Cosplay Family Spotlight is a new recurring segment where I interview and spotlight a cosplay family. This week, I interview Michelle from Sweet Destruxion Cosplay.
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I have been putting my kids in costume since they were born. I have always loved to dress up and make my own costumes. I talked my husband into it, eventually, to match my costumes. And then we had the kids and the cosplayer in me was like, “Hmmmm, the perfect cosplay accessories!” They love to dress up as well, and while I love doing family cosplays based on the same theme, I do not force them into any of them and let them go off into their own fandom or not dress up at all if they so choose. With my oldest son, he would go along with us until he turned 12, and then all of a sudden he was too cool to be seen with us. Ha! Now he is 14 and will cosplay, but he makes his own or does a theme with his friends which is totally fine with me. My daughter is 9 and younger son is 8, and usually they go along with whatever or cosplay together, but they still have their times they want to do their own thing too. Our first cosplay together at an actual convention was from the show Legend of the Seeker because I am a huge Terry Goodkind fan, and some of the actors from the show were going to be at DragonCon, as well as some of the members of our Goodkind fan group. I had about four days to put something together, so I made us all costumes from the show. I loved the convention scene and was automatically hooked. We then went on to do cosplays from other shows and cartoons together.
I am on a Black Butler kick right now, so mine is Grell Sutcliffe. I have made every version of her so far and a few of my own. Toby usually gravitates to Captain Hook from Once Upon a Time. Seth really liked his Sans from Undertale. That was a literal last minute cosplay made the night before a convention that he worked on that was made from paper mache and had a LED light in the eye. Gage’s is his Kylo Ren and Nadine said any of her evil costumes, haha! She is like me and always wants to be the villain. My personal favorite of a group cosplay was our Once Upon a Time cosplay. I was evil queen Regina, Toby was Captain Hook, Seth was Henry, and Nadine and Gage were Hansel and Gretel. We got to meet a lot of the cast at a convention, and they really loved it.
I think the most challenging costume was Captain Hook. I had never worked with leather before, so I had to read a lot and get help from a leather working friend of mine. Plus all of those grommets! My hands were sore for a week from putting all of those in for the lacing. But it was totally worth it.
I sew all of our costumes. I have done a few things with resin casting and foam, and even learned a little metal working for a small piece of a costume. My favorite part is the sewing, though.
Take any show or book or game they like and show them how they can bring it to life! Let them help with the building or sewing or painting. My oldest son has made several cosplays himself using foam for armor and paper mache, and you can tell he is very proud of his work and enjoys his cosplay more than if I just make it and tell him to wear it. My kids love going to conventions and getting to see all of their favorite characters. My daughter really gets into it and gets people she likes to pose with her, like the Pac-Man cosplayers that she wanted to “chase” her and the Sugar Plum fairy that she wanted to make scary faces with. You really just have to consider their interests and what part of cosplay, or any geeky interest, they like the most and go off of that.
My main thing is cosplay, but I guess sewing would come into that as well. I see an outfit on a show or cartoon and I am like, “I need to make that now!!!” So I guess fashion design would be something I geek out about. My oldest wants to be a video game designer and is already taking classes in school to help him with that. My daughter loves to draw and mostly loves drawing manga type art and she does very well and has even had her art entered into art shows.
This post was last modified on December 13, 2017 10:22 pm
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