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Bare Bones WIPs

I was VERY productive this weekend! I started a whole new costume too, it was nice to be busy and motivated. A friend wants to go to the Ren Faire and so I finally have a DEADline (ha ha) on something I've been considering making for a while now. Any guesses? 👀

I'll probably wear this for Gen Con as well 🤔

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MORE! Content! (Also probably the third time I've used this joke).

Wig and make up test for Evelynn, FINALLY. The wig is really nice for the cost, since it isn't a lace front I was a little worried I'd have a harder time hiding my hair but this works quite nicely for how comfortable and easy it is to wear.

I filmed some dumb tiktoks while I had the outfit on too, check those out 💜😈 And more of these selfies are in the Flickr galleries.

Plan is to go visit Chase and get some nice photos of this with a friend who has the Ahri outfit. I'm br...

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Alignment Charts? Tier Lists? What is this, a Band Wagon?

(Except for Oko... He's on the Banned Wagon for life)

I realized I had enough MTG costumes alone to make a 9x9 Alignment Chart and this is a meme format I adore. There's SEVERAL cosplays that didn't even make this list... Sorry Jaya and Ral but I apparently have a character type and its somewhere in the Chaotic Good to Neutral zone XD

I ALSO will admit I love doing tier lists. I might do a few live stream Tier lists and I'd love to hear your ideas if you want me to cover any topic...

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Twitch Give-Away Alters

It took FOREVER to track down these cards but I sure did get them out FINALLY. For those who didn't see them on twitter, I figured we could show them off here as well.

I ALSO found a bunch of my other alters from earlier last year that we can start giving away! We'll start posting some of those here too, stay tuned 👀 Woo give-aways! Stay tuned Rampaging-Ferocifriends.

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Wigging out!

It was stormy and gray put so I hid in the basement like a gremlin and worked on the Evelynn wig 💜😈

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Painting Stream

I was asked by a friend to do a walk-through painting workshop for a party and... since I'd never done one before I hopped on twitch on Friday night to talk my way through the process live (with some help, obviously). I painted the angry little Niv Mizzet Tappy on Friday and the silly octopus Sam I did as the walk-through demonstration at the party.

Trying to figure out what to do with the sample Tappy doodle, would folks be interested in it as a give away prize?

Didja enjoy th...

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MORE (Content)

(Dont mind me, I still haven't unpacked or moved the mirror away from my PILE OF BINS XD)

I received this cosplay a while ago but I didn't get the wig in until just recently so I was finally motivated to make a few adjustments. Full disclosure I bought a LARGE version of this cosplay, sizes are fake and made up and you should never let the tags on an outfit define how you see yourself.


NOT to say there is anything wrong with Large clothing sizes as a rule, obviously. I run be...

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Happy Thir(ty First) Impact

I bought myself some dumb Eva costumes that I've always wanted and they even arrived on my actual birth-DAY! Wigs definitely need to be styled up but everything fits and Chase is very excited to get pictures.

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Jhoiride Playmats!

Proxy Guy did some STELLAR work (of course) on playmats for the Mythic Frames campaign and they're available for purchase. Hopefully I'll be able to get a few for give-aways here but in the meantime I wanted to show them off none the less.

The sleeves are now available for open pre-order too!

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The START of... a Strixhaven Project

Hey fam! I added a HUGE bunch of photos to the flickr gallery (like 400+). Rampaging Feroci-friends will have access to that shortly as soon as I update/re-post that master link page. The recent batch of photos was from a Strixhaven Project I had half cooked up in my brain after getting all the awesome scarves in the mail, when I got offered a more-official cosplay contract from WotC... The Adrix and Nev costume build sucked up a HUGE amount of my time and I never finished the other two schoo...

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Upcoming Cosplay 👀

A friend asked me if I wanted to a cosplay with her, but she was worried we wouldn't be able to find wigs. I JUST SO HAPPEN to have some 👀 Stay tuned.

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Vicky Unicorn Pictures

We had both Chase AND Victoria hanging out for unicorn pictures, and Vicky sent all of her's over. She might post more on her Twitter (@VxIxCxKxY6) and IG (@barnesvictoria10) and you should definitely go follow her on all those accounts for more of her fantastic work. The rest of this set is in the Flickr galleries, a post with the updated link went up a few days ago.

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The Unicorn Lived in a Violet Wood...

More Unicorn pictures. These are all flowers from my garden and I was very giddy they matched so well. Chase is also a great follow for you IG users, he IS on twitter but not a whole lot (IG @nude_carbon_studios, TW @NudeCarbon).

I'll have the album up for $5 Rampaging Feroci-friends soon!

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MORE (content!)

Of course the new Evelynn costume arrives the week AFTER my photographer just visited for pictures. Such is life... I need to do a few updates to the costume anyway? I got a large bc I wanted to make sure my shoulders didn't hulk out of the jacket. I probably could have gotten a medium? But it looks like everything will be easy enough to take in a half inch or so...

I am also... Still waiting on the wig 🙃 One day.

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(Definetely not) The Last Unicorn Pics

Chase is such a wizard, these lights look so rad. I think in retrospect I would have gone lighter on the eyeshadow sense these pictures ended up being so dramatically lit, but hey... You're always learning new stuff. I love all my flowers :D

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Weekend with Chase teasers

Friday night's new light experiments 👀🦄

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Thinking about Her...

New Evelyn costume (and the rest of the wig 🤣) is on its way 😈

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Mythic Frames Stretch Goal 👀

Good God Damn Proxy Guy is the coolest ❤️💙

This will be hitting the Kickstarter/Campaign page shortly.

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What are you STUPID?!

Already shared one of these but I like the sneer too. Might have more Evangelion content soon, I have photographer friend Chase coming to visit so we're definitely gonna take... pictures of something? I'm honestly not sure what yet but it'll be fun.

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Some Chandra Teasers

Hiya folks! I got invited to be involved in very silly little project and I thought it'd be fun to show off some of the B Roll of me being a doofus. This cosplay is so much fun to wear. I'll make sure to share the finished product when it goes live >:D

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Kasuowig Box Opening/Review

Fun updates! Wigs arrived. I've never ordered from this seller before, so I thought in addition to showing off some of the haul I'd write up some quick notes on the product and service quality.

I placed a large order at the end of March. The website is very clear that the wigs ship from China, so I was anticipating a large wait time (the seller estimates 20-40 days standard shipping). With supply lines still recovering from the pandemic I mentally tacked on another week. THEN the Suez C...

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START YOUR (VALUE) ENGINES

We got there folks! Not that I had much doubt in my mind... Proxy Guy is beyond talented and he pulled out all the stops for this.

I'll be getting a few sets of these and we'll bust em up for giveaways to Patrons eventually. I don't know quite what the timeline looks like on production but you can all DEFINITELY expect some chances to win a small set of these for yourself. (They'll also be available for large market purchase after all this kickstarter hubub is sorted).

I'm SO EX...

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Why You Save All of Your Patterns (Fish Professor Ed.)

Here are some WIPs of the costume process for fish prof. The top/shirt design is actually based entirely off of Jhoira's tunic since I already had built those little epaulette-things into the sleeve (the robe style closure in the front is just some creative layering top-stitched down to the front panel to make it look like it wraps around). The turtle-neck is a separate piece entirely, so I can get the shirt on and off over my head, and pattern came from Jace, Unraveler of Secrets. I just sim...

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Mythic Frames is LIVE!

The Mythic Frames Kickstarter is onto the next part: picking designs! If you've pledged make sure to pop on over and pick #Jhoiride!

https://www.mythicgaming.com/campaign/

(Or pick multiple? Or pledge in multiples to us 😈 But really, you can't go wrong there's so much cool stuff xD Huge thanks to the support from everyone that has got us this far!)

I will say IF we go over 200 Proxy OF COUR...

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FISH HAT FISH HAT FISH HAT

Making this ridiculous fish hat was honestly my favorite part of this build. I was PRETTY confident the plan I concocted initially would turn out and I'm sure glad that it did on considering the schedule I was on. It's all EVA foam of various thicknesses (2mm to 5mm) cut on various biases to produce all those angles. Then it gets hit with a bunch of layers of plastidip for priming and a few different colors of spray paint to lay down the basic colors. Painting was finished by hand with acryli...

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Making A Fish Face

Here's some process pictures of the make up for Adrix & Nev (Adrix OR Nev? Who knows). It was definitely a learn-as-you-go experience, much like the first time I did the owl make up back for Kaldheim.

As always, the most important thing is getting some high-quality and skin-safe paints to work with and spraying sealing spray A WHOLE bunch between layers. I used kryolan products for this.

So far I've been a bird and a fish and a tiefling social media influencer... What's next...

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Spooky Scary Bird Lady (Vicky's Studio Shoot)

I got to be a spooky bird owl witch lady....? Something like that. My wonderful photographer friend Vicky needed a model for a studio shoot, I was happy to oblige knowing the results would be pretty cool. I didn't expect them to look THIS cool though 0.0

She asked if I could do another face full of owl makeup and I'm pleased to report it was quite a bit easier and quicker to do on the second attempt (plus I've got more colors to play with now :3) My make up brushes are DEFINITELY due f...

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Adrix & Nev & Adrix & Nev

Have some full shots of Adrix or Nev (or I guess I posted two pictures so it could be both of them and one is in each shot and... this is gonna get really confusing x_x) These are the raws from my photographer Vicky and I'm working on some edits (mostly white balance) with some other folks because Vicky has finals to work on and she already helped me so much just shooting these.

AND I've got the make up process shots to post AND I've got some dumb videos to post on Instagram AND I'll p...

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Something Fishy from the Weekend

Here's me and my wonderful photographer friend Vicky! Pictures will be up on twitter and IG soon (within the next two weeks). I took a few process pictures of the make up as well. Expect those too!

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WIP Teasers!

We've got the photoshoot scheduled for Saturday, I'll snap a few selfies. I'm AMAZED this project came together so well... Considering I bashed it out in a month. 

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