Costume Designs

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In costume class, our final was to design characters from Shakespeare's the Tempest.  It's a Shakespearean "comedy" but tends to be dramatic in places, for those of you unfamiliar with the show.  Don't have the space for a summary here, but I encourage you to look it up if you've never read it.
Anyhoo, this is Caliban, Prospero's servant.  He's an angry dude, among other things.
watercolor....don't laugh, it's my first try at watercolors!

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This is Ariel, Prospero's spirit servant.  In the show, the character can be played either male or female, I went with female (obviously, heh).  Anyway, I wanted her to be very airy, and very pale.  This is partly to contrast heavily with the courtiers that pop on the island later on.  There is silver strands in her hair, and silver bracelets.  In the play, she 'flashes.'  -watercolor

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Also in the play, she spends a great amount of time 'invisible.'  I wanted to create a tangible way for the audience to know when she is invisible to the other characters, so I designed this cape for her, to resemble clouds.  This goes along with the airy spirit theme.

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This is Prospero's daughter, Miranda.  Innocent, but with a sense of inner strength.
watercolor

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And her love interest, Ferdinand.  This is the court dress he first appears in.
watercolor, though it doesn't look it.

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He sheds layers as the play goes on, bringing him, visually, closer to the 19th century.

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The transfortmation is complete.  Cutie.

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Prospero, the intimidating father of Miranda, and rightful Duke.
watercolor.

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By the end of the play, I wanted him to be more grandfatherly, less scary.

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And Stefano.  The drunk butler.
and more watercolor.

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Next we designed A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.  If you don't know the show....sorry.  I'm not gonna summarize here, but you should check it out!  Muy funny.  This is Miles Gloriosus.  A legend in his own mind.

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One of the courtesan.  ooooh.  

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Domina, poor wonderful, fabulous Domina.  She's a blast, and probably one of my fave characters.

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Pseudolus, with swatches!  ooooh.  For this project, I mostly worried about color, so the texture is way off. But....yeah.

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In (my very first) costume class, our first assignment was to design two modern characters of our own creation.  So this is Emma.  High school journalist.  Words are her weapon of choice.  And all that jazz.

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And the other is Matt, an ACTOR.  ha ha.  Hollywood actor, totally 2D, who thinks he's totally hot stuff.  So, to the premier of his new blockbuster, he wears slinky mesh top, $1000 jeans, and a leather jacket.  Oh yeah.

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Costume design for Miss Anne Bonney or Bonny or Bonn.....gotta love the pirate life.  

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Costume design for the Ren Faire.  Never finished, but I enjoyed designing it thus far.

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I went to see the opero Turandot, by Puccini.  It was awesome.  Truly awesome.  I came straight home and sketched this.  just my view of her.
Turandot © um....someone, I'm sure...

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I adore this design.  Very Hollywood.  It's the same kinda dress as my prom dress, but the stripeys make all the difference ;-)

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See?  She's like an upside down flower!  SEE??  Hee-hee, someday I'll make this.  Lots of tulle.  Lots.  heh
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Yes, ladies and gents, those are playing cards and poker chips!  Fun, huh?  This is my Moulin Rouge design of an original character, Lady Luck.
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Afore mentioned prom dress.  I ended up making this with blue sparkly fabric.  It was very cool.

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I love stripeys!

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Another MR design I did.  Sorta a combo of the Black Diamonds and Pink Diamonds costumes.

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The costume of the priestess I designed for Acacia

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Little Bo Peep

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and her lost sheep....

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A rendition of a Poison Ivy costume
 
 

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