Long time no update! Last time I began showing progress on my Melisandre cosplay, I had only created the pattern which is shown at the end of this post. I got the shape, I just needed to find the most inexpensive material that would get the job done. I also needed to somehow make a 3D gem for the center of the necklace. I was worried I wouldn’t find anything I liked and would have to just paint cardboard which I really wanted to avoid because I don’t want it to look 2D.
My last ditch effort would be clay, but luckily I found a pendant close to the shape I wanted and I went about painting over it. I’m not done just yet, the picture below is the base paint to cover the flower design, I will be doing one more layer of red.
Painting that pendant made my bathroom look like a crime scene, all that red! I started by painting a dark red and layering that over and over again until the flower design was almost non-existent. Then I applied a brighter red with less brown mixed in, after that dried I applied a few patches of straight up brown and then more plain red on top. The reason for all of this was to make it look aged as I’m sure that necklace of hers is super old. I then put it on a chain to see how it would look (the actual chain won’t be used for now).
Tomorrow I’ll begin applying the pattern I made and cutting it out and hopefully painting that as well. I would love to get this necklace done this weekend so all I would have left is the sewing of the dress. I have a pattern for it, I just need fabric! Here is the pattern for the necklace that I have ready to go for tomorrow:
After the necklace, my to-do list is as so:
-Buy fabric for dress
-Sew the dress
-Find shoes
-Get a good makeup palette for this look
-Get some curlers for the wig and lots of bobby pins
I would be so happy to have this done for a con next month!! I planned on originally having this done for a different con in April, but if I could have it done sooner that would be much better.