Lisa Lou Who

Happy Thanksgiving! (Live Stream today!)

Did my American friends have a happy Thanksgiving? What's your favorite Thanksgiving food? Mine's sweet potatoes and pie!

I just got home last night from being is Wausau WI (look it up-- it's smack dab in the middle of Wisconsin where cheese roams freely) where I had the most butter-filled Thanksgiving dinner of my life!

I'd love to do a stream today, but I only just woke up!! So would 5pm CST work? If not many people show up maybe I can do an evening one thi...

And the winner is....

Maleficent AND Doctor Strange!! Which is great, because I want to make both of these. It'll be interesting to work on two costumes at once, but because they're two completely different styles (armor vs embroidery and sewing), and it'll be nice change of pace when I switch from one to the other!

Tonight I'll be getting Patreon rewards together for past months, as well as edit a Moxxi lingerie photo to hopefully post! I'm gonna try to do a shoot in a cosplay I don't have many p...

Help me pick my next cosplay!

I will LITERALLY create whatever cosplay has the most votes! Vote on this survery for me please!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DR7S55Z

Korra (Hannah Alexander) -- With only a few changes to make this design more recognizable as Korra, I already have this costume started!

Doctor Strange -- Obviously I would make a fem version, but DAT CLOAK IS FAB and I NEED to create it!

Sailor Mars -- I re...

This is important

As I fly home I want to tell you why Ive been absent. I just finished a very crazy cool project with a company. I've been working 12-16 hour days for the last week and I honestly don't know when I'll be able to release info on it, just know that you guys get some exclusive Intel that I'm a part of something truly cool and I'm really excited to share it with you when I'm able. This selfie is relevant to it too

That being said, I'm back at the grindstone and will be working on ...

On a scale from 1-10 how is your pain?

More Witch Mercy! I used Stella Chuu's Witch Mercy wing template to make these! Although the pattern was wonderful, my prop making isn't too great and these wings are mediocre. I hope to remake them soon with clear acrylic and a better paint job!

#first!!1!! and the mentality behind it

I was hoping for Witch Mercy to be a cosplay I would take my time on, and make over a few weeks/months, and instead I made it in its entirety in one week, with three of those days being out of town.

I think the reason this is is because I was starting to see other Witch Mercys pop up, and once I see too many of a cosplay and feel it's 'overdone' I lose interest. Cosplay is different for each person. I get asked a lot during interviews and such WHY I cosplay. For the love of the charact...

My servants never die!!

I have just slaved away the last four days finishing this costume!! Hand-dyed fabrics , resin casts, pvc wings. . . Oh my! !

It's getting there!

This is becoming my favorite thing ever

Spoopy

Between Overwatch matches, I'm making progress on yet another Overwatch cosplay! I hope to have the accessories done ASAP for a Witch Mercy lingerie shoot this week!

Live stream now!!

I'm gonna hang out for a bit on a Youtube Live with just you guys for the next little bit =3 come say hi!http://www.youtube.com/user/LisaLikesCosplay/live

By the way...

You guys CAN message me on here just to chat! The whole point in Patreon is to be able to give you a guys a more personal look into my life, and although I might not answer questions right away, feel free to email me on here! I'm usually harder to get a hold of on other platforms, but I check my messages and answer as much as I can here because YOU GUYS ARE SPECIAL OBVIOUSLY.

Patreon Hangout on Sunday?

Okay, so last time I tried to do a hangout, I got confused by Youtube Live because I'm the least tech-savvy person on the planet! BUT I think that's still the best route for a hangout. SO I'll figure it out by Sunday, get it set up, and we can hang out at 1pm CST? I'll be working on Witch Mercy =3

Feeling inspired

Soooooooo I know this is quite expected for someone to yell FIRST!!!!!1!! when it comes to this Mercy skin, but I'm so highly highly inspired. Which, I gotta say, has been lacking lately. I've been rushing my cosplays and I really want to delve my heart into a project and maybe spend a few weeks creating it instead of a few days :D

I've been making a lot of my own original designs lately or taking liberties with character design. I think the last cosplay I did super detailed and 'perfe...

New York Comic Con review and my sick pythons =3

I've spent the last week preparing some spoopy costumes for your guys that I wanted to surprise you with (probably with a frightening 'BOO' or something. I would spook you so much), with the plans to shoot today, but the photographer had to cancel due to a family emergency. So what do?! I'll write about my NYCC experience and how I made my Gaston cosplay, as well as get Patreon rewards out!!

I can now definitely say that NYCC is a cursed con for me :D NYCC was my second convention ever...

Geared up NYCC

As I juggle signing Patreon prints and writing up a tutorial on how to make your own Murloc hat, I'm making a new costume for NYCC! Any guesses?

I'm sad I had to scrap Sephiroth due to worries of NYCC weapon rules, but I'll save it for a future con soon :)

Okay. Figuring things out for the live stream today!

My stream was supposed to start five minutes ago, but I sat down to do a Google Hangout On Air only to find out that that no longer exists! I'm trying to find an alternative easy-to-use streaming option for you guys! One sec...

Good morning!

This is literally me right now (sorry it's blurry, I don't know how to photo)-- but today is jam-packed with busy-ness!

First off, it's October 1st and I just want to THANK YOU, from the bottom of my heart, for being here and supporting me. I have been to a convention EVERY SINGLE MONTH this year so far except for January and June, and I was able to do this because of you guys-- I'm able to meet you, and make new costumes, and make opportunities happen because of YOU! So really-- I rea...

Oh so you're self-conscious about your body? The art of making cosplay flattering

I'm going to have three posts today! One blog post (now), one tutorial, and one surprise one! So get ready :D

Some of the skinniest people I've ever known have STILL been self-conscious about certain parts of their body. It's in our nature and is not something we should deny, I feel. 'Loving every part of ourselves' takes too much energy and I'd rather spend time progressing than learning to love every single fat roll on my body and get stuck there :D

The animated characters we ...

Patron rewards!!

ALSO btw I'm shipping out August Patron rewards this week =3 And want to do the Google Hangout soon-- would Saturday afternoon work for most of you?!

Makeup: the key to cosplay transformation

Ever since I started cosplaying, I've felt good makeup was the key to a memorable cosplay. The first thing anyone naturally looks at is your eyes/face-- If those don't stand out, your face can get drowned in your own cosplay and forgotten, which is never good!

Over the years, I've been trying to develop my makeup skills. Before, I didn't know what contouring was, and sometimes I wore way too much makeup, other times not enough. Finally, four years later, after watching tutorial after t...

Gearing up for NYCC!!

Here's a hint for one of my cosplays for NYCC!Which is coming up really quick here. Time to panic @_@

I've taken the week off from most everything. I think I'll let this break extend until Saturday or so just to let myself mourn the passing of my pet bird, Figlio. Even now as I write this I'm tearing up. Life goes on, the world keeps turning, but it's sad knowing my little baby is gone.

If I can make it to Blizzcon, I have a cosplay I have partially started that will be dedicate...

Patreon stoof!

What would you guys like to see from me??! The con season is over and things are technically slowing down and I wanna focus heavy on YOU GUYS!! If I made videos what would you wanna see?! Also, I'm doing a shoot next weekend for August Patreon print rewards! What cosplay would you like to see a new shoot of?! I was thinking Viking Elsa?! But I'm up for anything!And I get to do more Polaroids! Woot woot! I'm having so much fun throwing costumes on and doing those!Also I dunno if the internet h...

Where's all the snow when you need it?!

I'm traveling to my friend Chris' place next weekend (InfinitySpiral Photography) to shoot my Viking Elsa and Sylvanas cosplays! I actually have a lot to do to finish this costume, so I might try getting on a regular schedule next week and stream it!

Frost Axe Tutorial!

I've been gone for nearly a week, but now I'm back to kick some butt! Let's start with a tutorial of how I made my ice axe! Let me know if you have any questions -- It's quite a tedious process and is quite hard to squeeze into 7 minutes of video!

Aaaaand we're live!

Come hang out for a bit if you want! I'm only gonna be on for a little bit since I have a buttload of work to get done before I leave for San Francisco comic con tomorrow morning!https://plus.google.com/events/c2eshpr2vja2ajrim4vptpfpj6s

Live chat a little delayed

Hey guys! I got home late from work and need to handle some stuff before I'll be ready so I'll jump on in the next half hour or so! I'll post a link here when we're live!

Live chat tonight!

I'll have my live chat tonight at 6pm CST if you wanna hang out while I craft for everyone $10+ here on Patreon! I might try something other than Google Hangouts so we'll see how it goes!

In this picture you can see the two cosplays I'm working on and the book I'm currently reading!! Haha!

Learning Quickly

I can't BELIEVE how much of a difference a few months can make in learning and creating armor. I just took my Sylvanas out of storage and it looks like poop in comparison to the Viking Elsa I just made -- mostly in the finishing and small details, and I created these costumes in the same amount of time! I think the best experience was making Tracer, since she has such clean even lines in her futuristic armor, there just isn't room for bumps and mistakes!I'm really REALLY hyped for Legion, so ...

with 20 minutes to spare! @_@

I am officially entered into the Twitch Creative cosplay contest! I'm so so happy I entered-- it really challenged me to make something really different and new and put my best foot forward! I'll be making a full video of my progress work soon, as well as a video that fully explains and is a full tutorial on how I made my axe!(also, I realize now that there is an option on Twitch to make a highlight video, but didn't realize that until I was submitting everything and didn't have time to figur...

Viking Elsa is complete!

A quick edit before I head to bed. I'M SO DEAD. This costume drained me because every moment was a challenge for me, and then in the end I was so close to not finishing. There's still a lot of things I'd like to add to the costume, as well as do a better job next time on the wig and makeup, but for now, this costume is 'complete'!In the morning I'll be taking a lot of detail shots and throwing them up on Facebook because the Twitch contest recommends you have an album of closeup shots, so I'l...