Finalising my designs now so I can start making next week, something that I'm sure my tutors will be happy about. With any luck, I'll go to Newcastle and hunt out some leather and brass bits on Wednesday. Shouldn't be too difficult, I've been told about an apparently good shop. More on that if it is.
I am having difficulty, however, sourcing some black and white striped fabric that has stripes of more than 1cm thickness. It's hell, I tell you. Hell. So many of my designs have that on them in some capacity.
ASYLUM GIRLS
Some Ward B girls and a straitjacket. That might be my final design for that, but we shall see. The Ward B girls match the style of my various Emily-with-a-Y designs - same shape 'dress', same types of patches and tears... in fact, they are similar pretty much across the board. The girls differ from Emily, however, because they have ankle cuffs (an indication of being 'more' mad) and collars. I ditched the collar from my Emily design after realising "Oh, this is for a musical. She'll need to sing." Emily would, however, get the ankle cuffs in what could possibly be Act II, or whenever she gets sent down to Ward B herself.
COUNT DE ROTHSBERG
The Count here has, as you can see, the same patches and tears as the Asylum girls in the second design. The first design lacks them, but is otherwise practically the same. This is because he is seen through the eyes of 'Mad' Emily as well as 'Sane' Emily. I'm not sure why, but I have always seen the Count as wearing a red coat. Maybe it's in the book, maybe not. I don't even remember. It's far too late to go reading it right now, so I'm just going to assume it's just in my imagination. That red, however, also serves the purpose of separating him from Stockill (who wears black) and Lymer (who wears white.)
DOCTOR LYMER
Speaking of Lymer, here he is! Same elements from the other costume designs. His coat is white, making him obviously a doctor. It's as simple as that.
PLAGUE MASK
And oh, here is the fun one. I've never worked with leather before, so this is going to be interesting. Not entirely sure of how it is going to go yet, but I am definitely leaning towards having the pipes to a filter or air tank. I'm going to try and stay away from 'unnecessary' chunks of brass. It always bothers me when I see steampunk things that are just covered in seemingly random brass bits. That, and I don't especially want to learn how to cast metal just yet! I do have a plan, though, for making brass parts, for this and the Plague Rat's claw. More on that later.
Until then, I have a sketchbook to rearrange!
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