Related Tutorial: How to Make a Wood-Like Shield for Costumes For this tutorial, we will be heat-forming a flat disc of EVA foam into a domed shape (like the Captain America shield). If you’re unfamiliar with EVA foam, I recommend you take a couple of minutes to learn the basics before jumping in. It’s not…
Related Tutorial: How to Make Claws for Costumes If you want to create talons that you can wear and move around with your fingers, EVA foam (or craft foam) will be the easiest material to use. You will create three separate pieces and create hinges around your finger joints so that the talons will easily…
Related Tutorial: How to Paint Faux Leather to Make it Less Plastic-Like You can use EVA foam to create a faux leather effect. It’s not going to be 100% realistic, but the overall look is still pretty good for costumes. While I certainly don’t recommend using EVA foam in any kind of everyday clothing, with…
Related Tutorials: How to Make a Snaggle Tooth How to Make Super Simple Fangs How to Make Fangs To make your tusks, we’re going to use moldable thermoplastic. This is a type of material that looks like small bead dots to start. When you heat them, they melt into a putty-like material that you can…
Related Tutorials: How to Make Large Tusks How to Make Super Simple Fangs How to Make Fangs Adding fangs to the bottom jaw is a little more difficult than adding them to the top. This is because most people have a slight overbite, so a bottom tooth that stands straight up will poke into your…
Related Tutorials: How to Make Fangs How to Make Large Tusks How to Make a Snaggle Tooth It’s pretty easy to create custom fangs for your next cosplay. The cheap, simple method is to use acrylic nails and cut them into points. If you want to create more realistic teeth, you can use a non-toxic…
Related Tutorial: How to Make a Unicorn Horn Attached Directly to Your Forehead For this tutorial, you use two strands of clay and twist them around each other to create the horn effect. This method creates unicorn horns that have a somewhat more cartoonish look, which will work well for a lot of anime horns…
Related Tutorials: How to Sew a Simple Fake Bow How to Create the Perfect Shoujo Style Bow This is not a tutorial for how to tie a bow, instead it’s for how to sew one in place so you can reuse it. It will create a bow with a visible looping effect, rather than the…
Related Tutorials: How to Create the Perfect Shoujo Style Bow How to Sew a Perfect Bow With Ribbon This method for creating a bow is not really trying to look real. It more of a 2-D version of a bow that looks great for costumes based on anime or cartoon characters. This type of faux…
Related Tutorials: How to Make the Perfect Witch Hat How to Create Foam Hats With a Sewing Pattern In this tutorial, I’ll be making a visor using EVA foam (or craft foam). But you can use the same idea to construct many different types of simple hats. This works best for hats that you can…