Meet War_Cosplay

Name/Handle:@war_cosplay

Location:Usa/Nyc

Favorite cosplay and why: Favorite Cosplay General Klytus from Flash Gordon My favorite as a kid. And that Costume took years to plan and is not complete. I wanna redo the Metal Mask

How long have you been cosplaying? Cosplaying for 10 years

Do you create your own or have it commissioned: I Commission almost everything.. I do Repaints and use People from all over the World for Projects.

Favorite thing about Cosplaying: Favorite thing about cosplaying is Bringing Characters to life from Movies, Video Games, or Cartoons and trying to Be unique in the execution.

Next Convention:Next convention probably Dragoncon in August.

Favorite Experiences Cosplaying: Best experience in Cosplaying was Getting Stopped by Jason David Frank for a picture at a convention and wearing a costume and Not knowing it was him till seeing him post the Pic on Instagram

Advice for New cosplayers: New Advice for new Cosplayers is Start Small Then work your way up in terms of Level of Cosplay. Work within your Budget. Don't set goals to high at first to avoid frustration and and expectation. And most of all Have Fun. And pick cosplays you are Passionate about

What Did You Do During Quarantine? And During Quarantine it Gave me a break from everything. Allowed me to rest, save money pay bills and Relax. After cosplaying for 10 years going to multiple Conventions it was kind of nice to take time off.

Waterbending Cosplay: Based On Katara From Avatar The Last Airbender

Waterbender Cosplay inspired by Katara

Research & Inspiration

I wanted to find a costume that when I teach sewing/cosplay at conventions, was comfortable and easy to transport. Katara in Avatar the Last Airbender, learns and teaches the group in a lot of ways, and I felt like this was a great teaching cosplay!

Kimono Fabric & Trim Choice

There are a lot of different fabric colors and options for Katara's water bending kimono, I decided to go with 6 yards of light blue Crepe Scuba Knit & 2 yards of white Cotton Broadcloth. I purchased the fur trim from Joanne's 2 yards.

Kimono Pattern Drafting

Daniel took brown drawing paper and held it up and drew the pattern for the kimono. He also drafted the patterns for the sleeves. It worked perfectly.

Kimono Construction

Basically what I ended up doing was sewing the back to the two sides. Added the sleeves. I took Bias tape and went around the neck and sides of the garment so the trim was white. We also added velcro to the top that overlaps, so it stays in place. The belt we measured to my waist and added velcro in two different places so it stayed in place.

The white fur trim I added all around the bottom of the kimono.

Final Thoughts

That was it! I'd say overall it took about 5 hours max? Personally, I'd like to make a few more of these easy to construct Kimonos to wear around conventions. They're very light and flow very nicely.

Completed Cosplay

Katara Inspired Cosplay

Photos by Chayla Photography

Meet Punzziella!

Name/Handle: Punzziella is my Instagram but most people just call me Amy.

Location: Illinois, US

Favorite cosplay and why: Scarlet Witch! I started cosplaying her in 2015 so it's been a character that's grown with me.

How long have you been cosplaying? 2021 will be my tenth year with cosplay

Do you create your own or have it commissioned: I've done a bix of both when I started out. My scarlet witch coat is the one piece I fully commissioned that was made just for me by a costumer who now works on falcon and winter soldier and other comic book projects. Other costumes I had bought I noticed I ended up not enjoying them as much as the ones I make myself so now everything I prefer to make or alter myself.

Favorite thing about Cosplaying: My favorite thing about cosplaying is doing it with my twin sister! We're incredibly close and fandom has always been a huge part of our relationship. Especially Marvel! We love doing duos like captain America and Bucky or Anna and Elsa.

Next Convention: Hopefully C2E2 in 2021 will be able to happen as scheduled in December.

Favorite Experiences Cosplaying: C2E2 2018 It was a very rare time that i completed all 3 costumes on time for the con! One of them was a Captain America Build I had planned out for years and it finally was able to take shape in The Infinity War costume.

Advice for New cosplayers: Don't feel like you have to do what you don't enjoy! I used to always pick costumes and try to accomplish all the wigs, the armor, and the sewing myself. Eventually, I came to really love sewing, I don't do so much like to make props. I started only sewing and I found the more I honed in on one skill the happier I was with all my work.

Has Cosplay Helped You Through Quarantine: I do spend a lot of time at my sewing machine during the quarantine. I had started living action Cinderella hoping an enormous dress would keep me busy and I build the hoop! To discover I was going to need a lot more mock-up fabric on hand to draft all those skirts. All the fun Wandavision costumes have given me the mojo to build some costumes with a little more instant gratification

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