My Bill Cipher Cosplay

I made an object head cosplay of Bill Cipher for my second day at RealmsCon.  And I completely underestimated the amount of people that would recognize this character.  Like...dang, I barely walked three steps and people started asking for pictures.  I haven't done many cosplays, and the ones I've done were of characters that weren't too popular at the time, so this was a really strange situation for me...

The head and cane construction was a joint effort between me and my dad, who had all of the fancy tools to make sure the triangle head was perfectly lined up and as equilateral as possible.  I made the tailed vest, and added the neat little design on the back with some Heat n' Bond UltraHold.  Some of the squares began to peel off a little at the end of the con, so some repairs were needed, but other than that, everything worked out quite nicely.  Oh, and I made a bowtie, too!  It's there around my neck- it's just hard to see.

My original plan for the vest was to find some yellow and brown plaid to simulate the brick lines on Bill's body, but I settled on some yellow with light-brown stripes fabric, so it's still kind of the same effect, just a bit subtler and with horizontal lines only.

I couldn't see out of the eye hole too well, and I was worried about people being in my blindspots to the sides of my head, so I just went around with my triangle head lifted up a bit and peeked out around at the crowd.  I felt like a shy turtle, but at least it allowed me to avoid bumping into people.  I feel like I may have tilted my head a lot in my photos...this was unintentional- I just can't see too well with the head on, and in order to see straight ahead, I have to look at stuff at an angle.  But I guess it kind of adds to the quirkiness of the character...so no harm done.

I'm just so glad that so many people liked my costume...I met several Dippers, a few Mabels, and a Wendy, and they were all awesome.  And people kept asking me for hugs, I got high-fived,  I got called an angry illuminati dorito, and even got to hear the lovely chant of BILLBILLBILLBILL at least once.  Good times.