Thank you!!
Hi there! Long time no see. It's no surprise since 2020 was (and 2021 is still) the craziest year.
First of all, I want to thank you all for still being there, supporting my art. I realized 5 minutes ago I received a daily deviation for my Maya picture back in march 2020. Ahh, that cursed month!
So here's a little update.
As some of you may know, I'm an occupational therapist and I work at nursing home here in Madrid (Spain) so you can imagine the levels of stress I've faced during the last year. My job turned upside down exactly one year ago, the 7th of march, when we began the isolation protocol and I had to take on a range of new tasks and responsibilities and assume new rules to ensure everyone´s safety. On the first wave we lost a lot of our beloved old folks, including my own granny, who lived there, and it was devastating.
Months later, and for non COVID related causes, I also lost my father. It never rains, but it pours.
Exactly one year ago, I gave them my last kiss before it was reccomended not to keep physical contact.
After months of fear, grief and mourning, last january, we finally received the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine and numbers are slowly but surely decreasing. Little by little, we are easing the isolation measures and we're starting to relax a bit. And with that, I'm slowly recovering.
For the last couple weeks, I've returned to my hobbies and I've started feeling like sewing again. So I really hope I can show you new creations very soon. I don't think I'll ever be as productive as years ago, but costume making is still a big part of my life and I don't what that to change.
So thank you all for passing by, for your kind comments and for letting me know you still value my art in all kinds of heartwarming ways.
Please, wear a mask, follow the rules and, as soon as you have the chance, get vaccinated!! Only science can save us.
Hope you guys and your loved ones are safe!!
Also, you can check out other countrie's amazing creations and vote for your favorite one here till March 27 cosplaybattle.playoverwatch.co…
Irene Marín: Clothing, screen pinting, textiles, fur, gems, electronics and final assembly.
Diego Fonteriz: Foam armor construction. Armor and props painting. Electronics and final assembly.
Laura Sánchez (me): Sword replicas and their cases, shurikens and scales. 3D modeling, 3D printing and assembly. Electronics.
I'm alive!
Thanks everybody for your comments and for your birthday wishes (that was on June OMG), thanks for your patience!! Hopefully, next year will be a little less stressful for me and I can be here for you again.
Also, I already have some cosplay and photography plans for the near future. For instance, I'm participating as a spanish representative in the Overwatch Cosplay Battle along with my teammates Fonte and Irene. The three of us are working on a Genji Baihu costume and we're super excited! The costume will be finished on february and we're giving our best to make it happen.
Laura.
I'm a photographer now!
Last year I bought a DSLR camera and I started buying some photography equipment. I've been studying, I've been watching online courses, my photogapher friends have been helping me a lot and, well, at first I did all this because I wanted to take self-portraits with my costumes. I thougt it was a great way to be more self sufficient, to get the pictures I want with no need to explain or ask anyone, with no need to wait for months for other photograpehrs to edit my pictures and that stuff. To be more accurate, efficient and quicker.
But I ended up enjoying it so much that I started taking pictures of my friends too and now I'm offering photo shootings to all the cosplayers interested.
So with this I want to say I started a new stage in my artistic life and now you can expect pictures I've taken of other amazing cosplayers in my page. I'll open a separate folder for them, so I'll try to keep everything tidy and clear for you guys.
I hope you like my new facet as much as I do. Don't panic! I'll keep on making costumes as usual. I just have to find time for eveything, hahahah.
Here you are some pictures I took this year:
My craft foam panel! :D
I wrote subtitles in spanish only, but you can try the automatic english ones. They're ok.
Here you are a selection of webpages where you can find the tutorials I consider the best ones to learn about craft foam techniques and resources for foam armor and prop making:
- Evil Ted Smith.
- Goldy Marg.
- The Foam Cave.
- WM Armory.
- Cullen Cosplay.
- Heroes Workshop.
- Punished Props and his book "Foamsmith: How to Create Foam Armor Costumes".
- Volpin Props and his book "Painting and Weathering for Props and Replicas".
- The Replica Prop Forum. You can find lots of interesting stuff and tutorials from amazing propmakers all around the world in TRPF. You can find craft foam, resin, fiberglass, fx prosthetics, electronics... It has the best and the worst parts of being a forum: it's sometimes messy, but it's being constantly updated and it has a wonderful community.
And here's a little lists of shops where I usually buy my craft foam sheets and accessories (most of them are from Spain):
- Suministros Cosplay.
- Abedulart.
- Ebay.uk
- Goma eva y más.
- Carcar Style Limited