You all should go and checkout episode 6 of the Diablo podcast, where they talk about Blizzcon, and intereviewed Mario on our Witch Doctor costumes!
(No, his feet aren’t painted, but this was a trial shoot to see how long it would take us to paint ourselves)
Also, yes, Mario is working on several recap posts of his costumes, but he is currently also working on several other commissions, and so he has little time to sit on the computer. I may try and get them written up for him.
Today Mario and I took a nice trip down to San Francisco to swatch a whole lot of colors for some friends. We had some greens, some blues, some purples and grays… and the people at Kryolan were very nice and didn’t even make faces at us taking forever and taking pictures and not even buying anything. (Not that we didn’t want to buy anything; there wasn’t anything that we actually needed at the time, and honestly we’re budgeting for a costume and a wedding here, so as much as I wanted to spend every dollar I had on all the gorgeous colors of lipstick and body paint, it wasn’t happening.)
We’ll start with the greens. We swatched all the greens they had on display to sample, and they were even awesome enough to bring out a tray of more green aquacolors for us to take a look at. As always, you can click on the photos to make them larger. All of these paints are in the Kryolan aquacolor line.
Without flash: 534, GR42 (available in both a cream that you can pump out, or a cake that’s water activated), 095, GR21, 512 Continue reading
Mario and I would just like to extend a formal welcome to the newest member of Arms, Armor and Awesome, Skylar of Lyeric Cosplay, who will be posting here as Lyeric! We’re very excited to have her on board! Her female Lich King costume was her first, but boy is it amazing!
We can’t say enough just how excited we are to have her on our team!
This is my last post on my series of how I made the female Witch Doctor Costume, and Mario is working on writing up his posts now so you should see them soon.
To find the perfect shades for our body paint, we went to San Francisco (which is just over an hour away) and, of course with our trusty iPhones out with the pictures loaded up, compared swatch after swatch of paint to what was in the picture. Mario’s turned out to be a mix of two grays: 501 and FF7. Mine was a red/brown called 046. It was easier to order these by calling Kryolan, because I couldn’t find one of the shades anywhere online. If you don’t have a store around you that allows you to swatch the colors for your body paint, then make sure to look online for pictures and videos of swatches that others have done, to see how the shade looks on different skin types, and how it photographs. Continue reading
The staff and dagger were really some of the easiest (but kind of time consuming) parts of the costume.
Honestly I thought I took more pictures, but again… I either didn’t, or I’ve lost them. Lame. Continue reading
The lady Witch Doctor has an awful lot of jewelry and accessories going on. She’s got several gold bracelets on each wrist, one on her left upper arm, two gold bands on her right leg, a bone and feather leg band on her left leg, two completely different sandals, two gold hoop earrings in each ear, and what we have been lovingly referring to as the ‘crotch skull’. Yes, it is that skull with feathers that is clipped to the …crotch part of the skirt. Oh, and she’s got really long nails, too, which I did not get any pictures of at all when I was wearing them. Lame. Continue reading
Our awesome friend Jenny of www.fiendle.com is having a special just for our fans! She make amazing custom plushies, drawings, clay creations, and even costume pieces, and if you tell her that Alice or Mario sent you, she’ll give you 10% off your commissioned order if you order (and pay) by the 25th of April!
She’s already made us our custom WoW plushies, this awesome drawing, and she’s working on our wedding cake toppers and another custom drawing! You know that we trust someone when we’re letting them make our wedding cake toppers!
So go on over to http://www.fiendle.com, and send Jenny a message for a custom item. Make sure to tell her we sent you!
That’s right, if you aren’t actively following Blizzard (or if any of your friends aren’t) to know when the tickets are going to go on sale, now you know!
From Blizzcon.com:
Saturday, May 21 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time
Wednesday, May 25 at 7 p.m. Pacific Time
Price: $175 USD each (limit 4 per household)
The mask really required a lot of planning and ingenuity to keep it light and secure on my head, while being under the wig so that you couldn’t see the strapping. We went with the inside of a construction helmet (the strappy bits) to keep it held on my head, and balsa wood for the mask and details on the mask. It was actually the most time consuming part of the entire costume. Continue reading
Alice Comstock as Witch Doctor from “Diablo 3”
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