Acrylic Maleficent Painting

Hey guys, so now that I’ve finished my GCSEs, I can give this blog more care and attention as I feel that I’ve kinda neglected it in the past few months.

I have a few blog posts on the way and a tinge marker and promarker post which is highly demanded will be up shortly and sorry for the long wait guys.

So until those posts are finished, here’s a little taster of what is to come.

Maleficent has been one of my most favourite disney villains and when she got her own film I was made up and I just loved how Angelina Jolie portrayed her as a strong and beautiful woman, a true role model.

So that’s why I had decided to paint her in acrylic. I am going to be uploading a post on how to use acrylic and various techniques with them.

Thank you for your patience guys and your wait is nearly over for those highly demanded posts.

Frozen’s Anna Cosplay Tutorial -part 1

Hey Guys,  I’m planning to go to Comic Con this year with my sister and her friend, so I’m also planning to cosplay as Anna from Frozen to wear at Comic Con. If you are not familiar with the character here is a picture of her:

So, I got started on looking for a pattern for this costume and discovered very quickly that its not going to appear anywhere (including amazon!). And with this news in mind I researched how to do this costume and I discovered some very easy ways to create it.

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This Post is going to be on making the bodice and part of the skirt!
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Onto the Bodice
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So, Frozen is loosely based around the 1830’s in Norway. With this information in mind, I researched corsets that they would have worn at this time. I found this bodice which I used for Anna’s Corset:

I still had to tweak this bodice though, as Anna doesn’t have a clip-up front, so instead I put a zip in the back. So I started with a mock-up with this bodice and I was very pleased at how easy it was to make.

So, once I had the mock-up done, my step-dad took me to the local fabric shop and bought me a bunch of stuff, which I’m so grateful for, so I could get started with the real bodice. I got 2 meters of blue/black velvet, 4 meters of thick gold ribbon, an embroidery hoop, embroidery needles, pink and green embroidery threads, gold machine-thread and extra sewing essentials.

I got started with unpicking the mock-up and pinned it to my blue/black velvet and cut them out and sewed them together. And I added a zip!

With the basic bodice completed, I got started with the gold trimming on the bodice. I did this by folding my gold ribbon in half and ironing it. I then pinned it onto the bodice then sewed it.

Here, I haven’t put the ribbon on the arms but I did sew it on after I took this picture. Once I sewed all the ribbon, I started the embroidery on the front, I tried my best to try and get the designs symmetrical on the front. To do this I needed to draw the designs onto the corset with a tailors pencil, which you can barely see here:

Here is half of my embroidery done on the corset:

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Onto The Skirt
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I knew how to make a basic skirt, so I just added extra panels due to the fact I need to add box pleats into it (because that’s how Anna’s skirt is). I made the pattern on old paper table covers and cut it out and used it to cut my panels.

I then sewed the panels together, added four  3″ pleats and all that I needed to do for the basics was add a zip. Due to the fact I had no back seam I had to cut 8″ for where the zip would go and sew it into that. I am extremely pleased with how that turned out! After the zip sewed the waist band (but unfortunately I don’t have a picture of that).

Here is a picture of the skirt. Please excuse the photo quality of this picture and my Muppet T-Shirt haha.

I’ve not currently in the process of the cape or the blouse yet but they will be completed in the near future! Here are some pictures of my skirt and corset ( which are both not yet completely finished!):

So that’s it for today guys, I will update more regular now that I have projects up and running. Thanks for reading and if you have any questions don’t be afraid to ask!