Souxie the Huntress and lots of college work

My friend did my own Magic card :D

It´s sooo coool!

But for a few next days .. I´m sorry but I need to finish my bachelor´s thesis so probably no more articles till the end of the week. 

But stay tuned for Aela´s spam :)

Animefest 2014 - Cosplay debut competition - Aela the Huntress

As you probably already know .. I had a horrible idea few days ago and decided to participate the Animefest cosplay competition. There were two versions - cosplay debut for cosplay beginners also the rules weren´t so hard and the cosplay competition whose winner goes to Eurocosplay competition!

I finished .. well, not really finished .. my side chainmails are missing, also the top roundy things attached to my sleeves and I bought those shoes the day before competition.

Well .. at least I tried. There was one minute limit fot each contestant to show some presentation of their cosplay (dance, sing, whatever ..). I chose battling of course!

I was so nervous behind the scene. It was my first time showing my cosplay at competition. I wondered what it feels like .. and now I know! It´s terrible and stressfull :D

But when the actual one minute show of mine begun .. all the stress was gone. I felt super powerfull that I attacked my friend surprisingly agressively. Ooops ..

But I feel like people liked it even though it wasn´t perfect. And that´s all I wanted to know! That I´m capable of presenting myself on a stage without a shame.

More pics sooon .. wish me luck for tomorrow´s results!

Aela´s try out

Such a bad selfie .. I´m so sorry for that. But the main reason why I did this was I needed to try the whole costume on. And I´m really happy .. everything fits and I can move easily in those huge pauldrons. 

Soo happy!

Need to add some skirt plate cause this looks a "bit" sluty :D Also work on my shoes and add a sword.

Can´t wait to do my makeup!

Finishing Aela´s costume

Just a few days left till the competition!

I´ve spent a lot of time just figuring out how to attach those pauldrons to her dress. Because in normal life this just couldn´t work at all :D

I decided to make my bracers out of more comfortable material than worbla is. Worbla is so rough that my forearm always hurts and bracer doesn´t stay in its place. This one is made of 0,5 mm craft foam, covered with fake leather (the same I used for my dress). But I´m satisfied with the result.

I also ordered something special .. 

.. my personal dagger, or small sword, don´t really know what it´s called like. It´s used, has a few glitches and originally purposed for LARPing.

Aela WIP

Last days I´ve been working on my Aela´s cosplay. I can´t believe how good it´s looking :)

I have to finish my bracers, sword and complete the dress because the front part of "skirt" seems to be a bit short :D

Lightning wig

I ordered wig for Lightning from MoeMall and when I got it I was really excited. It was sooo smooth, nice color and already styled a bit.

I had to cut the side bangs and it was the first time for me so I was a bit worried. I didn´t want to ruin such a nice wig .. but it came up quite nice.

I fell in love with this character .. she´s so vulnerable but yet really strong! So cool :3

Lara Croft - Tomb Raider Reborn cosplay information

Lara Croft is my huuuge passion since I was a child. I played several games from TR edition but the concept of TR Reborn just blew my mind away. She was like a completely different person .. not so determined, fearless or strong. Just a little girl whose destiny is supposed to be waaaay harder.

And I fell in love with her. So I started to plan out the photoshoot. Location, weapons, outfit .. and .. how should I make it bit special? Cause there´s so many Lara´s cosplay photos around the Internet. So I took my friend who happens to look exactly like Sam without any make-up or special hair cut - it´s jus crazy, right? :D

I would like to thank her once again,also to my photographer, my loyal friend and all those guys who lend us weapons. 

I had bad shoes and no wig there. These pics were done in spring 2013 in location called Stránská Skála. 

If you´re interested in more photos, chcek out photographer´s page here: More photos

I also wore this outfit at Advík 2013 festival where I also judged the cosplay competition. I changed my shoes and wig for this upgraded outfit :)

I found some pics of my outfit ..

I would add some pics from the newest photoshoot asap :)

What´s new ..

.. I am trying to finish my Aela costume as soon as possible. Because it´s been on progress for so long.

Here you can see some WIP pics of Aela´s armor. Everything made out of worbla with craft foam sheets inside. Those round gems are made of modeling clay :)

I tried different ways to make my armor look "used" and I finally found a great and easy way so I will probably do some easy tutorial.

First pic of new cosplay ..

.. and here it is! It turned out pretty well. So yep, I´m quite satisfied. What do you think? :3

I also wanted to summary my Lara cosplay and make an article about it but saddly I didn´t have enough time in work today, so maybe tommorow!

And also new wig I ordered arrived to my country so I hope in few days it will be mine .. just mine!

Trip finished!

Just a random photo I picked from the last photoshoot. 

It looks so cool! Can´t wait for others .. :3

Ready for photoshoot :)

I finished the belt yesterday. Months ago I did a pattern for the belt from worbla, but I decided to re-make it. I always try to make it as comfortable as possible and with worbla belt I probably wouldn´t be able to bend and move without moving it into it´s right place afterwards. This is fully made of craft foam, no gesso but glue with acrylics and acrylics lacker on top.

It´s made from two parts and holds in place thnaks to velcro :)

I can´t wait to shoot this costume! Tommorow I have a meeting with my photograper in awesome place .. stay tuned!

Lara, be careful .. !

Omg .. he´s so talented photographer. I can´t believe it. First time shooting something like this with him and the result is just .. awesome!

Jackpot! :3

Trip costume progress

I hate sewing .. seriously. It´s so hard for me to make a good looking sewing pattern, cut it and sew together.

It´s like a walk through hell..

But. I made a deal with sewing machine and we´re able to cooperate sometimes. So I did Trip´s top successfully!

It fits perfectly. I was really surprised! ^^

And after that I started the painting part. I made it a little bit easier, because those rays were so close to each other that it was nearly impossible to paint them nicely.

But I´m pretty satisfied with the result .. now I´m working on the belt. I did a frame from worbla but I´ve changed my mind and re-done it with craft foam.

Wish me luck! ^^

Thanks for support!

I´m so glad for all those hearts on World Cosplay member´s page! I´m nearly at hundred of them .. yaaaayy! 

Tomb Raider 2014 photoshoot - first part

I´m glad to present you the first five photos of my TR 2014 photoshoot!

Unlike the old one there´s pretty much small, but important improvements. I added wig, improved my make-up, wore different shoes and better bra without straps :3

It was lot of fun. One of the true spring days so the sun was shining all day long and after a while it was also quite comfortable being without jacket :)

I love this place. It´s an old limestone quarry and because of that at the end of posing my body was all covered up in white kind of mud. Even the shoes .. which is bit unhappy, because I liked them covered in real mud, it looked better :)

Also this time we did a bit special kind of shooting. I was bored of posing all day long, so we tried a few action sequences. That´s why I hold the gun like that in the third picture. Sorry about that :)

Sylvari Cosplay - basic information

This costume was made in 2012. Once I got an e-mail from Comgad company. They wanted to make me a costume based on upcoming game Guild Wars 2 for presentation in July. At first I was really happy but suddenly I have realized that it might have been a bit tough work.

But I agreed and the work started soon :)

I don´t really have much photos of progress, but you can see some of them above. Pretty shitty, right? :D

I know, I was a beginner cosplayer, everything was new for me. I used mostly craft foam, bended it, ornaments made with glue gun and finished with acrylics.

Every piece is designed by me. I had to make it by myself due to lack of information about characters.

I also would like to thank to Jana H. who sewed the skirt for me. Nowadays I´m pretty good at sewing, but not two years before.

 

I would like to thank for those photographs to my dear friend, Dan and also to Luboš, who helped me with posing and faces :) I was really afraid but they went out pretty good.

If you want to see all of them, go check this album Sylvari photoshoot.

I wore it in July for the midnight sale. It´s not really comfortable for conventions because of the green paint. Yep, it is not photoshopped, I wore a green bodypaint all over my body in freakin´ hot summer.

Really crazy :)

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I am glad for this opportunity. It learned me a lot about costume making, posing, not being nervous about everything .. loots of stuff. Thanks to this experience I am able to do better photos and lot better costumes using professional stuff.

Tomb Raider Reborn Re-Shoot 2014

Hello ! Last week I decided to re-shoot my Lara Croft cosplay from the spring of 2013. Last time I had a help from my dear friend, Sam But this time I was on my own .. so sad.

Do you know what I personally do love the most about this game?

When I´m feeling really down and pissed off I just start playing it and realize, that she has been through so many tough situation that I suddenly feel more comfortable :)

So stay tuned for more pics ! The weather was so great, on of the true spring days in our country. Finally!

QUESTION: What do you like the most about Tomb Raider Reborn?