4.27.13 Scott Pilgrim WIP

Todd Ingram is done.

You can see his left foot in part behind Envy's boots. As was the case with Envy's boots, there's a gap in Todd's foot for Roxy's sword.

Why is there a small bird & pig by Todd's feet? The world may never know.

Next up: Lynette Guycott.

4.14.13 Scott Pilgrim WIP

Most of Todd is done.

His left foot is in shadow behind Envy, but there's not much of it, so this will be the last update focused on Todd.

Next up, you ask? Either the bird & pig at Todd's feet or Lynette Guycott. Lynette will be the next human I work on either way.

4.5.13 Scott Pilgrim WIP

Todd's arm did not take as long to sew as I expected.

I've already finished with his arm, and his hand and wrist is almost done. From there, it's just a matter of getting through the accents & shading on his clothes.

Todd's surrounded by a lot of other characters, so you're going to get to see more and more of them as I progress further.

3.25 Scott Pilgrim WIP

February 10th was the last one, huh?

Had a stretch of not getting much accomplished, but I did get Envy's leg done, so I'm all done with her. Since you can't really tell much about Todd Ingram till I get his whole head in, I figured I'd wait until I got that far.

Got a little bit into his neck, and honestly, that's mostly done now. Todd's body should go pretty quickly since it's mostly white. His arm might take a while, though.

Anyway, Todd's head:

Vanellope Von Schweetz Costume - UPDATED!

About halfway through watching Wreck-It Ralph in the theater a few months ago, I became slightly obsessed with the character of Vanellope Von Schweetz. She is adorable and sassy and I thought it would be a great costume to make, and one I wouldn't be self-conscious in. So the rest of the movie I was about three-quarters watching, and about a quarter brainstorming how to do this.

First, I looked everywhere for a teal sweatshirt and teal leggings, to no avail. I also couldn't find an appropriate brown double-ruffled skirt. So I purchased this stuff instead.

Ignore the small gray cat with lazer eyes, please.

That's a white men's sweatshirt, a brown maxi-skirt, and white leggings, all purchased online from Target. I got some teal Rit dye and colored the sweatshirt and tights. If I were to do it over, I would have added just a little bit of kelly green dye to get a more accurate color, but it worked well enough.  I purchased two sets of hot pink shoelaces to replace the hood tie and to create the stitching on the pocket. I cut the skirt to the length I wanted, and then used the fabric left over to create the two ruffles with. To make the stripes on the leggings, I hand-sewed white and purple ribbon on them. This was by far the hardest part of the costume, and the part I'm least happy with how it turned out.

Not an internal organ.

 Next, I made some hair do-hickeys. To create the licorice hair tie, I sewed pipe-cleaners diagonally into a rectangle of red cotton fabric. I think it looks a bit like a weird internal organ or something, but it works in context well enough.

The "gummi bears" were especially fun to make.

Then I made a bunch of polymer clay "candy" for her hair. I don't think I am 100% movie accurate here, but I did my best without absolutely losing my mind. (Okay, I know I lost my mind ages ago, hush.) These all got glued to either snaps or bobby pins to actually attach to my hair.

Trying as hard as possible to look animated.

And here is everything all put together. I think I will actually add a wig to this to make it a little more authentic, but otherwise, this is the end product!

UPDATE:  WIG!

 

FURTHER UPDATE:  I'm now selling sets of hair candy over on my etsy shop:  https://www.etsy.com/listing/130673309/vanellope-von-schweetz-style-hair-candy?ref=af_shop_favitem

2.10.13 Scott Pilgrim WIP

Ok, full project shot!

Last time I did one of these back in November, I was almost done with Gideon's hair.

You can see a gap in Envy's right boot because that's where Roxy's sword is. It's probably going to be like that for a while as I keep going to the left.

Next up: Envy's other leg and her right arm as well.

1.31.13 Scott Pilgrim WIP

It's been 11 days since an update, and I've finally made enough progress to share it with you.

Envy's dress is completely done, so now I have to choose between proceeding to her legs and boots or taking care of her right arm first. I'm leaning towards her legs first since I'll move on to Todd and his vegan powers after I finish with Envy, and Todd's right by Envy's arm.

This is the ninth straight regular update, so next time will be a full project shot, so get excited for that!