Serah Farron.

I really loved the Final Fantasy XIII universe — so much that I had already cosplayed Serah in her XIII version. When XIII-2 was announced, the new design drew me in straight away, with plenty of technical challenges thrown in as a bonus.

I cut a wood plank to the dimensions of the blade — it serves as the rigid spine along the length. On that structure, I sculpted the volume with expanding foam. Once the volume was right, I sanded then applied a smoothing filler before painting in acrylic, in successive coats, finished with a varnish.

The ornaments and the jewellery on the outfit are modelled in polymer clay. For the larger volumes, where baked clay would be too heavy to hold on the fabric, I switched to foam that I cut and then painted.