The steps involved
in making a quadsuit includes:
Ideas
Creating a Quadsuit:
off of your Designs
Creating a Quadsuit: Tutorials
Ideas
If you
haven’t decided what you want your quadsuit to be, then the best place to start
is to look at what others have done! Looking at others work is one of the best
ways to spark your imagination. There are many different types of quadsuits
like: realistic animals, monsters, Pokémon, and movie based costumes like Toothless
the dragon.
Think of
something you really feel passionate about, and have that “anything is possible”
attitude. If you really like what you’re making then your costume will seem to
be less exhausting and it’ll be so much easier to finish. It is a good idea to
keep the “anything is possible” attitude to keep you from having creators-block.
Design
Now
that you have an idea of what you want, it’s time to break out the old pencil
and paper. The best way to go about designing,
and possibly the only way, is by drawing several different views of your
costume. Now you don’t need to be an artist to do this successfully, as long as
you understand what your drawing means, then you’re good to go. Your designs
should be like an instruction manual, but it should have more sketches then words.
You are probably going to change some of your designs later on, and that’s ok,
just keep record of all your designs in a folder or someplace where you can
keep track of them.
Working off your
Designs
Now that you know what you want your costume to look like,
you can start putting it together. There are many ways to put your quadsuit
together, I’ve thought of 2 different ways. One way you can start is dividing
on one of three basic parts of your costume (The Head-region, Mid-section, or
the Tail-region. Each different region has different parts, they are;
Head-Region: head
structure/base, head mechanics, eyes, ears, horns/spikes, teeth, noise, neck
padding
Mid-Section: Front legs/ Stilts, stilt
Paws/talons/hooves, Padding (Shoulder, sides, front legs), wings
Tail-Region: Hind legs, Hind Paws, thigh padding, tail
Or
you can start with the overall layers of your quadsuit, such as; Base (in most cases the only bases are the
head/skull and paws, Mechanics (Stilts and other moving parts), Padding , Fur,
and finishing touches (claws, teeth, spikes, horns)I'll post tutorials as I go, and if your looking for a specific one just ask and I'll get to you as soon as I can!
