Mistborn Costume

This is Vin from the Mistborn Trilogy of novels by Brandon Sanderson. She has magic powers, wears a mistcloak and leaps through the air weilding glass daggers.

Her iconic costume include a "mistcloak" which is a hooded cloak that is created from many strips of fabric sewn together at the top across the shoulders. When it blows in the wind it is like tendrils of mist. The world Vin is from is plagued by mysterious, thick mist which come out at night.

Here's a quick snapshot of the outfit underneath the cloak. I based it on the outfit Vin is wearing on the cover of the second Mistborn novel, The Well of Ascension.

Check it out, I found another Mistborn at Comic-Con! I dig her giant koloss sword. I think I need to make my own.

I tried to steal a giant warhammer from a guy I found the same day at the con but he only let me borrow it for a quick (blurry) pic. Apparently this was made by some guys in Canada who make awesome LARP weapons.

BTW, I got a picture of myself with Brandon Sanderson! More on that next week.

Waking the Dragon

I've been practicing my tablet drawing!

"LFG"

To create this picture I sketched it in pencil on paper first. Then I scanned it into my netbook, hooked up my Wacom tablet, downloaded GIMP and started inking over my pencil sketch. Note: You have to change the pen sensitivity from "opacity" to "size" in the GIMP drawing pen settings.

See this picture on deviantart

MiniComi Appearance

On July 23rd SmallRiniLady will be at the MiniComi at University of BritishColumbia in Vancouver Canada.

"MiniComi is a 1 day artists market inspired by those in Japan(eg. Comiket), held on Saturday July 23rd, 2011 in the Ballroom of the Student Union Building at the University of British Columbia. Artists will bring a wide variety of items for sale. This may include self published comics, doujinshi (fan comics), doujinSoft(we're hoping), prints, pins, jewellery, plushies and many other creative things that only artists and crafts people (crafty people?) can think of."


SmallRiniLady along with 2 other artists will have a artist table; group is called "Sample Wives"  ~giggle~
If your in the area, come check us out and say "hi"

Harry Potter Costumes

With complete excitement for the final Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Ava and I attended the midnight showing in our region in our costumes. 

Helena Bonham Carter made me love Bellatrix Lestrange.  I had previously went to the Harry Potter Exhibition and stood there studying this outfit.  Did you realize it's got lots of swirls in the fabric, I was amazed I found something so similar.  I also followed the pattern of her corset from photos online.

Ava pulled out Quidditch costume that she made from the earlier movies; with detailed observation you'll realize the Quidditch uniforms change later in the movie series.  She's got the padding and goggles and all.  Her gloves are actually SWAT repelling gloves, she can punch anything and not hurt at all.  Um... but we'll leave her to just catch the snitch.

We got really bored waiting in line so we went and had some photo fun.  While there we also saw someone dressed up as the blue Pixies, two petronuses, and an awful lot of Luna Lovegood with her Spectra-Specs.