![[personal profile]](https://www.momiji.dreamwidth.dev/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I just put my finger on one of the things that's been bugging me over the last couple of days, and I poke through Y-con photos - by a certain standard, I'm not a very good cosplayer. Oh, sure, the costumes are beautiful. I am, dare a I say it, excellent at craftsmanship. But the costumes may as well be on a dressform for how they look on me. The one and only character I cosplay that I actually look like the character as is Tatsumi - the rest of the time it just looks like me, wearing someone else's clothing.
I look through the photos and I hate how I look in them - I probably have close to two hundred photos of the various Seishirou outfits I've done, and I don't like any of them. And the same is true for Subaru, and Ada, and Leon. It's so frustrating, because I like the characters, I like making costumes, but I tend to live by the standard of 'if you can't do it well, why bother doing it at all' and there isn't really much I can do to make it any better - yeah, I could maybe improve my make-up skills some, but there's only so much even that can do.
I look through the photos and I hate how I look in them - I probably have close to two hundred photos of the various Seishirou outfits I've done, and I don't like any of them. And the same is true for Subaru, and Ada, and Leon. It's so frustrating, because I like the characters, I like making costumes, but I tend to live by the standard of 'if you can't do it well, why bother doing it at all' and there isn't really much I can do to make it any better - yeah, I could maybe improve my make-up skills some, but there's only so much even that can do.
![[identity profile]](https://www.momiji.dreamwidth.dev/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2006-10-25 05:06 pm (UTC)From:mirror faces are fun and make you feel stupid. it's great. you really need to try it. (That's what i do XD )
i know what you mean, though. you get a character you love, you make their costume and then... damn. that face just isn't coming through and it sucks.
good luck. i'm rooting for you :D
no subject
Date: 2006-10-25 07:05 pm (UTC)From:I think this is one of the many, many downfalls of cosplaying a lot of the same characters as Jo - she's one of those people that can somehow manage to look like anybody. It was looking at the Leon photos from Y-con that set me off, because I love his tactical gear, but I wouldn't look half as good, or as like Leon, as she does.
Thanks ♥ (Hope you feel better, too)
no subject
Date: 2006-10-28 09:11 pm (UTC)From:I think you're getting hung up on comparing yourself to her. Might be a good idea to do characters that are more suitable to you, rather than doing the same ones she does.
Yeah, she made a fantastic Leon, but the two of you also did different costumes. Mafia!Leon is less recognizable because it's an alternate outfit.
Sure, I know you like the same characters, but if you're convinced you don't look like the characters you're trying to portray and that she constantly shows you up at it, then the most logical solution seems to be to find other, more fitting characters to try a hand at.
no subject
Date: 2006-10-28 09:40 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2006-10-28 09:59 pm (UTC)From:And there are tons of viable game characters, just fewer of the super-bishie, doe-eyed Squenix variety. You mostly crossplay, right? You should try Chris from RE.
no subject
Date: 2006-10-28 10:13 pm (UTC)From:There is no way I am buff enough to cosplay Chris - if I was, I'd do Wesker, actually, but I don't have the build or the right face-shape. I've seen girly-Wesker, it's a sad, sad sight. I'm kind of stuck at pretty-boy.