Thanks very much, Mehdia, for writing for us :D.
This is one of our regular contributors, who is also known as Andrea Starnes. Doing cosplay for run and reducing the pressure, she has been engaged in this performance art for ten years. Being the seamstress for her friends and family members, she has gained many awards by her costume works. Holding strong interest in making corsets, Mehdia works as an artist and also a designer.
Mehdia offers us great articles about cosplay tutorials. In her words, her brothers often help her in creating props for her own and her friends’ cosplay. Below, two articles posted by her before are listed:
Pleats Tutorial for Madam Red from Kuroshitsuji
Shippuden Haruno Sakura Tutorial
Once you are interested in cosplay, anime, manga, otaku, comic, video games, costumes, Halloween, Japanese pop culture etc, why not write for us? In this case, you can communicate with other cosplay devotees, prompt your website and business easily.
See detailed rules at here.
a. Personal blog, like www.tumblr.com, www.wordpress.com, www.blogger.com etc. A short report of the contest enables your visitors to know and vote for you. Many participants have done this. Take a look at this:
b. Facebook. To update a piece of news on your Facebook wall or your friends’ is both feasible, like what they did:
c. Twitter. To keep your readers informed with the contest and help more persons know your contest, just keep updating your news.
d. Youtube. An applicant sent us a video made by her before. Below you can check it. To broadcast a matter on a video sharing site is often beneficial.
e. Cosplay forums, like www.cosplay.com, www.acparadise.com/forums etc. Forums are places where a large volume of page views. To post an article there must be helpful for you. Here are articles posted by previous participants:
f. Deviantart.com. Most applicants tend to post an article, with their photos for the contest included, on their DA sites. To make full use of this social resource, posting an article or uploading your picture, will bring you much attention. Check some examples here:
g. Photo sharing sites, like www.flickr.com. As a reputable photo sharing site, Flickr gathers lots of visitors for you easily. To get more votes, why not post your picture on a site like this? Some of them have done. Take a look below.
h. Email. Don’t be hesitant to send your friend an email. Except vote from him/her, more possible votes may come from their friends.
i. PPT sharing sites, like www.slideshare.net etc. Like pictures, a PPT will more easily draw attention. Make a brief introduction of you and maybe also the contest in the PPT. It won’t be difficult to get numerous page views in a short time.
j. Organizations in campus and campus network. Anytime, don’t neglect the effect in campus. Incredible attention is detected at a place where lots of youngsters gather.
3. Ask your friends for help.
4. Other methods.
