Photo: Marvin (HHGttG) at Anime Los Angeles 2024 by Photograsaurus_Rex

Happy 2024!!

I attended Anime Los Angeles at the beginning of this month, and it was such a blast! I got to see and hang out with some of my favorite people, and met a whole bunch more with whom I’m excited to work with in the near future.

I also got to debut my Marvin (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) and Kaylee (Firefly) cosplays, shout-out to the photographers who shot with and everyone who stopped and recognized the obscure sci-fi references!

You may have noticed a little change at the top left-hand corner of my site?

I made a new logo!!

I wanted to make something a bit cleaner and more legible, replacing the squiggly handwritten logo.

A couple changes have been made to hopefully improve the site:

• Alphabetized Shop
  • Patterns and Tutorials in my Shop are now sorted alphabetically by default!
  • This should make it a lot easier to find items based on series name vs randomly being displayed.
  • Not sure why that wasn’t happening in the first place…
• Portfolio Page
  • Updated and cleaned up my Portfolio once again! I’m trying to make it easier to access and share instead of it just being an assorted collection of all my past projects.
• About Page
  • Updated my About page, now includes an up-to-date bio.
• Projects
  • Featured Projects on my Home Page have been updated!

That’s all for now! Look forward to new and exciting projects coming soon!!!

~Christine

Some people have been wondering where I’ve been for the past 2-3 months…

Welllll, I had a really cool (and paid) opportunity pop up, to, not only build props for, but also be the Assistant Director AND Fight Choreographer for a local youth production!

It was a comedy show in a medieval / fantasy setting, so I had a total blast building all sorts of wacky-wild props.
I’ve never made anything child-sized before, so there was a bit of a learning curve when it came to figuring out the scale of helmets and armor pieces!

I uploaded a whole bunch of photos of all the different props to my shiny new Portfolio, see everything shared over there!

~Christine

Hey hey! I sat down, organized all of my past builds (back through 2018!?), and uploaded them ALL into neat and clean sections of a new portfolio!!

This honestly took SEVERAL DAYS of digging through old Instagram posts and computer files to gather everything together, but hopefully moving forward it will be much easier to add completed projects to the portfolio and show off everything in one place!

Spiffy new portfolio is linked in the image above, on my menu bar at the top of the page, or you can visit it via this link!

I know I’m missing a couple projects due to not having taken many photos, but alas, all I can do is get better about documenting my work moving forward and (hopefully) keeping track of everything.

~Christine

Photo: Ada-1 with Izanagi’s Burden at Fanime 2023 by Jazmin Lashae Photography

Hey hey, it’s been a hot sec since I’ve updated my shop here! 😮

Between officially opening up my schedule for commission projects, building a full armor set for Anime Expo 2023, and now helping to direct and provide props for a show dropping in November, I’ve been a wee bit busy!

Over the past year I’ve had the chance to build tons of really cool props for some amazing cosplay friends, make sure to check out all the pics on my Instagram if you haven’t seen them yet.

Thank you for supporting my craft and allowing me the opportunity to learn and grow, and build some snazzy things along the way!!

I’ve also managed to keep up my Cosplay Patterns Patreon for almost 2 years now??? You guys are seriously the best, thank you for all your love and encouragement to keep me creating and helping me to transition!

MASSIVE SHOP UPDATE

You can now find all of the following patterns in my shop:

Many of these patterns I designed as Patreon exclusives and are now available for sale, or they are for props I have actually built in the past year!

That’s all for now, thanks for reading!
~Chris

Thanks for swinging by and checking out my shiny new website!! 💕

This website will act as a hub for all the cosplay-related projects I have going on!

Right now on my site, you can find :

My Patterns & Tutorials Shop!

• I’m slowly moving away from Etsy and relocating to my own space!
• You can make your very own ChriSekaiCosplay.com account and have all of your pattern and tutorial downloads available in one place!
• It’s Black Friday!! Take 40% off to help get my shop started!
  • Coupon: WELCOME40
  • Valid until 11/27 at midnight PDT.

[NEW] My Cosplay Blog

• I’ll be sharing tips and tricks for both old builds and new projects!
• These will not be full tutorials, but should give ideas and a couple of answers to how I’ve approached building different props!

[NEW] Workshops!

• I am writing and creating a series of workshops about getting started with crafting and building your very own cosplay props!
• The target audience will be novice creators looking for a place to start building, but I hope to share tips and tricks I have found helpful for both beginners and experts alike!
• This is currently a work in progress, and I will continue writing and adding new workshops over the next year!

[NEW] About Me!

• It’s nice to meet you! Here’s a little bit about me as a creator.
• You can also check out which upcoming events I’ll be attending, a list of frequently asked questions related to prop-making and my shop, a direct way to contact me with further questions, and a collection of ALL of my links!

[NEW] My Builds!

• You can scroll through a portfolio of all of my cosplay builds in one place!

It’s been quite the process figuring out how to get everything set up here, and I’ll be continuing to improve and grow the site as time goes on. Please excuse any technical hiccups or glitches that may emerge, and if anything goes horribly astray, please feel free to reach out and let me know!

Thanks again for dropping by! Leave a comment and say hello to test if that’s working! 🥰

Hello crafters!

Looking for a place to get started building your next cosplay prop? I’m currently writing a series of workshops to help you out!

The target audience for my workshops is novice creators looking to get their feet wet in the world of prop building, but I hope to share tips and tricks that I have found helpful for both beginner and expert builders alike!

These workshops are written from my personal experience constructing props. They will mostly feature techniques for working with EVA foam, but the ideas should be applicable to whatever craft medium you have available or decide to work with!

Right now, I have two workshops published :

Tools of the Trade – focusing on the basic tools you would need to get started building.
Sanding Your Prop – introducing different methods for sanding.

Please feel free to leave a reply below and let me know your thoughts! I’d love to dedicate time to writing more in-depth workshops, so long as the interest is there and people will find them useful. Also, let me know if there’s a specific topic or area of prop building you would like to see me write a workshop for!

Thanks for coming along on this adventure with me,
~Chris

Izanagi’s Burden | Exotic Sniper Rifle
~ Destiny 2 ~
Pattern Designed and Built by ChriSekaiCosplay

Download the Pattern HERE!

About :
As an avid fan of Destiny 2 since Year One, and I realized that I didn’t have anything physical to show for it. So I decided to make a pattern for one of my favorite weapons, and then I thought why not? Might as well build it, too!

The Process :
Most of my progress pictures were saved from Instagram stories, please excuse any strange formatting!

I started by printing out my pattern and tracing it onto 10mm EVA foam.

In order to give the long rifle barrel more support, I wanted to run a PVC pipe down the middle. Layers were cut from the foam and sandwiched around my pipe base. I wanted the rifle to detach where the long barrel meets the main body, so I made sure to build it as two separate pieces.

I used a 3/4″ PVC pipe for this build, along with 3/4″ CPVC pipe inside. The CPVC, with a little foam padding, fits snugly inside the PVC, and allows for a simple, no-locks-or-magnets method to slide two pieces together and have them hold securely!

One 3/4″ PVC pipe runs the length of the rifle, a second, short 3/4″ PVC pipe sits at the separation point to keep the rifle upright and positioned correctly, and a 1/2″ PVC pipe splits from the main pipe and provides support for the handle grip!

Knowing the main handle-piece would be the most time consuming, I decided to tackle that first! I cut my pattern up and created layer upon layer of 10mm, 5mm, and 2mm EVA foam detailing.

Edges were sanded smooth using a dremel and sandpaper, and small wooden dowels were used for some of the detail work on the end.

The barrel-piece of the rifle was much more straight-forward. I made a few layers of EVA foam to fully conceal the PVC pipe, then sanded and shaped the barrel to have a nice rounded edge!

I forgot to take progress pics during this section, but I finished up the barrel-piece by creating a simple scope, built the end of the rifle barrel with layers of 10mm foam, and then sanded everything smooth!

Both pieces were then Plastidipped, primed with spray paint (black for the handle-piece, white for the barrel-piece), then details were hand painted using acrylics!

After a thick layer of glossy spray sealant, Izanagi’s Burden was completed! This project took roughly 235 hours (~1 month) from design to completion.

I think the end result was well worth the build time, don’t you? 😊

Download my Izanagi’s Burden pattern HERE!

Photo Gallery :

You can find more pics on my Instagram!