Convention Report: Photoshoot #10 (+ new cosplay)

Hey everyone! ♥

I really want to apologise for not posting this earlier. The thing is, I've been super busy with some personal issues and didn't have much time - or patience - to write anything here. I actually feel ashamed of the delay.

I also feel like this is a repetitive message, but there are just times when I can't write at all. I'm really, really sorry! ;__;

Well, on the 9th of February I went to this event called Photoshoot #10! 

Photoshoot is pretty much a huge cosplay gathering that happens every year during Carnival, where cosplayers just gather around Parque das Nações and take pictures, talk to each other, etc...!

I had planned since last year to go as Madara Uchiha from Naruto! However, things sometimes don't go the way we plan and something happened along the way and I ended up not going as him. So about a week before the event I decided to do an entirely new cosplay.

So I went as Mikoto Uchiha in her ninja version!

Photo by Fiaziinha

I literally finished this costume 5 minutes before going to the con! It was such a stressful cosplay -.- I really want and need to remake some things, but I like how it came out! ♥

Yes, it was designed by me. Despite Mikoto being a real character we never got to see her in ninja clothing! I have always pictured her as a sexy and powerful ninja before getting married. She was a jounin after all!

I wish I had progress pictures to show you, but I barely have anything since I was in such a short time.

Photo by Waribashi (I hope they don't mind me using this, but if necessarily I will take it out)

At exactly 3 p.m. we took the traditional group photo! I almost missed it, but I made it on time (I made it like 2 seconds before the photo!). Try to see if you can find me!

After that I just talked to some amazing friends! I really missed everyone! ♥

I'll just show you some photos I took with friends and around the con, though I really don't have that much to show you.

Photo by Johnny Charneca, you can find the original here!

Me and my Soulmate-chan, I missed her so much! ;w; She looked gorgeous ♥

Everything on my costume was falling off here and yes you can see my underwear -.-

Me and Lena-chan! Many of you know her because she does most of my photoshoots! Unfortunately we were barely together that day so we didn't have time to do one ;__; Even so I loved being with her! ♥

Photo by Fiaziinha, but she doesn't mind me using it XD

Photo by Fiaziinha

Misaki taking a photo of me and Piiui-chan! ♥

After talking to a lot of people me and Fiaziinha decided to do a photoshoot! I ripped a bit of my fishnet tights but oh well... The photos came out super awesome! So it was worth it.

Well, after a while almost everyone left and I stayed for a little longer with my friend Ana, who always (or almost always) goes to the conventions and events with me! I'm so glad she can come and have a good time with everyone at the cosplay world!

I'm currently on the process of trying to convince her to start cosplaying as well, so wish me luck!

Me and her!

I really love those contacts! I was going to buy normal Sharingan contact lenses for Mikoto, however since I was in such a short time (and the contacts sometimes take more than a week to get here), I decided to wear the one's I bought for Madara. So yes, that's Madara's Mangekyou Sharingan!

At the end of the event I found my friend Marta, who is a really important person to me (she was pretty much one of the first cosplayers I met). And for my surprise she filmed me for her video! I was so happy! ♥

At about 6:30 p.m. me and Ana went home. But first we stopped by McDonalds to eat something XD We were starving! It was the first time I ate the entire day!

Mcdonals in the car!

And then the day was officially over. I will admit that I was planning on not going, just staying home, but I'm really glad I decided to go after all! Besides, the weather was fantastic! It was really warm and sunny!

I want to thank everyone who spent the day with me for the awesome time! Thank you so much ♥

Photo by Fiaziinha - Original HERE

XoXo,

Gothica

2013 Cosplay List

Hey everyone! ♥

I hope you're all having an amazing year so far, and I hope the rest will be good as well! 

As I promised on the last post, I'm here to talk about my 2013 cosplay plans! I am going to say right away that I don't know how my year will go - financially - so some things may or may not be cancelled. But I really hope I can do them all! But if I give up on something, I'll just try doing it next year!

I feel like 2013 will be an amazing cosplay year for me! Truth be told, I have been deciding this list for about half a year and changed it several times. But I think I made good choices in the end.

So here is my cosplay list!

Note: Naruko's clothes are inspired on Naruto's outfit in Naruto Shippuden, I won't cosplay a naked character
Note 2: The Galaxy picture was made by Alexandruluilian and you can find it here

So, this is my cosplay list for 2013. I hope you guys like it!

Since last year I based my costumes around the Naruto fandom, this year I tried to bring more variety not only to myself, but also to you guys. Obviously I will still do at least one character from Naruto (in this case Madara, which is already half finished).

I also tried to do more female costumes, and not have a majority of male characters. I feel like I need to cosplay more girls!! As you can see, OC's will be present in this year's list as well, and I'm really excited about it!

About photoshoots, I will be doing some new shoots of previous costumes (I can tell you right away I will be doing a new one for Itachi (Angels of Revolution) and Carla Radames). And of course, shoots for all the cosplay I'll do this year!

Since we're talking about shoots, I'll talk about conventions and events as well. I really want to go to Japan Expo (France) this year! But I'm not sure if I'll have the money and the chance to. I will try going to most portuguese cons in 2013! I really want to be with the awesome people I've been meeting ever since I started cosplaying *o*

And this is all for now guys! I will post progress pictures of my Madara Uchiha cosplay when I finish it, which will be really soon! Stay tunned.

(I apologize for posting this so late!)

XoXo,

Gothica

End of Cosplay year + New Year

Hey everyone! ♥

I hope you guys had a nice Christmas! Mine was nice, I didn't get much but that's not what matters to me during this festivity. Also, I wish you all right away a great New Year, since we won't be talking until after the beggining of 2013.

I just wanted to make a small and quick post about my 2012 Cosplay Year. I didn't do much, but it was still a good year!

From left to right, top to bottom:

1. Itachi Uchiha - Angels of Revolution (original version) - Naruto (Debuted: Photoshoot #9)
2. Ion Fortuna - Arabian Nights - Trinity Blood (Debuted: Anipop Kyuu-Ti 2011 - completed this year)
3. Itachi Uchiha - Mafia/Suit (original version) - Naruto (Debuted: Anicomics 2012)
4. Itachi Uchiha - Sexy no Jutsu Summer Dress (original version) - Naruto (Debuted: Private Photoshoot)
5. Kurapika - 1st Outfit - Hunter x Hunter (Debuted: Anicomics 2011 - completed this year)
6. Mikoto Uchiha - Naruto (Debuted: Midori II)
7. Carla Radames - Resident Evil 6 (Debuted: FIBDA 2012)
8. Itachi Uchiha - Street Style (original version) - Naruto (Debuted: Private Photoshoot)

So those were my 2012 cosplays! I just realised that I cosplayed Itachi Uchiha in 4 different versions in just a year. I swear I am not obsessed! 

I didn't do half the costumes I was planning, but honestly I'm glad it went that way. I had a relaxed cosplay year and I wasn't forced into doing something that I would have no time/money for. I prefer to do less and better, than do a lot and badly.

I'm not planning on talking much about my 2013 Cosplay year in this post since I'm going to make another one which will be just about that. All I can tell you right now is that I already have the list of cosplays to do and it will be the year of troublesome costumes, and a lot of hard work!

This is all, and see you next year! Thanks for reading <3

XoXo,

Gothica

New cosplay: Carla Radames (Resident Evil 6)

Hey everyone! ♥

Even though this is going to be a small post (I'll explain why further on), I wanted to show you guys my newest costume: Carla Radames from Resident Evil 6!

SPOILER: I do not want to spoil anyone but this is not Ada Wong, please do your research.

I'm not sure if this picture is from the actual game's artwork, but it's the best reference on the web

Probably some of you know that Carla is a relatively new character to the RE fandom, so it's still a bit hard to find decent pictures of her. That is one of the reasons this post is going to be so small, I don't have many reference pictures to show you : (

I wanted to bring this costume for FIBDA 2012 (AmadoraBD) which was held last month. However, I only decided that I wanted to do it 4 days before the event, so this costume was made in just 3 days! It was one of the most thrilling and at the same time scary cosplay adventures that I ever had!

Just a reference for the back of her dress, it's open like in the front part | Picture from Resident Evil 6.

Yes, I know what you're all thinking, I don't have the body type or the looks to cosplay this character. I know and I do realize that.

But Carla is (just like SnJ Kakuzu) a challenge to me. It's me trying to portray a character that I really like, and stay true to her but making it manageable and appropriate for who I am. Obviously a person with a nice body would look much better than me, but I'm just trying to say that you don't have to be all sexy and perfect to do this type of character.

As for photos of the making-off, I barely have anything to show you (that is the main reason to why this post will be a miniature compared to the others). I was always in a huge rush, so I didn't took many pictures ;___;

I already had the dress completely cut in here but I still had a lot to do!

Working on the sleeves and on the right it's my grandma's hands (she was helping me out)

This is all I have of the dress! Like I said, I didn't take many pictures... I know the color looks a bit off, but it's because of my camera's flash (I worked during the evening and night because I have school in the morning, so I had to take photos with the flash on).

Left: The earrings before I cut most of them out | Right: Finished earrings

I honestly thought that the earrings would be the hardest part because as many of you know I don't have my ears pierced (personal choice), so when a character has earrings I always have a lot of work ahead since I usually can't find what I want with clip-ons.

But this time it was different, I found those earrings at Claire's, they were super cheap and pretty much what I wanted! I had to cut the inner part out as well as some of the hoops but that was it! 

The boots before I did anything to them

Those are the boots that I bought for the costume! They were super cheap as well and they're actually quite confortable (though after walking for about 2 hours non-stop you just can't stand those heels anymore). I removed the studs because Carla's boots don't have them.

The shitload of studs that I had to take off

Believe it or not, my fingers were so hurt and bleeding a bit after I finished taking off all of the studs... they were so hard to remove!! 

And here is the wonderful (not) WIP picture that I posted on my Tumblr the night before the event! I still had to sew the bottom seam and the scarf (it looks finished, it's not). The belt and gloves are from my mom (she lent them to me).

I really like how this costume came out, I think that I look pretty in it (not sexy but pretty)! I know her dress has an opening on the bottom but I chose not to do it. It's not really that important, you can barely see it in the game anyway.

Here goes a photo with no edition that I took at the con, just so you can see the costume:

Photo by Fiaziinha

I have more photos but I'm waiting for the right time to do a proper photoshoot in a more urbanistic place (probably Expo) since well, Resident Evil is all about that. And zombies, but that I won't have XD

I also appeared twice on FIBDA's cosplay video. Here's the link!

That is all! I will update when I have more stuff for you guys!

XoXo,

Gothica

New cosplay: Mikoto Uchiha (Naruto)

Hey everyone! ♥

I am finally making another post here! And yes, I already have another new costume! It's Mikoto Uchiha from Naruto!

Artwork from the official databook

I've wanted to cosplay Mikoto for a long time. I've always thought she was a very interesting, gorgeous character and also a very good and lovely mother! Besides, she's the mother of the famous Uchiha Brothers!

After Naruto chapter 590 came out, I immediately started planning this cosplay. After finally knowing the entire story behind the Uchiha clan massacre, I had to do it. Though, I only started it some weeks ago!

Here goes two more reference pictures for you guys:

Both pictures are real screenshots from the anime

Like I said, she's such a beautiful woman! And I've always thought her facial structure fits mine so it was another positive factor that made me gather enough courage and do the costume!

As for the fabrics, here's what I bought:

THESE ARE THE REAL COLORS OF THE FABRICS!

I decided to discard my first idea, which was to do everything except for the shirt (that would have been bought somewhere), and do everything by myself! I think that way it looks so much better and besides, I feel an even bigger connection with the costume because I did every single thing!

I admit that during the process of creating this cosplay, I was really lazy to take pictures. so I can't show you the exact process of how I made everything. Though, I can explain it to you if you want!

(I apologise for the bad quality of some pictures)

Left: Process of cutting the apron | Right: The straps for the back and shoulders!

Almost finished!!

I had never made an apron before, so it was a new and great experience! It's actually really easy (in my opinion). I could have finished it in a day, but as you know I'm lazy, so I did a bit every day during 3 days.

After this one I feel like doing more for me or maybe even to sell, since I'll re-open commissions soon :3

Left: Process of cutting the shirt | Right: The skirt at about 60%

My grandma explaining a couple of things to me before I cut the shirt. I used another shirt as a reference

The skirt wasn't really hard to do, because I used my grandma's patterns. She explains and teaches me a lot of things, otherwise I wouldn't be able to do half the stuff I make. Besides, she also helps me out quite a lot!

As for the shirt, it was challenge time. I hate making jackets and shirts because I'm horrible with sleeves. This time it was no different, but once again my amazing grandma gave me a hand and everything ended up coming out super nice!

Now for the real challenge: the Shinobi Sandals

4 of the steps to make the sandals

I had never made shinobi sandals in my life, but it was pretty cool to make them! Fortunately I found a good tutorial online (thank god) which explains it super well and also in a sort of easy way!

THIS IS THE TUTORIAL I USED!

I bought some cheap flipflops at the chinese store, which surprisingly had the perfect color! Though I wish the fabric was a bit darker, but still, I think it came out perfect for the occasion.

2 more of the steps!

I finished both of them in two days, and of course that I procrastinated a bit (as always). I didn't took a pictures of the heel cuff part, but you can see it in the tutorial (it was pretty much the same anyways). 

Everything was glued with hot glue (which a rarely use, but it was how the tutorial said, so I followed it). And they're actually quite confortable to walk!

Here are some pictures of the (almost) finished costume!

I apologise for the colors! The camera didn't capture them properly, that's why I posted that initial picture with the fabrics all together!

And yes, the costume wasn't 100% finished when I took this pictures, but you can already see how it looks like! Of course, it looks so much better in real life *o*

As for the wig, I wore my (super) long black wig that I bought for Gothica about a year ago. It's such a pretty wig but I kind of ruined it a bit with the time ;__; It's way too big for Mikoto, but I didn't have the money to buy a shorter one, so this one it is! And I actually liked to see together with the costume!

I took this photo before going to last weekend's con: Midori II (it was taken with my webcam just before I went out). I already have lots of photos of this costume! I did an awesome photoshoot! *o* But I'll talk about that on the next post, which will be about Midori II!

And no, I'm not going to show any pictures right now. You'll have to wait a little bit more, not much though. Probably just some days.

That's all, hope you guys liked this one! <3

XoXo,

Gothica

The new Layout is finished!!

Hey everyone! ♥

Finally, the blog is finished!

I personaly love how it came out. So much better than the previous layout. I looks more professional now... like a real website.

Tell me what you think, please! ♥ Hope you like it. And have fun! 

New posts soon!! XD

XoXo,

Gothica