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Dragon Kid Cosplay - Full View

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Here's my favourite cosplay picture from Otakuthon 2013's masquerade! I am impressed with the results, masquerade pictures seem to improve every year!

Here you can clearly see my armor and one of my favourite prop, Dragon Kid's Dragon Baton (or whatever it is supposed to be named). as well as the flashy colors and many more details that just weren't visible in my last picture. On the other hand, some pieces were probably on the verge of falling off, but they somehow managed to stay on (until they fall off after the masquerade. lol).

Due to the fact that this cosplay is very hard to wear, I probably won't be wearing it again any time soon, so it is nice to have a very good picture of it! Thank you for the pictures, =maverickdelta!

:iconrose-pastel: Cosplayer and model
:iconmaverickdelta: Is the photographer

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Construction notes:

My favourite part of this cosplay was probably making the shirt and the shorts, mainly because pattern-drafting was involved, which let me take the entire control of how my garments would look. I've drafted everything myself, tested out the patterns, butchered my prototypes and modified my patterns until I obtained the wanted look. All the details on the shirt (the dragon, the tiny wings, the motifs, etc.), altough not really visible in this picture, were made using machine and hand-made appliqués, and the red borders are hand-made bias tape. I've also made the kind of red cords Dragon Kid as on her shirt. There are also cushions inside her pants to make them round and fluffy. 

The socks are pretty straight-foward: I've draped the fabric around my leg and added fabric motifs on it. There is also hand-made elastic piping on top of them, and the little knee armor things are separate pieces that I've pinned on the socks with safety pins to try to avoid making big holes in my socks.

The leg and arm armors are made using various paper mache recipes, craft foam, carved styrofoam balls and tons of modpodge. The tubes on them are actually regular, transparent plastic tubes you can buy at hardware stores that I painted using yellow glass-stain effect paint. The red cushions are made using foam and red vinyl fabric. 

The staff was probably the easiest part; I've re-used an old broom stick, to which I paper-mached two dragons. I've painted the dragons a golden color and withered them with black paint to make them look more realistic. The red part of the staff is painted using metallic paint, and the black parts are electric tape (I tough that it added a little more texture to the staff). 

The hardest part to make was, without a doubt, the entire headpiece. Even the way I made it stand up is weird. The two huge panels are made using foam circles, plastic tubing and LED light garlands (the kind you can get in the wedding section in craft stores). The decorations on them are made using cloud clay, craft foam and decorative curtain fringes. They stay on my head using wire from a coat hanger and some kind of felt hat I found in a dollar store, which are placed under my wig. I had to remove both panels several times because they were extremely heavy and had a tendency to fall off if I wasn't careful, so I wouldn't recommend using this method to anyone! The wig itself was made using one long green wig, which I cut short with the help of a friend to be able to use the fibres for the ponytail (it is a separate piece). 

If you have any questions about this cosplay, feel free to comment or send me a message, and I'll do my best to answer you! :)
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