Sunday, April 20, 2014

Cosplay 101: Planning with the BIC® 4-Color™ pen

Although I love digital media, some things are just better on paper. Besides using Evernote, I turn to pen and paper to plan out my costumes. In my own experience, I find that drawing out the costume makes me consider each component of the costume more thoroughly. Today I wanted to give you a sneak peek at my own planning process and share a helpful tool - the BIC® 4-Color™ pen!

BIC® 4-Color™ pen

When BIC® approached me to talk about the 4-Color™ pen, I was thrilled! I love office supplies, paper goods, and pens - back-to-school time is my favorite - and who doesn't use pens? Right away, I realized that the 4-Color™ pen would be perfect for planning out a costume on paper.

With everything that you need to write down for a costume - materials, colors, and notes for each part - the easiest way to organize it is with color. The BIC® 4-Color™ pen includes 4 fun colors - black, blue, red, and green. This makes it super simple to distinguish your notes, color coordinate, and express whatever you want. BIC® has created unique personalities for each of the colors in the pen that you can get to know in the videos below (I'd definitely say I'm most like Green - he's a social network loving foodie!).


I used my BIC® 4-Color™ pen to plan out my Codex costume. Black and red were perfect colors to draw out the details of her costume. I used green for detailing on her staff (sorry, Green, I'm not used to green ink!). I chose to use blue for my notes since the costume doesn't have any blue in it - that way, they would stand out. It worked out perfectly. I love how easy it is to see each component of the costume.


BIC® 4-Color™ pen

Having 4 Inseparable Colors in 1 Pen makes the planning process of cosplay a breeze! If you want to try out the BIC® 4-Color™ pen, get your own at Amazon or Staples. The four different personalities have been taking social media by storm - follow along with Facebook and Twitter to see them in action and for a chance to win your own 4-Color™ pen.

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What would you use a BIC® 4-Color™ pen for?




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I used these to tale notes in school. Extremely helpful!
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1 reply · active 576 weeks ago
Awesome! I've been using mine for grad school notes, it makes it super easy to sort things.
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I use this pen and the more pinky/purple coloured one. They are my pencil case staple!
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1 reply · active 576 weeks ago
Omggg I need the pink/purple one!!
My recent post Cosplay 101: Planning with the BIC® 4-Color™ pen
I used to have one of these in highschool and I used it all the time to stay organized! I had no idea they still made these- I'm definitely getting one again for grad school.
1 reply · active 576 weeks ago
That's what lots of people are saying! I remember using them a while back too. I forgot how useful they were.
My recent post Cosplay 101: Planning with the BIC® 4-Color™ pen
LOL I remember using these pens YEARS ago!
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1 reply · active 576 weeks ago
Haha right? I totally forgot about them, but they are soooo useful!
My recent post Cosplay 101: Planning with the BIC® 4-Color™ pen
I do this with my lolita outfits too - it gives you such a different understanding of how everything will work together!
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1 reply · active 576 weeks ago
Ooh that's a super good idea! I am so bad at J-fashion coord planning, I generally throw stuff on the day of a meet until it looks alright, haha.
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Is there a geek who doesn't love office supplies? 'Cause I haven't met one yet.
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1 reply · active 576 weeks ago
Haha so true! I love office goodies.
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Hahaha, throwback to high school AP classes!
1 reply · active 576 weeks ago
These pens totally remind me of high school!
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(I swear I hit submit comment, but I don't think I did!) I WANT ONE SO BADLY!
I would use my own for note taking, lists in general, drawing (especially the 'overlapping' drawing, like basic human body frame, followed by muscle, etc.) and, basically like you did, different colors for different parts of the list / sketch!

P.S. You? Codex? AWESOME.
1 reply · active 575 weeks ago
You should definitely check them out on social media, they do pen giveaways all the time! They aren't too expensive on Amazon either :)

And thanks! I'm so excited to try to make a corset... eep!
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I like those pens! And I really dig the Sanrio ones with like 4-10 different inks!
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1 reply · active 575 weeks ago
Yes!! The more colors the better!!
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