Deku from My Hero Academia // Cosplayer: atarashiraven // Photo: @tsunderee_So I went back and did s

Deku from My Hero Academia // Cosplayer: atarashiraven // Photo: @tsunderee_So I went back and did some digging and found my first full Deku cosplay. And OHMYGOD I’M SCREAMING. I didn’t think I improved so much cosplaying Deku. But I can really see a difference. A glow up. It goes to show that no matter what kinda cosplayer you are, famous, professional, beginner, moderate, advanced, little fan base. Doesn’t matter. Cosplaying is fun and there’s always room for improvement. Cosplay is for everyone no matter your skin color, your figure, your ability or disability. Whether you can put on makeup like a pro or don’t know what you’re doing, its a process. And honestly back at the time this picture was taken I just wanted to be around like minded people and have fun, and I was experimenting w/my makeup. Cosplay is not a competition, its a passion, and one that you can feel happy in improving and doing new things.I wanted to cosplay Deku mainly because he sparked something in me. I had been on a break with cosplay. Focusing more so on school and wondering when the next character that I make a huge connection with would come along. After all, I was feeling like maybe I was losing that cosplay spark. But something about Deku really made me wanna cosplay even more. Seeing him work hard to achieve his dreams and goals made me wanna do the same. I just resonated with him. He’s always looked down upon only to prove people wrong that he can be the best in his own way! And that’s how I wanna be! Photo: @brittanyfournierSince I had no idea how to crossplay I spent hours researching, I actually bought my first cosplay and didn’t really make any modifications. Not until I bought his suit. I made my own leg and arm pieces because I like the way it fit and looked on me better. I went out of my way to buy a yellow backpack, his notebook, his provisional license, and school ID to really bring him together. And then paired it with red shoes that light up! I had a lot of positive responses with cosplaying Deku! Everyone really loved the jacket, how my shoes lit up and all the little details! And when I went to the my hero group meet up I felt really apart of something! It felt special! And a lot of teens ans kids wanted pictures with me. I was called cute quite a bit! So that was a plus! I do remember that I bought a bunch of merch that day and I bought a Bakugou body pillow, and a Bakugou cosplayer literally walked by me with a smile and said “nice pillow Midoriya.” And it took me a minute to register why he said my pillow was nice.Photos: @tsunderee_Bunny Deku came in October 2019 when the Bunny Deku trend was finally trending within the fandom. A lot of artists were drawing him but I didn’t see a lot of cosplay at the time. So I decided to cosplay Bunny Deku and he just kinda stuck around after my friends and my boyfriend saw me cosplaying him. They kinda see me as their little Bunny Deku. Bunny Deku 1.0 as I like to call the first rendition of him was made using white bunny ears, a white bunny tail, green rit-dye, a low heated blowdryer and a styling comb. I used my old First Deku cosplay and the clothes in my closet to really piece him together.  I went to Wasabi-Con and Anime Festival Orlando as Bunny Deku! And the response was great! Two of my favorite cosplayers at WasabiCon (Akrcos and inspectorlemon) really lifted my spirits by saying I was quite the adorable bunny Deku. They even asked how I made the ears! At AFO I was dragged into a MHA group too, and they were nice! Overall it was a very nice experience!Photos: @tsunderee_I have been steadily improving my cosplay! I’m working on improving the leg armor pieces, I’ve made bunny feet to go with Bunny Deku, I’m working on a one piece suit, bought some pretty sweet Fila shoes because I think Deku definitely deserves designer sports shoes, I plan on ordering another full one piece suit but in a zentai suit, and I bought I guess you could say a designer Deku bunny set from LittleLuxies who is really popular in cosplay community, and I do plan on improving the gloves sooner or later. I noticed that my cosplay makeup and connections have improved a lot! At first I was just some young girl who really didn’t understand how much went into it. But now it’s my passion so I’m always improving and taking notes!My future cosplay plans really involve improving my current characters I cosplay and also bringing back characters that were popular in my childhood back to the spotlight! Currently I have a lot of cosplays lined up for cons in the future. And I’m even learning to work with different sfx makeup so I can do more characters that people typically don’t bring to life at cons. I wanna be a cosplayer who’s known to cosplay anything and everything! From well known to obscure characters! I also plan on doing couple cosplay with my significant other sometime in the future. Which will be a ton of fun! And I wanna keep inspiring people! Especially as a black cosplayer I think its important to inspire other black people and even POC. There needs to be more of us out there because we do exist and cosplay is for everyone! https://linktr.ee/atarashiraven -- source link

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