#we5rock

Welcome to the hobby. Cosplay and costuming as a whole is GREAT! I love it, I love the problem solving and fixing problems on the fly and then rocking an outfit that was entirely home made. There are a lot of great people in the GLOBAL (wow) community that love to share their secrets and fails, tips, tricks, stories and progress. It can be costly, it can be messy and it can be stressful but it is worth sticking with and completing your projects.

That said, how can you start? Well the first step is generally choosing a character but I am going to rewind a bit further and say you should start by evaluating your skills. Can you sew? Have you crafted anything before? Modified a piece of clothing for a Halloween costume? Do you have friends or family who can help you? Try to get a basic idea of what you are comfortable with right now and where you can go for help. When I first started I couldn’t sew but I loved doing crafts and painting and I had my mom who could sew to help me figure things out.

Then choose a costume. I’ve been talking with a friend from work who wants to get into cosplay and my advice has been this: choose something simple so you can learn the basics, choose something comfortable so you can still enjoy the convention and choose something that allows you to be mobile so you can walk around without assistance. That said, I have heard success stories of people who chose something big and complex for their first costume and just dived right in. Really, the best costume choice is one you want to wear ;)

Once the character is chosen, I suggest checking out this post where I go over the basic steps to creating a cosplay. 

oh my gosh i can try but i havent drawn them in forever?????

any particular pose??

EQUIUS: D--> I imagine Aurthour would do most of the heavy lifting

TAVROS: hEY, tINKERBULL MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN AS STRONG AS aURTHOUR, bUT, hE WAS STILL A GOOD CUSTODIAN,

EQUIUS: D--> I didn’t say he wasn’t

EQUIUS: D--> But he did lack arms

TAVROS: wELL,

TAVROS: ,,,