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I am going to dragon con this weekend and one of my cosplays is Marcille from Delicious in Dungeon. It was genuinely a last minute one as we weren't sure we would be able to go and didn't realize it's like 5 days long.. so I bought a staff off of Amazon because I didn't have time to make from scratch. However, it came BROKEN. Like snapped in half, the leaves were snapped off too etc
So I said fuck it I'm an artist, I'll make do and upcycled it. I spent all last week basically wrapping and hotglueing this baby in different sizes of rope, crafting twigs out of cardboard paper + fake plant wire and then hand painting it all with acrylic paint.
Finally had some moss from a different project and decided to make it look like green was growing out of it. Honestly I'm so happy with it, especially because it was completely broken when I got it.
The leaves, ironically, are fake lettuce leaves and I thought that was a cute little detail because the entire anime is about eating what you can in the dungeon.
While process took the entire week. In case anyone wanted to know, I was able to glue the broken pieces back together with some super strength glue I got from my fiance. But it looked awful thus the upcycling... Personally I think it looks 20 times Better, kinda glad it broke in the mail. The material underneath is foam so it was easy to adhere stuff to it with hot glue. It's literally just brown hot glue, rope/twine, brown acrylic paint, cardboard paper and metal wire you use for making fake flowers.
The painting took the longest part honestly
I'd post my full cosplay but I'm really shy and introverted 💀 just was really proud of the staff and wanted to show off
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<!-- SC_OFF -->I am going to dragon con this weekend and one of my cosplays is Marcille from Delicious in Dungeon. It was genuinely a last minute one as we weren't sure we would be able to go and didn't realize it's like 5 days long.. so I bought a staff off of Amazon because I didn't have time to make from scratch. However, it came BROKEN. Like snapped in half, the leaves were snapped off too etc
So I said fuck it I'm an artist, I'll make do and upcycled it. I spent all last week basically wrapping and hotglueing this baby in different sizes of rope, crafting twigs out of cardboard paper + fake plant wire and then hand painting it all with acrylic paint.
Finally had some moss from a different project and decided to make it look like green was growing out of it. Honestly I'm so happy with it, especially because it was completely broken when I got it.
The leaves, ironically, are fake lettuce leaves and I thought that was a cute little detail because the entire anime is about eating what you can in the dungeon.
While process took the entire week. In case anyone wanted to know, I was able to glue the broken pieces back together with some super strength glue I got from my fiance. But it looked awful thus the upcycling... Personally I think it looks 20 times Better, kinda glad it broke in the mail. The material underneath is foam so it was easy to adhere stuff to it with hot glue. It's literally just brown hot glue, rope/twine, brown acrylic paint, cardboard paper and metal wire you use for making fake flowers.
The painting took the longest part honestly
I'd post my full cosplay but I'm really shy and introverted 💀 just was really proud of the staff and wanted to show off
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