/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10277375
L comes to mind.

>>10277375
Hank Hill

>>10277375
L
Spiderman
Ryu

Deadpool

Ryu from Street Fighter. You can get a white karate gi from any martial arts shop. Or if you are feeling up to get get a red one online and be Ken.

Cody from Final Fight. That’s pretty easy. Unless you got Guy or Haggar with you, don’t be surprised if no one knows who you are.

Should be doable

Scout from TF2

>>10277495
Thats because Cody’s signature look is a striped prison uniform

>>10277460
Deadpool in himself is so prop heavy

>>10277743
but they're all props that are easy to obtain. You don't need to be a master craftsman to buy a bunch of knives and guns and a couple of swords.

None. The simpler the cosplay the harder it gets.

okabe from S;G

It's ez as piss

80s US GI/90s pog/jrotc
>pasgt helmet with woodland cover
>woodland bdus
>panama sole boots
>ALICE webbing/LBV/LBV-E
>flak jacket (optional)
>M16A1, M16A2, M4 clone (no attachments other than m230)
>1911 or M9 pistol

basically just hit up your local surp/thrift shop and cobble together something and make sure it isnt anachronistic. lots of different units in US military and it basically everyone has used everything at some point

Anyone from the main cast of gravity falls

>>10277741
I think a white shirt, blue jeans, and white sneakers are easier to get then a prison uniform from 1910.

Going as him for DakuCon

A lot of characters from ghibli are good sewing projects for beginners

>>10277375
Get any form of casual outerwear like trucker hats, cargo shorts, running shoes

Then get a toy pokeball, pokemon plushie

Congrats, Ur a random pokemon trainer

>>10290550
only good answer in this thread. I wouldn't recommend "low effort" and overly simple cosplays composed of normie clothes for beginners because that's a slippery slope into shitty closet cosplays. if you wanna pull of super simple cosplays you need to pay a lot of attention to cleanness, decent makeup and hair.

Idk if this is a good thread to ask, but if I wanted to do a Fl4k cosplay (borderlands 3)-
Is that cel shading effect a realistic goal?
How would you dirty up/season and accentuate cloth colors? Airbrush? Soaking in pigmented water?
How do you make cosplays that aren't sweaty as fuck to wear?

I have painting experience but not cosplay experience, so I get how lighting and color interact but textiles are confusing to me

p3 Joseph Joestar. Its pretty closet and common (he was the most cosplayed JoJo character at my last con) but still simple to put together and wear around all day.
You can even use El Wire for Hermit Purple

>>10277506
I did a closet cosplay of Ness that cost less than $10. Most people have blue shorts, white socks and red shoes. Just had to buy the hat and a striped shirt from a thrift store

Military stuff. You either go so full tacticool or so few gear that it look laughable.

Just buying a three piece suit and making a mask, doed that seems to cheap?

>>10277375
I can tell you that making a sailor collar can be fucked up in various ways. I have tried.

Team Skull Grunts are incredibly easy. Most people dont even wear wigs.

>>10299827
Bonus points: buy an alolan ratatta plush and velcro him to your shoulder or something

It's amazing at how some cosplays could seem so incredibly simple, and yet still have something about it that makes it complicated. Pic unrelated.

I would also suggest something insanely popular, because you're able to get high quality replicas and premade wigs. Like Sailor Moon, Naruto, Bleach, ect. The series that were the highest selling in their field at some point.

-Pokemon player characters
-most gravity falls characters
-the lesbians from life is strange
-riverdale
-Jessica Jones
-any anime with a school uniform

>>10277375
What do you suggest for a skinny 5'3" guy that has at least some muscle definition?

>>10309119
You might have better luck in the suggestion or help thread. Do you want a costume recommendation where you can start to learn how to sew?

>>10309136
I mean I can do the basics, but I'm certainly far from beeing a pro on the sewing machine.
So far I mostly changed the cut of existing clothes to fit me better, but I stayed away from more complex stuff.
Plus there aren't many male characters in roughly my height I could cosplay as.
So I would either need to pull of some generic character or hope that I find one that is male, my height and somewhat looks like me.

I've seen random people accidently cosplay both of them many times, so it must be easy.

Most of the random trainers in the pokemon overworld areas

>>10316672
whoops

>>10309153
oh hey i was looking for a sorta casual low-effort cosplay, thanks for reminding me of android 17
don't know if i should wear blue contacts though

Characters in realistic anime, school students, drama series, sports, etc. Most of my cosplay are stuff I can pull out of my or someone else's closet. Think Takumi from Inital D, Light from Death Note, or Konata from Lucky Star. Avoiding cosplay with special make up or crazy hair styles or colors should also help.

>>10293432
> that's a slippery slope into shitty closet cosplays
Thank you so much for saying this.

>>10277375
I've seen a lot of cosplays in the past few years made out of uniforms people got from army surplus stores. If you have the money for it it's both easy to assemble and looks sophisticated enough to where people will think you tried.

Cosplay for when you look like no characters at all?

>>10277375

I hate how wearing glasses limits my options for masks and helmets. I'm considering contacts because of it.
I'm currently toying with a design for a helmetless visor that will have a strap to keep it in place and supports to keep it further from the face enough to fit my glasses. Anyway, I'd like to know two things. First, is there a way to harden paper and make it look smooth like plastic? Second, I want to go for a light up look like in pic related. How do I do that? I want the transparent part to be brightly lit but also not blind me.

>>10321027
Either suck it up and just cosplay who you want and ignore the haters, or cosplay characters that wear a mask or helmet. Or get super crafty and do Godzilla or other kaiju.
Personally I go with option one because I’m never going to be a moe anime girl, but all my favorite characters are moe anime girls and I’ll be damned if I can’t cosplay my faves.
>>10321212
As far as I know you can’t do that with paper, but you could make a visor with plastic or resin. For plastic sheets, you’d need a heat gun to shape it (and maybe a bowl in a shape smaller than what you want so it turns out smooth), you’d also want to file the edges somthey don’t cut you and may need varnish to polish it after to make sure it’s actually transparent. With resin you’d need to make a mold of the shape you want, then file/sand out imperfections after it cures and then polish to ensure transparency (this sounds easier than it is, resin is super finicky and could bubble it will be extremely trial and error at first).
I recommend searching YouTube for some tutorials, there are some professional level cosplay tutorials on there and it’s where I learned most of what I know about foam crafting.
Also, contacts are never a bad idea for cosplay purposes. Just make sure you listen to your optometrist about how to care for them and don’t wear them for longer than recommended.