Dragon making part 2!

So it begins! Paper mache is my best friend! And here we go!

 Covering the top with beautiful paper!

I'm really impatient, so when it comes to paper mache, I just end up adding all the layers and then have to wait a million hours for it to dry! Ha ha ha!

I drew the eye and nose where I thought it would go! And I finished it in a jiffy!

I wanted to get the bottom done before I started on the horns! I tossed it upside down and started covering it!

I didn't support the bottom very well, so I had to get creative with the supports! I tried useing hula hoops...But it didn't hold very well, so I used some metal pieces to hold up the chicken wire!

And here is the basic shape!! So exciting!

Once more flipped, and starting on the main horn!

To be continued!!

Dragon time! Supercon Fun!

So my second costume for Supercon is going to be so much fun! I have BIG plans!

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My friend really wanted to go as Astrid from How to Train your Dragon, and I wanted to go as.....
HER DRAGON!

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First things first! I went out and get some hula hoops, craft foam, chicken wire, and paper from Home Depot!

Then I took the hula hoops apart because they had marbles inside (so I thought) and I didn't want my dragon to sound funny!

But um...it turned out to be rocks???!! Ha ha ha ha!

Then I melted some holes in the hula hoops using my glue gun and put some wire in it to keep it together!

Next I cut the sides of the dragon head out of the craft foam. Then I put it on top of another craft foam piece to trace and cut out.

Then hot glue hot glue hot glue! I added a piece of plastic to bolster the top, then some chicken wire!

Next is the paper mache!

Blondes have more fun!

I was going to dye my whole head a pretty green that (supposedly) glows in the dark! But once I bleached my hair, it looked so great I left it and had a party!

Ha ha ha ha! And speaking of blondes, I have exciting upcoming cosplay news! Supercon is coming up in July, and I have some big plans! One of which being, I really really really want to cosplay Princess Agitha from Twilight Princess!

She's so cute! Definitely trying to copy Lolita style here, but it kinda works in the game!

I did a lot of research and didn't really like any of the costumes or really bright brazen colors I saw for the character. I wanted to do a lower key (more mature?) version! I also really wanted to try out printing things on spoonflower! I made my design (which took me like 6 hours because I am sooooo bad at photoshop and I got the measurements all wrong!) and then sent it off to print!

Yeah, I forgot the part where it says, "will print within two weeks...." Or in my case, "Oops, looks like we are running a little late!"..... Needless to say, a month later, I got my fabric! But hey, it looks really great!

I was really excited about all the cute accessories she has! Old school Lolita headband, bug earrings, giant butterflies on her dress, a basket, leather gloves, this girl has it going! Anyway, I started making some of the accessories.

I made everything out of apoxie sculpt!  I painted the gold beetles that go on her headband; the beetle on her necklace, and pulled out my blue window paint to paint the beetle earrings....then spilled the bottle all over the box I was painting in!! Nooooooo!

But it turned out I had to repaint the necklace anyway, so these babies are ready to go! :D

Vacuum forming! REVISITED!!

So as you may or may not remember, I tried doing vacuum forming all wrong! I used the wrong clay, my oven was ill-equiped, and I think I even used the shop vac wrong. It was basically disaster!

So I am pleased to announce that I made an (almost) perfect pull!

First I had to make makeshift metal (shelves? thingys?) so that my piece of plastic could bubble like it is supposed to!

My first try I think I added too many things to the board, it ended up looking like eye-spy!
So I took everything off except the horn, and voila!

It ended up with some minor webbing, but hey! I'm pleased! It even picked up the detail! And!! I can cut this plastic with scissors from around my house!

Then I tried with a few small things! I think I let to plastic melt a little too much, so it kind of runched...

And it ended up not working to reheat the plastic once it was super runched.....
And then I had a minor emergency where my makeshift metal thingys fell off and burst into flame!

Yeaaaaaaah....but anyway, I'm very pleased and am looking forward to making more!

There and back again! Unicorn shoes!

Sorry sorry about not posting for a while. Life happens sometimes and unfortunately I have to go along with it instead of happily blogging and making fun things!

Oh a happier note, did you see those shoes that were released by irregular choice? Oh wow, unicorn heels???
I wanted some sooo badly, but I have such picky feet and $200 dollars was totally out of my price range for magic shoes!

So I decided to get some shoes I knew would fit off of ebay and make my own unicorn heels! Apoxie sculpt was my weapon of choice! Apoxie sculpt is my favorite, (basically indestructible) but it dries reeeeeally heavy! I chose shoes with a bigger heel so the inside of my unicorn would be "hollow"!

First step, research! I drew a picture of what I wanted on a piece of cardboard in the shape of the shoe.  I always laugh at my ridiculous sketches! When I was in college my art teacher kept asking me to re-do my sketches since they were so bad! Ha ha ha! But hey, as long as I get the general idea down, it works for me!

Then I used some clay to do a rough draft of what I wanted the unicorn to look like. I measured everything next to my sketch to make sure it fit the heel.

Once I was satisfied with that, I moved onto the apoxie sculpt!

First I had to put on the unicorn's behind and let it dry for about six hours. The tail kept drooping, so I had to get creative with how I propped it up!

Then after that it was just adding more and more and blending it all together. And waiting for each major piece to generally dry. 

And here we go!!!!! Yay!!

I totally ran out of white paint or this beautiful creature would be painted and sparkly! I also ran out of apoxie sculpt (I loooove that stuff) so I have to wait for more to finish the other heel! :-(  HURRY MAILMAN!!

But hey, total cost for making unicorn heels? $40 dollars!!! Yay!