This week on Sketchy Details @Home, I take SyFy's latest Halloween costume-theme challenge and turn it into a tribute to Sharon Needles. I've had a Sharon Needles tribute planned for months but I didn't finalize the design until I saw "Call Me On the Ouija Board." Fantastic video. I feel like I'm going to be pulling inspiration from that for years to come with the reinvention of horror icons. Here's Sharon's video for context.
And here's the episode 6 of Sketchy Details @Home. Click through for behind the scenes and all that jazz.
- No joke. I did lose my air compressor. I'm not proud of this. Airbrushing over the painted woodgrain from the carnival haunt last year was going to save me so much time on prop remodeling.
- When I saw "Call Me On the Ouija Board" for the first time, I almost did my annual switch themes without enough time to pull it off and just not sleep a week before Halloween nonsense. I stood strong and started pulling design elements I liked, instead.
- I was also tempted to cancel all my NYCC cosplay plans and crossplay Sharon Needles' high fashion remakes of horror icons back to male characters. Then I decided it was too meta. Perhaps for an upcoming Halloween costume contest. The Damien and Pennywise concepts are genius.
- I had no idea if anything I did in this video was going to work. The airbrush paint wasn't marked blacklight reactive or fluorescent, glow in the dark paint doesn't always take well to blacklight, I have no idea what that fabric was sitting in my workshop so I didn't know if it would actually take paint, and I couldn't even guarantee the blacklight I haven't used in five years would work. Luck was on my side.
- Much like my intro about building without a foam wighead, I can sew a shape that isn't a tube. Really. I've made theatrical costumes before and I can whip up a presentable cosplay from scratch in a couple days. It's just been easier not to.
- The Face Off challenge was awesome. I was just disappointed in most of the finished looks. I think the contestants psyched themselves out with such a slow pitch over the plate challenge.
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