Character Costumes Design Tips

Character Costume Figure Drawing will develop your drawing skills to improve your renderings. Not only is this book gorgeous and inspirational, but these comprehensive visual images carefully illustrate--step-by-step--how to successfully render dynamic characters with personality and life. This book presents drawing instruction with detailed breakdowns of various types of characters. Maternal? Elderly? Sassy? Sexy? It all startws with body proportion, bone structure, body masses, facial expressi... [Read More]

A practical and inspiring guide to how to style, wear, buy, and care for every kind of accessory, from the New York Times best-selling author of How to Get Dressed.Costume designer and writer Alison Freer is beloved for her sassy, rule-breaking fashion advice, which emphasizes that style should be fun, personal, and functional. Instead of prescribing what to wear or own, Freer empowers you to wear whatever you want—and shows how to pull it off—with humor and wit. In The Accessory Handbook, F... [Read More]

The fans of Blizzard Entertainment are some of the most innovative and passionate fans in the world. The Blizzard Cosplay Book is a celebration of their creativity and love of the characters that inhabit the many worlds of Blizzard. Featuring costuming tips, tricks, and photos from the best across the globe, The Blizzard Cosplay Book is a must-have for fans old and new of epic adventures and killer shoulder pads.

You can be a fashion designer and create the wardrobe of your dream with The Fashion Sketchpad.Spend less time struggling to draw proportional figures and more time designing gorgeous looks: The Fashion Sketchpad is the ultimate fashion sketchbook for the aspiring designers who love to sketch clothes but don't have the skills (or the patience!) to draw proportional figures. This fashion design book is more than just a sketchpad. It has many additional features, including: • 420 figure template... [Read More]

When artists and designers explore or create a fictional setting, the milieu must be completely fleshed out, explained, and designed. In this book, comic and gaming art veteran Mark A. Nelson explores and demonstrates his methods for fashioning visually stunning, believable environments for fantasy creatures and characters. Scores of images and step-by-step examples illustrate how variation and experimentation lead to fresh, original designs for otherworldly beings, their environments, and thei... [Read More]

Curious about cosplay? Learn all the basics of cosplay here straight from experts in the heart of Tokyo!Japanese cosplayers continuously take the art of cosplay to new levels and now you can learn their secrets!Cosplay Basics has collected all you need to know in an easy-to-follow how-to book on the making and engaging in the art of cosplay. • With original designs and patterns so you can learn how to make your own costumesLearn how to buy costumes; choose wigs and make-up; photography tip... [Read More]

Enter a fun world of manga adventure as you color fearless warriors! More than just a coloring book, Manga to the Max Warriors takes you inside a fully developed world-building adventure. And by coloring the pages, you get a chance to bring that world to life. The narrative begins with a dynamic introduction to a new fantastic world. There you'll meet 32 awesome manga characters to color and create. These warriors come with their own distinct storylines, introduced on the flip side of the colo... [Read More]

The Second Edition of Cosplay - The Beginner's Masterclass is longer, more detailed and has dozens of new pictures and illustrations!Veteran cosplayers Miyuu Takahara and Kenji Weston team up experience and skills to give new and aspiring cosplayers the introductory guide they deserve.Expertly composed, this book contains hundreds of images, many of which illustrate the advice, instruction and ideas discussed. Each cosplay topic and technique is explained lucidly, comprehensively and straightfor... [Read More]

One of the most popular video games of all time, Mario is depicted as a short, pudgy, Italian plumber who resides in the Mushroom Kingdom. He repeatedly rescues Princess Peach from the turtle-like villain Bowser and stops his numerous plans to destroy him and take over the kingdom. The Super Mario series, mostly follows Mario's adventures in the fictional world of the Mushroom Kingdom. Luigi is the slightly younger fraternal twin brother of Nintendo's mascot Mario and appears in many games throu... [Read More]

With great power comes great irresponsibility. Become the humorous super hero in this officially licensed Marvel Deadpool costume. Features a long sleeve fiber filled muscle chest jumpsuit in the iconic black and crimson red colors; attached waist belt and high definition printed chest harness detail, attached shoe covers on leg bottoms; complete with a pull on face mask with mesh eye openings for visibility during use. Pair with other officially licensed Marvel costumes for group dress up fun! ... [Read More]