Superhero Hype Cosplay: Creating Raven from The Teen Titans
Notice From the Editor: This week, Superhero Hype’s cosplay correspondent, Ashlynne Dae, is displaying us the steps she took whereas creating her Raven cosplay. Whereas the Teen Titans animated sequence Raven could also be extra well-known, Ashylynne’s selection this week was impressed by Raven’s authentic stint in The Teen Titans comics by Marv Wolfman and artist George Perez.
Whats up glowing people! I’m going to speak a bit about how I made my basic Raven cosplay! Now, you all know by now I really like making multitasking cosplay items when potential, to keep away from utilizing extra materials than essential, save on the repetitive work of creating one thing nearly similar to one thing already in my cosplay wardrobe and to save cash!
You may additionally acknowledge the leotard and gloves and boots from my Psylocke cosplay! So I received’t cowl how I made these, since I already touched on that. However I’ll discuss how I made the hooded cape, belt and boot tops!
As soon as I had the cape reduce out, I reduce 4 hood items, two for the skin and two for the liner.
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I didn’t trouble lining the cape as a result of the material is stretch and doing so might trigger the underside of the cape to warp whereas stitching. So the uncooked edge could be cleaner than lining or hemming and the again of the material was black already, which is the colour I might have lined it!
As soon as I completed the hoods, I sewed each proper sides collectively alongside the face opening. It is a cowl hood, so there’s not a entrance opening.
When the hood is worn, it drapes properly throughout the highest of the chest. The hood can be massively outsized (for the drama!), so the surplus should be pleated onto the neckline of the cape to suit.
I nonetheless go away an area on the heart entrance so the entrance of the cape edges don’t contact, and likewise so it hangs farther again off the shoulders. As soon as the pleats are the place you want them, and evenly spaced, sew the hood proper sides collectively to the cape neckline.
There can be an open edge on the entrance of the hood’s cowl the place the hood and hood linings meet, I simply tucked it below the seam allowance there, and topstitched because it wouldn’t be seen when worn.
As soon as the cape was taken care of I began on the boot tops. I used the bottom of my Psylocke boots, however Raven’s boot tops have a cut-out and some extent. So I made boot toppers to put on below the already current Psylocke boots!
I spent longer than I might have appreciated puzzling out how I might obtain this cleanly, however I lastly labored it out! I ended up layering each bit to kind the reduce out.
I reduce two of the tops and two of the bottoms (for lining and face), stitched them to their respective lining piece, and turned out and topstitched all the sides so they might keep in place.
Then I lay the smaller triangle on high of the bigger funky formed triangle and stitched them collectively alongside the topstitched traces of the smaller triangle.
As soon as safe, I sewed the appropriate sides collectively on the very small again seam and I had boot toppers! I wore these simply tucked into the boots for my shoot.
However they might not maintain as much as conference put on and all of the strolling round if not secured to the boots in a roundabout way.
I might both tape them in with heavy obligation material tape or sew them on if I didn’t need to have the ability to use the boots for Psylocke once more.
However since this was only a shoot for now, simply tucking them labored completely!
Now that the boots had been completed, I set to work on the belt and the shoulder medallions! I took a straightforward route and used clean button making kits I grabbed from Pastime Foyer as my belt and shoulder medallions.
All I did was snap them collectively and paint the highest gold. They have already got a pin within the again to allow them to be moved round and used for different costumes as effectively.
The 2 shoulder items are the identical, only a barely bigger dimension. The Raven image on the heart of the belt is only a piece of EVA foam I reduce out utilizing a template I drew based mostly off the comics, and spray Plastidipped earlier than portray to seal and shield the froth.
As soon as that was completed I glued a brooch pin to the again and connected the entire medallions to an elastic belt. I then reduce two lengthy strips of material to be my skirts and gave them a hem to match the hem element of the leotard. I additionally connected these two items to the belt’s back and front
I attempted all of it on collectively to ensure all of it lined up and BAM! Raven was full!
I used the identical method in setting up the cape for my Teen Titans Animated Collection Raven cape as effectively, so you should use this methodology of cape making for that model as effectively!
I hope you’ve loved this breakdown of how I made my Basic Raven cosplay! Thanks a lot for studying!
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