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Cosplay Feature: Gray Oranges' Rikku!

Photo by David Ngo I won't ever shy away from writing about cosplays of Rikku's look from Final Fantasy X-2 and Gray Orange did a fantastic job portraying her in both the overall cosplay look PLUS the pose work. Of course I'll get to all that in due time but let's start at the top! It's certainly a cosplay worn for several events and I want to say I first saw this in the overall collection of MAGFest photos back in January of this year. I really love how the multiple braid strands are integrated into the blonde wig for starters. I can't tell if they're either part of the wig itself or the blue headband that's wrapped around. In any case, following this is a red scarf wrapped around Irini's neck before you then get to the yellow bikini top. Here, you can also see orange trim lines as part of the piece. Oh, I forgot to mention that the red scarf actually travels all the way down to her legs. These end points then transition to a yellow/orange gradient!

Cosplay Roundup: Finishing up Steampunk Nightwing and Greninja!

For the course of the past few weeks, I've been hard at work on my Greninja gijinka and Steampunk Nightwing. Much has been accomplished with the latter being finished and Greninja needing just his headpiece which requires Worbla to make so I'm saving up for buying 2 sheets. 1 outfit for NY Comic Con down, 2 more to go!

For the last part of Nightwing, I went and purchased a World War 2 Era leather hat alongside red leather paint. The process was fairly simple thanks to the tutorial I found online. The emblem isn't exactly dead set in the center but it's pretty damn close and I'm super happy with how it came out alongside the entire outfit being worn which you can see down below!

Meep Meep leather hat :D


Draft of the emblem on Tracing Paper. Perfect size!

My setup for the painting process!

Leather Paint added first!
Acrylic layered on top!

Wearing the finished hat!
Outfit complete!
For Greninja I managed to find pads for my elbows and knees at a sports store that came close to what I actually wanted. After having a fun conversation with one of the employees who was helping me out I definitely felt accomplished! I also went and bought blue fabric to cut out more ninja star shapes which will be probably taped onto the pants I'm wearing. Honestly I don't know what to do for his shoes so I may just either wear regular shoes or if anything, something that's blue.

White Pads!

Tracing the Ninja Star on soft/shiny blue fabric!

Ninja Stars ready for action.

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