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Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown

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Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · Oct 22

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Hi! I'm Jenivere, Jen for short.
You can find most of my art on www.deviantart.com/jenivere-dom... and I'll start sharing pieces here soon too!
I also cosplay and indulge in a number of other hobbies <3

I'm disabled with chronic illnesses so I try to stay creative when I can :)

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Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · 1h

If I have time to print these for #MCMLondon there will be stickers - but what colour should they be? I could do 2 colours for "I resisted" and 2 colours for "I embraced" but they probably all want to be paler colours. Any opinions? They should be on holo paper 💖

#BG3 #BG3Durge #BG3DarkUrge #BG3Art

A 2D drawing of the default dragonborn Dark Urge head on a circle. Text around the edge reads "I resisted The Dark Urge and all I got was this lousy sticker". The background is light grey

A 2D drawing of the default dragonborn Dark Urge head on a circle. Text around the edge reads "I embraced The Dark Urge and all I got was this lousy sticker". The background is mint green.

Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · 3d

Many hours of babysitting the embroidery machine along with some errors, fails, file issues, and one huge tangle that had me terrified...the crossbelt details are embroidered onto the pieces, almost ready to assemble!

I don't want to do this ever again it was agonising.

#CosplayWIP #BG3DarkUrge

Daggers Stillmaker and Bloodthirst embroidered onto black satin fabric. Both blades were drawn in 2D and converted to an embroidery file (which is also now the bane of my existence, learning that was not easy) then the embroidery machine had to do them in 2 parts each so that meant re-aligning the fabric and pattern in the hoop to make sure the pieces matched up without any gaps.

Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · 3d

Jenivere, video game cosplayer 💖
So number 2 for me!
I like picking the more niche characters to represent, which also sometimes means making new and different versions of things - currently making a ballgown version of The Dark Urge from BG3 for MCM London

The still-in-progress Dark Urge ballgown - cosplayer is sitting on a chair with arms folded in lap, wearing a large headpiece with lit up eyes and a silk dress embroidered to look like the default Durge outfit

The same cosplayer in a composite image showing 4 different outfits posed in a cafe setting - originally made for the BG3 Gauntlet challenge

From left to write: Enver Gortash, Baneite Cultist, Halsin but as a maid pouring tea, The Emperor in a hood and cloak disguise (tentacles still showing).

Halsin seems to be distracted, looking away from the table whilst the teapot isn't quite aimed at the cup, Gortash and the Bane Cultist are deep in conversation, and The Emperor appears to be leaning in to listen

A composite collection of the same cosplayer in different outfits.
Top row left to right: Doki and Nabi from web animation There She Is, Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride, a city elf origin character from Dragon Age Origins, Domino from Marvel Comics, a dark side imagining of Princess Leia from Star Wars
Middle row: A generic pirate, the cosplayer in her natural goth form posed in front of a wall which has angel wings and devil horns painted on, a rogue Grey Warden from Dragon Age 2, Sniper Wolf from Metal Gear Solid
Bottom Row: Harley Quinn from DC comics and games, The Emperor and He Who Was from Baldur's Gate 3, another image of Sniper Wolf from Metal Gear Solid

Photos span multiple years, from when I was more mobile and abled to now where I rely on a wheelchair outside of the home.

A ballgown version of The Emperor from Baldur's Gate 3 in a cute pose with hands on cheeks, posed in front of a backdrop of white with red lip kiss marks.

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Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · 4d

These are so sweet! Gorgeous photos and great work from you both ✨️ always so much fun to cosplay together and have those photos as wonderful memories to treasure too 💖

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Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · 6d

More progress for #BG3DarkUrge Bhaalgown - it's looking more like a dress than a pile of cloth now but still so much to go - currently hand stitching the lining to the shoulders.

#CosplayWIP #BG3Cosplay

Material on the sewing machine, whilst sewing gold over a seam

More work in the sewing machine, this time with ribbon going over the shoulder seam

The upper half of the dress with the white Undershirt underneath and the gloves pinned on to the sleeves

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Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · 8d

Finally. Got the chest piece embroidery pattern to work, and it's done after half a day of watching it and changing threads and snipping excess and aligning *4 times*

The shoulders and hips are also nearly done, so the dress might be ready to assemble tomorrow

#BG3Cosplay #CosplayWIP #BG3DarkUrge

A gold, bronze, and pale gold design embroidered on black satin fabric. This is for the chest of the Durge styled ballgown

Aligning the 4th part of the design, making sure the white frame is in the exact correct position to match the digital design starting points

Pleated gold fabric pinned to a piece of black fabric with gold embroidery. This is the shoulder piece

The shoulder piece assembled and turned showing the gold embroidery on top and the gold pleats on the outer edge

Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · 10d

The next time I confidently say "I'm going to make [character] as a ballgown" I need one of you to sedate me - I'm fighting this with so little time left to pull it together and the instructions on this patter for the pleating on the skirt is going to drive me well past the edge of madness 😅🙃🙀

Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · 16d

It's coming together, but needs 5-7 days to fully set before I work on the back then sanding and painting it up.

What do you think so far? Does the Urge boil in your blood?...

#BG3 #BG3Cosplay #CosplayWIP #TheDarkUrge #BG3Durge

More of the mask built up in foam clay, all teeth in, some of the lower jaw spikes, and ridges above the eyes

A top and fromlnt-ish facing angle of the head so far

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Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · 16d

A little Dragonborn dentistry...

More shape added to the head using foam clay and polystyrene-like sheet scraps

A close up of the eye set into the foam cly

A close up of the teeth being added along the jawline

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Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · 16d

Trusting. The. Process.

#CosplayWIP #BG3Cosplay #BG3DarkUrge

Pieces of plastic balls painted with eye-like patterns

The eye pieces stacked up with a clear ball on top to mimic the look of an eye

A red light has been placed inside the eye to make it glow

The eyes fitted to the base of the headpiece

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Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · 16d

If anyone knows how to work with a Janome MemoryCraft 350e and JEF files, I would *really* appreciate some help as I'm struggling with the machine and running shorter and shorter on time to get it working

#Janome #machineembroidery #sewinghelp #sewingmachinehelp

Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · 19d

I don't think the process trusts me...

Wire frames have been added to build more of the base shape of the head

More wire frame and a baseball for the bottom of the mouth added

Layers of black net pinned in the gap of the open mouth to obscure the face of the wearer

Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · 19d

...trust the process.

Trust. The. Process.

#CosplayWIP #DarkUrgeBG3

A rough paper sketch of a dragonborn upper head over the shape of a baseball cap

A paper outline stuck to a baseball cap, testing the centre line of the headpiece

A more rigid cardboard frame has replaced the paper

A thin white polystyrene sheet material has constructed the base shape for the lower jaw

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Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · 19d

The head piece. It begins.

...it was the only pencil I could find easily so let's not judge that it was from last December lol

Anyway. Let's see how this goes. I need more fabric for the dress so I can't sew it yet.

A white baseball cap and A3 size card with a pair of lime green handled scissors, a metal ruler, and a festive pencil, all laid out on a glass and metal dining table.

Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · 19d

It messed up a bit by the end so I'm going to get my machine looked at before I do the final one that'll be on the dress but... Stillmaker looks alright. I need to change just 1 or 2 things to the embroidery file, and I think this might be almost ready to succeed...

It takes ~3 hours on the machine

A dagger in gold and teal embroidered on black fabric. The dagger is Stillmaker from Baldur's Gate 3, a weapon that might have been designed for The Dark Urge, and features the symbol of Bhaal in the hilt as well as blood drops on the blade and hilt design.

A close up of the blade, showing where the blood drops details did not come through on the lower part, and some stitching errors in the blade fill too.

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Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · 20d

Playing some #Hades2 so I can literally Kill Time whilst keeping an eye on the embroidery machine for my BG3 cosplay.

Like most well adjusted people would do whilst suffering a huge pain flare on a Sunday night less than a month before a convention...

Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · 21d

...so many times yet here we are just not able to get the files to load to even test them.

It took hours just to go through every inch of the pattern here to put the right type of embroidery fill onto each individual shape making the full design. Not counting the time to draw the damn thing too...

an image showing the Dark Urge chest piece with a drawing overlay in several colours and pieces, unfinished

A finished image of a mockup of the chest pattern in gold, white, and brown, against a black background

A screenshot of an embroidery settings panel showing a single shape from the image

A different shape on the embroidery layout screen showing different options for the stitch fill pattern

Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · 21d

The embroidery struggles continue...Nailed it with the test piece for the skirt border, but the more complex pieces are still testing the limits of creative masochism 😭

I honestly still can't work out why the machine won't recognise the more complex files. I've checked all the limits and parameters

A close up screenshot of the bottom of the default Dark Urge robes

A single colour 2D shape representing the pattern from the robe

An embroidery machine stitching the pattern into a piece of scrap fabric using lime green thread

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Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · Sep 11

Another day, another failed embroidery design...

Going to try again at the weekend, I have another idea that might help which is essentially "make it bigger" but I fear I'm also likely making silly mistakes in the settings like with the fine tuning of row spacing etc

It'd almost be faster by hand😅

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Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · Sep 10

Alright, I have the base pattern, the fabrics, and all the other materials so this is the plan to turn this dress pattern into a more Durge style Bhaalgown

Current task - work out the dagger embroidery patterns before I even think about cutting out the pattern pieces.

Exciting!

#CosplayWIP #BG3

An annotated drawing of a ballgown in black, blue, and gold.
Annotations from the title at the top going around clockwise:
The Dark Urge Bhaalgown
Undershirt- dyed
Embroidered daggers
Embroidered Shoulder
Undershirt - Dyed and foam clay scales
Gold frills to match gloves
Gathers maybe with gold
Gold frills
Embroidered edges
Cut out in blue
Embroidered Belt
Gold frills

An image of the dress drawing without the annotations.

An image of a dress pattern made by Burda Style pattern number 6398

Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · Sep 7

I'd say so!

Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · Sep 7

I don't blame you! But at least you have some nice ears to show for it!

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Jenivere (Jen) -> MCM London October: The Dark Urge Bhaalgown @jeniveredomino.bsky.social · Sep 7

It's painful to have sat there with it so long seeing it start to go wrong but needing to sit through more of it to know what I need to change

It's a tough thing because I have to convert the images into pathways that the machine recognises and make sure the settings leave no gaps or errors