Just a warning, I'm here to tell you why this tutorial is complete and utter bullshit. Don't disregard this just because it's something you don't want to hear. If you aren't just blinded by him, you'll read this and take it with a gran of salt, even out of respect for a fellow cosplayer. I'm not attacking you, just pointing out some things I've noticed in your tutorial.
He's feeding the fabric into the machine the wrong way in that first picture (seam allowance marks are on the right of the pressure foot...) and at that, why would he be sewing a piece he already, according to his "tutorial" (which isn't a tutorial at all), sewed (said he weathered it after sewing...) This paired with him aiming scissors at unmarked fabric to "cut it" showing him "hard at work" and sewing the fur, the piece he has in the machine isn't the right size for his wrists, ankles, or neck thing. Also the first photo shows the hakama completely finished! The part where he talks about making the sword, he starts with a generic piece of wood, and then shows the generic tool he supposedly used to make it. Implying that these were his actual shots. Why are they all blocky and grainy as fuck compared to the rest of his photos? Why would he suddenly decide that a lower grade photo would be passable for these two steps only? Then when he magically has a finished product, the hilt looks like it had been taken off already, because you see a but of the glue in the top corner of the hilt hole. . . So further suspicion that he just ripped it off and made it look like he was putting it together. Yet he somehow forgot the step between cutting and shaping the wood, to having finished product. Where is the unpainted phase where he has to sand all the cuts he made to the wood? And again, assuming that the materials shown were his own, how did he get that round dowel type piece of wood to magically become WIDER to look like his finished product? How did he so precisely make it the oval shape it is without even a single error? I thought this was his first attempt at making it? Says he slapped it together with wood filler, glue, and paint. None of those things are liquid nails. Seems that he must have just slipped and meant to say that right?
Now for the mask. . . He says he had help with a friend that made it out of fiberglass? Then why is that a box of plaster of paris behind his supposed mask in progress? That's not fiberglass. That's goddamn plaster. Why are the pictures of the finished mask such a different shape from the progress one? Why are the "finished" pictures so shooped? In the last picture, the horns don't line up quite right with the rest of it, yet in his whole costume picture, they're just fine. . .
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He's feeding the fabric into the machine the wrong way in that first picture (seam allowance marks are on the right of the pressure foot...) and at that, why would he be sewing a piece he already, according to his "tutorial" (which isn't a tutorial at all), sewed (said he weathered it after sewing...)
This paired with him aiming scissors at unmarked fabric to "cut it" showing him "hard at work" and sewing the fur, the piece he has in the machine isn't the right size for his wrists, ankles, or neck thing.
Also the first photo shows the hakama completely finished!
The part where he talks about making the sword, he starts with a generic piece of wood, and then shows the generic tool he supposedly used to make it. Implying that these were his actual shots. Why are they all blocky and grainy as fuck compared to the rest of his photos? Why would he suddenly decide that a lower grade photo would be passable for these two steps only? Then when he magically has a finished product, the hilt looks like it had been taken off already, because you see a but of the glue in the top corner of the hilt hole. . . So further suspicion that he just ripped it off and made it look like he was putting it together. Yet he somehow forgot the step between cutting and shaping the wood, to having finished product. Where is the unpainted phase where he has to sand all the cuts he made to the wood? And again, assuming that the materials shown were his own, how did he get that round dowel type piece of wood to magically become WIDER to look like his finished product? How did he so precisely make it the oval shape it is without even a single error? I thought this was his first attempt at making it? Says he slapped it together with wood filler, glue, and paint. None of those things are liquid nails. Seems that he must have just slipped and meant to say that right?
Now for the mask. . . He says he had help with a friend that made it out of fiberglass? Then why is that a box of plaster of paris behind his supposed mask in progress? That's not fiberglass. That's goddamn plaster. Why are the pictures of the finished mask such a different shape from the progress one? Why are the "finished" pictures so shooped? In the last picture, the horns don't line up quite right with the rest of it, yet in his whole costume picture, they're just fine. . .
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