Doctor Fate – 2010

This is the beginning of Jen’s DragonCon and costuming journey, so the pictures are a little sparse compared to other pages. I went with a Victorian-inspired costume.

Here’s my step-by-step process:

1. Concept art
2. Patterns and fabrics
3. “Found” pieces
4. Making and customizing pieces
5. Props
6. Putting it all together

1.Concept Art. I never start a costuming project without concept art. That way, I always have something to look at when I’m getting frustrated with a small detail.

2.Patterns and fabric

This is the pattern I selected, minus the sleeves
Here’s a picture of the pattern cut out

• I went with this shiny blue fabric for the dress.
• I also used some gold padded fabric to make the “corset”, although I didn’t snag any pictures of it.

Top3.“Found” pieces.

• I found these boots at the local thrift store. Unfortunately, the boots disintegrated about two hours after I started wearing them.
  

  

Top4.Making and customizing pieces

• Unfortunately, I didn’t get many pictures of my process. Here’s a shot of putting the dress together:
  
• I ended up painting the toes of the boots gold, but no pictures.
• Here’s the completed dress:
  

Top5.Props

• Since I was going with a theme version instead of something straight out of a comic book page, I decided to make a spellbook.

  

• Doctor Fate’s symbol is an ankh, so I made one out of cardboard and painted it, to attach to the front of the spellbook.

Top6.Putting it all together
I managed to find one picture of the whole outfit
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