Yuuko's hair pieces

I've been working on a small project trying to make a hair piece for my Yuuko cosplay that will be debuted at Kumori-con 2013, this August. Since I wasn't able to bring her to Sakura-con I'm trying to add a few pieces to the costume to really make it something special  I'm also going to work my arse off on finding good photographers so I finally get some updated pictures on this blog and my DA.  Last time I wasn't able to meet up with any of them so I didn't get a single picture. Which I'm okay with. Sharon's dress was just....ugh.


Any who.


I'm still trying to decide which (Water lily VS Butterfly wing) I'm going to use so I'm going to make both. The other night I started on the butterfly wing. At first I was going to just make two separate wings then I was going to make one big butterfly and then I finally did this...

I added both pieces together making a 3D effect. I'm still trimming, painting and figuring out how I'm going to put the hair pin on it, although I'm pretty sure I'll add it onto the point which is shown on the left side. Then just hid that under the hair of the wig.

Template made by LINK

I started by using this template that I found on DA, I posted the link for you to use as well. I traced it by taping tracing paper onto my computer screen then carefully tracing the template with pencil.

This wasn't my original, I made a smaller version that I have yet to use. Once traced I taped it onto a piece of craft foam and cut that out. I tried many things and some (most) failed so I decided to go ahead and do it a different way in order to get those details. So I took the tracing paper, cut the little pieces out and came up with this.

Sorry for the mess, this piece has been used. Once it was cut I taped it on and carefully cut into the foam. This took a long time since I had re-sized the wings and made them smaller. I had to re-do this piece to make it smaller as well. Once that was done I started playing around with the pieces and came up with the 3D model. Yuuko wears something similar shown here....

                                        I may add chains later. Just cause I love how they look.


For the water lily I'm still not sure how I'm going to make it or get the petals to curve upwards but I wont start on that until I'm done with the butterfly wings. I may use the butterfly wing and not the water lily but I sort of want to test my skills and try new things with craft foam so I may just do it for fun and to keep my hands busy at night.


So that's about it for now. I'm going to go write my novel for a bit then start working on my petticoat which is almost done! I will be coming up with on more post today. It'll be something new and fun that I'll be starting and doing every weekend.

What is it?

Sporadic Sunday!