Alice - DDR (shirt)

Remaining Tasks
 

• jeans (80%)
  
• suspenders (75%)
  

Finished off the shirt, which leave me to tidy up the jeans and make the back of the suspenders more accurate. Then sometime near the end of this week it's off to the arcade for a DDR shoot. :D Playing Dance Dance *as* a character? XD

The last thing I had to do to the shirt was to paint it. So, much like the creation of my Rei Ayanyaami boots, the water soluble marker and taping off of edges really came in handy. After I had my design drawn on all that was left to do was to tape the edges for a cleaner finish (although this didn't work flawlessly this time it still came out looking great) and fill in my stenciled area.

There was a lot of waiting in between layers because I painted over it twice to ensure the proper opacity and had to wait for it to dry before I removed the tape and moved on to another cluster of taped sections. In the end it proved worth it. Here is a picture of how it is looking right now. I need to take a second to finish off the lower hem, but that will take literally one minute to do. Yay!
Tonight I will be restitching loose edges that I have found as well as adding on a few belt loops and re-attaching my button. If I have time (which I most likely will) I will be finishing off the suspenders, too. I need to nest attend to the finer details of finishing my Bonne Jenet as well as the accessories for the Shadowloo Dolls and Cammy White. Anime Expo is in less than two weeks now! Time to kick this into overdrive!

Oh! And one last thing! Here is a sneak peek at my newly completed Mireille Bouquette.  I didn't bother to blog the process at is was retardly easy and I am already covering shirts/skirts in more substantial blogs. The most difficult part of this was punching holes in the leather; I didn't have a leather punch so it took a bit of time. Other than that no snags or anything out of the ordinary. :)