Helpful Tips and Facts: The 5 Most Important Keys To Cosplay: Knowing Color Palette!

Regarding sewing and knowing how to make cosplays, there are 5 major keys for a successful cosplay.

• Knowing your color palette


• Knowing your fabrics


• Knowing the right sizes to cut and measure


• The cosplay costume either is close or exactly like the character being cosplayed


• Judging whether to make up patterns, find patterns that are similar your cosplay plan, and combining different pattern pieces.

Everyone whether an artist or not, needs to know their color palette. This is one of the most important keys of making cosplay costumes, any costumes, or any clothes for that matter.

Tip & Fact:

Always make sure that the colors that you choose matches excatly. For example, if you choose the color navy blue for your color, then make sure that you find navy blue thread to go with it.

NEVER COMBINE WRONG COLOR FABRICS OR THREAD WITH EACH OTHER!!!!!! IT WILL BE VERY NOTICABLE AND INAPPROPRIATE!!!!! For instince, a dark color fabric with a bright color thread. This is highly noticable and doesn't look appropriate.

Tip & Fact:

Even though black and white are very dominate colors, make sure that whatever shades of black or white you choose is also the same. If you choose jet black fabric, get the jet black thread and if you choose creme white, get the creme white thread.

Tip & Fact:
If by any chance that you can't find the exact color of thread for your fabric, then get a color that is close to your fabric color.

Here's an example:





If I were to use this lime green fabric, I would easily try to find the lime green thread for it; however, if by any chance that I could not find it, then a lighter color that is close to lime green would be okay.


I hope this helps on your color palette, if you don't know your palette, you won't be able to get very far in this