*Note : This entry is aimed at people who have a basic knowledge of sewing skills. I’m not going to go over the details of how I actually sewed the cosplays I made so if you’d like more in depth instructions then just feel free to ask. There are plenty of times when you decide on a cosplay that the outfit is pretty straightforward and you have lots of reference images for the character you want to play. But there are other times when you don’t have as much to go on or you want to make a conceptual outfit for portraying an animal, inhuman character, or making a more realistic version of a character’s outfit. Many people like to cosplay as Pokemon and making an outfit that resembles a certain Pokemon is called know as making a gijinka. (Here is a Deviant Art Group all about gijinkas http://pokedex.deviantart.com/) Pokemon gijinka are usually very popular at anime conventions and thus the specific topic that I’m going to discuss today. Some gijinka outfits are...
*I’m trying to get my second post on cosplay up, but I want to add some sketches and my scanner is broken at the moment so it will be up later. For now I’d like to make a quick post about my first experience playing a game of Two-Headed Giant Magic. On Friday night I was playing Magic like I usually do but I wasn’t playing the standard format. It was my first time playing the Two-Headed Giant format. For anyone who isn’t familiar with the format here are the basic rules: Two-Headed Giant Constructed decks must contain the minimum of sixty cards. Two-Headed Giant uses the Unified Deck Construction rules. With the exception of basic land cards, a team's combined decks may not contain more than four of any individual card. (For example, if one player is using four Naturalizes in a Multiplayer Constructed event, no other player on that team may have a Naturalize in his or her deck.) Sideboards are not allowed in Constructed Multiplayer tournaments because only one match is played...