Splicer02

Ohwow I guess I've been neglecting my deviantArt a bit lately... I've been browsing on here a lot for medieval/fantasy costume stuff and was going to attempt a Ranger costume (from Ranger's Apprentice). I will attempt the costume another time but for now, a week until Avcon, I have made a Necromancer costume, pretty much the same as what I was planning for my Ranger but black, based (loosely) on the book Prince of Thorns. I got the book at the airport on the way back from my Queensland family holiday a couple of months ago and read it on the plane. It is the darkest book I have ever read, a stark contrast to the young teen books I've been re-reading most of my life. 

The Lockpick is still my favorite story that I've attempted so, rather than starting a new story with my drawn characters (Flinton Stiel, Tobias Drake, Gale Sydney, etc.) I am going to come back and attempt to continue this.

Originally, this was just meant for me to practice writing, mainly violence, because I'd never written a long story before, just short, one page things. I haven't even tried writing in a while, other than one attempt at poetry, and anyone who watches my DeviantArt can see that I haven't done any drawing for a while either.
I'd like to say that it's because of tafe, but really I'm just lazy  
Anyway, lately I've been trying out costuming as a hobby, started with an Edward Elric costly, realized an overweight, pimply and tall Ed would look a bit stupid and only got the automail forearm and glove finished. Then I went for a Veteran Ranger costume from Fallout: New Vegas both because it's awesome and because it has a mask so I don't get self-conscious. I managed to put together a version of it, however was not willing to build my own mask from scratch and didn't know what I was doing. I ended up with most of the main parts, a trench coat, gas mask (from ebay) and some foam plates glued to a shirt for the combat armour.

So now I've moved on from that too. Played through Halo 4 after borrowing it from a friend and then started looking at people who had built spartan armour. They were so awesome I looked into that as well. That was a couple of days ago, and I now realize that the design is a bit stupid and leaves the whole mid-section unprotected.

Okay so finally I thought, why not do my own costume? After some thought and research I decided on a black scaly coat (similar to what Wesker from Resident Evil wears, or Morpheus from Matrix), a full-face combat helmet (Basically a motorbike helmet, I guess similar to a spartan helmet) and some other stuff like big rubber boots, shoulder and forearm armour, and a belt with pouches.
After a bit of thinking I remembered the Lockpick and, either subconsciously or by coincidence, the costume resembled what I wrote the creature to wear, along with the armour pieces and helmet used by the "gladiators" including Jay Crinson, who fights the creature late in what I wrote. The coat kinda makes sense, because it was supposed to be re-formed from the doctors (ridiculously long) lab coat.

So with some more writing and some concept sketches I'll hopefully end up with "Lock", basically the creature using/wearing human technology.
Now to what I'll be doing:

I'll try and continue writing the Lockpick, putting more design and detail behind "Lock" (the creature) along with what this story is actually going to be, not just him systematically wiping out the human race one by one
I'll also be trying to put together this costume, sewing the coat, cutting the armour from metal and foam, and customizing a cheap motorbike helmet I'll try and find second hand.
Obviously to do the costume I'll need some sketches of this, I'll upload the sketches here and, hopefully, I'll end up with the most badass of all my characters

Thanks for any interest

I'm attempting to make an Edward Elric (fullmetal alchemist) costume because I'm sick of always being in front of the computer. I'm probably going to have to sew the coat myself and I'll customize the boots from a pair of gumboots or whatever... The arm I'm making out of foam and whatever coating I can find to make it more solid. The jacket will just be a shirt that I'll customize and the hair will be hair extensions and my own dyed head...  

I've been very lonely lately, opinion seems to be that I'm going through teen emotions just a little late..

I hate things being messy..
SO, just like I cleaned up my computer, I'm cleaning up my deviantArt. I'm removing everything from all the folders and will then re-sort them into new and less folders. Some stuff will be scraped and others will be deleted....
I'm also trying to clean up my style, make it less chibi and more like an anime or cartoon... Having a bit of trouble with hair and... well let's face it, everything else

Yea, so if you're someone who is just visiting my page, please feel free to still go through my featured section and whatever folders are left at that time. I should have it done by tomorrow night.

At the moment I'm going through and getting every file on my computer out of its own folder and putting it in an "everything" folder... I'll then sort them so that I actually have some level of organization on this thing.

The other day I actually drew a pic based on a reference image, to be specific; a stock photo. It didn't turn out too bad, I might use similar techniques for future works.. at least the more serious ones
Still gonna try and draw chibi and I'm still working on an actual cartoon style that I can use that isn't chibi...

I've found out that Dr Who is on TV weeknights, which has been awesome

Tafe is going very well. Awesome friends and awesome times, even having fun doing the actual work.. when I actually do work

So yea, should take a few days or a week to clean up all these files and sort them... Should be fun