2013 Pax Prime Cosplays

Easy to wear, fully effective Gamer Score for the Win

Found Jerry on the escalator and decided to get his attention with my Hammer.  

Comfy looking Scraggy

Simple way to keep your pass visible at all times

Trading Pins with Robert Khoo FOR HIS FACE

Gados

Wait that's a freaking person in there

Lolly Assassin 

Hipster Ariel, I love Flounder's glasses

ADORABLE SCARF, Ewok style

Simple but effective, love it PokeBall

Final Fantasy XIII-3 Music Director and Community Manager wanted to play with my Hammer

Blue Fairy from Zelda, so that's what she looks like

Look at that yarn work! so detailed

Awesome job dad, I thought it was weird when you were wearing a cape backwards, until you turned yourself into a backdrop for your Nyan Cats

Oh that Sim just walked out of the shower

1st place at the cosplay contest, HAPPY MEAL with Toy.  I voted for her too

Freaking # that is an awesome Borderlands Cosplay

Romantic Portal cosplay, love ya!

Mini Master Chief & Pirate Harley Quinn (ME)

Drawing with a Wacom Tablet

I forgot to post this! It's been hanging out as a draft since 2011. Enjoy!

Drawing digital art in Photoshop using a Wacom tablet takes practice. First you have to calibrate your pen settings, then you have to learn how to draw all over again. And then you have to learn how to use Photoshop. It is so hard to get smooth lines! But practice makes perfect, right? So I'm practicing...

I made this drawing of my husband's Night Elf Druid character in the World of Warcraft. It started out as a pencil sketch, then I scanned it into my laptop, hooked up my Wacom tablet and started inking, digitally.

Then I started coloring... yeah. I'm no Mike Krahulik, that's for sure. But I think it still looks kinda cool.

If you recall my previous post about sketching, this was the pencil sketch I started with.

Photography: Different Angle Different Photo

This weekend I did my first Cosplay Photoshoot as the Photographer.  So exciting.  I did it for an Assassin's Creed duo (more pictures to come in future posts).

I wanted to share with people a tip that my dear friend Hannah taught me a few years ago.

It's made a wondrous difference in the shots I love to show off after a convention.

When taking a photo of a cosplay, don't just do a picture from the front,

but using the same pose you can get a great photo but running around them

and taking the photo from a different angle.

In this technical age, we dont have to worry about wasting film,

so ~click click click~ away

Don't forget Angles can also be from above

or from below

Don't be afraid of taking pictures from behind,

It can create a mood you wouldn't have imagined

You end up with completely different pictures, even though it's of the same subject.

I hope my pictures provided a very visual example that backs up this tip.

Thank Sam (Boy Cosplayer) and Sam (Girl Cosplayer) for helping Sammy (photographer) with examples for her blog post.

You can find more works by Sam (Boy Cosplayer) at Planetside & AntiqueLace on Facebook