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Professor Tomoe Inner Senshi Admin Activities Director
Title : Formerly Aurae; The Galaxy Cauldron Forums' Official Professor Tomoe Posts : 6250 Join date : 2013-07-23 Location : Chicago
| Subject: Spring Kimono Gallery 17th May 2019, 9:10 am | |
| When spring is here and all the flowers are in bloom, it makes everyone want to look as lovely as the petals all around them! In Japan, this is a wonderful time of year to dress up in spring-themed kimono, usually brilliant with the colours of the foliage finally emerging from beneath the snow! (Did you know that traditionally, you only wear flowers on kimono just before they are in full bloom? For example, you might wear cherry blossoms before they're out, while the plum blossoms are at their peak!) Can you imagine a beautiful outfit to wear under the raindrop-like pink petals? Show us! How to Play • Using this dress up game, design a kimono fit for the season! • Post a screenshot of your design and a short description of what character or theme you had in mind! • It's okay if someone else dressed up a character that you want to dress up—there's always room for another attempt! Let's see how many innovative kimono designs we can show off here! • Please do not most more than once in a row unless 48 hours have passed with no reply! Important Dates Wednesday, May 29 - Last day to play! Anyone who posts at least two times in this thread earns the participant bumper! |
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Professor Tomoe Inner Senshi Admin Activities Director
Title : Formerly Aurae; The Galaxy Cauldron Forums' Official Professor Tomoe Posts : 6250 Join date : 2013-07-23 Location : Chicago
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 17th May 2019, 10:16 am | |
| It's Usagi of course! I needed a model when I was playing around with this dress up game. She looks a little messy... maybe she should have held still when her mother was tying her obi! |
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Lavender Lotus Crystal
Title : GC’s Official Setsuna Meioh/Sailor Pluto Posts : 181 Join date : 2016-04-11
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 18th May 2019, 7:42 am | |
| It's Haruka, of course. I wanted to do something as colourful and bold as possible, and who better than Haruka to try a daring look? Well, at first I just decided I'd style Haruka, then I went for a look that I liked, which I don't think really fits her... Though, it's not particularly bold, there weren't really many, uh, bold options in the doll maker, or maybe I just lack the imagination. I think it turned pretty bad, honestly, I tried using another character rather than Haruka, cause it doesn't really fit her, well, my first choice didn't fit her, but it didn't fit the other characters at all, probably cause I started with Haruka and designed her outfit for her from scratch. Anyways, enjoy! Also, I'm not very clear on what you meant by 'posting twice in the thread to obtain the bumper', Sailor Mercury. Meaning that, do we have to just post twice, write whatever we want or we have to post two designs? |
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Cosmos-Hime Moderator
Title : ミ☆ GC's official Sailor Cosmos! ミ☆ Posts : 12832 Join date : 2014-11-14 Age : 32 Location : ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 18th May 2019, 1:43 pm | |
| I'll admit-I was frustrated when I made this. Not at the contest or the game, but just in general. So at first I decided to go for the angriest looking kimono design! Now, Kimonos aren't exactly made to represent wrath, so I ended up going with a mature look-the kind of look that would make people be able to admire from afar, but be too intimidated to approach. Kind of like that sophisticated yet strict woman-like how I'd imagine the important adult head-of-a-cut-throat enterprise would be. The kind of person who may actually be fed up and not want to be there since they have other important things to attend to, but was forced to go to make the company look good upon arrival. It would be suspicious of someone of such high reputation not attending, after all! This is the kind of outfit someone would wear when they're coldly yet stoically holding themselves in a high and a "better then you/too important for this" manner . You wouldn't want to be the person who'd be excited for the festivities and, while running to the next booth-to literally run into her. She'll scoff at you and chew you out for acting so immature-regardless of how old you are. |
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Lady Orion Lotus Crystal
Title : GC Official Ami (PGSM) Posts : 4372 Join date : 2012-06-30 Age : 42 Location : Texas
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 19th May 2019, 7:13 am | |
| I attempted Setsuna. I don't know much about kimonos but I wanted to dress her up in something simple. |
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Sportsnutd Lotus Crystal
Title : GC's Dark Mercury.RAINBOW DASH BEST PONY! Posts : 6893 Join date : 2015-06-29 Age : 40 Location : Littleton, Colorado
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 19th May 2019, 9:06 am | |
| Tried making Ami-chan enjoying watermelon |
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Professor Tomoe Inner Senshi Admin Activities Director
Title : Formerly Aurae; The Galaxy Cauldron Forums' Official Professor Tomoe Posts : 6250 Join date : 2013-07-23 Location : Chicago
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 19th May 2019, 4:45 pm | |
| - Lavender wrote:
- Also, I'm not very clear on what you meant by 'posting twice in the thread to obtain the bumper', Sailor Mercury. Meaning that, do we have to just post twice, write whatever we want or we have to post two designs?
Sorry for making that unclear—please share two (2) designs to earn the bumper! |
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Cosmos-Hime Moderator
Title : ミ☆ GC's official Sailor Cosmos! ミ☆ Posts : 12832 Join date : 2014-11-14 Age : 32 Location : ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 19th May 2019, 11:06 pm | |
| This is the exact opposite of the previous design I posted. It is literally everything the other design isn't! It's happy, lighthearted, fresh and fun-perfect for running back and forth between the trees with friends. Making this one made me crave sweets really, really badly.
Last edited by Cosmos-Hime on 20th May 2019, 5:28 pm; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : THE FORUM IS BACK UP) |
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Lavender Lotus Crystal
Title : GC’s Official Setsuna Meioh/Sailor Pluto Posts : 181 Join date : 2016-04-11
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 20th May 2019, 7:49 am | |
| - Sailor Mercury wrote:
- Sorry for making that unclear—please share two (2) designs to earn the bumper!
Alrighty, then. So, here is Setsuna. I wanted to dress her up, because why not. I wanted to use mostly red in her clothing, though, but I didn't like any of red patterns, so this is what it turned out to be. Honestly, it's not something I like, so I'd say it turned out bad. |
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Sailor Arkas Lotus Crystal
Title : Guardian of Uncontrollable Curiosity Posts : 1491 Join date : 2017-07-12 Age : 31 Location : Georgia Mountains
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 20th May 2019, 5:01 pm | |
| So I decided to make a kimono for Rei, who is determined to look mature and elegant with to her friends. Not to mention that she is going outclass any random girl who happens to be in the same area as her. I went with reds both because I was kind of feeling like going with the flow and because I liked the combination of colors. Also, I figured it matched the comb I wanted to use as a hair ornament. |
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Diagnosed Lotus Crystal
Posts : 2346 Join date : 2016-11-14 Age : 38 Location : Toronto
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 23rd May 2019, 12:46 pm | |
| Ahhh I always look forward to these dress up games :3. I loved looking through this gallery *_*. You guys are so creative! I gotta give kudos to Cosmos-Hime especially 'cause those kawaii designs are tough to make a nice finished product with and your Makoto looks great! Someone commented earlier in the thread that there's not a whole lot of choice for patterns and I'll agree, though I feel like I can always find one that I can at least work with by using the other parts of the kimono/accessories/hair to bring the outfit together... But the limited solid color selector still frustrates me from time to time XD. I did Ami-chan for last year's contest, so I decided to indulge and do TWO Minako dolls this year! Here's the first one: Minako would never actually wear this XDD. BUT, I do imagine her using it to disguise herself for an important mission! She's just busted down the doors of some not-so-above-board boarding house and made a speech for justice! Now, she's ready to transform into Sailor V and kick butt!! Cause I mean, how the heck are you gonna fight in that thing? XD And the silly shiba inu poster in the background couldn't help remind me of all the random hilarity and jokes in Codename: Sailor V :p. I'm willing to bet the tassel hanging from her obi is probably not being used appropriately somehow (though a quick search was not enough for me to find its traditional significance) but it made the image more 'complete' imo ^^;;. So here we are lol. |
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Lady Orion Lotus Crystal
Title : GC Official Ami (PGSM) Posts : 4372 Join date : 2012-06-30 Age : 42 Location : Texas
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 24th May 2019, 5:04 am | |
| I gave it another try. This time with Jupiter . |
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Ari Lotus Crystal
Title : Resident Shipper Posts : 110 Join date : 2017-09-21 Age : 32 Location : Arizona
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 24th May 2019, 1:25 pm | |
| I did Chibiusa and Hotaru! I imagined them sort-of twinning, but with their own spin on the designs. I put them in the shorter yukata to highlight their youthfulness. |
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Sailor Arkas Lotus Crystal
Title : Guardian of Uncontrollable Curiosity Posts : 1491 Join date : 2017-07-12 Age : 31 Location : Georgia Mountains
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 24th May 2019, 3:28 pm | |
| I decided to make Usagi for my second one, because I almost never do anything with poor Usagi, and I felt like I've been abandoning her. So I decided to do pink for her, since that is kind of a tradition for her. Also, I really liked the prints, so I decided to play around until I thought I could do both together and still have it look nice. Also, I thought Usagi would want to wear something that she could look good in beside Mamoru, who I assume would be wearing something dark and simple. For some reason, all of my characters' considerations include what other people would be wearing. |
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Diagnosed Lotus Crystal
Posts : 2346 Join date : 2016-11-14 Age : 38 Location : Toronto
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 24th May 2019, 4:32 pm | |
| Ooo love these ones above! Really lovely! And now for something I can actually imagine Minako wearing in real life! Speaking of being frustrated by the color selector... I found it really difficult to choose an accent edge and obi color for this doll OTL. I like the greens and blues that I've seen as obi for Minako in both the anime and Naoko's artbook images, but there wasn't really one that complimented the main orange tone in this pattern sadly... But I'm happy enough with how it turned out! There's some inspiration from the episode when she worked the goldfish booth and some from the artbook images which have her in more elaborate patterns than the anime. ...Now that I look at it again, I really should have stuck her bow behind her head. Something like this: But her smile is so cute it made me want to put it at the front LOLOL. I don't think she's gonna like that I made her look so much younger that way woops ^^;. |
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Sportsnutd Lotus Crystal
Title : GC's Dark Mercury.RAINBOW DASH BEST PONY! Posts : 6893 Join date : 2015-06-29 Age : 40 Location : Littleton, Colorado
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 25th May 2019, 11:24 am | |
| I tried to do Makoto but had trouble with the hair and limited colors |
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Lavender Lotus Crystal
Title : GC’s Official Setsuna Meioh/Sailor Pluto Posts : 181 Join date : 2016-04-11
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 25th May 2019, 2:45 pm | |
| With today being one of the last days of the festival, I thought I'd give this another go, and cause I was bored, of course. Anyways, here's Minako. I wanted to do a more light-hearted character rather than more serious ones like Haruka and Setsuna, that I styled before. I thought I'd make her kimono orange and blue, the image of the girls in kimonos in the manga sort of inspired me, though I can't remember if her kimono on there was blue and orange or yellow and orange. Well anyways, what you can choose from is still pretty limited, but maybe I fared okay with this one? I'll probably think differently about that in a few seconds. Well, even though I said it didn't turn out how I wanted it to, and it didn't and it's nothing good, I think my Haruka design is my favourite of the three. Anyways, without futher ado, here she is. |
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LaMoonstar Lotus Crystal
Posts : 559 Join date : 2016-04-10 Age : 40 Location : La Sunshine State
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 27th May 2019, 10:49 pm | |
| Mine is so plain in comparison! <_< |
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Malour Moderator
Posts : 912 Join date : 2018-01-17 Age : 23
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 29th May 2019, 1:34 pm | |
| mine isn't letting me download the images! can I take a picture with my phone and post that instead? |
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Cosmos-Hime Moderator
Title : ミ☆ GC's official Sailor Cosmos! ミ☆ Posts : 12832 Join date : 2014-11-14 Age : 32 Location : ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 29th May 2019, 2:20 pm | |
| [Only admins are allowed to see this link] you could always take a screenshot and edit it down. Or you could use a snipping tool to screenshot the area you want. That's what I've been doing. |
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Malour Moderator
Posts : 912 Join date : 2018-01-17 Age : 23
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 29th May 2019, 2:39 pm | |
| I don't know if my laptop can do screenshots |
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LaMoonstar Lotus Crystal
Posts : 559 Join date : 2016-04-10 Age : 40 Location : La Sunshine State
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 30th May 2019, 1:19 am | |
| - Malour wrote:
- I don't know if my laptop can do screenshots
You can press Windows+PrtScn then paste it to a paint/graphic program either online or on your computer. |
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Professor Tomoe Inner Senshi Admin Activities Director
Title : Formerly Aurae; The Galaxy Cauldron Forums' Official Professor Tomoe Posts : 6250 Join date : 2013-07-23 Location : Chicago
| Subject: Re: Spring Kimono Gallery 30th May 2019, 7:11 am | |
| I know that the dollmaker didn't provide an endless array of options, but it looks like some of our intrepid members created some interesting outfits despite those limitations! Thanks for trying your best! The bumper has been earned by... Cosmos-Hime Diagnosed Lady Orion Lavender Sailor Arkas Sportsnutd Thanks so much to everyone who participated! The kimono you created are lovely! |
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