Manga-Phoenix

I honestly have no clue who even updates their DA anymore?? MY life has changed kinda drastically in comparison to my last post. Some for good, some for worse. I haven't draw regularly in a while, and with my tech school trianing coming up I might not have any time for it either. But before then, I'm trying to make the most of my artistic endevors.

Next cosplays are looking to be MGSV Ocelot, and hopefully I can finish up Leonardo DaVinci before May. Also doing a kinda low-effort version of Adam Jensen from Deus Ex. My father was kind enough to buy me the official Musterbrand coat, and it's actually an amazing piece of clothing. I just figured out that I should be able to pull off the facial hair for it, so I'll probably be making the beard for it sometime tomorrow.

I'm not going to do the augmented arms because that's a huge project in and of itself. But, I would definitely like to try and get the hands, just get some shiny gloves and maybe glue some craft foam to the inside ot make it look nice, sharp and textured in terms of the different surfaces.

Jesus, just TYPING on this interface makes me feel 14 again. Euguughghg.


Just follow me on Tumblr tbh, it's not super-active but I AM on there.

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And if you're hear for cosplay stuff, search for Inkraven Cosplay on FB, that should net you the result you're looking for.

Hey there people! I don't post much on DeviantArt anymore. I'd say I post more on Tumblr, but that would be a huge lie...

Anyways, I went to PAX East for the first time a few weeks ago - and IT. WAS. AMAZING.

On Friday I cosplayed Fem! RED Spy, for which I finally completed my wool coat for. As a result, when we got to the con, I was operating on only three hours of sleep :'D I managed to sleep a little on the way to the convention, but we got a bit lost due to the fact that Boston is a prank played by highway engineers.

I got a pretty good response, not everyone recognized the character, but heey, that's what you get for doing a genderbend While I was cosplaying as her, I met an excellent Naked Snake, who said he was gonna be cosplaying as well on Saturday. I also met a Sniper Wolf, who I ate lunch with and planned to meet up with the following day. I probably bought the most stuff that day, having found a nice metal pin set of Paragon and Renegade symbol for $35. Not too bad for the quality! That was also the day I realized how HUGE the Boston Expo Center is compared to the Hynes. The sheer size meant that there was waaaay more walking to just get to places that I originally thought, so I didn't attend a lot of panels because of that.

Saturday. That day was probably THE CRAZIEST response I've gotten for my Major Ocelot cosplay. Before the con, I had started casting and painting Sculpey .45 Colt rounds, but unfortunately I wasn't able to get then finished in time (they should be ready in time for the Anime Boston Masquerade however!). Either way, once I found the Naked Snake, as well as a Sniper Wolf (who I had met during lunch on Friday) and a Meryl, ridiculous amounts of picture-taking ensured. At one point, we literally couldn't walk for SIX SECONDS before ten people wanted a group picture :'D Luckily, we had Sniper Wolf's boyfriend (who wasn't cosplaying) as well as his brother to help carry our crap as people snapped away. A lot of people wondered if we had planned the group, and well, we didn't! It was still super awesome that I was able to find all those cosplayers and that they were all so cool, ugggggghhhhh <3<3<3 My sister had cosplayed EVA before, but she didn't go on Saturday, which made me super-sad. She said she had been tired of the costume on Friday, but...aaaaa... we could've been so awesome with her....

We were asked for an interview at one point, but we had just started lunch (Two large handmade pizzas for $25! Whoo!), and by the time we finished we couldn't find the guys. I was pretty disappointed about that, but eh. Next year I can get an interview

Later I played a bunch of Blazblue with the Sniper Wolf and Meryl on the PS3 in the freeplay console rooms. Their setup at the convention is really pro, and I especially like that you can also, if you wanted, play a single player game just to try it out. I also went to a Bioware Mass Effect retrospective panel and a panel about silicone and latex mold making and casting. I can't wait to try it (Just gotta find a cosplay to use it for)!

Sunday I wasn't able to attend, but I was super-proud of my Snake friend being able to get onto Twitch TV and winning forth place for the overall cosplay contest they were holding. His Snake voice took the cake, but if I'd been able to join I'm sure my gun tricks would've earned us a bit higher of a prize, heh.

Overall, I'd have to say PAX was a huge success, and even though I only had Friday and Saturday passes I had a crapton of fun. It's probably one of the best-run conventions I've ever been to, even if most of the people in attendance were white neckbeardy dudes... bleh.

As for Anime Boston:
I'm proud (and slightly nervous) to say that I'll be entering with a few friends into the Masquerade! It's my first time doing anything like this at a convention, but with some practice I'm sure I'll get Ocelot down pat. I'm mostly worried about the voice, since I'm a lady and it's hard to do an old man voice with that as a basis, but hopefully I can at least sound like young Ocelot. Either way, I just wanna have fun,a nd I know we're guarenteed to do that this year.

Still a little on the fence about my Leo cosplay, since I'm not sure if I'll be able to finish it in time, but I hav ea fabbbulous Ezio i wanna hang out with, so we'll see what happens.

Overall I'm doing well! The convention, plus my four months with my boyfriend aaannnnd the fact that I can run two miles in 16 minutes on a trail I've never done before is pretty awesome. Though I finished the Mass Effect series as well so that was a bit of a downer. It was what I expected the ending to be though, so it wasn't a big surprise there. I hope the rest of you have been having an awesome time as well!

A lot has been going on for me lately! I fortunately caught up with school, and completed a photoset for my scoodie with the assistance of the fabulous for taking of the photos. I swear, she should really go into photography! However, since she is such a perfectionist, she insisted on doing another photoset because she didn't like the one she already took. While I don't mind having a reshoot, I still plan on posting one or two of the pictures of the previous shoot on here so you guys can get a taste of what's to come.

For the scoodies, I plan on having a total of 10 commission slots open, and once they fill up, I don't plan on taking more until they're all done. This ensures that those who ordered get theirs done in a timely manner, and it also makes sure that I don't bite off more than I can chew! Currently I'm not opening the commission slots quite yet, as I still need to set up the Paypal and create a small site for it. But school comes first!

Speaking of school, it's been eating up an increasingly large amount of my time, and when I'm not doing schoolwork, I'm trying to chip away at my Leo cosplay as WELL as trying to do my artwork for the MGS fancalendar. Since my art's due in less than a month, dear Leo is going to be on the back-burner, as much as I want to work on him. The deadline for the art is much sooner than the cosplay, so you can understand. I'll still be posting pictures of some of the progress I've made so far, as I've been able to come leaps and bounds in terms of finding the correct research materials.

My parents are also now back living with us, which is a mixed blessing. I'm just happy I get to see my cat again.

I've been sick, and it's put me pretty far behind on my schoolwork. So I probably won't be on here much.

As I mentioned earlier as well, most of my artworks are going up on Tumblr instead of here. I'll still be using this DA for cosplay-related stuff, but if you're more interested in my sketches, then I suggest you go over to my Tumblr. Soon I'll be putting up some pictures form my CTCon, which have been a long time coming... You'll get to see my RED fem!Spy cosplay, so that is also good~

I've also finally finished the pattern for an AC scoodie, which I'll be putting up on here and my tumblr so that you can get a good look at it and also order one for purchase! But before I can get to that, I need to do my schoolwork first :'D (and also make up commish forms).

Hope you guys have been doing well!

My personal life had somewhat of an upset the day before school, but I think it should be fine. I need time to focus more on my schoolwork as well as my future career, hopefully make some contacts in the industry... It's always strange for me to hear about people who don't know what they don't want to do when they get to college when I've known since I was a sophomore in highschool, but I guess some people are different! And that is OKAY!

Other than that, I've been busy planning cosplays, specifically for Anime Boston. I have a looot of research to do for one of them, and quite a lot of work, but I'm hoping that by finishing up the research by the end of this month and then starting on construction for the remaining months I can get this done with no last-minute rushing that usually happens... that always kills me, especially when school's in session :'D

I'll be finishing up a few cosplays as well, mainly finishing my Revolver Ocelot vest, and my RED fem! Spy coat, which needs another dye bath and might also need to be taken in >.< Ah well, considering it was my first coat I'm pretty proud of it (I had to take 24 inches off of the pattern so I'm not surprised!).

Art-wise, I'm mostly on my Tumblr nowadays, just because I don't really have the time to sit down and do finished art pieces at the moment.

I hope everyone's been having a good summer!