Discord Costume Part 1 Design - My Little Pony

Hello this is my first official blog post! On this post I will show you my concept designs for my Discord from My Little Pony costume. I made this costume over August-October of 2013 and I was inspired to make this costume because of the many different elements and components. Most of this costume was made with out machine sewing accept the jacket (my friend helped me with her machine), this is because at the time I didn't have a sewing machine.

Onto the designing. I love this character from MLP because he is crazy and fun. So in order to design him I collected screenshots from the show and both canon and non-canon images from the internet. I also looked at other people's costumes of Discord. Using these I drew a picture of what I thought Discord would look like if he was a human.

This was my first sketch and as you can probably see it is a bit all over the place and not very good. I just wanted to get my idea down so that I could finalize it.

Here is my second design where I put everything together to see what it would look like. The character Discord was full of elements he has a lion arm and an eagle arm, a lizard leg and a horse leg, a dragon tail, two different horns and two different wings. I decided that I would not have wings on my discord character because there where already so many elements to him. I planed to make the arm like those of a partial fursuit. such as how the sleeves are attached at the back with elastic and the lion paw was a glove. I would need two different pants that I could sew together to get the two colours and I would need to make the tail and horns.

The next step in the process of making Discord now that I had the design was buying fabrics for him. I ended up going to two fabric stores, Lincraft and Spotlight.

These are swatches of the fabrics I bought for Discord. The top left is a cheap polyester cotton(lincraft), top right, I can't remember the actual name, but it is a crushed two toned gold and pink woven fabric(lincraft). Middle left is a caramel short cheap fake fur from spotlight, middle right is an expensive long, light brown to black fake fur from lincraft. Bottom left is a mixed woven fabric with textured stripes of gold velvet and gold heavy cotton like fabric(lincraft). Bottom right is a light brown minky from lincraft, I didn't end up using this fabric like I intended to.

I hope you found my first post interesting. My next post will be of the process of making the jacket.