--Water--

Note from Chryso - This is one of a series of photos taken by Sam at the event. I haven't messed with the orignial photo levels at all <3 There will be more from this series to come.
Part Two: Earth [link]
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Character: Katara =
Universe: Avatar the Last Airbender
Debut: Supanova Melbourne 2011
Awards:
----Runner-up BEST GROUP, Supanova Melbourne (Madman Cosplay Competition, Saturday)
----BEST GROUP, Supanova Sydney (Madman Cosplay Competition, Sunday)

Voiceover, outfit made and worn by

Photographer: samxsam [link]
Photo editing: Water stock: Brushes:

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A few notes on construction:
The tunic was made from satin back crepe (not my favourite fabric to work with). The pattern started life as a commercial pattern for a crossover type top which I then modified to cross it in the opposite direction, remove the big bow tie thing, lengthened the skirt section and added the band along the bottom of the skirt. The decorative "waves" on the corners of the skirt were appliqued using iron on fusing then hand stitched.
An additional waistband was made out of leftover whit satin.

The gloves were custom made with a polyester knit fabric using some tutorials from here [link] and modified to my needs.

The water bags were made with upholstery faux suede in two browns a zip was included in the construction so that my "water" poi could be stored in them as well as my phone camera and occasionally chocolate. The bands were made with pleather, the attachment of which nearly killed my poor little sewing machine.

The boots came from the wonderful world of ebay but the armour was made by me using fibreglass cast material (as in for broken legs) with a huge amount of help from I added some duct tape to the sharp edges for protection then gave the fibreglass a few coats of lacquer to smooth it out a bit.
Then bands of elastic were stitched onto the arm, leg and foot pieces (by hand, through the fibreglass, phew my poor fingers!). They were then covered in a metallic contact usually used for covering kitchen fittings to make them look stainless steel. The hand pieces were stitched directly on to the gloves and round mother-of pearl discs were glued to the leg pieces.

The necklace was made from sculpey (two tones blended) and silvered and laquered. The hair loopy beads were also made from sculpey.

The wig was a good quality kanekalon wig from ebay. I created the bun by taking a cardboard tube from inside a bandage, filling it with said bandage then taking some strands of hair cut from underneath the wig and glueing them to the ends of the tube. I then styled the wig in a half ponytail and wrapped the ponytail around the tube and hot glued it in place. (I found the instructions on how to do this on someone elses DA account but I can't remember who right now).

That's all I can think of, if you have any questions just ask me.
xx

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AtLA group photo: [link]
Other Katara photos: [link]