Fan Expo Canada 2013 and The Last of Us!

Let me start by saying it was great, and I'd say for the first year being a vender, I'm happy with the outcome and will be attending  next year!

This post however will primarily be about The Last of Us well and the Expo. Now if I'd been more organized and hadn't had a few curve balls, I would have had a post about my costume before the event, but after will have to do. If you are not familiar with The Last of Us it is a Play Station Exclusive video game that has great game play, great graphics and an amazing character driven plot! One of my favorite games of the year. So for Fan Ex I decided to Cosplay as Ellie a strong willed, rough edged teenager.  

 

 I compiled all the part bit by bit including learning how to silk screen so I could wear her signature T-shirt. I noticed when putting this costume together a lot of detail went into the backpacks of the characters concerting your looking at them for most of the game. This lead my to try and recreate the little monster which appears on her bag through out the game and get custom buttons printed.

  
Because of this costume I meet some awesome people including two of the Dangerous Ladies, who happen to know their way around cosplaying quite well. On the last day of the con I (Ellie) met up with  Jenn (Tess), Brad (Joel)  to do a spur of the moment Last of Us photo shoot. Thanks to Josh of JJAB Productions  For taking these grand shoots!

These are a few of my Favs:

Now to get improving my Costume for the Toronto Zombie walk!

Link to Whole Gallary: The Last of Us Shoot

Spring is Here...well sort of...why snow?!?!

So in honor of the not so spring right now... Zombies! 

 Well a zombie, a Sam zombie to be correct! I was originally waiting to post this mostly because I was waiting for Robert Vajdec to get his own FX website *hint* up so I could link it; HERE. Alas this has not happened yet so it will be linked as soon as I can. In the mean time this beauty was done back in the spring time last year. What your seeing is a custom foam latex prosthetic designed for my face!  It was sculpted and molded, applied and painted by Rob, mentioned above. I just modeled it all around town :D

I have to say I was very happy to volunteer for this little project.  Don't I look good?

Urggg Arrrrg Rrrr!*


*translated: Happy Spring Time!

The Ballz are a Rolling!

 

So lot of balls a rolling as of late. Getting ready to do some festivals , writing on the side, and getting out to do some socially fun stuff. Still adjusting  to the city have to say. There are so many people and yet so little interaction, beside trying to get passed them to get somewhere. However I've been getting more involved with the Art community including going to an amazing  magazine release party for Nest. Which can be found at  the Gutter Bird website HERE.  Supporting local artists is always is a bonus! 

Other then that I worked Hamilton Festival of Friends with Jacqueline, who is the owner of Complete Art and Effects Web site HERE.  There we as well as some other very talented FX artists proceeded to give children, students, parents and even their babies black eyes. There were of course some other  very gruesome FX as well as helping out the amazing guys and gals of Nightmare on Elmore.  

(Seriously these guys are great, Haunts like this one don't come around to often!  Be prepared to scream if you catch up to them! If your interested you can find there Website HERE.  The first picture at the top of the page is one of the Gals I made up for the Haunt.)

If you are curious of how we got some of these FX I can put together some info. :)

On the home front I mentioned getting ready to do some festivals , in which I hope to sell some of my own creations.  Sculpting, molding, casting, creating and ext. ext. has been all of my spare time, and by spare time I mean all of the time I am not making money.  Hopefully that will turn into me making money for my own art.  :D I'll be talking more about those projects next time.  Hope you Guys are doing awesome!  I'll be trying to update again more regularly.

Thanks for Reading!