Another year of cosplay documented - 2016 is over

Every year I write a sum up of what I have made and experienced through that year. This is mostly for myself, as a diary, because after a while it is not always as easy to remember which year I made what costume.

What a year!

Lady Sif

Photo and edit by JL Cosplay Photo

Fallout upgrade 
This is not a totally new cosplay, but I ended up creating a whole new look with the shaved head so I still think it deserved a spot on my "highlights of the year". 

Photo and edit by Zarsu.dk Cosplay and Photography

Alice Misstiched dress

Photo by Photographer Tom Vidar Johannessen

Mononoke

Photo and edit by Katrix Media Site. Bettcanard as the Forrest God

Aria T'Loak

Photo and edit by Conwant Cosplay Photography

Maggie Greene from The Walking Dead
I was part of a The Walking Dead Cosplay Group. Hope we will gather again, because I want to upgrade this cosplay.

Our group with Ingridbeast, Heresetai and Weaslette 

Bombshell Wonder Woman

Elizabeth from Bioshock (update)
Again an old cosplay that I gave new life this year. 

Photo by Photographer Tom Vidar Johannessen

Arachnee: Queen of Spiders

This years Halloween costume

I have also made a nice selection of closet cosplays this year.
Awoken hunter

Power Puff Girls

Princess Mononoke

Effie

Game developer Barbie

Photo by Ice of Tin

Tribal Warrior

Emily Kaldwin

Ice Queen

Dolores from Westworld
I might have to make her entire outfit (the blue dress) one day ^_^ 

Other happenings in 2016I have done a few other things that I want to highlight as well.

Easter eggs
Every year I make several Easter Eggs to give out on my facebook page.

Book
I have also written and published my very first book about cosplay and I really hope I get the chance to write one more. 

Also:

• Qualified to NCC - so much focus on that in 2017
• I was a guest at both Advik and Geekcore
• Visited the childrens ward at Rikshospitalet
• I made a Birthday sword
• I was on the NO/DK team for Overwatch all stars
• And I got to be a mentor for a student <3

Game Developer Barbie

I loved playing with Barbie dolls as a kid, and I was encouraged to design and sew my own clothes for the dolls, making them everything from princesses to jungle and underwater explorers (we had a huge garden). 

I also love that Barbie is now a game developer. Both the style and "life style" of this dolls matches me irl pretty good. So closet cosplay it is. 

Photo Mattel.com

I even got photographer Ice of Tin to shoot some laidback cafe photos. 

Ice Queen

When you have a lot of leftover Polymorph you need to make up new projects, or I do at least. So I though why not make a glowing Ice crown. The Polymorph was sculpted around LEDs to make it glow :)

And since I now have a crown, why not make an entire Ice Queen costume. I have a feeling I have named a lot of my OC characters something Queen, that seems to be my style ;)

Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite

A few years back I made a cosplay of Elizabeth from Bioshock, but I never got around to do a proper photoshoot. But during Metrocon I got together with wonderful photographer Tom Vidar Johannesen. I also haven't made a proper tutorial for this costume, as I had no idea what I was doing when making it (it is not well made). So all I have of tutorials are for the Brooch and Salt bottle.

Summer version. 
I also did a summer version of Elizabeth, No jacket and a "tie around the waist" skirt. 

Summer Salt bottle ;)

Bombshell Wonder Woman

There was something about the design of this Wonder Woman that caught my attention. She's sexy, but not vulgar and has a kick ass attitude. It also seemed fairly simple, making it a perfect Sunday outfit for a convention.

Official art from DC Comics. 

Bandanna
The head band was just sewed from two pieces on interfaced cotton, with the red star sewed on. The stars are embroidered appliques I found in Japan. 

Shirt
I had an old red shirt which I never use (expect this one time when i cosplayed Poison Ivy). So I added a white collar and an emblem in front to change it into my wonder woman shirt. 

Emblem was made by sewing red stretch fabric over a yellow felt piece.  

Shorts
Shorts were sewn from a modified Burda pattern, with zipper in the back.

Belt 
The belt buckle was laser cut from plywood. Glued together with wood glue, spray painted, airbrushed and highlighted. It is attached to a elastic belt. 

Bracers
I made a vector file with the pattern for the bracers and then laser cut it into worbla. 

The worbla was wrapped around a foam piece.

Heated to shape

Silver basecoat.

And black acrylic weathering. 

Shoes
I actually had the perfect shoes for this cosplay, except they were white. I have never tried to dye shoes before and took this as a challenge. My first attempt was with synthetic leather spray color. Too bad one can wasn't enough. Good news, the color held really well once applied. 

I finished the coloring with my airbrush and acrylic paint. The white parts were glued on.  

The final look