Emily as Seth Knightlord Part Two

      Emily visited for a weekend not too long ago for a photoshoot! I had wanted to do her makeup and take photos of her Seth outfit since I felt that I hadn't had a chance to capture it as much as I would have liked! Thankfully, she was able to make it down to my house (we live states apart!!) and we had quite a bit of fun for the weekend ~

    First we have the before and after! If you aren't amazed by how she got all that thick, long hair under that short wig, you should start being amazed!!
I didn't want to cover her beauty mark - the character may not have it, but I just never wanted to cover it or edit it out; I like it too much!

      All the photos for this set are taken right in my backyard. There isn't any commotion and no one gets in the way of the shot so I figured it'd be the best place to start! 

     I'm the editor and photographer of all the photos, but I didn't have to do much work - she already looks so good!

 I tried to have a mix of seriousness and playfulness with the photos to exhibit the characters personality and Emily went along with it very well! I didn't have to give much direction and she wasn't afraid to give me her ideas which I love in a model. 













    Examples of some of the more playful shots we took! We have blooper shots of course, but these I really loved her attitude and we had fun taking these ~

 

     This is probably one of my favourite shots out of all that we took. She looks stunning and I was able to edit my house out of the background so I hold a certain pride with it. I would really love a print of this one.

            I think this is one of the best looks at her eyes with the colour change - she had requested I edit her eye colour for Seth and that was easy enough, but it wasn't as prominent in other photos because the focus was her full body instead of her face. This is also a good example of the serious side of Seth!

A few of the more regal shots were she held herself very well and posed very nicely for me. I'm glad we got enough pictures of her with the hat because problems arose with that later in the weekend lol

A nice shot of the back detail on her coat - I was so excited when she showed me that she could wear the coat on its own - I'd be in it all the time if I were her hahaha















     Overall, I think this turned out to be a beautiful shoot and it was so wonderful seeing Emily outside of a convention!
For the rest of the photos, go to my deviantart
photos will be posted there soon!

Love you guys and thanks for reading!!

Hachi <3

Videos, Tutorials and Cosplay

     Yeah about those videos.... :/

     I have videos recorded regarding FOAF's upcoming plans and a tutorial/watch me do this makeup video for my own personal YouTube. I would have them posted already, but my phone, being the only source of high speed internet, says the files are too big and cannot be posted without wifi. I don't have wifi...thus my dilemma.
     For this blog, I'll probably do step by step in photos with pictures of my products which honestly will probably work out better for those interested than the video of me doing it. It took me about 6 and a half minutes and there wasn't much in the way of actually tutoring any of you. I sped it up to about 3 and a half minutes, gave it a little music track - I was pretty proud of it lol
   Anywayyyy ~ for the step by step photos, I'll be sure to take my time. I couldn't tell you why I rushed through it - I can speed it up so the video is shorter etc etc; I suppose it's just my own habit as I'm usually speeding to get ready as to not keep anyone waiting. The video I recorded may still be posted on my personal YouTube, but a nicer, more "professional"(lolwut) video will probably be done at a later date as well as more of my tutorial ideas being posted here photo by photo.

     As for FOAF (Freaks Of A Feather), as much as we want people to help make it a bigger group, it really has been just me and Taka (I guess that works out for Trinity Moon Commissions - our little duo work set up). We have had a decent amount of friends becoming interested in commissioning us and joining in on current and future plans which is great! Now if only they would give us a definite yes or no so we don't get too excited and too ahead of ourselves!
     Ohayocon 2013 is closing in and within the coming weeks, I will be purchasing fabric to begin work on Patchouli Knowledge from Touhou (along with Taka's fabric as she's a bit short right now; she'll be paying me back later). One of our friends has commissioned Remilia Scarlet and Taka will be taking that up while I talk to one of her co-eds about a Jet Black (Cowboy Bebop) cosplay for Whittcon in March. QUITE A WAYS I KNOW! But best to plan much too soon than much too late, right?

     After Touhou - Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil, we want to work on costumes FOR Whittcon - Taka's probably going to do a Sailor Gijinka group with the "Remilia" as Sailor Zapdos (I believe?) and another friend as Sailor Moltres while she's Articuno. I wasn't quite sure I could swing that many costumes in a year as we hope to attend Colossalcon for the first time and are definitely attending Ikasucon 2013, I decided that I would work on the costumes we intended to wear for Colossalcon from the series:

     (~*^*)~ digimon!! As of late, Taka has been extremely excited to begin work on Sakuyamon from the Digimon Series. I was stumped for a while before deciding on Wizardmon (just this past weekend actually). The character has been portrayed with varying shades of hair colour so I was thinking of purchasing a burnt orange wig to be later used for Fujimoto from Ponyo. If I work on Wizardmon for March AND June, I'll be saving myself personal work AND money as I'll be eliminating one costume - an idea that has been increasingly appealing to Taka aside from the fact she's unsure she'll have the money to work on Sakuyamon around Whittcon time.

 

      I think the most difficult part for Wizardmon will be getting the small details like that of the inside of the coat and the zippers etc etc along with getting the hat to stand just so and have the cape cover my face in a certain way. I'm most worried about the designs on the lining, but that's to be thought upon on a later date ~
     I hope to be better with progress photos and fabric shots with Patchouli and maybe even Jet since I'm excited to work on him and will be asking around for help with the boots and arm, but until I get the fabric, I won't really be sure! Until then, I'll just keep telling myself to photograph progress so I can continue writing and hopefully review some wigs, fabric and maybe even contacts soon *^*

Watercolours

      Ahh - I've recently purchased new brushes and card stock along with a new set of watercolours. I've been contemplating what I really want to do before getting down to it (and reading up on how to use the watercolours to the best of my abilities since I'm more used to acrylics). I have a general idea, but just haven't gone through with any of them - lack of motivation I guess.

     I have been doing many fashion sketches lately, just to scribble outfit ideas down, and I've been trying to draw people of all sizes in the little outfits I think of. I guess it is mainly due to the fact that I myself am not thin in any sense of the word and don't want to be a hypocrite - if I were to only draw thin models in my work, I feel as though it'd be taking away my whole view that fashion is for everyone (like plus size magazines who showcase their clothes on thin models - not very accurate lol).
This sketch is really just anatomically gross. I think it has to do with the long arms and seemingly short legs (or just that it was a badly drawn sketch ghgh). This is a traditional piece that I just sketched in marker last night; I took the photo with my phone then sketched over some of the lines in photoshop.
     I have been really loving the idea of red blazers recently and honestly want to own one myself lol I've also fallen in love with frilly shirts 'old lady' shirts.

     This is a drawing of a friend's character; her raised arm is off, I believe but not too badly, I hope? She didn't request this or anything, I just felt the need to draw a woman after drawing so many men. I'm personally pleased with how she turned out regardless of some mistakes - I was in a ruffle phase a while ago and just loved drawing lots of folds. I tried to portray the chest piece of her dress as lace - I hope everyone who has seen her has caught on to that fufufufu.

     For a while all I really did was digital work, but my monitor is so off with it's colour (I need a new monitor lol) that I just haven't been using my tablet as much. No one really sees my traditional work because it doesn't have that great of a quality (i.e. the first picture lol).

I've been sleeping so late into the day that I'm surprised I get anything done - o - I don't feel motivated ugh ugh

I need to record a new video for youtube account I share with a group ... I just have no idea how to keep the video relevant to the group lol
Maybe I'll do a tutorial of sorts someday.
I may blog a review of products for this blog - I don't know, a bunch of ifs lol