Covered in Glitter and Screaming

I have a friend that had never had a Halloween costume before. (Gasp!) I decided this needed to be rectified immediately. He said that if he did have a costume, he would want it to be Scorpion from Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. Reference photo from  here . Materials Aside from the shoes and black clothes, this is made almost exclusively of felt, foam, and glue sticks. Exceptions to that are four straps for the shin guards, one nylon belt with attached clip, some duct tape, an old thin shirt cut up to line the mask and bracers, and a smattering of velcro. The base yellow paint I had on hand from painting Hawkman , and the other colors are acrylics or water-based paints from the hundred yen store. Construction The vest is made entirely of felt. The pattern itself is pretty basic, just wide strips that drape over the shoulders. What is harder to show is that there is one layer directly over the shoulders and a higher layer that flares up a bit, with wire sewn into the...

For Dragon*Con 2013, I made a Girl Stinky costume from one of the later Sam and Max games. Clothes and Shoes The shirt is a regular plum-colored tee shirt. The pants were hard to find, but I settled on some violet pants from TJ Maxx that felt more like leggings and hemmed them up to be capri length. I couldn't find dark purple pumps that fit, so I painted a pair with Mod Podge and a mixture of acrylic paint and textile medium (half and half, to make it flexible). It probably took five coats to hide most of the brush strokes, and the final step was two coats of a spray enamel because the paint was a little sticky even when dry. Crown and Bracelets I started with a metal tiara, taped paper to it, and traced the shape. Then I held the reference image in front of me and drew the design on as best I could. I did half the swirls, traced them on the opposite side, and freehanded the horse in the middle. Same basic idea with the bracelets. I didn't ...