Sylveon Cosplay Ears Tutorial

A friend of mine wanted to cosplay Sylveon for an upcoming convention we were attending and asked for my help. As I love making cosplay props and helping others, I worked on making the ears for her and photographed the process for this tutorial to help others. This tutorial ended up a bit longer than expected so bear with me :)

What you’ll need:

- Craft foam: I had about three sheets lying around that were $1 each and I bought a huge roll at Michael’s for $8

- Scissors

- Hot Glue Gun and a lot of refill sticks

- Pen and Pencil

- Acrylic Paint: You’ll need white, pink, two types of blues (a lighter one and a medium one), and a light teal/seafoam.

- Three Pieces of Sandpaper: I believe mine were a 75, a 100, and a 150

- Headband: I recommend the stiff kind that is covered in fabric. You can buy a three pack at Walmart for about $4

The Process:

Step One: Pattern Making

The first thing you need to do is draw out your pattern with pencil on paper. I just Googled a picture of Sylveon and used that as my reference picture. Once you have it drawn, cut out the pattern.

Step Two: Making the Foam Shapes

Now you’re going to trace your pattern onto the craft foam with a ballpoint pen (pencil tends to tear the foam). You’ll need: two of the little hair piece, four of the full ears, and two of the full ears with the center cut out. After you have outlined all of your pieces, cut them out of the foam. I trimmed along the sharp edges of the back of the piece on the bottom of each stack in the second picture, the front of the top piece, and the front of one hair piece and the back of the other to round out all of the edges for sanding.

Step Three: Gluing

I don’t have a picture for this step, but it’s easy to understand. You need to take your hot glue and glue together the two full ear pieces with the rounded edge at the back and glue the two hair pieces so the rounded edges face out. A word of caution: foam can warp with the heat of the glue gun so just try and smooth it out the best you can.

Step Four: Sanding

Now you’re going to sand all of the edges that you rounded before. BE CAREFUL! The sandpaper (especially the roughest) will tear the foam, so sand lightly. Start with your roughest (the smallest number) and then use the middle size and then finish with the smoothest paper.

Step Five: Paint it Pink

You’re going to paint the very front and sides of the ear (the two pieces with the center cut out on the right) and the back and sides of the two pieces you glued together earlier. You’ll also paint both sides of the little hair piece. Leave the front of the glued pieces blank, you’ll be painting them later. Also, foam tends to absorb the paint so it will take quite a few layers to cover the foam fully. I think I used about six layers. Let this paint dry.

Step Six: Painting the Blue

For this step, I mixed a medium blue and a light blue until I was happy with how it matched Sylveon. This will be the “inside” of the ear. Most of this will be covered by the front piece so don’t worry about having perfect edges while you’re painting. Let this dry before you move on.

Step Seven: Some More Gluing

First off, I apologize for the terribly picture quality, the lighting wasn’t great so the picture came out a bit orange. For this step, you’re going to glue the front piece over what you just painted blue. Again, the foam will slightly warp with the heat and stay that way once it’s cooled so work fast to smooth it out.

Step Eight: Bow and Ribbons

Now you’re going to make a pattern and cut out the bow and ribbons (ribbons not pictured). For these you only need one layer, so you’ll end up with one foam bow and two foam ribbons. The center of the bow matches the pink of the ear and the stripes on the ribbons are light teal/seafoam, blue that matches the inner ear, and pink.

Step Nine: Assembly

Finally, you’re going to hot glue everything together. The bow is glued to the left ear with a little space left on the sides to slide the end of the ribbon under. The ears are then glued to the headband. I positioned them similar to how I saw them pictured when I was Googling reference pictures. Last but not least, slide the end of each ribbon under the bow and position to your liking. As you can see, I wrapped one up around the right ear and glued and the other is just slightly folded and glued to the side of the headband.

Now you’re done! I hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial, have fun with your new Sylveon ears!

I will be posting better pictures of the set of ears soon, I just need to touch up the paint in places because the pen is showing through.

Horse Girl AU Master Post

just in case, my art tag

Everything else under the cut. I will be updating this constantly.

Horse Girl AU (HGAU)! In which Hob busts a wild and abused centaur by the name of Dream out of the circus and attempts to earn that horse's trust. This is difficult since Dream hates humans and wants nothing to do with them. The two go on an adventure.

I post the comics in somewhat chronological order. On occasion I will jump back to add a new beat or scene I wasn't motivated to do at the time so this master post is nice for me to flesh out previous scenes or moments while still letting everyone read things sequentially. ENJOY!

PSA: longer comics are best viewed on desktop so they can be clicked through like an animatic.

Miscellaneous comics

Height chart

A guide to centaur ears

Satellite dishes

Horse Girl AU vs Centaur AU!

Apples ( This has a nebulous location in the AU timeline. It's the first comic I did of them and it helped me establish their character dynamic <3 )

Receipt

Spoil that horse

Spoon

In the Circus

Posters

Manticori

Jailbreak!

On the Run

Don't know I'm here

Rainfall

The barn

Broom system

Tarp

Warmth

Thank fuck he's eating

Horn

Knife system

Two hearts

One pair of lungs

Bray

Ears

Preferences

Dreams

Animal magnetism

Maintenance

Don't hurt yourself ( Brushing pt.1)

Hasn't been brushed in awhile (Brushing pt.2)

Hot bath

Touch starved

Nightmares

Kick

Expectations

I don't understand

Herd

Neighbor

Convo

Fey

Morning

Dont make me regret this >:(

The Herd

Desire and Death

Foals

Destruction and more foal sketches

The HGAU ask tag

I sometimes drop lore here and I tag it when I do.

Fanart inspired by the AU

I'm gonna fuck that horse by @fishfingersandscarves

Dream horn art by @teejaystumbles

Manticori by @cloudsofcondensation

Horse girl au nsfw by @teejaystumbles

Saddle by @yellobb

Dream Circus Poster by @rexwrendraws

Dream poster embroidery by @embroiderling

Fics inspired by the AU

Old Town Road (AKA The "Hob is a Horse Girl" Fic) by @arialerendeair

Soft Hands by @delta-pavonis

Deep Seat by @delta-pavonis

Levade by @delta-pavonis

Lessons in Not Getting Caught with Your Trou Down by @sleepsonfutons

The Rope by @shadowpuppet-storyteller

All Wound Up by @seiya-starsniper

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I’m actually surprised I didn’t think about this earlier.

Milo would be confused. But he’s also kind of angry because he’s shorter than normal. Also, he has to keep an eye on Eldegoss in his body, because a careless action can cause a lot of damage, due to his strength.

Nessa is kind of upset. She doesn’t know how she’s supposed to exist in a body like her pokemon’s. She loves Drednaw, but this is kind of horrible. Also, Drednaw likes to eat everything it sees, so she stresses when she sees Drednaw eating everything in her fridge.

Kabu is a bit confused on how he’s supposed to move with Centiskorch’s body. His main issue is figuring that out while not setting everything on fire. Centiskorch in his body, however, is just causing chaos. It’s getting into everything it wasn’t allowed to before and just making a mess.

Bea is struggling the least. Well, sure, she keeps breaking things on accident because she doesn’t realize her own strength, but other than that, it’s going pretty well. She’s actually not complaining, to be honest. Meanwhile, Machamp is having a field day living in a body that doesn’t get stuck in door frames. He’s too well behaved to cause trouble, he’s just enjoying being able to move freely.

Allister is really enjoying being able to phase into shadows and just vanish. Once he figured out how to go through walls and all that ghost stuff, he uses it a lot. He really enjoys being able to disappear. Gengar is struggling to keep up. The general consensus is that being a ghost pokemon is much better.

Opal is kind of struggling but not that bothered. She keeps making a mess, but she’s learning to manage. It’s not convenient for moving around, since she can’t really reach doorknobs. Alcremie, however, is struggling. She’s trying to be as active as normal while in Opal’s body, which just isn’t going to work.

Gordie is struggling. Coalossal is so rigid and it’s hard to move in his body. He loves Coalossal, but he doesn’t want to be in this body. It’s so hard to do anything he usually does. Meanwhile, Coalossal is really enjoying his freedom in Gordie’s body. He can get into the treats without Gordie being able to stop him. It’s weird to see a human eating pokemon treats, so this is a weird situation.

Melony is trying. She wants to be patient, but all of a sudden, she has flippers and can’t say human words. It’s really up to Lapras to help her. Lapras, naturally, wants her trainer to struggle as little as possible, so she often carries Melony with her instead of letting her struggle to get around. Together, they make a slightly less effective than normal team.

Piers is so happy that Obstagoon is bipedal. He has very little trouble getting around and doing things he needs to. His only real problem is that when he tries to talk, he only roars loudly, and that just bothers everyone. Obstagoon struggles a little because he’s not used to Piers’ ponyta-tail and it gets caught in literally everything. It slows him down when he’s trying to cause all sorts of chaos. Chaos still ensues, though.

Raihan is also miserable. Duraludon is rigid and it’s difficult to move. He’s stressed because he can’t use his phone and he knows a lot of people will panic from him not posting. That, and he struggles to do basically everything. Duraludon doesn’t really know what to do. He can move way too much and as soon as he realizes he has fingers, he kind of freaks out and breaks a lot of things trying to jump out of Raihan’s body.

Leon swaps with Charizard, which causes a lot of problems. First of all, the champion’s not there to reassure the region, so that’s a problem. Also, he keeps breaking things because he’s not used to having big wings. Also, he’s caught a fair few things on fire with his tail. Charizard is kind of just exploring Leon’s body. He plays with his hair, spends a lot of time experimenting with his hands and legs. He’s not sure how he’s supposed to eat with no snout. He’s watched Leon eat, but not he’s panicking and can’t remember.

Bede swaps with Hatterene, which is an issue because he’s giving himself a headache with his own emotions. He keeps tripping on his hair and he can’t really grab anything, so he’s stuck relying on Hatterene. Also, he keeps knocking things down from the hat thing. Hatterene is confused. It can’t sense any emotions, and also it’s feeling some? This is weird. She tries to help Bede as much as possible, though.

Hop is swapped with Dubwool, so mobility is kind of an issue. He can’t open any doors and he keeps bumping into things and not realizing it due to the wool on his body. Also, sheep and goats have the weird pupils because they can’t move their eyes so they see a lot wider than humans, so his vision is probably affected. Dubwool is just getting into the fridge and figuring out how to walk without hooves. He’s not concerned with Hop’s problems right now, he had fingers!

Marnie’s main issue is that she’s starving all the time. She can’t focus on anything but eating 30% of the time. That, and she’s tiny now, so she kind of has to rely on Piers and Obstagoon to help. Morpeko is confused as to why it isn’t so hungry anymore. He wants to help Marnie, but he’s kind of freaking out right now. It takes seeing Obstagoon in Piers’ body to relax at least a little bit.

Oleana is kind of upset. She loves her Garbodor, but really? Why would she ever enjoy being a pile of garbage? How does she do work with this? She’s stressed and trying to figure out how to function. Garbodor is just happy to have legs and not smell. She’s always wanted to look like Oleana, because she thinks her trainer is pretty. She’s a bit busy looking in the mirror right now.

Rose swaps with Copperajah, which is a huge inconvenience. He’s big and doesn’t have hands anymore. He can hardly fit into his room. It’s really frustrating. He can’t even call anyone for help. Copperajah is trying to be serious about this, but he’s secretly thrilled that he’s able to fit into a room comfortably. He feels a bit tired and heavy, though, just because humans aren’t as resilient nor do they have as much endurance as him.

In conclusion, panic and chaos. Nothing else. Very little joy about the situation. Sonia better find answers fast.

Posts like these are hard to tag because there are so many characters. 😔

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