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Bring your cosplay dreams to life with your own two hands!

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Bring your cosplay dreams to life with your own two hands!The Best Cosplay Tutorial Guide Ever!Get ready to impress ordinary mortals with your superhuman costume-making skills. You can do it no matter what your experience level with this, the first full step-by-step technique book on cosplay--with no sewing! Internationally known cosplayer Kamui Cosplay (a.k.a. Svetlana Quindt) shows you how to easily create elaborate costumes and successful props out of items available at your local arts and craft or hardware stores: turn foam into a realistic axe, create a breastplate from scratch and use a glue gun to modify just about anything. You will even learn the best and most accessible techniques for working with specialty cosplay materials such as Worbla!Packed with more than 30 step-by-step demonstrations that teach the skills you need to bring all your favorite characters to life no matter the genre, Kamui Cosplay deconstructs the work that goes into making a complete costume, from the first thought to the final photo. Tutorials cover design planning, fabricating body armor, 3D painting techniques and more. Best of all, you can adapt every lesson to use in all future fandom projects spanning video games, books, anime, movies and even your own original characters!Includes:How to choose a costume and find good reference artA short shopping list of necessary materials and tools for beginning cosplayersBasic safety tipsA beautiful photo gallery featuring inspiring images from other cosplayers Next steps--how to grow your workshop, take professional photos, participate in contests and join the cosplay community

Author Biography

Svetlana Quindt (KamuiCosplay), Nuremburg, Germany, , started making costumes in 2003 and has never stopped. She runs a successful website and travels to cons all over the world participating in cosplay and conducting workshops. She has a strong following in the cosplay community.

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Bring your cosplay dreams to life with your own two hands!The Best Cosplay Tutorial Guide Ever!Get ready to impress ordinary mortals with your superhuman costume-making skills. You can do it no matter what your experience level with this, the first full step-by-step technique book on cosplay--with no sewing! Internationally known cosplayer Kamui Cosplay (a.k.a. Svetlana Quindt) shows you how to easily create elaborate costumes and successful props out of items available at your local arts and craft or hardware stores: turn foam into a realistic axe, create a breastplate from scratch and use a glue gun to modify just about anything. You will even learn the best and most accessible techniques for working with specialty cosplay materials such as Worbla!Packed with more than 30 step-by-step demonstrations that teach the skills you need to bring all your favorite characters to life no matter the genre, Kamui Cosplay deconstructs the work that goes into making a complete costume, from the first thought to the final photo. Tutorials cover design planning, fabricating body armor, 3D painting techniques and more. Best of all, you can adapt every lesson to use in all future fandom projects spanning video games, books, anime, movies and even your own original characters!Includes:How to choose a costume and find good reference artA short shopping list of necessary materials and tools for beginning cosplayersBasic safety tipsA beautiful photo gallery featuring inspiring images from other cosplayers Next steps--how to grow your workshop, take professional photos, participate in contests and join the cosplay community

Details ISBN1440345163 Author Svetlana Quindt Pages 128 Publisher Impact Language English ISBN-10 1440345163 ISBN-13 9781440345166 Media Book Format Paperback Short Title COSTUME MAKING GD Year 2016 Subtitle Creating Armor & Props for Cosplay Place of Publication Ohio Country of Publication United States DEWEY 646.478 Illustrations illustrations Publication Date 2016-12-12 Imprint IMPACT Books Audience General/Trade US Release Date 2016-12-12 UK Release Date 2016-12-12 NZ Release Date 2016-12-11 AU Release Date 2016-12-11 We've got this

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