August 29, 2012

YuuriC - Lightning (FFXIII outfit):

I love to cosplay Lightning, she's such a strong character! I debut it at Otakon 2012. I worked on it slowly for months, a lot of hand painting done on the gloves and the skirt. I used no patterns for my cosplays. The difficult part was the bag. I looked at bags I owned to make the leg bag. The pauldron is made out of craft foam and I used shoe lace LED lights. The arm straps are also made out of craft foam. I must say this outfit is way more comfortable than Lightning's armor!

YuuriC - Lightning (FFXIII-2 armor):

This armor is made all out of craft foam, I wore it to Otakon 2012 and Katsucon 2012.

My first armor took me 6 lonnng painful months to make D: At the time I was a noob at making armor, but I learned a lot of new things. I don't know how I managed to make it without knowing anything about armor. My second version was a less painful experience, it took me about a month to make and I think overall I like how it looks:) For more details read my DA journal.

I don't attend contests, but my armor has been featured in PSM3 (UK Playstation Magazine), showcased at cosplay.com, and it got a daily deviation on deviantart. I'm happy to hear from many that I have inspired them to create Lightning's armor, you can do it with cheap materials. All you need is motivation and have fun!

YuuriK - Serah (FFXIII-2 White Mage):

From all the designs of her DLC outfits, white mage was my favorite. I hope in the future I could do the rest of them.

YuuriK - Serah (FFXIII-2 default outfit)

As of right now, Serah from FFXIII-2 is my favorite. She was a little hard for me to cosplay because I had a hard time getting into character.

I love my second version and it took me about a month of off and on work. I finished making the transformable bow-blade in 1-2 weeks. I wore this to Katsucon 2012 and Otakon 2012 and I had a blast! I'm so happy with the compliments I got c:

Helpful tips on how I made it.

I'm glad my helpful tips help many cosplayers and I'm an inspiration to them :)

I don't attend contests, but I got a Daily Deviation for my version 2 at Deviantart. One of my photos was featured in Cosplay Gen 05 and I got featured at PSM3 (UK Playsation Magazine).

Cosplayers: YuuriC and YuuriK

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