It’s a new year, so let’s set some goals! These goal categories are listed in order of priority, so if I don’t meet the later ones, I’m fine with that. I tried to set reasonable amounts so that I don’t burn myself out.
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Happy Friday and Happy New Year! To ring in the new year, let’s take a look back at our Feature Friday cosplayers for the last quarter of 2020. I want to thank everyone who has submitted to be featured. Below, you’ll find all the featured cosplayers as they were posted on Instagram and/or Twitter. Enjoy!
Continue reading “Feature Friday Roundup: 2020 Q4”
Have you ever used one of my cosplay builds/tutorials to help you make a cosplay? Whether it was a cosplay build post or a youtube build video?
Continue reading “Get Featured on the Blog!”
I wrote this out as a Twitter thread for a cosplay mutual and realized it could be its own blog post. This is for any cosplayers who are looking to start writing their own cosplay builds/progress/tutorials. From someone who’s been doing this for all her handmade cosplays since 2015.
Continue reading “Pro-tips for Writing Your Own Cosplay Builds”
I’ll just come out and say right now that I didn’t make anything in my Kaori cosplay. I bought everything. So this’ll be less of a step-by-step process and more just background on the cosplay and dropping links for other Kaori cosplayers!
Continue reading “Classical Music & “Making” My Miyazono Kaori Cosplay”
With the recent surge of support to Black-owned businesses due to increased coverage of the Black Lives Matter movement, I came across two companies on Twitter who sell wig-adjacent products. That is to say: products used with wigs, but not wigs themselves. These companies were The Meya Store and The Renatural. Both companies are Black-owned companies based out of the UK. A few cosplayers were recommending online that we go support them. I don’t think either company realized just how much support exactly they would receive from the cosplay community, one that has very quickly become a target demographic for any wig-related products.
Continue reading “Wig Product Reviews for Cosplayers: Part I”
Welcome to the first ever Feature Friday Roundup: a place where all the cosplayers featured for the quarter of Q3 of 2020 are showcased together. (This first post will be a little longer than future posts because it includes the extra month of June!) Here, you’ll find their bios and cosplays as they were posted on Instagram and/or Twitter. Enjoy!
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When I started designing and selling cosplay shirts, I never expected it to take off as well as it did. Up until now, the only cosplay-related money I had ever made was for the one graphic design commission I did for a client. I had tried to sell prints and more graphic design commissions to no success. Hell, I hadn’t even received a single ko-fi donation yet. I lamented that maybe I was just not the type of cosplayer that people spend money on. I thought maybe people just didn’t like what I was selling. (I would later realized that–while maybe that is partially true–more of the blame could be on the fact I wasn’t exactly marketing my prints, graphic design, or ko-fi.)
Continue reading “Ashweez Cosplay, LLC is official!”
Late July, I applied to the September issue for Cosplay Realm Magazine, a magazine with monthly themes that accepts submissions from cosplayers and does both digital and print versions of the magazine. The September issue theme was Nintendo, so I submitted my Detective Pikachu cosplay.
Continue reading “Ashweez Cosplay Featured in a Magazine!”
In my last blog post, I announced that I would be hosting my first ever panel virtually on my Twitch channel. Shortly after announcing that, a friend messaged me to tell me that the Semi-Formal Ball that they typically host at Animefest would be streaming online the same day as my Adobe panel.
Continue reading “ComfyCozyCon accepting panelists!”
