Saturday, July 6, 2002

Carlos van Tairun (War of Genesis 3: Part 2) @ Anime Expo 2002

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So. Neoqueenhoneybee and I discovered Korean artist Hyung Tae Kim and War of Genesis 3. Even though we weren't very skilled, we wanted to promote his awesome arts!

Making Carlos was... interesting. I had picked up a shiny rubberized? pleather-backed? denim at a fabric warehouse and I took up inspiration from the gold leaf in leather bound books and ironed-on gold leaf onto the non-denim side of the fabric. Since it was plastic, it melted just a bit enough to stick to the gold leaf! And amazingly, the gold leaf I bought also stuck to printer ink! So the dragon was an inaccurate dragon grabbed off the internet and printed on paper. I then ironed on foil to the paper which stuck only to the ink, then ironed on the paper to fabric which was stickier than the ink. Presto! Gold leaf transfer.

The waist cape and sword sheaths were pretty fail though. I remember struggling a lot with metal coat hangers...

And we didn't exactly discover wigs yet. ^^;;

Friday, July 5, 2002

Makimachi Misao (Rurouni Kenshin) @ Anime Expo 2002

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Still very much a n00b in weeaboo state.

Having had Katsucon under my belt, I decided to go full into cosplay! My favorite anime at the time was Rurouni Kenshin so I had to cosplay from it. I chose Misao because her outfit was pretty simple.

This was a very memorable cosplay for me because it was the year Nobuhiro Watsuki, the mangaka for Rurouni Kenshin, came to AX. I was in line for his autograph when it was cut just three people ahead of me. But thankfully, because I was in cosplay, I managed to get a picture with him after his panel!

Kenshin plushie is made by Neoqueenhoneybee (seen here as Beramode). ♥