I submitted by application for the BlizzCon Cosplay Contest.
Yes, I said contest. I wasn’t supposed to enter the contest.
That’s what happens when your brain jumps around and doesn’t carefully read the rules page.
The good news? Now I have an even stronger plan laid out for how I’m going to finish this shit.
I did a scavenger hunt with my friends! It took us all throughout Capitol Hill and University District in Seattle, WA. Here we are standing in front of Gargoyles, a shop which sells cool gothic merchandise.
⭐ This Week’s Focus
- Finishing the BlizzCon application
- I’ll be honest, I didn’t write anything down this week but I will next week
🧵 Shit I Did
- I made a dagger for my friend! It is for Duchess from Elden Ring. I printed it out and painted it with fabric bits at the handle.
- Submitted the BlizzCon cosplay contest application 8 minutes before the deadline lol.
- Made a more thought-out plan for how to complete Xal 2.0.
- Booked flight and hotel for BlizzCon.
🔮 Thoughts for Future Work
- I still have a lot to do for Xal 2.0. I did some creative math and came up with around that I am 60% completed. It’s still hard to feel that way, but the number proves it’s more than halfway completed.
- Guys. I hate spoilers. But I found out that (WoW Midnight spoilers here) the Blade of the Black Empire appears in the raid in Midnight. The dagger I started making a while back. This mean’s she’s coming to BlizzCon with me!
- I need an accountability buddy! I am more successful when I tell someone what I’m doing, especially if they are also working on something, and when the task is small and discrete.
📋 TODO — Next Week
- Testing out the airbrush. For reals this time.
- Get a wire shape figured out for the ears and glued on to a headband.
- Test out the ears (unpainted) to see if they stick to my head.
- Figure out how tf to get the wig on with the ears. Oh and there’s also a that needs to fit underneath all that.
📸 Photo Dump
The finished dagger. I only spent 4 days making this, and that includes my time working at my job and volunteering at the makerspace. When I have a tight deadline, I get shit done. Having a lot of regular life things to do somehow is more productive for cosplay than if I had no obligations during my days.
I got the idea to use fabric for the handle details instead of painting it on.
This is the original dagger. I don’t play the games or know the characters, but I kind of want one for myself now.
I just HAD to go on the scavenger hunt dressed like a pirate. Yes, running around in a wig is uncomfortable. Do I care? Not really.
Rememebr the wedges I made to hold up the pauldrons? This is me demo the proof of concept for my BlizzCon application. In all of my pics, I’m standing with my arms up, which made the pauldrons look like they were correct. Standing straight though, here’s what it looked like. We don’t want these droopy pauldrons.
I just wedged them under. It really does make them stay up to the position where I needed them.
I took a pic of the backside to draw out where the harness and void orbs would go. And to see how satisfying it looks when the pauldrons are straight.
As I wrote out my application, I pulled out the pieces and took pics. It made me realize that some pieces need more work than I originally thought.