Lady Loki

My Lady Loki Cosplay was my second Cosplay and it´s still one of my favorite Cosplays, which I already partly reworked twice. I´ve made it for the Leipziger Bookfair in 2015. My intention from the beginning was to make this my first Cosplay to build an armor for.

It´s my own design inspired by several fanarts, nordic mythology, other Lady Loki Cosplays and of course the design of Loki in the movies from Marvel. It was a long process to make my own design out of all the sourcess I´ve found.

I didn´t made a draft of the hole Cosplay, settled how everthing will look and then just followed this plan and built every piece after it. But I made only a rough draft at the beginning and decided while I built the pieces how they will look like and what other pieces would look good two it.

At the end I built a lot more armor pieces then I planned cause I just thought that it made the Cosplay look a lot more badass.

 

I started with the sewing part. The petticoat is made out of green tulle and green cotton biastape. The skirt has two layers of tulle. That´s not that much but I didn´t want to make it look to voluminous, not to 50´s like so it still could fit to a nordic badass god villain. Over it comes a simple circle skirt made out of cotton, so basically it´s only circle with a hole in it.

 

The pattern for the dress was selfmade. The dress consists of a top and the flaps that hang over the skirt. The dress is also sewn out of cotton. I thought that cotton would be from the onside something to sew easily and from the other side simple to, relativ steady fitting for a warrior and nordic mythologie character. The cape is just a to the bottom widher becoming square with black biastape at the edges as a nice contrast and to make it look cleaner. On the cleavage of the dress is also black biastape to hide my shamefully unclean sewn border.

 

The corsett and the necklace are just buyed. The corsett was originally just an emergency solution cause I messed up with the tucks. To hide the so developed pleats I just tried how this not for cosplay ordered belt would look to this and it really upgraded the whole cosplay.

 

The pocket is made out of fake leather. It was not part of my orignal draft but I needed something to carry around my phone, wallet, keys, cosplay emergency kit and co during the con. It took quite some time to create the pattern. Pockets are harder to make then often expectet especially square ones. The closing is made out of two fake leather stripes with snap hookes. On the front side I painted Yggdrasil the tree of the worlds from the nordic mythologie with golden Acrylics.

 

The first part of armor to build were the bracers. The design based on the bracers of Loki in the Thor movies. The base is foam rubber sandwiched with Worbla. The decoelements are burned in the worbla with a soldering iron. Primed with woodglue and painted with acyrlics. The bracers were actually the first armor piece I ever build with Worbla.

The shoulder armor consists of two plates Worbla with a expanding foam core. The motives are just cutted out of worbla. They are meant to symbolize the fenrin wolf, which is in the nordic mythologie a child of loki, and the silhouette of Asgard (from the movie).

I made two square holes in both pieces to put a douple layered stripe of black fake leather through it. The stripe is closed with velcro tape and goes once around the upper body.

The upper arm armor design is directly based on the design from the Thor movie. Like the other pieces it´s made out of a craftfoam sandwiched with Worbla. The decoration is cutted out of the Worbla and the little balls are made of Worbla scraps. It´s closed with two elasting bands going around the arm and closed with velcro tape.

The shoes armor are my own design.They are only made of Worbla and craftfoam. The scales are out of Worbla and were all cutted out by hand (nearly 360 induvidal scales!). Of course they were all placed by hand also, which nearly took forever.

On the pictures you can see very well what a difference shading can make when you paint your armor. On the second picture you can see the difference between when you only paint your armor with the basic colour and when you add some shadows. It already adds a lot depth to the armor. At the third picture you see both pieces with added shadows. And the last picture shows the difference between only added shadows and with also add some highlights.

Adding highlights will define the edges of your armor very well and make the colour pop out more also. The armor is closed with a fake leather stripe fixed on the armor and closed with velcro tape.

The heel armor was added by me two years later when I wanted to wear the cosplay again for a Convention. They are made of Worbla, each scale again cutted out of Worbla by hand.

On the right side you can also see the ring I added to the cosplay. Also made out of Worbla and also each scale cutted out by hand (at least this time it were like only 10 scales).

To the shoes does not only the armor pieces belong but also a a fake leather stripe put a around the bootleg. For the heming I used a bright yellow yarn to make a little decorative seam. The bootleg stripe and th closing stripe for the shoes armor are both hemmed by hand.

The leg armor was originally more an emergency solution. Originally I wanted to wear boots which are going until the knee with some Worbla decorations but this plan didn´t work out. So instead of boots I decided to wear the other shoes and add a leg armor. The design of the leg armor is based on the design of the boots of Loki in the first Thor movie. The base is made out of Worbla. The middle part is fake leather glued to the Worbla and decorated with Worbla to imitate the design of Lokis boots.

On the right picture you can also see the knee armor . It is made of craftfoam only. Originally I had made them of Worbla but they looked just strange and also restricted my walking to much. So I made them again of simple craftfoam so they would still be flexible. They are not shaped by heat but took their form by themselves whenI put them around my knees.

Armor only made of craftfoam tends to brake more easily then armor made of Worbla. But actually after three Conventions they still hold very well. They still have no damage and are also quite comfortable.

The last thing I built were the most recognizable part of Loki, his horns. I actually procrastinated to build them cause I was very afraid to fail at. I decided not to make a helmet like Loki weares in the movies but a kind of headband.

The design of the headband was made by me.

The base shape is made of craftfoam sandwiched with Worbla to make it extra durable. The horns are sculptured of Fimo Air Light, an extra light sculpting clay. They are not perfect but for a first try they look quite well I think. They are fixed to the headband with screws which is very durable. I put a Worbla band at the part were the horns and the headband connect to hide the not so pretty seam.

The headband has two d-rings on the backside and a velcro tape stripe going through them to put the heandband around the head. This is not the most elegant solution cause you can´t hide the velcro tape stripe under the wig but at least its black like the wig so it´s not that noticeable.

 

The horns were also painted with acrylics

Foto by Hartmut Rohde

Foto by Narya Cosplay & Art