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Pepita Inspired Costume

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This is an Alebrije inspired costume, this one is directly inspired by Pepita from the Disney Pixar film Coco. This is meant to partly be a cosplay of Pepita and partly an original design. I am glad I decided not to do a straightforward cosplay of Pepita as it allowed me to pour so much more detail, heart and thought into every stage of building this, this piece is now very personal to me and I simply adore her.

Alebrije are brightly colored and covered in intricate hand painted designs, I tried to capture this with the use of bright printed fur fabrics. I carefully chose my materials so as they would compliment each other and reflect my inspiration source. Of the printed fabrics the spotted legs is the boldest, but my gosh do I love that fabric to death, and I feel the spotty legs nicely balance the intricacy of the face.

As this is going to be a premade to sell (after I wear it to a few events) this uses a resin head base, this one from Stuffed Panda Studios. I set it to fit my glasses, added to the chin shape, added saber fangs and altered the muzzle a bit. I also completely removed the eye area on the blank and cut out the entire red area to make it all mesh so vision is hugely wider (I get panicked by claustrophobia if vision is too limited) I used smaller eyes, and I cut away the sides of the eyebrow ridges as I like to set my eyes angled out slightly so the follow effect is more visible from the sides.

I know there was some concern on if these Alebrije inspired suits I am making would pay proper homage to the Mexican art form, I dearly hope I have proven myself with this first one as I love her to bits <3

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Alebrijes originated with an artist's dream in the 1930's and his creatures were quite lovingly adopted into the Mexican culture as spirit guides. They are traditionally hand crafted of paper mache or wood and covered in intricately painted designs, a lot of care and thought goes into each one. You can read more about Alebrije here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alebrije
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