Local Lizard

Elementals at the Carolina Renaissance Faire:

Given I had a realistic reptilian mask already, doing a cosplay of The Lizard seemed like a given. See first attempt below:

While not terrible, it was missing some things. I didn’t have anything for my hands when this was taken. No tail. Those pants were old and really uncomfortable. And the clothing in general was just too clean and nice looking for a guy who turned into a lizard and started running around in storm drains. 

The shoulder piece for the forest elemental Rowan was taken from my older costume, Jarad vod Savo, former lich lord of the Golgari. That piece was fairly beaten up, and frankly I wasn’t all that happy with it in the first place. A look at the left shoulder of it is below:

The moss was mostly falling off of the foam base, and the piece of cloth I had glued underneath to look like tattered vestments just didn’t look that good. The foam was also entirely too large, sticking from my frame too much.

I trimmed the foam back, removing extra mushrooms as needed, I also ripped off the hanging cloth, and replaced it with a type of halloween decoration called “creepy cloth,” which performed a few functions. One, it resembled moss itself. Two, its net-like properties helped keep the original moss in place, and make a sort of layered effect. Three, it did a better job of portraying the vestment idea. I also added a row of broken antler pieces along the edge of the shoulders, for extra detail and their resemblance to the horns of the mask I use with the full costume. The reconstructed right shoulder is below:

Here is the whole piece, with one side rebuilt, to show the improvement:

And then, both sides rebuilt:

And lastly, how it looked when worn with the full costume:

Zyd and Kerai at the Carolina Renaissance Festival. 

Zyd the lizard.