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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!
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Cosplay Progress: Finishing the Keyblade

Painted in the hilt and eye
This past weekend I was able to pretty much go into beast painting mode and finish off Riku's keyblade. Once it was all sanded and primed with Gesso and White Acrylics, I penned in sections to divide it up as well as the eye in the center circle. I started with the hilt and handles since I could place the blade on my work bench with those parts hanging off so it wouldn't lay on top of it. The hilt is comprised of red with black inserts on the sides. The right handle has gray for the wings and the inside has a change of shade in blue. The way I interpreted it was to have it dark blue up to a certain point, then the rest with that same color slightly lighter thanks to adding in some white.

The left handle as well as the little cross on the end are a cream color (the official color name on the tube was "Unbleached Titanium"). The wing over near the top consisted of mixing a violet color we purchased along with another color we were debating on that I actually already had for Greninja. The main blade part is a blood red color that I automatically thought was a perfect fit. The rest of the blade was probably the most difficult part as I practically filled my paint tray with various mixtures of the blues, purples and black that I had. Only to realize that the dark blue that I had used before on the handle was a close enough fit. After all was said and done I took it outside and sprayed it a few time with a protective gloss spray.

Getting the keychain on was a pain since the keychain we found at Hobby Lobby took awhile to get open. It's snug in good so it shouldn't be a problem. Here are a bunch of pictures I took of the keyblade as it was coming together, I realize that I won't get every small spot that I probably missed so I'm stopping now before I accidentally screw it up. You guys have no idea how proud I am of this prop and how I really surprised myself in making it.

Painting in the wing parts gray on the left handle 
Dark blue along the top, light blue going into the bottom

Full handle and hilt colored in. The one part of the cross was changed to regular cream

Eye added in

Wing and red parts of the blade

DONE :D

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