Kia ora,
Ko Bryce tōku ingoa kei te ngana ahau...
Hello, I'm Bryce and I'm trying many creative things, to varying degrees of success.I'm a kiwi artist, operating out of Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. I specialize in creating cosplays, costumes and props for myself, as well as painting miniatures and models for myself and others!Come along and witness both my successes and my lessons learned.
Miniature Painting
I began painting miniatures for my home games in 2019, and I've never wanted to stop since, honing my skills to a point where I now offer painting commissions for others!Models pictured below were either purchased from Reaper Minis, or printable files purchased via MyMiniFactory, then printed through The Printable Dragon's custom order service. All models were painted and based by myself.
Bite The Bullet's Sofía, the Firekeeper.
Onmioji's Devil Baby, the smallest model I've painted, standing at 3mm tall.
Cast N Play's Abyssal Charger.
Games Workshop's Genestealer Cults Biophagus.
Reaper Minis Gulper / Catfish.
Heroforge Custom Miniature on Skateboard.
Bite The Bullet's Flame Head Chariot.
H3llCreator's Thanotos, from Supergiant Games' Hades, Partially assembled.
Kitbash Model, using Reaper Mini's Ogre Matriarch as a base.
Artisan Guild's Dragonborn Fighter.
Artisan Guild's Tempest the Celestial Steed.
Collective Studio's Orcus, Lord of the Undead
Collective Studio's Talodem. I won Bea DnD's May 2024 painting comp with him!
Artisan Guild's Assault Dragon
Recreation of a Lamplight Messenger from Fromsoftware Inc's, Bloodborne. Made using Worbla Thermoplastic and armature wire. Truly a face only a hunter could love.
Some Sending Stone props, made from Cosplay Kingdom foam clay for my home game of Dungeons & Dragons.
Sculpting
I have sculpted a number trinkets and little weirdos in my time, using a variety of mediums as I've always had to work with whatever supplies I have access to.Supply accessibility has certainly improved as time has passed, but my history of limitations has made me proficient in improvisational experimentation when the opportunity arises.I've plans to craft up some new oddities, most of my past creations have been made as cosplay accessories or props and can be seen below.
Cosplay & Costuming
My love of costuming began when I was very young, participating in creative hobbies with my family. Nowadays cosplay serves as my primary means of expressing appreciation for my favourite characters and pieces of media.I've always believed in artistic interpretation and creative liberty when making projects, as a means of bringing more of myself to anything I create. This philosophy means much of my cosplay work is not so accurate as it is in honour of the original design.Sometimes this will mean my actual creative process is very "fast and loose," but I've begun to document my entire process as to prove that I am indeed capable of following a design direction.
Myself as Ghost's Papa Copia, Photographed by Lightbugphotography
Ghost's Papa Copia.
Crafting
Copia
When crafting my Copia cosplay I studied multiple of the costumes donned by the character, somewhat fusing three together to make mine less of a direct recreation and more of an artistic translation using the correct motifs and techniques to be as creative as possible, while still being recognizable.Though I recreated his pants pictured here by sewing cuttings of five pairs of jeans together to create the heaviest pants I own.
Making the Master
Creating Bloodborne's absolute mad lad, Valtr, Master of the league posed many problems, as his concept designs features far less colour than his in-game model, which also featured very little discernible detail.These gaps in my design brief when crafting him meant I was able to take liberties in the finer details of his design, while being able to chose if I wanted the pop of extra yellow or not. I did.
My cosplay of Valtr, Master of the League, from Bloodborne, featuring a madman's knowledge skull prop fashioned from a Halloween decoration.
Valtr's in-game model, which I used as reference for my cosplay, as opposed to his designs in the artbook, which did not feature a yellow-tinted lining or white gloves.
Myself as Bloodborne's Micolash, Host of the Nightmare. Wearing the Cage of Mensis which I crafted from wood dowel, worbla, and EVA foam.
A Scholar of Mensis corpse design featured in the Bloodborne Artbook.
Molding Micolash
I love Bloodborne, and I love big props, or I suppose this one is technically an accessory.Making the cage of mensis was a treat, I love to weather foam and make very messy creations, it lets me muck around and find out with very little consequences and often very fun results. The one issue I've ever had with this cosplay is and will always be low ceilings. Thankfully I made it easy to doff and don.
Character Creation
While I vehemently despise Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro as companies, I love me a silly little game of dice and roleplaying idiots with my friends. I've always loved telling stories and, naturally, that passion has lead me to running my own homebrew games based on D&D's system but set within a world of my own creation. From it has spawned many characters whom I love and hope to bring to life, one by one, to the furthest extend I can, in cosplay!Pictured here is my drow hex-blood tragedy bard, Darrius Estoc.
Myself as Darrius Estoc, an original character I created to play in D&D games.
Cosplay Crafting Gallery
My rendition of a Warhammer 40k Chainsword, awaiting painting. Made from EVA foam and PVC pipe, with a wooden dowel which proved essential for structural integrity, I always swing my unfinished prop weapons around for a reason.
One of my conceptual designs for Darrius. Not quite the final product, but I really liked the colours I chose and the bishop sleeves were irresistible to sew.
Work in progress photo of the Chikage weapon from Bloodborne, made from Worbla, EVA foam, and even some wooden thumbtacks which worked as the base from that odd little cross guard.
My rendition of the Psycho pictured on the cover art of Gearbox Software's Borderlands 3, photographed by Nyxling Photography.
Myself in the process of constructing Micolash's Cage of Mensis.
A prop weapon I made for an old D&D campaign, he's a mimic disguised as an axe and his name is Trevor. His corrosive saliva is made of green glitter paint and modpodge.
Another concept design for Darrius. While I felt this may be too busy even for him, I liked the idea of incorporating patchwork, so that made it to the final product.
A combat knife I made for a Borderlands cosplay. Years of making those cosplays mean I've become quite skilled at the iconic celshaded art style.
Myself as Laios Touden from Ryoko Kui's manga Dungeon Meshi, or Delicious in Dungeon, Photographed by The Performers Lens. I ended up using a scalemail burchers apron in place of his chainmail skirt.
Final result of my Warhammer 40K Chainsword, with gore made of modpodge soaked unspun yarn applied to the teeth for extra panache.
Work in progress photo of the head of the demon Orthax from Critical Role, made from EVA foam, with teeth made from thermoplastic. I'm currently refining a wire mechanism inside the skull so that his jaw will move with my own while wearing him.
Thank you for taking the time to look through my work, I've many more projects in the works and coming up and will be sharing them all to my various sites linked throughout this site and compiled below, so if I've caught your interest, I'll see you there!