The Costume Making Guide (Back Panel Copy)
Bring your cosplay dreams to life with your own two hands!
The best cosplay tutorial guide ever!
Get ready to impress ordinary mortals with your superhuman costume-making skills. You can do it no matter what your experience level with this first full step-by-step book on cosplay — with no sewing! Internationally known cosplayer Kamui Cosplay (aka Svetlana Quindt) shows you how to create costumes and props out of items available at your local arts and crafts and hardwares stores; turn foam into a realistic axe, create a breastplate from scratch, learn 3D printing techniques and use a glue gun to modify just about anything. You will even learn techniques for working with specialty cosplay materials.
Packed with more than 30 step-by-step demonstrations that teach the skills you need to bring all your favorite characters to life. Kamui Cosplay deconstructs the work that goes into make in a complete costume, from the first through to the final photo. Best of all, you can adapt every lesson to use in all your future fandom projects for video games, books, anime, movies and even your own original characters.
Includes:
Expert instruction for crafting shiny army and realistic-looking props
How to choose a costume and find good reference art
A short shopping list of necessary materials and tools for beginning cosplayers
A beautiful photo gallery featuring inspiring images from other cosplayers
How to grow your workshop, take professional photos, participate in contests and join the cosplay community
