Hi everyone!! Welcome to another tutorial on the elaboration of my Destiny costume. Today I’m going to show you how I made the clothes and the hunter cloak.
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| Picture by SKYline photography. |
First of all, I think clothes in Destiny look rough, tough, manly. So I didn’t want to make a spandex stretchy catsuit. If you look at the trousers, you can see jean-like tough wrinkles, they don’t look stretchy or elastic at all. That’s why I decided making my clothes using grey sailcloth and brown faux leather. I also took the chance to make separate top and trausers as hunters have very wide belts. That’s cool as being able to go to the bathroom in conventions is pretty important for me as a human being (and even more as I get older).
I made the patterns for the shirt, its sleeves and the trousers with all their different pieces and I drew them on the fabrics.
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| Top. |
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| Front top. |
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| Back top. |
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| Sleeve pattern. |
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| Sleeve pattern ready to draw on the fabrics. |
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| Sleeves. |
To make the patterns for the trousers, I used a similar trousers I had at home and it was a big mistake. I made a very tight crotch and I had to repeat it because I couldn’t walk. Curious fact: I also had to remake the front part of the top because I ripped it off with the overlock sewing machine. Shit happens.
Some pieces of these clothes are joined together with a white pippin. I sewed everything together by sewing the pippin first in a piece and then sewing that piece with the pipping with the piece next to it. It was a tedious task because I had to baste everything together before machine sewing it and these fabrics were very hard. Then, when machine sewing it, I had to stay alert to avoid passing over the pippin. It’s hard work but the result worth it.
To make the sleeves, I added a piece of white pique fabric painted with fabric paints using an exagonal stencil I made. I love exagonal textures, I saw a hunter design I liked a lot and I added that detail to mine. I’v ehad some Little problems with the Destiny 3D models because there are textures that don’t appear on the destiny database page, so I tried to use textures I like I’ve saw in high res concept art and other images. Guess my costume is not 100% accurate but that’s the material I had to work with.
Anyway, I ended up having to change my shoulder pads that covers this texture, so it doesn’t matter.
After that, I added a back zipper using a central difuse line the top has in the back.
I sewed the collar, closed teh sleeves and the pants and I finished thec clothes.
I’m totally in love with the hunter cloaks. I chose the Competitor Match for my costume, a legendary cloak from the House of the Wolves. I’d really loved to make a more intrincate designed cloack with a nice pattern, but I didn’t had time for that, so I found this one interesting and feassible.
I used red and white bride satin (thaks, Sae, for your advice and help) and I added the black and white ornaments using thermoadhesive vinyl and an iron. I love this technique, finishes are amazing with it. Makes the clothes look like fresh from store.
Then I added the blackbias tape on the sides and the eyelets. Beautiful!
To make the hood I used the same fabrics and I also put some vinyl ornaments. I altered a regular hood pattern to get the right shape and seams and I made a lining to mamke it look nice on the inside. I also added black bias and eyelets.
I made the scarf (a fabric cilinder) and the collar. Inside the collar I put some hard interlining to make it look tense. Finally, I made the pleated collar and I sewed it inside the scarf.
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| Looking good with Tali’s mask. |
One last thing I did was sanding the clothes. That’s a Little trick I learnt from Limnauth and I love the result! I specially sanded the elbows and knees to give it a more realistic weathered look.
And that’s all!! As always, you can ask me anything in the comments below. And you canf inde me on Facebook, Twitter and so on.
Hope you found this useful. Thanks for Reading!
