Very rarely I take non cat commissions for family Halloween costumes.

( Hand sculpt, foam-worbla base with ThermoMorph top over an Industrial strength cloak clasp. )

Hi there, and welcome to a new ✨experiment✨ of a blog! I'm Carnivalization Cosplay, aka Christy (she/her), and I'm a cosplayer! Obviously! Here are costumes and props I've all made from scratch! I love focusing on the craft of cosplay and sharing things that I learn, so I've returned to Tumblr to try and better document my builds in a more blog-like format. There just aren't any other social media sites that are well-suited to content where you actually talk about what you're doing and why (save for Dreamwidth, the real one), so I'm giving this a shot for the rest of my builds this year. This year, I'll be building:

Barbarian Tav (Baldur's Gate 3)

Jaheira (Baldur's Gate 3)

Cassia Orsellio (Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader)

and whatever else I might have time for...! You can expect posting about every step of the process of creating these costumes, so if that sounds up your alley, hope you enjoy it! And always feel free to send asks if you have questions. I'm happy to talk shop, send recommendations, etc.! Photo Credits 📸

Aloy: Renfroe Photography

Merrill: Fabled Imagery

Lohse: Momo Clicks

Maya: Hall shot--No page for photographer

Got an email out of the blue asking if I’d be up for a magnet commission. In this economy? Yeah, why not! Always warms my heart to hear that years after I’ve stopped selling at cons someone out there still has an old business card on their fridge. <3

Smaugust day 2 - New Wings

It was kinda hard to sculpt small dragon wings of air dry clay, so i try using craft foam and I really like how it come out.

finished my Moondalorian bucket <3

the Hieroglyphs say “Fist of Khonshu”

Lost- Not Penny's Boat craft

I just felt like doing this little craft and wanted to share. From the TV Show- Lost.

Cut out a circle of craft foam and first I sanded the front that I wanted to paint.

Cover it in mod podge.

After the mod podge is dry, paint a layer of white acrylic paint and let it dry.

I traced out where I wanted the hand and "not penny's boat" to be.

5. I used black acrylic paint to paint out the fingers and outline of the palm of Charlie's hand. Making sure the letters still fit.

6. I filled in the palm with the black acrylic.

7. And painted in the "not penny's boat".

From Season 3 final of Lost.

i’ve been scared to post my cosplay stuff on here and i’m currently not comfortable showing my face on tumblr buuuut… here’s my V cosplay i wore recently :)

sadly the visor died at the convention while i was wearing it (plus i couldn’t see shit and i am already super nearsighted so that wouldn’t be a good idea)

I made this instead of the dynamite I should have been working on

Don't get into cosplay or else you too will become a cautionary tale who has thoughts like "Well, I really like this piece of media and I even have a standout favorite character in it, but do I actually want to make that much fucking armor"

"The kids, right."

Some more experimenting with a new brush/ softer style for colored work! Told ya I had more planned for this Y/N <3

WIPs of the process of foam clay sculpting Miwaks skull hat, this time in mini! Still have to smooth some parts, but have to wait for my small sized dremal mandrel to arrive.

Doll by @homemadehorrors

I crafted the Sacred Bow of Palutena from Kid Icarus for my Dark Pit cosplay.

I reworked the headpiece for Bakugou and finally placed magnets in the wig. ✌🏻

Quite happy with the result. 💥

Somsnosa Cosplay Speedrun!! A bunch of blips of me making this cosplay before PAX East this year and my little Wayne and larva buddies as well!

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD

ITS BEEN STARING US IN THE FACE THIS ENTIRE TIME COMRADES WE'RE FOOLS

GHOST IS THE MOTHERFUCKING HEADLESS HORSEMAN

imagine with me a monster au

Price: gargoyle. stony skin, nigh impenetrable but pieces can snap off. he lost a horn that way. during the day he's restricted mostly to the indoors or he'll turn into a statue. he has wings he most definitely has wings. he smokes because he likes the tickle of it and he despises getting wet cause it makes his joints ache and his skin swell. he eats a balanced diet, mostly birds and the occasional green thing(he prefers moss) and he needs to swallow rocks to help him digest.

Gaz: naga. I like the idea of him being a sassy little rattlesnake. he does have venom but he can control it so it's not like he's gnawing on a steak with enough punch to knock out a platoon. he does swallow prey whole, it's really fucking disconcerting, and he eats like once a week. not completely cold blooded but much below room temperature and he gets really slow. he gets crabby in the winter because nagas naturally hibernate. nagas will only bite as a last line of defense because their fangs are actually pretty fragile in comparison to most real snakes.

Soap: amalgamation(think Frankenstein's monster). he's technically undead but it's kind of confusing because he is a completely separate person than any of his parts (legislation on this is a bitch and it flip flops every election cycle). amalgamations are usually not purposely made, they can happen just about anywhere, usually in morgues, funeral homes, or graveyards(lots of them crawl out of mass graves). no one has ever seen an amalgamation naturally come together, despite hundreds of years of trying (the magic works with Toy Story rules) but they can also be purposely made(very fucking illegal and unethical). a lot of times amalgamations are pretty off-putting, most undead are, but Soap is just like the best parts of everybody crammed into one package. and he's trans cause I said so and it's thematic.

Ghost: people jokingly call him a horseman of the apocalypse but oh if only they knew. no one is quite sure what Ghost is, bets are mostly on amalgamation because of just the sheer number of scars he has when people catch a glimpse; it can look like he's literally sewn together(natural amalgamations have smooth seams, made amalgamations are usually sewn or stapled). those who know are aware that Simon Riley went missing as a human man and returned as Something Else. he was beheaded before they buried him, in a world of monsters Manuel Roba isn't going to take risks, kicked his head into the coffin with him before nailing it down and shoving it back into the earth. but now his head is gone, destroyed, ripped to bloody pulpy, bits, instead of his traitorous commanding officer, Ghost used his own jaw in his desperation to escape the grave as a newly wakened undead. everyone wants to see what's under the mask, see behind the black pits of the skull, but the ringing hollow truth is that there's nothing there. and there can't be, not anymore. he doesn't eat, but he will absorb the energy of those around him and it can affect his mood if there are strong emotions. over the years he's learned to control it, to only take a little from everyone but he can siphon all the energy out of a person (if they don't have much his power literally starts burning fat to convert it and consume it, it withers you from the inside out).

I will be writing this stay tuned