costumingofkira:Edward Elric - Fullmetal Alchemist ————–
costumingofkira: Edward Elric - Fullmetal Alchemist ————– Detail show! _ Here is the completed work (kinda completed Ed never ends really) work of my baby. Edward Elric is the first costume I ever made over a decade ago and as such I wanted to remake him this year to see how far I’ve come and because Edward is my favorite character ever. I wanted to make him into his full glory. The best he could possibly be. Mom always taught me ‘the devils in the detail’ when it came to sewing so I took that and ran with it. Everything of my cosplay was hand sewn by me - hand patterned by me (excluding my boots) My red coat has three pockets in it. - two side pockets and an inside pocket. The inside pocket was made the dimensions of my alchemy journal. The flamel on the back was hand drafted so it would be the proper size as it’s drawn bigger in both Brotherhood and the Manga. The flamel is appliqued on - completely satin stitched all the way around it. My coat is lined, and completely top-stitched. The hood is huge and made to run down the front of my collar to drag forward just enough to set on my chest like it does in the anime. My black jacket was fully self patterned. The collar is interfaced and contains hand punched snaps. It is based from the manga / Sacred Star of Milos / the end of 2003′s anime. My black shirt was made from patterning off an existing shirt I had. it’s made of a soft stretch. My pants were self patterned, with a test pair being made before them. They are made of a 4-way stretch. I was determined to have that Edward Elric shine to them. They have back pockets and front pockets - all pocket lining is white as it was shone in Rush Valley when his watch gets stolen. There is a 22 inch invisible zipper up the inseam of my left leg for easy access to my automail. My belt was made from a faux leather and was hand made. It is part of my pants as this was shown in the brotherhood episode of Rush Valley. All hardware on both the belt and my pants was hand punched. My automail was 3D printed by my friend Omega Forge and then I sanded down everything for a million years only to sand it all over again until the print lines were gone. I then painted it with reflective silver paint and sealed it with automotive sealer. It all sets on top of a handmade glove. Props! I went all out when it comes to props! I bought the official screen accurate to Brotherhood Square Enix pocket watch for this because it’s clock face points in the correct direction. I bought a suitcase for this and proceeded to fill it with Edward’s life. My Suitcase contains: 1 fountain tipped pen, 1 chalk holder (red) with Chalk, 1 copy of “ Responsible Uses and Applications of Transmutative Alchemy 4th Edition “, 1 spare journal, blank paper for reports, 1 drawing from Elicia Hughes, 1 Custom Printed map of Central City, 1 Custom Printed map of Amestris, 1 bill from Central Hotel for Room Service (Thanks Ling), 1 envelope containing my certification that I am in fact a State Alchemist, 1 coin purse and 3 Philosopher's stones (shhhhh) I also carry on me - 1 handwritten alchemy journal. My alchemy journal lives in the inside pocket of my red coat. It is completely handwritten and contains everything from research into alchemy pre-human transmutation, to the breaking of the taboo, 19 pages of repetitive alphabet writing, automail basic care, complaining about Mustang, alchemic research and possible circles, a newspaper article and bitchy entry covering Fullmetal VS Flame, entries concerning the light novels, a letter to Alphonse, and more! Everything in the journal was written with my dominant hand, my right hand, until after the taboo. From there forward the entire journal is written with my left hand for the sake of accuracy and it looking authentically awful to a boy trying to reteach himself to write after losing his dominant hand. AKA I taught myself how to write left handed just so the journal would look right. There is a pocket in the back of my journal that also contains: a letter of thanks from Gracia Hughes (i got it on my RP blog), the missing torn page where the human transmutation circle should be, 1 letter from Armony to Edward - the letter you get at the end of the PS2 game ‘FMA and the Broken Angel, and 1 picture of Edward, Alphonse and Trisha before she passed. - And that my friends is my Edward Elric Cosplay. You can see a run down of everything in my suitcase here: (this was done in character and taken at dokidokon 2018) -- source link