I was supposed to continue working on the "ninja pants" for Ichito.. but.. I felt like doing something small before I continued on them.. so I did his eyepatch. I've been trying to look if he has an eyepatch "plate" under those wrappings and it seems he does, at least on these two pictures if you look closely...
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| His wrappings are loose here but it seems like he has something covering his eye... |
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| Notice that rounded edge poking out... |
So yeah, there's a lack of references to go by
(obscure game is obscure...) but from what I can tell it do indeed look like he... well...
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| (yeah I'm not tired at all..) |
But here goes~
Sorry I didn't take progress pictures but what I did was I went and got a craft foam piece (color doesn't matter), cut it into shape and rounded the corners a bit. Then I picked up a scrap piece of those 'feet tubes' and cut out two pieces, slightly bigger than the craft foam piece. I zigzaged around the fabric and it looked like this:
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| The piece to the left is "right side" and soft, the one to the right is "wrong side" and kinda leather-ish |
Then I just took the side of the fabric that I wanted to be against my eye (the softer side) and sewed it to the craft foam piece at the two ends. I tried to turn in the longer sides but noticed I had cut the fabric a bit too short for that so I tried to glue them onto the foam and even use jesus tape (
read: duct tape) but it didn't really work either. *shrugs* Oh well, I took the other fabric piece and this one was to be the side facing outwards, so I used the leather-ish side. Sewed the ends again to the foam and then I tried to fold in the sides over to the back but it proved to be a pain in the butt and I had to cut the foam a bit shorter to get the other side to fold in.
lol my explanations probably make no sense. OTL I did get the zigzaged edges over to the back (where they won't be seen) after a lot of tweaking but it resulted in a tiny 'airbag' in the back.. oh well, not that I really mind because the 'airbag' actually makes the thing more comfortable over my eye. xD;
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| It's kinda fugly but it works... |
My comment:
Oh well, it works for its purpose and it's not like it's going to be seen so much anyway because those wraps (which I will make later) will be over it and thus cover it... at least it's comfortable (and bendable) so that's good, comfort is always appreciated in cosplay...
how comfortable it now is to be half-blind for a day...
