Updates on the Urge For Creativity
Sep. 20th, 2009 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
weirdletI've completed the skirt for my orc-girl bellydance costume, laid out more money than I probably should have on various bits of frippery for the rest of the costume, worked on fun-foam belt buckles, jewelery, armor, cornered where I can get the shoes and the facepaint I want for my costume. Fortunately payday's soon, and I'm actually being assigned more hours at work (and being told I'm doing a good job!), so hopefully there'll be enough for student loans *and* costume bits between now and Halloween.
Which brings me to another weird quirk of mine. Wanting to design costumes that I'll probably never wear, but reeeeeally want to see someone do something with. For example- I am a rank amatuer bellydancer. I took one year of classes, once a week, a couple years ago at this point. I love it, but I'm rather a newbie and I can't afford the hobby right now.
I still ache to make costumes for it. Particularly weird, fandom-inspired ones, too. Like the idea to do one based off of Alucard from Hellsing- a tall, long-coated, male vampire with big guns and crazy grins. And occasionally waaaay too many red eyes staring out from unlikely places. I totally want to do a black-and-red costume for someone based off of that, with the eyes possibly being able to be seen when the skirt's flaring out a lot. I have no idea what kind of routine that woud entail, but the thought entertains me. Vampire Hunter D is another, although I'm not really sure what elements of his I'd incorporate, besides the sword for hip-balancing and the medallions he's got on his costume.
Right now, the thing biting me is to play with bellydance-type costumes from each of the Four Nations of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Only thing is, I can only really think of it working for Water and Fire- Air seems too... I dunno, monastic and Earth too stolid, but I'm sure there's stuff that could be done with them without overturning their original flavor.
-Edit- Oh, hell, I wanna do a Predator-themed one too. Just for the sheer hell of it. There'd probably be a striped sheer veil involved, to simulate the cloaking device.
I seem to have this odd love of mixing the traditionally masculine/warrior-like with this stuff.
Which brings me to another weird quirk of mine. Wanting to design costumes that I'll probably never wear, but reeeeeally want to see someone do something with. For example- I am a rank amatuer bellydancer. I took one year of classes, once a week, a couple years ago at this point. I love it, but I'm rather a newbie and I can't afford the hobby right now.
I still ache to make costumes for it. Particularly weird, fandom-inspired ones, too. Like the idea to do one based off of Alucard from Hellsing- a tall, long-coated, male vampire with big guns and crazy grins. And occasionally waaaay too many red eyes staring out from unlikely places. I totally want to do a black-and-red costume for someone based off of that, with the eyes possibly being able to be seen when the skirt's flaring out a lot. I have no idea what kind of routine that woud entail, but the thought entertains me. Vampire Hunter D is another, although I'm not really sure what elements of his I'd incorporate, besides the sword for hip-balancing and the medallions he's got on his costume.
Right now, the thing biting me is to play with bellydance-type costumes from each of the Four Nations of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Only thing is, I can only really think of it working for Water and Fire- Air seems too... I dunno, monastic and Earth too stolid, but I'm sure there's stuff that could be done with them without overturning their original flavor.
-Edit- Oh, hell, I wanna do a Predator-themed one too. Just for the sheer hell of it. There'd probably be a striped sheer veil involved, to simulate the cloaking device.
I seem to have this odd love of mixing the traditionally masculine/warrior-like with this stuff.
