#cos tips

Hi! As far as I’m aware I haven’t seen a particular place to buy them straight up.  I didn’t do anything particularly special - just some modifying. Depending on if you already have or can easily access some of the other materials, it’s probably even a pretty cheaper alternative to getting them customized. I used the following:

Blue High Top LED Shoes

I got the just on Amazon for around $30 USD, here is the direct link to the ones I got.

Orange Shoe laces

Pretty explanatory, easily retrievable on amazon, ebay, or local crafts shop that has colored shoe laces.

Paint

Literally, I just painted the entire rest of the design on by hand with cheap acrylic  - painstakingly but definitely worth it lol. Make sure to seal the paint with some kind of weather-proof sealant and paint with the shoe laces removed of course. It might help to use paint tape to avoid the LED soles or any other parts you don’t want painted.

I’m extra so I tried my best to copy the pattern as seen from the only reference available at the time, but just throw some splatters on there and you’re good fam.

I hope this helps^^/ Thank you for your ask! Good luck and have fun!! 

Thank you for you kind words!

Yes, I did make it myself, so I apologize–I don’t know of any other places that may have the pattern, but I’ll try to be helpful lol. I recreated the pattern myself in Illustrator, arranged, and printed them in Photoshop for iron on print out sheets. I did the same for Goro, as well as my Noctis!

There are many ways you could go about this–such as simply buying a customized shirt from a place to which you upload a pattern, as opposed to using iron out sheets like I did.

Iron-on process done in pieces:

If it would help, here is a link to download (safe gdrive link) my PSD and the PNG version for Akira’s pattern, sized to span about 3 by 2 U.S. Letter sized (8.5″ x 11″) print out sheets, as well as the original vector SVG. Feel free to use and alter them as you desire!

If you aren’t familiar with or don’t have access to photoshop or illustrator, it’s no problem unless you want to alter the patterns I’ve made (see the screenshot of the individual stars as the SVG in Illustrator below). Otherwise, the PNG is the final raster image of the photoshop file.

I hope this was helpful, don’t hesitate to shoot me another ask for clarification or anything at all~

Hello!

Technically I didn’t use the same exact pattern, but altered Akechi’s pattern from Akira.

⇒ Here ⇐ is a more in-depth explanation post of how I went about that, including a link to download link to my patterns!

To answer your other question, as you will see in that other post, yes I did do it in small pieces–about 6 iron-on sheets. Rather than overlapped however, I printed them making sure they connected consecutively at their edges. If you need to or can’t get around it, overlapping iron-on sheets is fine as long as you are careful of any blank space overlapping or printed color that would otherwise darken from being layered.

If you do it this way, you may have to break up the patterns and arrange into a way printable for you and your printer!

Σ(゜ロ゜;)!! Thank you so much~ I’m very flattered and honored that you think that ^^

My only general advice can really be applied to all of cosplay, but don’t be afraid to start from the cheapest and most basic of materials and build up from them. I generally don’t do anything too complex or expensive for things that don’t need to be!  I will try my best to explain my process, if that helps as advice lol