Cleopatra Earrings and Necklace

Gorgeous blogger Jennine of The Coveted and Independent Fashion Bloggers borrowed the necklace in February to wear with a vintage dress for the Evolving Influence Fashion Blog Conference.
And here I am, a few years ago, wearing the Cleopatra necklace, a vintage Marie France dress from Miss Peelpants and a lot of Hollywood Fashion Tape in the vicinity of gorgeous and talented actress Toni Collette.
The Cleopatra designs were two of my earliest queen-inspired pieces. You can’t name jewelry after queens and not do Cleopatra. But Elizabeth I beat Cleo out to be my first queenly jewel.

Don’t forget that if you want a Cleopatra design of your own, you can win a pair of silver earrings by entering my Polyvore contest by May 23. Put together the best collage (or, as Polyvore says, “set”) using the Cleopatra earrings and at least one other piece of my Pandora Bracelets , and you could end up wearing your own Cleopatras to the opening of SATC2.


For inspiration and guidance, here’s a Polyvore set called “new Cleopatra = Samantha.” It was created by my fellow contest judge, D İ D E S İ A Stylish Turkish, so it’s not eligible for the prize.
I love the way DIDESI uses both the Egyptian theme of the earrings and the pink in Samatha’s dress as unifying elements in her set. I’m also impressed that she incorporates furniture, makeup and skin care, rather than limiting herself to clothing and accessories. That’s important because if you were styling a photo shoot with a model, you would indeed have to have other elements in the image. DIDESI gets bonus points from me for finding a jewelry piece by another designer that is pink AND Egypt-themed AND complementary rather than competitive with my own designs. The Sass & Bide leggings on the right are ultra-modern but blend into the set so well that I’m sure any Pharoah would be pleased to wear Pandora Beads . The Cleopatra quote is the cherry on this Polyvore sundae: it evokes Samantha’s toughness and pays tribute to my many poison ring designs.

The Method of Drawing Anime Cosplay Hair

Start off drawing the hair by defining the hairline. People have different hairlines, so look around, look at books, look at other people and get some ideas about how far the hairline reaches up and things like that. Basically you know you’ve got it right when it looks natural. Don’t draw the Hairline too low or too high otherwise you character will look weird and unnatural cosplay .

Using arrows, draw the general direction you wantthe hair toflow in. If you look at someone’s hair, you will see their hair doesn’t all go one way. It splits and partsand goes in many directions. Everyone has at least one part in their hair(except for bald people). In the example, you can see that his part is at the top of his head. You can define this because all the arrows flow away from it.

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Fill in the hair. Draw how you want it too look. Too make it easier, for every arrow I had, I generally had one spike of hair.

People draw hair with a bewildering amount of variation. Imagine a scale. On one end there is realistic hair. On the other is very, very basic anime hair. People are scattered all over that overcrowded scale, so don’t think you are bad if your hair isn’t as realistic looking as someone’s else.

If you do want to make your cosplay costumes hair appear more realistic, then generally having smaller but more frequent spikes will make it appear more realistic.

Highlights really just help define the hair and make it appear more realistic. There is the anime way where you can do lots of white lines on your already coloured hair (whiteout is awesome for this if you are drawing on paper). But I find that the white lines are hard to see when you are using a light colour, so for an alternative you can use gradients to do highlights.

Finally you can rub away all those messy lines and get colouring, shading and highlighting. to do). Also don’t forget that the hair casts shadows onto the face itself.

After that, you’re done. Congratulations, you’ve drawn anime cosplay styled hair.