So over the weekend I ended up getting two commissioned works from Kristy. (I’ll post a link if she puts them up on Deviant Art) An Arin (Rojo’s brother) and a Rojo. I’ve got them now in a really cool wood plank looking frame.
Anyway, in our game we are probably going to a coronation (crash it more like), and Rojo and Loco had gone dress shopping. The GM asked us to come up with dress designs. So I used Karmada’s female form outline, and made up the dress based on a late 17th century Mantua. (See image right)
Later Update:
Here is the colored version:


So my friend Kristy is writing a comic very loosely based on a game she played in college. She has re-drawn some of the characters, but I know she just loves her little Issac (a midboss as she describes him). Well, Issac has a totally cool evil dad named Dimitri. Dimitri is a little miffed at how his son turned out…has turned to drinking…The scar on Dimitri’s face was an accident by Issac.
Anyway… So I convinced Kristy to wear her Issac outfit to Marmalade Dog where she was sitting behind her artist booth. We got there after they did, and Chris went up and distracted them while I walked up and shouted at Kristy/Issac “Is THAT my SON?!?” (out of a scene from her comic). She fell off her chair into Dave sitting next to her. Mission Accomplished.
So the shirt and pants I bought from a resale shop, men’s wear. I took the collar and sleeves off of the shirt, and used the originals as patterns on the gray fabric (a twill) and re-used the cuffs from the original sleeves. The rest of the sleeves actually got attached to an old pair of gloves that I don’t like, with the red bias tape around the edges. The bib front is sewn on at the left and at the right it is actually snapped on under the buttons. The cape was made of 1 layer of the gray fabric and one layer of maroon broadcloth. I used maroon and gray bias tape sandwiched in between the two layers at the outside edge, then just pressed and stitched it down. It’s held onto the shoulders by giant snaps. When I’m not wearing the cape, I have another set of male snaps on the back of some cool celtic design buttons that cover the snaps and just look cool. The “boots” are a pair of gaiters that I copied from Chris’ F&I kit, but instead of using buttons, I shortened the sides to use grommets and lace them up with a gross grain ribbon. And the top part of the sleeves (what I didn’t use on the gloves) I bound the top edges with maroon bias tape and stuffed them into the tops of the gaiters so they would fold down like the tops of the boots. They were already big enough I didn’t need to make a closure or anything. I made the things to go over the shoes, (Yay Sculpy!) they ended up too wide and broke (I glued them), but eh. It worked for the short amount of time before the glue on the velcro that kept them to the gaiters gave out… I really liked how the sculpy insignia on the cravat turned out (which was just tucked under the collar.

It’s a day early this week. I think I’m pretty much ready to go for my game(s).
Marmalade Dog 15, here we come!

YAY! We’re going to the Marmalade Dog Gaming Convention this weekend (I’m taking off work and the grandparents are watching CJ), but first, tonight is our Thursday Pirate game. I added a new journal entry. I just can’t seem to continue with writing a game synopsis. I just ran out of steam. That happens with lots of things lately.
So I have all the PC stuff ready for Marmy Dog. I’m running “the Illusionist’s Daughter” I just need to print out maps and stuff. I need to re-do the maps and change the names. Some are just too hard to pronounce, others just sound too much alike. The maps have errors, and I just want to re-draw them. I may just do it by hand. I’m going to work on the maps tonight. Today I have to try to finish some sewing…
Ok, so I finally (It’s been almost a week) got my new grommet tool (a HomePro LR) out and tested it by making a new set of lacing strips. At first all I did was mangle the grommets, I tried the other grommets, same thing. I was about to send it back, when it dawned on me that I needed to try switching the position of the dies then I realized that the T must mean Top and the B must mean Bottom…yeah. It works great now (too much blood in my caffeine system).
So I have to put boning in, but I have a new set of lacing strips. I really wanted to get it ready to put grommets in a new set of gaiters. I couldn’t get the ones I really wanted at the Kalamazoo living history show, so instead of putting down a huge chunk of change on a crapload of metal buttons, I’m just going to do a bunch of grommets and make them lace up the sides. I’ve got them all done except for the grommets. I’m just going to use chalk and mark where they go and do it tomorrow when I’m not so exhausted.
Good Night!