#cr essek

New Essek art along with a sticker preview I'll be ordering next year for ren faire to hand out alongside trinkets 💜

Lil Essek wip for tonight, I wanna bring stickers to Ren faire next year to hand out alongside trinket trading and this will be it :3 featuring the hot boi in the costume I'll be making for him over this next year

So the Mighty Nein neurosis has finally caught up to me and I’ve caved and decided to start a cosplay. Specifically I want to make a super “blinged-out” Essek look. Think full embroidery, beading, iridescent fabric, jewels; the whole nine yards really.

However to get to the point of blinging an outfit to hell and back- one must have an outfit. So to begin designing an outfit I began to collect and stare at some of my favorite fanart and decided what I wanted (Think the wonderful renderings of ccattnipp, Zmeess, mortuary9)

After doing my research I began sketching out the layers of the outfit,

and then I had to go find what every thing was called so I could find patterns (I unfortunately do not have the name of every sleeve cut memorized yet).

Here's a rough skeleton of what the layers of the cosplay will be.

Unfortunately there’s not many FREE patterns available for printing (I really don’t want to spend $ on non fabric and bling). SO I began drafting, using mostly YouTube and previous experience

These videos were extremely helpful!

I started with sleeves, mostly because I have 0 experience drafting patterns for them, and I decided that now was the best time to fuck around before I go back to work @ my university.

and fuck around I did!

Its not super clean of mathematically perfect, but the bishop sleeve is very forgiving lol.

I have successfully patterned and made a mock up for the underdress bishop sleeves,

I hoping that this is the most complicated sewing portion, since the rest of the outfit doesn’t have to be tight fitting. Possibly the mandarin collar for the topdress, but a collar is less fabric and will be covered by the mantle. ( the mantle WILL be the hardest part since i have never made cosplay armor, and least with the sleeves i've sewn before)

@oloreandil has not watched the Mighty Nein (yet) but has given Essek a new nickname which caused me to make this...