Panels and Workshops for your Convention

If you are looking for a panelist for your Con, here is a list of topics I can talk about or have already talked about.

I’m a professional, educated seamstress and do have have a degree in grafic design and marketing. And I love teaching! Take a look if there is anything interesting for you.

Cosplay related topics

• Corsets for beginners
  Different kinds of corsets, corset- and fashion-layer, boning and lacing, pattern changes   
• Sewing for beginners
  Materials, Tools, machine- and handsewing basics, fabrics, easy and hard to make projects  
• Cosplay/Costumes for beginners
  Choice of costume, to buy or to craft, occasion (con, larp, performance, photoshoot), estimating your own skills, easy and hard projects   
•  Patterns and cutting
  Shopping sources, usage of commercial patterns, changing a pattern for your measurements, taking patterns from a body, cheese new patterns   
• Costume planning and organisation
  Time/material/costmanagement, research, brainstorming for ideas, choice of materials, things that will slow down your process, decision making in accuracy   
• Princessdresses 101
  Historical overview, petticoats, skirt shapes, bodice shapes, boning, hems, sleeves, ruffles and pleats, materials, trimmings and ornaments.
• Zippers
  Materials, kinds of zippers, normal zippers, invisible zippers, jeans zippers   
• Fabrics
  Raw materials, Choice of materials, often used materials, Weave and knit, different weaves, tipps for difficult fabrics (vinyl, velvet, stretch etc)
• Wigs for beginners
  Anatomy of artificial fiber wigs, wearing wigs, fixing them to your head, storage, transport, basic styling (curls, straighten, cutting)
• Performance and Competitions
  Different kinds of Competitions, main focus of different competions, costume planning for performances, different kinds of performances, dramaturgy   
• Animal Ears
  Materials, fabrics, dying fabrics approriately, decoration, fixing Ears to your head or wig

In general I can cater to almost every sewing related topic, so if you need one that isn’t listed, write me about it!

Other topics

Aside from cosplay, there are a few other topics I can talk about:

• Figure making/sculpting with polymer clay
  Materials and tools, armature, sculpting, painting  
• Doll Repaints
  Repainting Fashiondolls with Monster- or Ever After High dolls as an example, removing factory paint, painting, shading, hair (wigs/rerooting)
• Drawing for beginners
  Traditional vs digital art, different media, cheap vs expensive materials, line guidance, references and how to use them
• Watercolor and inking for beginners
  Papers, paints and inks, tools, washes, layering 
  
• Brandbuilding for Commissioners (Artists, Cosplayers, Crafters…) 
  Corporate design, target audiences, copy strategies, tools for templates and social media, website planning (short version)   
• Freelancing as a creative
  formal requirements, client management, realistic expectations in your job, self marketing overview   
• WordPress for beginners
  Installation, Blocks and Themes vs Pagebuilders vs Themebuilders, making a website structure, pages vs posts, taxonomies, maintenance