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    Alright, this time is a whole bunch of things so let's just jump right into it.   THE   SHIRT   Cripes, this is way too big on me. It'd be nice to fix the collar as well. It's also too big, but since it's a button-down style I'm not sure how to fix it that isn't just "redo the collar completely." And there really isn't time for that right now. So let's just focus on bringing in the seam and slimming this up a bit.     Why even do this? It's not easy to see in the photo, but this shirt fits me like a boat sail. There's at least two inches of shirt hanging off the armpit alone. That's only slightly annoying by itself, but becomes a problem the second you put the vest and jacket on. Then everything's puffy and doesn't lay well.   Course, there's always the option of just taking this to a tailor and, to be honest, if this were an actual work shirt I'd suck it up and do that. I've yet be employed somewhere where p...

No, as a matter of fact I'm not drawing him the same way twice.  Thank you for noticing.  Trim came in! Time to get into the real meat and potatoes of this. And by that I mean actually cut some blasted fabric. None of this "sewing counter the size of a garage" crap here, thank you. You'll take your "not nearly large enough breakfast bar/floor" work space and like it.   If you're wondering why this has been cut into two sections, again, it's because of the pile. Since this drapes over the shoulder, if it is cut out of a single piece then one side is going to be a nice raspberry pink instead of a cherry red. Which would stick out even more up against the cherry red coat. But if they're cut into two different pieces, then I can make sure the pile is running down on both sides are the same--and appropriate--shade of red.   This illustrates what I'm talking about with the color shifting. Hopefully. Blogger doesn't let you preview an uploaded ...

snip, snip, snip Welcome back! Starting work on the cloak this time. Don't have a pattern for this, but I do have a general idea of the shape. Or at least a starting point. Picture courtesy of fanplusfriend.com   This is noticeably different from the original sketch, but it'll work a bit better with the actual jacket. At least it shouldn't need the weird belts and straps pulling from the opposite shoulder. Assuming I can pull something like this off.   Honestly if this was red, not black, I'd be giving serious thought to just sucking it up and buying it. No shame in just buying a thing--but it's not red. So I won't.   Anyway, capes are generally just semi-circles and rectangles. The general idea, if you were curious, is this: The level of award winning illustrations you've come to expect from this blog.   So! With that in mind, time to pull out the computer paper and muslin and start playing with shapes. The "8-bit" version, if you will.   Basic sh...