Mage of the True North Clan
Project complete! I gotta say that I'm pretty proud of this! Is it perfect? No, but this is also the first time I've tried anything like this. I learned a lot and should I ever have to make it again I know it'll only get better! Let's take a look at some of the details of this outfit. Except for the boots, everything she is wearing is custom. (Her boots is one thing I do want to change, but that's a whole other fiasco!)
Hat! Also doubles as an umbrella as the fabric is kinda water resistant, and the brim is actually a disc of plastic! The point is all natural with no additional support.
Her big blinging necklace! Another of the Amethyst beads that were used on her staff, a bent jump ring, and a bit of gold chain. This was probably the easiest part of the whole project.
A staff, practically crackling with raw power! This is nothing like what I envisioned when I started making her and the single thing that fell farthest from my original vision. Why? Mainly because her hands are so small! Her hands have the same gripping radius as a Lego minifig! Why am I sure? Because that's a piece of Lego tubing making up the shaft of the staff! A bit of wire, a mess of jump rings, and some amethyst beads. It was fiddly, but worth it!
The sleeves are attached to the dress but I decided not to sew them on. I knew that I wanted to have something across her back to help hold the top of the dress together and I was thinking gold chain which required a jump ring to attach it anyways. So, I ran a ring through the sleeve and the top of the dress to connect it, also giving me somewhere to attach the chain.
I feel like this detail really brought the outfit together. A little leather belt with holsters for wands! Since her hands are so small these little Lego wands work perfectly!
So far I'm really liking the wire in the hem. Whether she's moving, casting a spell, or the ambient magical energies are just flowing around her, that dress is never going to be sitting still!
The added bonus of that staff is that she's basically a tripod! I hope to get a lot of cool poses out of her without having to use additional stands (although I could probably hide any I need to use easily enough with her poseable dress! Heh.)
You can look forward to seeing more of her soon. She deserves an intro shoot into the Clan and that needs to happen soon because she's due to start causing some problems for Arachne soon... I'm glad you guys seem to like her as much as I do! Thanks for the comments!