A lot of jewelry will have gems and jewels inlaid as part of the design. The good news is that you don’t have to go out and purchase expensive gemstones to recreate the costume piece. Instead, you can create fake gems yourself using resin. Related Tutorials: How to Make Jewelry With Craft Foam How to…
EVA foam is a common, lightweight material that is used for all kinds of cosplay props. You can get big sheets of a flat, foam material. Then you’ll cut it and use heat to shape the EVA foam into three-dimensional shapes. After that, all you need to do is paint the final product. (learn more…
For this method of creating fake freckles, you will use a stipple sponge (often used for stage makeup) to press a pattern of freckles onto your face. It’s best to use cream makeup for this method, but you can also get decent results if all you have is powder makeup. Related Tutorials: How to Create…
The idea of this method of creating freckles is to flick powder onto your face to create a truly random array of dark spots. You’ll get the widest variety in freckle size using this method since the powder can fall into very fine dots or larger spots. In my opinion, this is the method that…
When you wear a bright and unnaturally colored wig with a costume, the natural color of your eyebrows will probably look a little awkward. To give your cosplay a more realistic look, you’ll want to use makeup to color your eyebrows the same color (I mean, you can dye you eyebrows if you want to,…
Unless you have very light eyebrows to begin with, the only way to truly match your wig color using makeup is by completely covering your eyebrows and redrawing them in a matching color. This method is easiest if you have an eye or brow pencil in your desired color, but you can also use eyeshadow…
There are countless methods for creating boot covers for your cosplay. For some, you glue (or otherwise attach) the cover to the base shoe. However, I prefer to make covers that are completely detachable. Since I expect to wear these shoes for hours at a time at conventions, I like to make boot covers that…
Hip armor is a fairly common detail in anime and game character designs. It’s one of the easier types of armor to make since you can easily create mock-ups with paper to test out your design. Sometimes the hardest thing is figuring out how to attach it to the costume since the armor seems to…
Many anime and video game characters have a chest plate as part of their costume design. This tutorial will go over the basics for creating your own breastplate with EVA foam. You can add as many details as you want to create a more complex shape, but the basic construction will be the same. If…
Because of their domed shape, pauldrons can be one of the more difficult pieces of armor until you understand the trick for creating curves. This tutorial will walk you through how to create basic shoulder guards. You can build upon the basic techniques here to create your own detailed cosplay pauldrons. Supplies needed: 1. Create…