Wonderful Memories

    These are some of the earrings I made because they were inspired by the Tokyo Revengers animation. Previously, I had made Izana, Kakucho, Mitsuya, and Hanma. This time there is the addition of Kazutora in this post. When I uploaded these earrings on e-commerce, someone asked about clip earrings (clip earrings can be used for people who don't have piercings in their ear). So because of this matter, I re-photographed the product to be posted on e-commerce. 

       Ah actually, I had planned to buy the clip earring at first. Unfortunately, the item I ordered was wrong and I ended up using hook earring for my first post on e-commerce. I'm glad that the second purchase was successful and the item I ordered came according to the descriptions, so here I can re-photographed these products.

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    I was finally able to make one of the character costumes from Genshin Impact. Yoimiya from the beginning of her appearance had already stolen my attention. I actually have an orange fabric like her design. That's why I finally decided to make this costume. Sometimes the way I choose a cosplay character to play is quite unique, I often match the fabric / wig that I have, so I can cut the budget enough to create a new cosplay project.

    I think this cosplay project is one of the most expensive for me. Actually, when you viewed from the outside, the costume is not too fancy or even seem ordinary but what makes it different is I tried to  maximized the type of fabric I used on this project. Some of the fabrics I use are premium dutches, glitter jacquard, and fabrics that have texture and there are nylon threads that are visible if exposed to light.

    For Yoimiya's clothing motifs design, I do it manually and spend up to five days (sometimes it cost 4 hours a day or even more). When compared between sewing work with manual painting, of course you will spend more time on manual painting. I did it happily, because it had been a long time not drawing on the cloth.

    The thing that makes it difficult in this cosplay is the accessories section. I had quite a hard time with Yoimiya's hairdressing and also I spent quite a lot of time choosing the type of strap I used for her leg accessories. It's nice to see everything get done well and the part I couldn't finish was the vision, the bracelet, the tattoo, and the arrow.

    The thing I can't forget when working on this project is the work on the large spaghetti obi. I spent almost 2kg of dakron to fill 4.5m red jacquard fabric and 3m white motif cotton fabric. The two fabrics above must be multiplied by two, because this spaghetti is wrapped around each other.

    The fun thing is working on the bustier part. I use stagen (commonly used by birthing mothers) with a length of 10m fabric, I can use it for bustiers, arm accessories and thighs.

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    Onmyoji is one of the mobile games that I love. Initially interested because of the details of the characters' clothes in it, then instead continued the game for several months. Unfortunately when I started entering the office world, I couldn't play this game intensely and decided to stop. This happened at the end of 2018.

    In December 2020, I plan to realize Onmyoji cosplay. One of them is SP Guardian Ubume. This character has intricate details and is also beautiful, so at the beginning of 2021 I tried to contact the fabric printing place to ask the price of services, the type of fabric and the length of the printing process. I feel lucky to be able to realize this cosplay in the midst of pandemic conditions. I have to thank the client who entrusted the costume work to me at that time, because with that income I was able to start this project.

    Actually, I just had the idea of working on September 2021. Quite a long time from the original plan of Januari 2021. With the fabric material that I have at home, I'm not barely spending a penny here. Only the fabric of the skirt that I bought new, this is because my fabric is not long enough so I decided to buy it online (we're in the middle of pandemic and this is a better choice in my opinion bcs there's restrictions in my region).

    I really like these clothes, I tend to like layered and complicated clothes. Of course, the effort to make clothes like this is greater than others. But it's worth the end result. On the haori, I use furing in it and it's quite complicated to work with. To be honest, I didn't use any patterns at all in the work of this costume, I just used an approximation and immediately carried the fabric I had. It's nice to be able to work on a costume without making the pattern, because it saves more work time.

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YouTube Video of SP Guardian Ubume Costume: https://youtu.be/Wt-27PgIWIc

 RECYCLED BEVERAGE CAN - ALUMINIUM

    I got Inspired by the Cosplay de UMIGOMI Zero competition to recognize unique activities using cosplay to address the issue of ocean debris (umigomi is a combination of the Japanese words for ocean (umi) and waste or trash (gomi)).  This competition is used as a medium for raise awareness of the issue of ocean debris and contribute to its reduction from the unique perspective of cosplayers, and to give exposure to superior endeavors being carried out around the world.  I thought about using an unused beverage ca to be accessoriess material that have selling worth. 

    I saw many cosplayers from Indonesia who participated in this competition last year and won prestigious champions. For me, this event is one of the efforts to help the world with the sign of creativity to make unused goods into high-value goods. I've made several accesoriess that came from unused beverage can.

Tokyo Revengers Inspired Earrings

THE FIRST ATTEMPT FAILED and THE NEXT SECCEEDED

    Last year I tried to make earrings inspired by Hallyu Wave (Korean inspired earrings) with asymmetrical shapes and take the original color of aluminium (beverage can material). Unfortunately, I shut down the project because it didn't achieve the end result as expected. I used to love buying earrings with simple and elegan style because they look beautiful and charming. At first, I got influenced by the Hallyu Wave through korean drama also kpop idols, and then I had this thought "Why not try to make my own earrings?" I finally thought about making it myself and it wasn't easy.

TOKYO REVENGERS INSPIRED EARRINGS

    So this year I tried again, trying to make my own earrings with a different inspiration. I previously got inspiration from the Hallyu Wave, but now it comes from Japan with the anime production. I've watched and read manga from Tokyo Revengers and can't help but feel my curiosity in making it into accessories. I made two types of accessories, namely key chains and earrings.

    At first I was afraid of failing again, because the previous one I had spent quite a lot of paint on and the results were far from good. But this time I tried to maintain my spirit by making accessories from my favorite characters in Tokyo Revengers: Izana and Mitsuya.

    I had enough trouble making accessories belonging to Izana (key chains and earrings) because the red paint I used took about 3-4 days to dry thoroughly. Plus the gold bezel on the earrings is also a unique thing but also complicated to work with. For Mitsuya, I'm having trouble with the white lines on his earrings. As for Kakucho there are no significant difficulties. Plus I made Hanma-inspired earrings.

    I'm quite happy with the end result of the accessories I worked on. The experience of working at a jewelry company turned out to be enough to make me have a little sentimental feeling. Color, size and meterial greatly affect the taste / image that you want to give to customers.

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YOUTUBE (VIDEO FOOTAGE): Tokyo Revengers Inspired Earrings (Eco Friendly - Recycled Beverage Can) - YouTube

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COSTUME DESIGN

    Early on I worked in a theme park, I designed some kind of costume. Back then, I was just starting to design digitally through Photoshop by using mouse pad, but now I started to use pentab and it's more convenient to do. Designing is not easy, sometimes you need to re-describe the concept given by creative and after so have to be discussed again to find the same goal. Some of the designs I made had both positive and negative impressions. These are some designs that I dislike the most, either in terms of design or when it is finished.

GLASS CHARACTER

    This design is made for women as well as men. This costume is inspired by people who perform on stage in glass costumes. If it is considered in terms of design, actually I think these designs were good enough because I got positive comments both from the boss and creative team.

    The thing I dislike most about this costume is the process of making it as well as the finished result when used by the cast. At this project, I got responsibility to find the vendor to create this costume after finish designing. To be honest, I choose not to work with friends I've known for a long time. I don't know, sometimes a lot of bad things happen and this is one example. Bad things happen when I in contact with my old friend to work on this costume. There's some misunderstanding on both party that lead to chaos in production process. Luckily I have a good senior and boss, so I can deal with this problem with a cool head and finish this project pretty well.

    The thing I'm worried from this costume is that there are glass ornaments with pointed ends, thus endangering the cast who wear these clothes. I feel very guilty about this and because this misunderstanding caused a terrible thing in some ways.

CHEERS DESIGN

    This costume has some design changes from the reference, sometimes I'm asked to design with colorful themes with complicated designs, sometimes also back to designs that are not too complicated and tend to be ordinary. This was the finished result of a wide variety of rejected designs and I finally managed to pass a pair of designs for cheers. In the original design, there is a logo on the middle of the top. The colors of this design are adapted to the zone the cheers are located in.

    The thing I least like about this costume is the final product (worn by cast). Actually, a bad thing happened when the laundry team accidentally made a mistake when washing this shirt. These clothes shrink so they can't be used and need to be repaired immediately because they are part of the show. At that time the cast was very angry and even led to a great war of two divisions.

    Finally after getting extra care to this clothes, all the costumes can be used again. I think this accident can be a learning process for a wardrobe team as well as laundry team to support each other. Tbh,eEach costume has a different characteristic of fabric that are used to support the design so that it can achieve a beautiful shape when worn by the cast.

CHEERS DESIGN

 KANCOLLE: SHIMAKAZE COSPLAN

    Years ago, I have Kancolle cosplay plan on my list. I've watched the anime and decided to take one of the characters to cosplay. I actually bought the wig and made the clothes, but for one reason or another, this cosplan did not run smoothly and I decided not to continue this cosplay.

RENSOUHOU & SHIMAKAZE'S SHOES

    I'm actually not very good at crafting with eva foam because I'm used to making small-scale crafting such as head accessories, brooches and so on. Furthermore, I ventured to create a cosplay prop for Shikamakaze - Kancolle. Here's my first attemp to create Rensouhou (three gun turret familiars which originated from Shimakaze's three twin 12.7 cm/50 naval gun turrets). 

    I made Rensouhou from scratch. Initially only capitalized recklessly to make cosplay this property. First, I made the pattern first, then cut eva foam according to the pattern. Next unite the eva foam pieces to form the archetype of Rensouhou. The next step is to coat eva foa with waterproof paint all over the surface, wait until it is dry and can be coated several times if you feel something is less covered. After drying, it can be continued by coloring with the basic color of Rensouhou with silver metalic paint color. Once completely dry, you can coat the entire surface with a clear colored spray paint.

    So this time, I will show you the finished product of my crafting. Just reminder that I'm just a beginner in eva foam crafting, if there will be shape or color that does not correspond to Rensouhou, pls be nice to give me advice/ comments.

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