This costume is completely handmade from head to alien toe. I used mostly EVA foam and various techniques of paint, sewing and lots of cutting and gluing. This is a completely freehand. I shape the foam pieces by cutting angles into the foam then gluing the many pieces together like a big puzzle. I always … Read more
This year for Halloween I decided to make my daughter and husband Gandalf and Frodo. My husband made me an Eye of Sauron costume at the last minute so I would match too but it’s not pictured. The hobbit costume was not too hard. All the fabric came out of the remnant bins at 75% … Read more
This costume took my blood, sweat and tears to make. I never did carpentry before so it was quite a challenge. The moon was cut using a jigsaw and painted with house paint. Each gem was glued on individually and that took some time. A lot of trial and error was done before the final … Read more
On October 25th, 2014, I was transformed into Two Face from Batman. I got the inspiration from going to Comic Con in Chicago with my nieces a few months back. It was my first time and I couldn’t believe how awesome it was and all the cool costumes everyone went all out on. After talking to my … Read more
I saw the new TMNT movie and said I wanted to bring ninja rap back. I stared with my gloves. Took half inch green foam from Jo Anne fabrics and traced my hands out. I cut and sown them together. After I made sure it was a sure tight fit I stared to reinforce the … Read more
So Halloween is always number one on my list of “I have to impress everyone”. Every single year I completely freak out about not knowing what to be. This year I decided to be something completely different. Normally I am the basic cat or cop, but this year I decided to be Poison Ivy from … Read more
One of my favorite games is Battletech, which is a wargame played on tabletop. There is also a video game based off of the wargame called Mechwarrior. The community for these games is large and doesn’t lack in artistic ability, but had yet to produce a large, well proportioned costume. I wanted to change that. … Read more
I started with reference photos of the character, from there I made templates after taking my measurements, I made the templates out of construction paper, making sure I got the sizes correct before I started cutting the foam. Once the templates were made, I started tracing them on the foam. Using an exacto knife, … Read more
Krank Shaft the Steampunk Engineer with Achimedes the Owl Hello my name is Charles and I’m a Steampunk artist, I have created my own original character. Ever since i was a young boy i loved to make things from model planes to LEGO. Once I heard what Steampunk was, I knew it was me from … Read more
Planning this Ursula costume was extremely last minute but when you look at it, it looks like it took a lot of time. I made the costume in 24 hours. Trying to think of how to do the tentacles, I looked through the books at JoAnn Fabric and found the Simplicity 4043 pattern for mermaid … Read more
Spiderman has been my inspiration ever since I was a little tyke. I borderline model my morals after him. I exercise to get as close to doing what he can do, and I’ve always wanted an awesome Spiderman costume. Problem is, all the ones I would see online were uber expensive. At the time I … Read more
I am in ZTA at UF and we have about 3 socials a month, which gives me the perfect opportunity to dress up and get creative. We recently had one with the theme “Space Jam”. Three of my friends were bunnies with the Tune Squad jerseys and I chose to be Marvin the Martian. I … Read more