Wow! Add “incredibly creative and skilled artists” to the list of great things that the Darkhaven community has going for it. May I direct your attention to the following piece of evidence – a creation-in-progress by Guild Wars 2 Darkhaven player Ting Siu Ip:
Ting shared this on the Darkhaven Facebook Page on Friday, July 4th 2014. And guess what? He started the project on Monday June 30th! I had to know more, and Ting was nice enough to take some time out of his IRL crafting to share some more information.
I was relieved to learn that Ting has had a great artistic ability his whole life, before he got into engineering; otherwise the idea of him creating this Grenth headpiece in 5 days with no prior training would have blown my mind.
/jealous!
He used that inherent artistic ability last year to create his first Guild Wars 2 cosply, Mad King Thorn. Check it out below!
Image copyright Jay Sansone of Human Being Media
As for the Grenth project that Ting is working on, Ting contacted the artist of the drawing you see, former Guild Wars 2 Lead Concept Artist Kekai Kotaki, for inspiration. The next step: start the project! Not only is Ting making an awesome Grenth headpiece but he plans to go all the way with a full costume, complete with green LED’s inserted into the pieces.
Ting says would like to have it done around the first week of August – an ambitious project given that he only started a few days ago. Nevertheless, he is well on the way to having an impressive cosplay completed by Halloween so he can “scare the living daylights out of anyone [he] can” and bring Grenth’s Touch to New York City.
We’re all going to be following Ting’s progress on his Photobucket feed and his growing imgur gallery, and I suggest you do the same!
You can contact Ting in-game at account Hellsing.4590 and in game name Sushi Sampler.
