'Last Known Surroundings' with Cosplay Magazine India

 #artist Anantha Krishna Kasavaraju aka Last Known Surroundings with Cosplay Magazine India

#cosplaymagazineindia

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Grey-headed Woodpecker

 

Grey-headed Woodpecker

Kotdwar, Uttarakhand

January 2024

PC - Akanksha A.

Yellow-billed Blue Magpie

The yellow-billed blue magpie, also known as the gold-billed magpie (Urocissa flavirostris), belongs to the Corvidae family, which includes crows and jays. It is part of a closely related group that includes the Taiwan blue magpie and the red-billed blue magpie. This bird species can be found in the northern regions of the Indian Subcontinent, including the lower Himalayas, and there is also a separate population in Vietnam. PC - Avijit Das

Rishop, West Bengal

May 2023

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Unveiling Ekko's Firelight: From Character Research to Cosplay Creation!

 

Cosplayer Roshan Gupta - "10 sleepless nights later - Finished crafting 'Ekko's Firelight 🦉 Version 1 (Vi, geddit?)' from Arcane show on Netflix ! 😁✨

Thanks to the mask pattern & youtube walk-through by @monolith_costumes, that helped, in understanding his process to crafting. You can find it on his Etsy store! I spent more than 40hrs alone on crafting, priming & trying the cell shading effect while painting to make it as screen accurate as possible! Have captured it in timelapse stories on my insta highlights! Go cheggit! 😬

I took screenshots of Ekko' s Firelight character design from all possible angles (more than 300+ images captured from @arcaneshow and it was reallyyyyy time intensive, so I spent 3 days entirely dedicated to character research, along with reading his origin story and gazing through the Ekko concept artworks by @kse332 from LoL official artbook & @jingoss's recent splash art of Arcane Ekko, which is extremely important for me to get into the character, understand their nuances & quirks, hence the early start @4am in the day 2 weeks, to get extra hours and a head start to work on my Ekko cosplay) and watched his part tons of times, to get as many barely clear screenshots as reference, to make my version as screen accurate as possible.

Still not extremely happy with it, but, it's the best, I could do in 10 days. I rushed when it came to sewing and sewed the brown apron & huge ass green coat in one night, hahacries ;_; It wasn't easy, I failed few times, but did better the second time. I used freehand technique, compared to using pre-made patterns like I did for the red hoodie, which was my first sewing project, for my Miguel from Coco movie, 2 years back! :') I definitely did level up my sewing skills, self-taught, during my second project, and I'm happy with the results for now. Still, have a long way to go as a male seamster! So, gotta improve on my technique now, so I'm planning to consume countless hours of sewing videos from youtube & twitch! 😁

I made the Sword / Key Prop and Pocketwatch in 2 days. The whole process of making a character come to life that moved me, Ekko - The Boy Savior from @arcaneshow in this case, is something I wanted to share, with my cosplay / art, so have invested in ring light / lateral camera stand, to capture and record all my #WorkInProgress art process in the form of timelapse videos that took numerous hours of efforts!

Hope, you liked it, as I've put my heart bnd soul into it! Would appreciate your support in the form of comments / shares / engagement! :') 💜

P. S. This was the basic version of Ekko Firelight V1 Cosplay. I'm working on upgrading it, add more props including my fav prop i.e. humongous hoverboard with LEDs (*gasps, will be my first time working with lighting*), with a better paintjob on the props and fabric attire, re-sewing the green coat, brown apron & pants & improving the overall finesse as I've 2 more weeks to make it better!

Indoor photoshoot & edits by @lokesh_learns! "

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Environment-Landscape Art

 

Artist Richard Lay - "Hey Guys, just practicing some landscape art. I'm trying to integrate a bit of perspective into my environments."

Boat with wheels artwork

 

Artist George Brad - "A boat with wheels for todays daily."

Global Championships of Cosplay 2019-2020

Pic and Data by Amber Loerzel

## **// USA Qualifers //**

* **Seattle** // Emerald City Comic Con // Artemis Wild Cosplay

* **Philly** // Keystone Comic Con // Gillian Conahan

* **New York** // New York Comic Con // Akellyz

* **Chicago** // C2E2 // February 28th-March 1, 2020

## **// World Qualifiers // **

**South Korea** // 코믹콘 서울 - Comic Con Seoul // Lanha - cosplay

**Africa** // Comic Con Africa // JinxKittie Cosplay

**Australia** // Oz Comic-Con // AltF4 Cosplay

* ***Regionals:*** AltF4 Cosplay | Zaphy Cosplay | Giorgia Costuming | Zerebin | Raider Cosplay

**Indonesia** // Indonesia Comic Con // Otawamizuki

**France** // Comic Con Paris // LeelooKris Cosplay

**UK** // MCM Birmingham Comic Con // Chocobo Girl

* ***Regionals:*** Poetry in Costume | Effymia | Chocobo Girl | Cauldron Of Mischief Cosplay

**Austria** // VIECC Vienna Comic Con // Rozari Cosplay

**China** // Shanghai Comic Con // *POSTPONED*

**Singapore** // Singapore Comic Con - SGCC // Adiputra Kosupureiya

**India** // Comic Con India // December 20–22 2019

* ***Regionals:***

* ***--Hyderabad: KitsuneBlood Cosplays | Kiwi Lemon Sorbet

* ***--Bangalore: Medha Srivastava | Redemption Props

* ***--Mumbai: Kaiserwolfe Armouries | Metalbender

* ***--Delhi: Gaurav Thakur - Cosplayer | Arcane Cosplay | Sameer Bundela

## **// World //**

**Chicago** // C2E2 // February 28th-March 1, 2020