

I thought I might finally put up the few pics of how my Binding of Isaac cosplay was made





I found the largest blowup ball I could, covered that in chickenwire and ziptied it all together. There are so many holes in that ball now. Also I have learnt that 2 cans of expanding foam don’t go very far.









Had to move the head out of the craft room, if I hadn’t at that point I would have never gotten it out the door hahaha.









Took about two weeks (and 7 cans on foam) to build up the outer layer. Foam is fun to work with and lighter than some other materials but hot as balls to be inside (because it insulates duuuh)





Then can the exhausting task of sawing the foam down and into a semi smooth ball shape. Obviously snipping off the zipties aswell. I don’t think my garage will ever truely be free of the offcuts, no matter how much I sweep.

I wasn’t too worried about it being flat because it was going to get covered in soft padding anyway and that would smooth it out a lot.











First attempt at sizing the face and I don’t know what about the first one went wrong but I just didn’t like it.

So obviously tried again on the other side and got it much nicer.









Don’t have a pic of cutting out the holes, but it involved a lot of me stabbing the beachball underneath (poor thing) and snipping out the chicken wire frame.

Originally I had planned to screw metal plates into the head and attach a shoulder harness but when I tried it on somehow it managed to fit snuggly around my hips and held itself up.



Next was covering the whole thing with padding. That was easy enough. Used bonding spray to hold it in place. I bought gloves and everything so I wouldnt get glue and fluff all over my hands…… didn’t use them. Cause that’s how I roll.







When going to Spotlight/Fabric stores.

Try explaining to Retail staff that you are looking for a ‘Sunburnt, newborn baby colour" Ended up finding some nice felt type fabric that was great.





At this point (Just days before the convention) The power went out in my suburb. So no sewing machine for me. I litteraly just drapped the fabric over the head and hand stitched the fabric together because there was no alternative. On the plus side it looks like he has crude stitched in his skin. Everything pulled relatively tight and came out pretty smooth.









Sometimes he is just nice to hug.



Tried to pin the fabric to the inside of his eyes and mouth with thumbtacks and safety pins. They couldn’t reach through the padding well and when they did, didn’t stay in the foam. So I craft glued it to the best of my abilities (still no gloves)









Next I got some random left over black fabric and sewed it into the eyesockets. Then carefully layed down the patern for the tear tracks with stickytape then covered the rest of the head in garbage bags for safety. I didn’t have much of a choice in blue’s or I would have had it a couple of shades lighter. Used the whole can of spray paint, did layers hours apart. was trying to get a plastic sheen going but didnt have enough paint.









Then a miracle happened. at 6am on the saturday of the convention, the power came back on. WOOHOO. So got the hot glue gun out and went around the eyes to keep everything in place.











Sewed in the mouth and painted the white of the teeth and eyespots.

Not sure if my pride then came from doing a good job or cause I was so damn tired.









An hour before the con and only half of the body had been done. having been up most of the night manually turning the sewing machine and hand stitching then that got too much. and because I don’t trust my own handstitching there are rows of staples holding some of it together.









The legs and arms at both just two tubes attached to a sack stuffed with padding. It was all threaded around an old belt to keep it up. The top of the legs came up to about my knees and the whole body only came up my waist, the rest was head. Lucky I am relatively short or it might not have turned out proportioned quite as well.









All in all it was a blast. I was so happy people liked it so much. It was so gosh darn hot in the head though. I couldn’t be in it for more than about 15 mins without needing water and a break to pat myself dry. Other than that it was pretty comfy, especially the bottom half. Big ole thanks to my friends for being my seeing eye humans. Not a lot of visuals in that head but they were awesome enough to walk me around and make sure I didn’t run into things.





Sunday was slightly more fun because we decided to randomly add props to it during the day <3 Left everyone guessing what upgrades we had aquired.









Also, a lot of people assumed I was shorter. When people went to hug me around the 'chest’ area…. there were a lot of awkward butt touches i’ll tell you. And children! I kept running into them because I couldn’t see them XD.



