With Yaya Han’s words of wisdom (from her panel at DragonCon) fresh in my mind, I decided that I’d take this opportunity to learn some new skills. The issue with Ashitaka, though, is that he has no armor to speak of. Also, because my son and I always do father-son cosplay, I figured I could easily make him a kodama with relative ease and be set. However, after my trip to DragonCon and seeing all the amazing San cosplay, I knew I had to do Ashitaka next. I recently started foamsmithing after an interview with Bill Doran of Punished Props, so I really wanted to do a cosplay with a full set of armor to practice what I’ve been learning. If you like these write-ups, please consider joining my Patreon to get early access to tutorials, videos, work in progress pics, and more!įor anyone who doesn’t know, Princess Mononoke is one of my favorite films, so it was a no brainer for me when deciding on my next cosplay that I’d try Ashitaka.
Over the past year, I had published several work in progress articles over at about my process for making it–everything, head to toe (yes, even my shoes) was scratch built by yours truly. Below is a slightly edited, combined version of all of those posts. I recently mentioned how I won first-place at RenCon for my Ashitaka cosplay.