Discord Photos

Here are photos for the full Discord costume. I would like to credit Alphonze191 for taking all the beautiful photos. She is one of my closest friends and is an AWESOME photographer! Also in some of the photos there is another cosplayer dressed as Queen Chrysalis she is another of my close friends. Here is her Deviant Art BeeBee561.

That's that for Discord I hope showing the process of my costume helped people with their own or was just interesting. I hope some of the techniques I used will be useful for other other people. Once again all photo credit goes to Alphonze191. Thank you for the fabulous photos! In the future I plan to have a photo shoot with my Toothless costume. But since the costume isn't finished yet it may be a long while until then.

Discord Cosplay Part 8 - Extras

This is the last post for my Discord costume. In this post I will talk about all the extra accessories that I added after the costume was finished so that I had a completed look in photos. I will be uploading pictures of Discord from a photo-shoot my friends and I had a week ago. They won't be uploaded until Monday though, my friend is still editing the photos.

So for the extras I had:
- Cosmetic eye contacts
- Make up
- Nail polish
- Fangs

Discord has weird eyes that are yellow and red I wanted my costume to look more authentic and creepy by buying eye contacts. I decided that I wanted to wear solid yellow contacts instead of yellow because the yellow colour pops more in photos. I bought mine from youknowit.com I chose this site over others because after some research buy watching contact reviews on YouTube a lot of people were recommending You Know It. Here is a link to the lenses i got - Yellow Contacts This link is to eye contacts that last a year and have a full set including a case, solution and tweasers, so this would be perfect for people who are new to eye contacts.

(Youknowit.com)

When I wore the Discord costume to a small event I wore both contacts but a couple of months later I hadn't checked on my contacts or changed the solution so one eye contact dried up. I don't deem it safe to wear anymore so for the photo shoot I wore one yellow and one blue contact. I think this suited Discord since he is so mismatched. Here is a link to the blue contacts that I got from the website Pinky Paradise - G&G GBT (Aqua) Blue Contacts These contacts looked really natural on my eyes because my own eyes are a grey blue already.

Discord has one very big tooth so I needed fangs to complete the look. I found my fangs on Scarecrow Vampire Fangs.com here is a link to the fangs I used - Sabers extra Long Deluxe Fangs

(Scarecrowvampires.com)

For make up I had a smokey eye look and nude lipstick to draw attention to the eyes and make them look more menacing. Last but not least was some nail polish on my non gloved hand. I bought a cheap $4 BYS gold shimmer nail polish from K-Mart and put a couple of layers on. This was so my nails matched my golden sleeve and just added a nice finish to the outfit.

And that's it for how I made Discord. Like I said I will be posting some pictures from the photo-shoot next week. I hope someone found it interesting and feel free to leave any comments. My next costume that I will be post is my Toothless costume.

Discord Cosplay Part 7 - Shoes

Hey Guys! This is my second last post for the Discord costume! Over the weekend I should be getting good photos of the full costume so I will post them on Monday. So onto the shoes. Originally I was going to do a lot more with the shoes as in following tutorials on how to make a proper hoof shoe and a foam base paw for the other. This didn't happen but I think they still turned out great.

For the shoes I used:
- A pair of cheap, black high heels from K-Mart
- Short fur fabric that matches the furry pant leg
- Hot glue
- Cheap green fabric
- Fabric paint, in light green, white, black and dark green
- Mod podge
- Glad-wrap
- Masking tape
- Needle and thread


Left Shoe (Horse Leg)
Starting with the shoe that will be on the horse leg side. Putting on the shoe I wrapped it glad-wrap (the same way I did the arm) making sure to cover the shoe back and my foot until it was as high as my ankle. Then I covered it with two layers of masking tape. Before I carefully cut the making tape of my shoe and foot I marked the different pieces of the fur direction and how I was going to put it on.
I then placed the pieces on the fur according to the directions I drew and cut them out.

I sewed the two front pieces together along the front seam using a blanket stitch. I also sewed any place where the fur was higher than the shoe so that it was all one piece. Then I hot glued the fur onto the shoe and done! I made the length of the shoe and the length of the pants so that they overlapped seamlessly (thanks to the length of the fur.

Right Shoe (Lizard Leg)
The other shoe didn't turn out as well because the fabric turned a little stiff. But this is how I made it. Using the same process as the last shoe I filled the pattern and traced it onto the fabric. But I cut out the pattern out of a cheap green cotton fabric that I had lying around the house. Sewing the pieces together I then attached it to the shoe using hot glue.

I then mixed the white and light green paint together until I had a matching tint to my pants. I then did several layers in order to get the base colour. Then using the dark green I drew three lines that would be the crease in between the toes. The I created a gradient lallet of paint and began shading around the toes to create depth in the toes and make them look realistic and shapely. I made sure while painting that I kept repainting the toe lines and when I was finished shading I got the dark green paint and a little bit of black and painted an even thinner line inside to make it look deeper.

Last but not least I added a couple of layers of mod podge so the sole of the shoe to prevent the paint from chipping and protecting it from the weather. I was a little disappointed with this shoe because it was stiff with paint. If I remade it in the future I would try to find a fabric that was closer to my pant leg colour. Or better yet buy another pair and cut it up into pieces for the shoe.

This was the last real post for Discord. The next post will be on finishing touches for the cosplay such as eye contacts I used and fangs. Please stay tuned to my blog because on Saturday I will be posting the start of my Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon costume.

Discord Cosplay Part 6 - Pants

Yeah, part 6 of the Discord costume process. This is how I made the pants, it will probably not be a very long post. The only posts for this costume I have left is how I made the shoes and the extra accessories.

The pants were really easy to make all I used was:
- Pair of skinny jeans
- Short fur fabric
- Stanley knife
- Hot glue
- A friend :)
- A long television series of your choice (Mine was Grimm Season 1)

So grabbing my jeans I folded my jeans in half so that you see the backside of one whole leg and laid it flat over the fur (NOTE: I made sure that the fur direction was down my leg). I traced the out line and then re-folded my pants so that the front part of the leg was facing out and traced this onto the fur. I marked which was the front and the back. I cut out the pieces and went onto the next step.

I invited a friend over started watching Grimm. Then putting on the jeans I had my friend hot glue *VERY CAREFULLY* the sides of the fur pieces along the seams of the jeans. That's all it took to make the jeans but it took a long time because we were doing it carefully. This is probably not the safest method but it was effective in that the fur sits correctly on my leg without bunching up too much. Also while we where gluing we avoided the area where the belt loops where because I needed to be able to take on and off a belt.

AND there you have it the pants. Sorry it was such a short post but tomorrow's should be longer, It's all about how I made the shoes.

Discord Cosplay Part 5 - Gloves

Hey guys! In this post I will be showing you how I made my gloves for my Discord costume. Discord has a lion arm and a eagle arm. I wanted to have a shagging, bulky arm for the lions arm, so I needed long fur which I bought from Lincraft. I wanted to buy fur from Spotlight but since I went in October there was no stock I would recommend buying fur from Spotlight at this time of year because they have plenty of high quality fur. I also bought my textured gold striped fabric from Lincraft. I was really happy with this fabric because it made the arm look way more visual appealing.

For the gloves I used:
- 1 meter of long fur for the right arm
- 1/2 a meter of striped fabric for the left arm
- Hot glue
- Pair of garden gloves
- 1 inch wide elastic
- Black food dye/ black fabric dye
- Fur shaver (optional)
- Needle and thread
- Paper and pencil
- Masking tape
- Glad-wrap

I think that was everything. The first thing I did was make the lion glove using following this video tutorial. Note that I made a glove and sleeves if you wanted you could make the glove attacked to the sleeve but I wanted to be able to take the glove off without taking of my shirt all of the time.
Hand Paw Tutorial Part 1
Hand Paw Tutorial Part 2

So starting out I traced my hand onto a piece of paper the re-drew the line making my hand about 2cm bigger. At my wrist I gave myself about 3-4cm on each side. I then cut out the paper and traced it onto my fur making cutting the shape out once then flipping it and cutting the shape again so I had the top and bottom of the glove. I then marked the inside with a Sharpe so that I new which side was which.

I then got my fur shaver and shaved the palm side of my fur down so it was much shorter.Which on the image above was the hand with the 'f' on it for front (the other was 'b' for back).

With the garden gloves I mixed some red, blue and yellow food colouring together in order to get black and painted the fingers and palm of the glove (the food colouring stayed because I was absorbed by the leathery fabric).

What was supposed to happen was that I was to glue the fur onto the glove but this didn't work out so I cut the dyed fingers and palm from the glove, cut holes in the underside (shaved side) of the fur pieces and hot glued them on. ^^' I know not the most genius method, but it worked.
Then with right sides together I sewed from one side of the wrist all the way over the fingers to the other wrist of the fabric with a blanket stitch. Then I turned it right side out and voila the lion paw glove.

To make the sleeves I started with the eagle arm. With a friend helping me I wrapped my arm in glad-wrap and the with a couple of layers of masking tape. This was to make a sleep pattern to the shape and length of my arm. I cut it off along the underside of my arm, because that was wear I wanted the seam to be. Then I traced it onto my striped fabric making sure the stripes went horizontal down the length of my arm and cut it out. I then blanket stitched the sides together, rolled hemmed the edges and that was one sleeve down.

Using the pattern form the left arm I placed it on my fur fabric. I wanted this arm to be very bulky so I traced the width about 2.5 inches bigger on each side. I cut this out and then blanket stitched the sides together. There was no need to hem the edges because the fabric didn't fray.

I also did my research and looked up how to make fursuit partial arm sleeves and gloves. I used this example for joining the sleeves together.

This tutorial was made by Chaoticdino, I think, on Deviant Art.

As you can see I attached the sleeves in the same way, I measured my shoulder width and then trimmed it shorter so that the elastic would hold up the sleeves and stretch as I moved.

That's how I made my Discord gloves and arm sleeves I hope this helped anyone who may want to make a Discord costume. My next post will be on the pants.

Discord Cosplay Part 4 - Pants

This post is how I made my tail for my Discord costume. I couldn't find any good tutorials so I had to kind of improvise. I made a tutorial but it may be a little hard to read so I will explain how I made it anyway.

Here is the tutorial, I hope it helps

I'll try to explain it anyway in case the tutorial isn't clear.
For the tail I used:
- A fishing rod
- Wool for the inside
- Wool for the fluff
- Fabric
- Hot glue
- Needle and thread (matching fabric)
- Elastic 1 inch wide
- Side release belt buckle
- Pillow stuffing

I bought a $7 fishing rod from K-mart and took it a part keeping the top half. I took of all of the rings that hold the string accept the one and the tip (in order to keep some thickness at the end). I then french knitted with some orange wool so that it was the length of the fishing rod pole. For people who may not know how to french knit I'll link a tutorial here - French Knitting Tutorial I then slipped this onto the pole and secured the ends with hot glue, so that it would not fall off. I made the tuff on the end of the tail by brushing out wool and straightening it was a hot straightener. I'll link the tutorial I used on how to make these. I learned it from a Yarn tail tutorial - Yarn Tail Part 1, Yarn Tail Part 2 I then sewed all the fluffs onto the french knitted sleeve until I was happy with how fluffy and high it was. By now I had something that looked a little like step 4.

Next I cut fabric in a triangle the length of what was left of my fishing rod making sure to cut on the fold so that it would open as one large piece.

These are pictures taken from a Tail Tutorial made by CanineHybrid

I then hand sewed the two edges together using a blanket stitch. I don't have any photos but it is easy to just look up on Google and there will be clear tutorials. I used this stitch because it is easy and very sturdy and I cut my fabric without leaving any room for seam allowance, it just made it look neater.

This picture shows how I neatened off the end by tucking in the raw edges and doing a normal stitch just to finish it off.

I then hot glued the fabric onto the fishing rod, starting with the fabric inside out and gluing it wrong sides together (pulling it right side out as I went). I made sure that I was gluing the opposite site to the stitching, this made the fabric look like it had a spine/bone underneath. Make sure to glue quite a bit around the end where the fluff is so that it is closed completely.

Then I stuffed it with toy stuffing and sewed up the top. I measured the elastic a little shorter than my waist to compensate for the buckle and so that it didn't sag, hot glued the elastic to the flat top of my fabric (and I hand sewed it for extra security). The final touch was hand sewing the buckle on and it was done!

My next post will be on how I made the gloves.

Discord Costume Part 3 - Horns and Wig

This post is about how I made my Discord horns and the wig I picked for the cotume. Discord has two different horns, an antler and a crazy twisted blue horn. His hair was strange it was white on his head but on his neck is a black horse mane. I decided I wanted my wig to be all black, this is because I wanted my dicord to look young.

What I used for this part was:
- Short hair wig
- Ponytail clip
- Air drying clay
- Chopstick
- Small paint brushes
- White acrylic paint
- Light blue acrylic paint
- Medium blue acrylic paint

I chose a wig for Arda Wigs called Jeanie in a Natural Black. This is because they had the colour I wanted as well as a wig with a detachacle pony tail.
Arda Wigs - Jeannie
There was a problem once I recieved the wig. My head was a little too small for the wig I even followed Arda Wigs tutorial on how to re-style pony tail wigs but it just didn't look right. In the end I bout a short wig from Arda Wigs called Jaguar (Jaguar) in the same colour as before and kept the pony tail from the previous wig. This sat a lot better on my head and looked really cool styled. If anyone wanted to do the same as me you can also buy the pony tails separate here - Long Ponytail Clip

I had never made horns before so I needed to look up how other people were making them and how they attached them to the wig.
This is the video I watched on how to make the horns - Cosplay 101 - How to Create Horns
Using the tutorial I decided that I was going to make my horns out of air drying clay and paint them with cheap dollar store acrylic paint. I would not recommend making large horns out of air drying clay. My horns where a very nice weight but any bigger and they would be too heavy and break.

Sculpting

These are the horns I sculped out of air drying clay that I bought from the Riot craft store. They are both approximately 15cm long. While sculpting I had to keep in mind how the horns would sit on my head. The horn on the left of the pictue would go on the right side on my head and the opposite for the horn on the right. The antle needed to sit practically straight on my head so I need to make the base flat. I made this horn by first making a straight pointed spike and then adding two branches of to the right, making sure to blend the clay together thouroughly.
The right horn was very tall and slightly thicker than the other. I wanted this horn to sit angled toward the back of my head so I needed to slant the base for it to sit properly.I then used a chopstick, copying the horn tutorial videa, and created a ridge from the base to the top.

Painting

I painted the antler with a cream coloured acryic paint and the other with a light blue. I had to make the out of a medium blue paint and white (approximately 2/3rds white and 1/3rd blue). I used this blue for the base colour and shadowed the ridge of the horn with the medium blue. The picute above shows me painting the horn blue and sanding the rough edges from the antler. I had sanded both to get rid of any roughness before painting.

This picture shows me painting the blue horn. For each horn I painted one side, let it dry, and then painted the other side. In the photo above the colour blue I used was too dark so I had to lighten it.

These are the finished horns. I left the base of each horn paintless because this would be rubbing againsted the wig and I did not want it to rub of on the wig. To completly finish them I put a layer of mod podge blue to prevent the paint from chipping and protect them from the weather.
Attaching

I did my research on how people attched horns to wigs and a lot where permanent but I did not want this. Some people used wood or sew on snaps but I tried something else that I think worked really well.

To attached the horns to the wig I used:
- 2x 15mm screws
- 4x screw washers
- 2x 3cm plastic wall plugs (cut down to fit inside the horn)
- 2x larger circles of plastic (circumference of the horn base)
- 2x sligtly smaller circles of plastic
- 2 part epoxy quick drying glue

I drilled a hole into each horn to fit the wall plugs making sure they where at the correct angle so that the horns would sit the way I wanted them to on my head.

The set up was like this for each horn:
- wall plugs inside horns
- 1x washer
- large plastic circles
- the wig net
- smaller plastic circle
- 1x washer
- screw going through all the pieces and wig net into the plug and tightened until sturdy

 

I tested how it would look and sit before I screwed and glued the plugs into the horns

 

 



This is what the underside looked like all together.

 

 

And finished! This is what the wig looked like at the end. I am really happy with how it sits and the weight of it.



 



Tomorrow's blog will be on the tail and how I made that.