part 2 - Proportions (Also, advice on remembering stuff at the end)

Part 3 - Perspective

Part 4 - The human figure in perspective

Part 5 - Drawing the mannequin figure

Part 6 - Anatomy drawing for artists

And the progress thing.