- UPDATEThere are SO many great resources on line for learning to cosplay, getting started and even up-ing your game! Here is a bunch of the ones I like to use:
Tutorials and Learning: 1. Bluprint My Bluprint has a ton of amazing videos on all different areas of crafting. It is a subscription service for $10 a month, but you get access to hundreds of professionally taught videos! The website also offers the option to purchase videos at full cost rather than signing up for a subscription. The full price videos cost usually about $50-60 each. 2. Cosplay Tutorial Cosplay Tutorial is an online wiki of all different tutorials collected from around the web on many different topics pertaining just to Cosplay. You can even find tutorials on specific characters here. It's a great place to start getting ideas! 3. YouTube Of course YouTube! This is a wealth of information. So many video tutorials on sewing and crafting skills, cosplay specific tutorials as well as, many Cosplayer's have their own youtube channels and share information on their costumes and perspectives. 4. https://www.deviantart.com/ There are lots of great photos on here for reference as well as concept art and some tutorials. 5.https://www.worbla.com/ The Worbla website has lots of great tutorials on how to use their products. Both the company and cosplayers post videos and blogs all about the different techniques to use Worbla. 6. https://www.kamuicosplay.com/ Kamui Cosplay is an amazing cosplayer and she sells these fabulous books and templates to help you get started in all areas of cosplay! Buy her books!! Sewing: 7. https://www.simplicity.com/ Most of the patterns and costume patterns I buy are from Simplicity. They have such a great variety and are super easy to put together. For some reason, Simplicity patterns are extremely difficult to find in stores in Vancouver, so I generally order online or through a second party online store. Simplicity is home to other pattern brands as well such as Burda and NewLook. When ordering from these folks look for the sales! They will usually do a 10-15% off your purchase online. Some patterns are available as digital download, but the majority are still available only as paper patterns. 8. https://mccallpattern.mccall.com/ McCalls has a ton of great patterns to get you started right as well as their own cosplay line up found here: https://cosplay.mccall.com/. McCalls is home to other sewing brands such as Butterick, Kwiksew and Vogue. When buying patterns from these guys definitely keep an eye out for sales!! They will bring their pattern prices down to $3.99USD for their main brands and $5.99-9.99USD for Vogue. McCalls also offers a digital pattern option for their patterns which is super quick and convenient and easy to use. 9. https://sewingpatterns.com/ This is a great website to buy sewing patterns for cheaper. If you buy directly from the parent company you could be paying upwards of $13USD per pattern, but if you buy from this website you can get patterns for about $5USD. I do caution, don't buy digital patterns if you can avoid it. Digital patterns from this site might be super cheap and convenient, but the service they have for reading the files: printsew.com has had multiple server issues and download issues as well as no responses from customer service to address the issues. So stick with paper pattern orders from these folks. - UPDATE: while buying physical patterns from this website is fine, I do not recommend buying digital patterns as they are affiliated with printsew.com which continuously has problems and NO customer service. Crafting supplies: 10. https://www.cosplaysupplies.com/ This online shop has a ton of great crafting supplies from craft foams to worbla, paint to crystals, they have just about anything you are looking for. They ship super quick too and are fairly priced! 11. https://www.redmooncosplaysolutions.com/ Another online shop that carries all kinds of worbla and craft foam among other crafting supplies. They are a smaller company located in Canada. 12. https://ardawigscanada.ca/ & https://arda-wigs.com/ Arda Wigs is the leading cosplay wig supplier. But not only can you buy the perfect wig from them, you can get craft foam and foam clay, styling supplies and accessories. They also have a ton of tutorials on how to style their wigs! 13. Amazon When in doubt, go to Amazon. Amazon carries everything! And of course, if you have Prime shipping it gets to you in no time flat!
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