/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>8543897
that gundam helmet is so badass, holy shit.

to contribute there's LA cosplay con,
it was in june before AX this year, so i couldn't go, so not really contributin' at all, really.
linku - lacosplaycon.com/

>>8525461
>>8525493
>>8525642
MY PEOPLE
I'll be doing this version of Suna (with the lay) for ALA, a little casual/closet cosplay but i don't care, It's ridiculous how much i love Oremonogatari.

I'm having trouble learning to sew, it's really embarrassing. I've always made my own costumes, but they always have to be tailored/ corrected by the seamstresses i work with at the theater. i feel like other, more talented individuals learn much faster than at my snails pace. Reapeatedly fucking up a cross-stitch over and over and over. they're so sweet to help, but i feel it's a little patronizing. "aww isn't that cute, the soccer guy tried to make a coat" or "what did you fuck up THIS time" (not mean, just cheeky teasing)
at my rate, i will never do anything complex or impressive because suck. im not one to accept limitations and that puts so much pressure on anyone.
>>8545162
Are you going alone? I think it takes a lot of gusto to venture out in costume alone for your first time, feel proud. i repeatedly take deep breaths throughout the day to relax my muscles, face, and generally not be the anxious guy i am. it helps, the goal is relaxation and fun, i try not to forget it. it is....40% effective? i'd say? made up numbers?

>>8518337
I'll be going as pic related, as i look and talk just like him.
don't think there'll be enough for a meetup, but we could get a beer or something with the pirate dudes.
GENCON FUCK YEAAAAAAAAAAAR

>>8512380
third for bromarine switching to warmachine

WHYYYY bromarine
>inb4 gamesworkshop
whyyyyyy

>>8512311
I'd say so but have no say,
i would like to see more pictures and discuss future plans.

>>8512138
I also cried, a good cry, not petty over the hotel room or anything else just "yes you beautiful woman thankyou" kind of cry.

As an art graduate, your bittersweet moments will become great memories of expression later. soak it up with your brain sponge. im being weird, feeling too nostalgic.

also, ive given this advice before but im really hammering it home. Art shit is never finished, just abandoned. and ive come to love that those things, with their flaws, affect people.
what a kick.

>>8512088
I also had a theory next year would be the "near-anything goes" con 2016 because of it being the last year.
ALA before it moved was pret-tay rowdy, which was a different kind of fun.

i have a million of these.

>fanime 2009, first A.A. table
>dead last in the hall, no mans land
>realize this but flip it positively, im a nobody, i'm a "shallow end of the pool" kid of guy
>set up my noob pvc wrack to display my oil paintings of bebop, outlaw star, eva, pleb stuff. (though still good, no hate)
>get many passers by, but at that stage of their parade i cant imagine their eyes or hearts were still interested in seeing basically oil studies of cells enlarged
>start wondering if i can pay for my hotel room, and refuse to get food because maybe somebody would see something that caught their attention
>around 3 an older woman approaches the table and looks at my work and makes kind of a "mmmmmeh" sound
>"nothing good?" i say pretty nervously and noobishly, THATS how you sell art kids, you sheepishly admitt you dont believe in it.
>"i like doctor who, do you take commissions?"
>"yes!" i say totally lying
>"i only have my sketchbook and stadler's, is that fine?"
>"can you do a dalek?"
>"...yes?"
>"a dalek from a one point perspective, 8X14 at the top of a stairwell.?"
>".........yes?"
she says she leaving the following day, and that i had to have it ready by tomorrow around noon
>"how much?"
>fuck. i had no idea at the time, how to charge a commission like that so i said
>"....hundred...?"
>"make it good"
>she just leaves down the walkway i didn't have her name or anything and im like "sure ok"
>i knew who, but drawing a dalek proved pretty challenging with graphite and keeping it clean
>fucking angles and halfspeheres on top of angles
>it looks like shit
>visibly embarrassed by monstrosity
>next day, she shows up, present messy smudgy mess.
>"im not going to require you to pay for this, ive been working in oil for the last year and i was unprepared for blah blah" just spaghetti-ing all over the place.
>she stops me, and hands me a crisp hundred dollar bill and says "you dont just invest in the work, you invest in the artist."

and i made my first sale.

and now for something completely different

So i have a few questions, I've never been to Otakon which is sucky, but i've wanted to for years. They're now clearly going through a transitional phase, so the cost of traveling across the country seems a bit shaky. so here's what the future looks like

>2016 last year in Baltimore
>2017 shaky transition to dc con center however swanky pic related
>2018 fresh foundation, resurgence in attendance, all around perfect time.

2018 looks good, but that's three years and I'm impatient. Going the final year and at least seeing the supposed shitty baltimore con center would be nice. i don't know, otakon is a fickle mistress.

>>8508854
that's the RE4 merchant right? except with a choice selection of amibos

>WHAT'RE YA BUYIN?
if you meant the cosplayer, no idea.

>>8492881
during nycc 2011, some guy sperged out at jewel in the firefly pannel. he started talking about her personal life and husband and everyone felt really weird.
generally, most audience questions make me grind my teeth.

>this thread

>>8489511
generally, find one's the require particepates to bring one. that's more of a swinger's thing, but it's a good rule. traps count at cons so..befriend an easy going lolita.
if you can find one, they're gems.

>>8489484
i may have some good stories, but i'd love to hear some..?
I had a very intense pillow fight with an I-no, dizzy and chipp once

and then there was an accidental thing playing kings cup with some cosplayers from the fanime 2010 pokemon gathering.
my hand was raped by a vagina that day.

i've never written them up, so give me a moment to relive it, but hoo boy.
hoo boy.

>>8486878
shut up fuckwit,
this is grieving thread you anal fissure, ill post whatever i goddamn want.

>>8485016
i know, its weird

these are great.

ripip Iwata

i did not draw this, but i think it's gold
>dat pikachu

disturbingly low amount of freedom ITT

>>8477353
>>8477356

check em >>8477344

are we being invaded by britain?

GO HOME NIGEL WE WON

man,
star wars fireworks, conan shenanigans, got trolling, alan's con man panel, great art everywhere
Must work out press thing for next year, i've always wanted to cosplay pic related.
would be complex but great...

>>8462513
Very fancy.

>>8462506
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2015/05/la_convention_center_design_competition_renderings.php

Fancy.