How do you cosplay a shapeshifter?

Jul 07, 2023 4:36 pm

Artistic skill wanting

My kids were really into Homestuck back in the day. This was a very long online comic that gained a rabid following due to its long (loooonng) story arcs with extremely high drama. I think part of the reason my kids and their friends loved it was that the characters were visually distinct and easy to cosplay. Many of the characters had grey skin and yellow eyes with unique horn shapes based on zodiac signs.

While I like the idea of cosplay, Silvara is probably the only cosplay-worthy character from the Kit series, because she's got the wings and cool outfits. The consistent outfits are what make cosplay easiest. Can ou imagine trying to dress up as the translators from Mulberry Wands? You'd have to be cool with nudity. Same problem with the Pilell (and also, that's an awful lot of skin makeup.) If this were a comic, I'd have the characters wearing the same clothes to save drawing effort, so you could cosplay someone just by wearing a similar tee shirt. As much as I love comics, I don't draw pictures of my characters. If you read Coop de Grace, you might notice that I can only draw people from the waist down. I'm a good enough artist to know when my skill falls short.

In Wyvern's Sigil, I had a hard time coming up with a cool design idea for the evil vampire house of mages, and I had an even harder time sketching it so that it looked okay. If I'm ever going to do merch, the mage house logos would be the most obvious choice. If any of you are artist/designers and have drawn the "wyvern devours arm which strangles wyvern" logo I described, I would love to see it! I'm working on expanding a new mage house in my work in progress, but I'm not artist enough to do the logo idea justice.

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Did you read this book? I'd love your reviews and recommendations! (Wide)

Wyvern's Sigil is book ten, and book 11 (Wizard's Bunker) just came out. If you read Wizard's Bunker, there's still time to add ratings and reviews. Thanks!

If you ever cosplay as one of my characters, I 100% want to see a photo.

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