Path of Exile Talent Competition

Bracer
- Sketched out some of the layers and cut them out in foam
- Glued the different sections together and used an x-acto knife to carve out the details
- Handcut bevels and glued them to the bracer
- Made a plain regular brace and attached the pieces on top of it
- Primed with 5 layers of hexflex, sanding in between
- Airbrushed in black, added silver details - hand painted the lines and rubbed black and white oil paint for shadows/highlights


Sewing details
- Used old newspaper scraps over the dressform and added darts to make it form fitting. Drew on the details and the "V" lines on the top part onto the sketch. Cut out the pieces with black pleather and stretch fabric
- Traced out a sleeve pattern from an old shirt pattern with alterations (added length). Carefully folded a bunch of creases in the sleeve and sewed them down to give the sleeves the cool wrapped effect. Was then added to the main torso piece
- Shoulder piece was sketched on newspaper, cut in foam, wrapped with fabric, sewn down, added bevels, primed, and painted
- Loin cloth thing was drafted on newspaper, cut on fabric, added interfacing for stiffness, lined, and sewed strips of grey pleather to finish the edges
- Belts - cut long strips of black twill, added interfacing, cut long strips of grey pleather and wrapped/sewed them on edges



Shoulder armor
- Sketched a bunch of small patterns, cut them and taped them until they looked acceptable
- Blew up the patterns to my proportions and cut them in foam. Glued them together and heated them up to round out the shapes
- Put painters tape on the edges to draw out the bevels
- Transferred the tape to paper and cut out the pattern for the bevels. Cut them from foam and dremeled the edges. Glued them back onto the shoulder armor
- Stacked all the pieces and glued them, cut further details with an x-acto knife. Primed layers, sanded in between
- Airbrush black, then silver, used oil paints to add shadow/highlight. Hand painted the silver line details

Another comparison in-game and concept art vs real cosplay

Detail and bevel hell

Brooch details

The back

The back again with the brooch and cape stuff

Shoulder armor

The overall armor (missing boots and the hood is down and missing half of my cat)