Cosplay WIP - Dye for SnorlaxCowslip’s design for Snorl

[momijizukamori]

Cosplay WIP - Dye for Snorlax

Cowslip’s design for Snorlax has blue and white trim on the top tunic, and then an ‘apron’ also in blue and white’. I didn’t find any patterns in the right collar I liked at JoAnn’s for the trim, so ultimately  I did both myself. I took the parts of the picture with the patterns, enlarged them in GIMP, and then ran some contrast filters to get it to be greyscale. I also mirrored the apron pattern so it was the same on both sides, as the original was handdrawn and varied some. The collar pattern got some repeats mixed in with similar geometric designs, because you can’t see a lot of it, and I reused it for the sleeve cuffs.

Then my usual dye-stenciling and as typical for me, I made way too much dye paste - that was what was left. Tomorrow night or Tuesday, once it’s had plenty of time for the dye to set, they’ll get run through the wash.

Comments

[silveradept]

They look fantastic, and definitely looking forward to seeing how the entire ensemble puts together, given the really neat reference picture.

[momijizukamori]

Thanks! I'm super-happy with how the flannel turned out, and the rest of the outfit is coming along pretty quickly.

I really should figure out how to to cut images I crosspost from tumblr, though.

[silveradept]

They look like they're coming along great.

If you mean "put behind a cut", you can use the regular cut tag to make them disappear so that you don't have pictures taking up the space.

If you mean "make the pictures smaller or more focused", then I don't think there's anything that will help there.

[momijizukamori]

Regular cut tag, but I only want to do images and I'm not sure I can with the crosspost tool I use for tumblr

[silveradept]

Oh, yeah, that would make things more difficult. You could still cut the images here, but I don't know if the crossposter can crosswalk that code into the appropriate lines for elsewhere.

What do you use for the crossposting?

[momijizukamori]

I've been using Zapier, and setting it to trigger on a set of tags (so not everything gets posted over here). It actually goes of the RSS feed for my tumblr, because tumblr's formats for image posts are weird.

[silveradept]

Oh, wow, extra interesting stuff, then. I'm not familiar with that tool, so I don't know if it can be set to append the right tags on the output it generates without going through an intermediate processor - grab from RSS, find and append, then ship off to DW for posting.