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!”
Continue reading “First Ever Ashweez Cosplay Panel: Intro to Adobe for Cosplayers”The Adobe Creative Suite is a powerful tool and has many programs that can be handy for a cosplayer, but it can be a little overwhelming. Ashweez walks you through each program and what they can be used for to help polish your cosplays and build your brand! Ashweez also offers cheaper alternatives to Adobe.
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@Tygeesensei on Twitter and Instagram started a hashtag challenge for cosplayers, challenging them to do a magazine cover style with their cosplay photos! Luckily, I already did something like this a month prior, so I was able to get in on the action quickly!
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This time last year, I started my study on the cosplay and con community I entitled “Cosplays, Cons & Controversies: A Deep Dive into the Cosplayer Experience.” After receiving over 50 responses, I had to take a short hiatus from it to focus on other projects. Now, I am reopening the form to accept more responses in the hopes of getting 100 total participants.
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I’ll just come out and say right now that I didn’t make anything in my Toru cosplay, hence the quotations in the title. I did, however, have to do a lot of self-shooting and editing to create this awesome invisibility effect!
Continue reading ““Making” My Toru Hagakure Cosplay”
I’ve been wanting to take part in #FeatureFridays that happen all over social media for a while now, but was worried I didn’t have a big enough of a platform to do it. I’ve come to realize that as long as my follower count is greater than 0, it’s big enough.
Continue reading “Feature Fridays Coming This Week to Instagram and Twitter!”
I entered my Grimm Reaper cosplay into yet another cosplay contest, this time at Anime Dallas. AD’s contest rules stipulate that Judge’s Awards do not count towards your total number of awards and therefore doesn’t disqualify you from entering that cosplay into the contest. With this in mind, I was effectively at zero awards, so I entered into the Inexperienced (Novice) category. Continue reading “Officially Leveled Up: Journeyman Craftsmanship Cosplayer”
