I recently watched a special on Entertainment Tonight Canada talking about Cosplay and how a lot of cosplays you see online and in person are super sexy, showing lots of skin, or barely wearing anything. I thought this would be a good topic to cover.
It's true that the images you see of sexy cosplays get a lot of likes on instagram, facebook, twitter etc. but does that mean that it's the only way to get noticed in the cosplay community? Absolutely not. There are lots of well known cosplayers that cover up. You can get likes and followers for having good craftsmanship too. It's all about how you market yourself and who your target audience is, but that's a whole other discussion. Since there are other ways of getting seen in the cosplay community rather than being sexy, does that mean you should avoid doing a sexy cosplay? Again, nope. This is all up to you and what you are comfortable with. Some people find that doing a sexy cosplay makes them feel good, empowered. Cosplay is about the fandom, what you enjoy and what you want to express to the community. With doing sexy cosplay comes a lot of new territory as well, not all of that is positive or welcomed. You need to understand that people will make comments about your outfit, your body, comments like "that's not a cosplay", and you have to be comfortable dealing with that. For myself personally, I have never done a sexy cosplay, and most likely won't. It's not that I don't want to, but it's not something I am super comfortable with. I prefer to choose costumes that will challenge my crafting skills and impress people with how much detail and work is put into the costume. Now, some cosplayers also take their sexy costumes to a whole other level by doing boudoir shoots, or swim suit renditions of characters. You can see some of these posted to social media, and some cosplayers will also make stuff like this exclusive content for their Patreon tiers. This is definitely not necessary in order to gain followers, it's a choice that specific cosplayer's have made that is right for them. The long and short of it is, Sexy cosplay is an option, it's not necessary to be seen in the community or for popularity. It's all about doing what is right for you.
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Sorry for the lack of content lately. Things have been super busy and I've also been pretty sick. Things should be back up and running next week! Thanks for understanding! This will be short and sweet as I don’t have a lot to say.
For a first time convention, I commend the organizer’s for pulling together all that they did in the time they had, and I’m very glad part of the proceeds go to the Amanda Todd Foundation. I wasn’t exactly expecting a big convention with lots of vendors, but I definitely found there was not enough to keep me entertained for very long. We made it through all the vendors and artist alley in just 30 minutes. There weren’t any panels that I just couldn’t wait to see. My biggest gripe was with the organization and communication. I decided to enter the cosplay contest, but I didn’t get a response from the organizers until 1 week before the convention, and I was still trying to get information from them the day before the convention. Just to make the day more frustrating, upon arriving at the covention I asked where to pickup my contestant badge and I had 3 people stare at me blankly and not know anything about what I was asking. Sadly we decided to leave the convention, and felt it wasn’t worth staying or coming back for the contest. I sincerely hope that they as a convention can grow and become better, but after our experience, I don’t have any plans to attend the next year. Geektopia is only a few days away! Time to get excited!!
Geektopia is Vancouver's newest geeky convention. With stuff from comic books, anime, manga, video games and more! The convention has all different types of events/panels such as voice acting with Tracy Moore (the original voice of Sailor Moon), Building cosplay armour with Katy DeCobray, Breaking into Youtube, Fandom Feud and of course the Cosplay Contest! They are also having all kinds of local artisans set up for the artist's alley and they have a retro gaming lounge. It will be very different from the larger conventions I have visited, but I look forward to attending the event! |
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