Deadpool mask collaboration

Oh hai.
Miss me?
Of course you did.

Haven't posted for awhile, I know. Don't you worry, that doesn't mean that every waking free second of my life has not been consumed by planning and constructing Deadpool costumes. Trust me it has.

This is the latest. Todd and myself decided to work together and create this beauty. Lots of blood sweat and tears put into developing this pattern. (well maybe not so much my blood or sweat, but definitely my tears. Probably Garrick's sweat and Todd's blood if we're going to be honest.)

We are currently taking orders for these but you need to contact Todd or myself on Facebook for availability which is limited. (I can only sew so fast people!!) Facebook link -------------------->

Planning on making an X-Force one for Garrick and possibly a video game suit for him...If I can ever get caught up with everything else I have to do before May. Here's a really late New Years resolution, stop saying yes to everything and realizing I do need time to sleep. Who am I kidding, I will probably make a similar post next year.... :)

"Blue steel baby, blue steel."

Mask by Todd and myself, handsome by Garrick.

You could even try to win one. Check the picture below and go here

I listened to a lot of CombiChrist while sewing this, mainly because the new Devil May Cry came out and Dante and I had some catching up to do. Would Deadpool listen to CombiChrist? Probably, it's good smashing music, he would probably also play DMC, it's a good smashing game.
See what my life has turned into?
Who am I kidding, I wouldn't have it any other way. Thank you all for the support thus far!

<3 Jackie

**Updates!**

The masks are really flying! Thanks for all the support everyone!

I wanted to show you all a few tips I've learned while sewing these. If you are using a un-cooperative material (such a anything stretchy including spandex) use wax paper to start the seam and it keeps it from getting caught in the feed dog. Genius! I can't claim all the credit for this, God Save the Queen Fashions had posted something similar to this on their FB. I thank you GSQ, you have saved me SO much time seam ripping!

These are how my week nights have looked of late. Floors covered in Deadpool pieces. Soon I'll have a table so I won't have to sit hunched in a ball for hours cutting these out :) The rotary cutter is my new friend!

**UPDATES!!**
Holy crap guys, this is from the episode of Super Power Beat Down with out mask. It looks AMAZING!!!

Check out the site for voting on the next episodes here. I'm SO excited for this!!

X-Force Deadpool

X-Force Deadpool build part 1
Onto X-Force Deadpool! I'm using this as my main reference photo




I did a little piping on Deadpool as well and have a little more to do on the mask and the legs. So far so good! I will be finishing the shoulders, gloves, and arms this weekend. I'm excited to get the eyes finished, they are squinty eyes! I think I've talked about this before...anyway Deadpool should always have awesome facial expressions. Once PhxCC is over we might start casting those in urethane....we shall see...










X-Force or "Greypool" part 2

I have gotten a TON of interest in Deadpool lately. Thanks for all the excitement everyone! I DO have one request. If you have a simple, quick question that's fine ask me here or on Facebook. If you have questions about commission pricing etc, please go to our "Like" page on Facebook and in the notes section is a commission form, PLEASE fill this out before you send us an email. I love the interest in what we do, but remember I do work another 40hr a week job, have a side job (this), a blog (also this), house, husband, and cat that all need my attention as well and I don't have a lot of time to try to decipher requests. The commission form has everything I need to know to give you a quote. Remember I am visual too, I love when people send me lots of pictures to explain their ideas. :)

I know I have said this before am seriously considering making an additional link on here called "Deadpool's Corner" or "One Red Deadpool" just to put all of my posts for him.
I am almost done re-doing Garrick's X-Force Deadpool. I did it to show my very patient and awesome customer commissions the updates I wanted to make to it before I did it to theirs and asked what they thought. This is a situation where the phrase "It's better to ask for forgiveness after than permission first" does NOT apply! I am making some different changes to Garrick's that I will show when I am all done and I think they're pretty B.A. if I do say so myself....and I do say so...myself.  Expect some more Deadpool posts in the near future.

Greypool before with the vinyl

Shoulders with the vinyl

Re-done "athletic-cut" shoulders with matte metallic spandex

Re-done torso black parts pinned waiting for top stitching. The red lines are where Deadpool's  black normally extends to. I made it cover more for Garrick to hide the seam ripping from the vinyl and to create more heroic proportions. Commission 1 wanted the black to not extend past the red lines, see I told you I like visuals!

I had another idea awhile back and I just decided to put it on here. I usually listen to Pandora when I sew. I don't like silence when I'm trying to be creative. Every once-in-awhile I here a song that I feel the character I am working on would have on their personal playlist. this first happened when I was making Black Cat. Taio Cruz's "Break Your Heart" ft Ludacris came on and for whatever reason, I just felt this would defiantly be something she would listen to. It fit her "love em' and leave em' mentality and if I were a thief I would want a good beat to steal to ;).

Speaking of Black Cat and what super heroes would do in real life, check out Meredith's latest post in her gallery section for what they would look like. She took a few of the more famous DC and Marvel ladies and drew some more "real world" outfits and based their body-types off of Olympians. I'm in love and have been fan-girling over this for a week now. Remember, Meredith is the one that we worked with on the Wasp re-design. She's awesome on concepts and well, art in general.

Having Deadpool be the subject of most of my time lately, I feel he could be anything goes. This song is also a clue to the version I am basing Garrick's Greypool off of as well. Deadpool would probably go from something ridiculous to something hard and heavy. This week is ridiculous, Carley Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" Don't even tell me you can't see him dancing to this!
Is this nerdy? Yes. Am I maybe going through Glee deprivation? Yes definitely. Lots of things I do don't make sense or even go together, get over it.

**Update**
  We did a photo shoot up in flag with our X-Force costumes with Project Hero in Novemeber
Here are a few shots:

Domino never gets to be silly, this was her chance ;)

Merc's need a coffee break every now-and-again too

Deadpool got dressed early and had to wait for the rest of us to get ready