Cosplay work - Millenia's shoes

Now for the next step to complete my Millenia cosplay, her shoes! <3

One of the first detail I took attention on was her shoes. I think they are lovely. I can’t really describe why I love them, but I think the design’s unique and stand out her whole design yet it fits so well. Shoes of a character in general are often not the detail that stands out the most in a character’s look and you are often more drawn to another detail (like clothes, headwear, hairdo etc.). So I was excited to make the shoes!

First I bought a pair of shoes at Tradera to start as a base and that looked most similar to Millenia’s I could find. They looked kinda worn out, so to make them look newer I used a black spary color.


Then I cut them! Since it’s made of leather and I could not fit my feet in them when they were zipped. I had to cut off the whole zipper to make it work.

Now it’s time for a change! I sewed two pieces of purple fabric for the shoes, and then fitting the fabrics by using hot glue. I was surprised how easy it was and I was very satisfied with the results.



Next, to make the upper parts of the shoes (dunno what it’s really called in English? XD or in Swedish for that matter, haha). I used foam to make them hold and look like Millenia’s in the official pics.


But before I placed the foam inside the fabric-parts, I cut them on the back. Then I sewed on the yellow margins. The last detail on the upper-parts was the shoelaces. Then it was done, soon it’s time to put them on the shoes!




I added yellow lines and margins by sewing and glued them to place. Later I sewed the upper-parts on the shoes. Wow, now we’re talking!



Millenia’s shoes also have a mark on the backside of the heels. To make them, I first made the mark in Photoshop, printed it out on paper, cut out the mark, placed the paper on each heel and the painted yellow color.


I think they turned out cool!


Almost done! The final part for the shoes was to make the red jewels or whatever you call them. Again, I had a problem to find any decent reference of them, so I made them look like the earrings I did earlier for the cosplay since I think they look very much alike. When they were finished I added them to the shoes.



Now, they are finally complete!


I must say I’m proud of them. I don’t think I could have done a better job than this. :D

I have also done her stockings. Next time, I will tell you about them! Until then, here’s a sneak peak:

Cosplay work - Earrings and necklace

During these days I’ve been doing some cosplay work. Yes, for two cosplays actually I’m planning to wear during convents. One is for Uppcon this year and the other I do just for fun and I’ll see when I will be finished with it. I’m going to show some work on the first one.


I’m planning to cosplay as Millenia from Grandia 2 at Uppcon. When I played Grandia 2 I fell in love with her. I love her design and her character. Those shoes, her hair and everything else! <3 I also like her personality. She is mostly cheerful, fun, and had her evil, insane side. But deep inside she’s kind and cares for those dear to her. What also makes me like her is how’s she’s changing during the gameplay. Well, I will not spoil too much if you’re planning to play the game, haha. I can recommend it, it’s pretty good and fun to play I think. Anyway, I just knew I had to try cosplay her when I got to know her.

So here I’m going to show you how I worked to make her earrings. It was really hard to find any good reference on her earrings. At first I thought the design on the earrings were poor and didn’t like them so much and just wanted to remove them. But I found some competent images and try to draw her earrings with some touch by me.


My sketches of the earrings.


When I was done with that, I started with the process. I used baling wire for the base



Then I used a clay called Fimolera (Fimo clay) bought on Panduro. Really easy to use and to shape. Here’s what they looked like first when I started with the red clay..


..Yellow..


..and finally purple!


Then they went into the oven and voilá!


I’m rather happy how they turned out. I was first afraid that they would be too heavy, but they are alright to wear. Maybe I will paint some color to take away the discolored areas, but only if I have time left. They look good anyway. ^^ Next up is working and finish the shoes!

And now, for another cosplay. To be honest, I started this last summer and have been working on it when I had time left and felt like to work with it. This is a necklace I’m working on.

Here’s how I started. For this I also used Fimolera to make beads, and used a needle to make the holes for the thread to go through. The white balls are attached to each other to hold together the necklace. As shown in the pic.


And ta-daah! The results!



Sorry, didn’t take as much pics as I did with the earrings. However, I’m satisfied with the look. I didn’t thought it would be so easy. But it took time, oh yes. I made every lil’ bead by hand and they are a lot!

Now you probably wonder what this necklace is for. Well, I'm going to let you guess that.. ;) Until next time… see ya around!

Cosplay of Jade from Mortal Kombat 9

I never would have thought that my next cosplay after Krystal would be something like this. I blame it all on my friend Hanna. After she and Lisette cosplayed as Mileena and Kitana on a convent named Närcon this year, she suggested that we should go as a group of Mortal Kombat characters to Gamex. I decided to join for fun, the more the merrier right? ;) And the girl character I like the most in MK is Jade.

It's not because she's green I chose her? Naaaah…

I did this cosplay mostly just for fun. It’s not the best cosplay I’ve done I think and there are things I could have done better and more careful, but the results looks pretty good for not struggling too hard, haha. X) I’m very happy with her gloves. :D The boots are bought and I just remade them to look like Jade’s by painting them and made her jewels out of clay. I “cheated” with the golden parts on the costume by coloring them instead of buying gold fabric. I blame it for being lazy and cheap, besides I had a lot of paint left after I did Krystal. The costume didn’t cost me so much, about 400 kr (€ 44). You can see on the last photo in this entry I colored myself brownish just like Jade is in the game. First, I will show you some progress pictures!







And ta-daaah, the results!


In my opinion I don’t make the best Jade because I’m way too short to be someone as tall as her. XD I looked hilarious among my MK-group and they all called me “lil’ Jade”. But then again, this was just for fun and to join the group.

We made a cool gang and there were many people at the event that took photos of us. We even got interviewed by PowerGamer, GamingGrannar, Svampriket and Press2play (Check out the interviews by clicking on the links. It’s in Swedish though). I never thought we would get so much attention. Really nice that many people liked us. :) We were supposed to have Lisette as Kitana in our group, but unfortunately she couldn’t come. We’ll definitely get together again and take some more photos.

Emelie as Skarlet, Hanna as Mileena, me as Jade and Spettan as Sonya Blade.

Will tell more about the event I went to later!