crown

I made Esyrlon a pseudo-crown dealy a while back and decided Theorin needed one as well, at least for use some of the time.

The design is very simple, but probably a little too um... elegant(?) to go with the rest of his ensemble.

Thinking it possibly might work better if the thing didn't stick up so high. I have ideas in my head that would work for this thing and make it mesh with the outfit better but they would be rather challenging to pull off with materials I have readily available.

Anyway, if this doesn't work out for Theorin I can modify it and give it to someone else for something.

costuming

I wanted to get something relatively productive done today and I decided that it was about time I gave Theorin's outfit a try. (If I can get his done then I'll know I am at least capable of making Scileraen's since they dress somewhat similarly)

So I set about spray painting pieces of jewelry so they'd be appropriately gold (because most discount jewelry I find is silver). And I also got out my bags of leather scraps and tried to find ones in the appropriate colors for outfit parts. I still need a belt, a proper pair of pants, and some shoes, but for now I'm pleased with progress.

 If it wasn't so late I'd try to get pictures in natural lighting, but for now we will have to survive with my poorly lit room.Everything except the pants is made or modified by me. The cape is intentionally somewhat asymmetrical, but I think I might have overdone it a bit. I'll see how I feel in the morning.

Edited to add: Rather than just go to sleep and cease productivity I ended up fiddling with Esyrlon's head ornamentation while chatting with Soren.

I originally had it all symmetrical, but since his hair isn't parted evenly I felt like it looked weird so I just made it unbalanced the way his hair is to some degree. I tried doing it with wire but it was proving to be a bit difficult so I just disassembled leftover pieces from the necklace that had the spikes on Theorin's outfit (above) and modified some earrings and added a fancy button. XD

Detail view of one of the sides of this thing:

Accessorizing

It's been a weird week and I haven't been very productive. I did find time to mess with Avignon's look a few days back and today I decided to get out my random pieces of discount jewelry to mess with Esyrlon and Theorin's accessories. When proper motivation returns I will be attempting to make Theorin real clothes, but for now he's just wearing.. neck things.

too lazy to go acquire natural lighting or even set up a backdrop. I've been cleaning the house and it's unbearably hot today so I just didn't feel like it.

Here they are from the front. Color correction makes Theorin look rather green around the face.

And the side (sort of). Theorin's hair is a mess. I didn't realize when I took the picture. Vaguely interesting story behind that: I ordered a custom wig for him because I had a certain length and color in mind but couldn't find the right sort of thing. I didn't want it to  have a defined part anywhere either. Anyway, I get said custom wig and despite having ordered it to fit a 9-10in. head, it won't even fit someone who wears an 8.

I don't know what method they used to make the wig, but it apparently involved plastic and some sort of adhesive. I had to pull out the wefts of hair from the weird adhesive stuff (which was black and goopy and not fun) and then I sewed them onto a new wig cap that I made. So after much work, I managed to get a wig that properly fit Theorin's head and is the right style. (I can't remember if I've mentioned this story here before but I don't think I have.)

Made the discovery that my Phonolus head fits on my Limhwa Mano body. Color isn't too far off either. If it didn't look too serene to be my Scileraen, I'd be sorely tempted just because I really love that head.