MULAN PROGRESS At the last minute the night before the shoo..
Added 2021-02-09 17:30:46 +0000 UTCMULAN PROGRESS At the last minute the night before the shoot, I decided to see if I could add an extra touch to my set. It felt a little empty, so I wanted to make some banners with the emperor’s crest. Luckily, I had just enough spare cotton red fabric from when I made my Assassin’s Creed cosplay four years ago (I hoard fabric like you wouldn’t believe) so I decided to go for it. I printed off a photo of the dragon crest from the movie and blew it up into poster size (about 200%) and taped all the printed sheets together. Then I used a box cutter (xacto knife would have been better but mine was too blunt to make the cuts sharp) to create a stencil. Once all the pieces were cut out, I laid the stencil on my red fabric and pinned down all lifted areas so I’d have as little bleed from the paint as possible. Unfortunately I didn’t have fabric paint, so I improvised with some plastidip as a base for the paint and did two coats. After the plastidip had dried, I painted one coat of gold. Once everything was dry, I lifted the stencil off and voila! You can still see some bleed which is expected since it’s still fabric and there’s still going to be some gaps between the stencil and fabric where paint is going to creep in, but I think even the “mistakes” give it some character and makes it look more aged and legit. After painting my two banners, I cut the fabric out evenly and left the raw edges instead of hemming them to give it more of a rougher look.
