For Halloween this year, I really wanted to go as Flameheart, a character from my favorite novel/comic/videogame series, Sea of Thieves, but I wanted to seriously recreate his whole ensemble. The first order of business was to get good reference photos.
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Concept art and in game screenshots are all well and good, but not very good for getting dimensions, so I tried searching for his character model, and lo and behold, I found it on sketchfab.com, the full and detailed model (which had been datamined from the game's files; this is against the Terms of Service, but I'm not the one who datamined it, so I can't get in trouble for using it).
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I screenshotted him from many different angles, making sure to get all 4 sides and close up angles of the complicated tricorn hat. I also decided I wanted to add my own little flair to the jacket and give it orange lining on the inside.
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The next difficulty was finding the right materials. I always pictured the jacket feeling like exposed leather, the side that isn't smooth. I couldn't find anything online or at Joann's that felt quite right, until...
I found the PERFECT material at the dress giveaway after the fashion show, this nice, soft, maroon fabric that was almost the EXACT shade of his jacket! I didn't get a picture of it before I started taking apart the pieces of the dress to get just the material I wanted and not the pattern in the middle, as it was a medieval style dress, though I'm not sure what it was originally used for.
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I used a seam ripper and took apart the materials on the jacket and immediately started putting together the jacket. There was a lot of extra material, so I didn't really need to worry about making it too small, though because of how the dress was made, there was less of the material I wanted at the waist and more of the patterned material, so that would be a problem I would need to solve in the future. I decided to use the material from the left sleeve, as Flameheart doesn't have a left sleeve. after using a sewing machine to put together the skeleton of the jacket, I cut out the general shape of the bottom and used the leftover material to make the smock at the top of his jacket. I also used the patterned material around the upper shoulders of the jacket in order to save material, since the smock would cover it.
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*Picture I took on Instagram of the fabrics and materials together to show my friends.*
Once that was done with, I got the material for the thick gray edges of the jacket at Joann's, and found a nice orange fire patterned material I could use for the lining. Using the jacket I had so far as a pattern, I cut out the shape of the tails of the jacket on the orange pattern. Here is where I started seriously taking pictures of the process.
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I then sewed it to the material and flipped it from inside out to right side in to get the lining.
Picture of me showing off the completed lining (of the bottom half of the jacket).
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Next I went to start working on the gray edges with the guidance of my mom, since I didn't really know how to go about this part.
Preparing to cut material for the edges of the smock, featuring my cat Vanilla Bean.
Preparing to iron the edges to get a good crease in the fabric.
Collar & stiffening material pre-sewing on.
Jacket with collar and smock attached.
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After all that, I started working on a rough plan for the hat design, and it was pretty successful.
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I then made a to scale paper pattern for my head, and did the gray edges for the under part of the jacket, though I may have gone too thick.
my shoes look particularly awkward in this picture.
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From there, I finished the gray edges and fixed the sleeve, but that was all I was able to get done in time for Halloween, so I wore a generic pirate hat instead of Flameheart's.
The jacket before Halloween.
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I am planning on finishing this jacket to hopefully wear to a Comic Con or Renaissance Festival, but here is a list of things to still be done for the costume:
- Orange lining for the top half of the inside of the jacket
- Fix the hemming on the smock
- Make the hat
- Get big black/gray platform boots
- Make the thick fingerless glove
- Earring & heart necklace
- Make the Burning Blade
- Figure out beard & makeup
- Decorative bones
I am unsure whether I want to make a shirt with a ribcage or have no shirt underneath the jacket to do a human Flameheart look.
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Flameheart cutscenes/monologues you should watch because I love this character:
Ritual of the Flame (time stamp - 2:22)
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