Cosplay Arabia - January 2021
We start off the new year with our first of four editions! Gracing the cover is Kuwait based cosplayer Hadeel AKA Hadoolalk. Picture by Nasser Jamal Nasser. Featured interviews: Batman_dxb, Phil @cospixcreation, Baraa Abdullah, Kes_Cosplay and Marcel, Sakuraflor, Rosemagpie. How to guide by iCosplay11z Exclusive coverage of CAMEC 2020 and community feedback by Suad Majid.
We start off the new year with our first of four editions!
Gracing the cover is Kuwait based cosplayer Hadeel AKA Hadoolalk.
Picture by Nasser Jamal Nasser.
Featured interviews:
Batman_dxb, Phil @cospixcreation, Baraa Abdullah, Kes_Cosplay and Marcel, Sakuraflor, Rosemagpie.
How to guide by iCosplay11z
Exclusive coverage of CAMEC 2020 and community feedback by Suad Majid.
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<strong>Cosplay</strong> <strong>Arabia</strong> • january <strong>2021</strong><br />
Q. We have to ask, how do you avoid burn out both from<br />
a content creators point of view as well as just physically/<br />
psychologically? I have writers block after 2 emails!<br />
big. Over 200 original characters have joined our journey on<br />
TikTok and it has brought so many people together. The story<br />
is still ongoing and will be for at least one more year!<br />
This, is such an important and honestly difficult question to<br />
answer. I feel like with the amount of things that I’ve been<br />
doing but also with all that has happened in the past year, I<br />
should have already had a burn down. And I won’t lie, it is<br />
very hard because I often push passed my boundaries and<br />
that causes me to then have to take a few days off just to sleep<br />
and recover. It’s not a healthy lifestyle and that’s something<br />
that I hope to work on this upcoming year.<br />
Having said that, my work gives me so much joy! I mean<br />
I already have a looooot of energy but next to that I have<br />
amazing followers who just bring me so much happiness<br />
every single day. The kindness and love I receive motivates<br />
me so much and knowing that what I do can mean something<br />
to them in these difficult times, gives me unlimited amounts<br />
of energy!<br />
As far as writers blocks and such… I have too many ideas, the<br />
day I run out of ideas will be the day I die XD<br />
Q. You actively promote and create content for the popular<br />
hashtag #BNHAunited, tell us what that’s all about.<br />
Oh I love this question!! So BNHAunited was the first “Self”<br />
Project I did last year. I had always wanted to create an<br />
original character that I could relate with. And so “Gl!tch”<br />
came to existence. I had thought out this whole plot and<br />
went with it to Rosemagpie, who then freaked out with me<br />
and helped me turn this into an Universe adding in her own<br />
original character “Angel” as well. We started it off just for fun<br />
but giving the opportunity for others to join in if they wanted.<br />
Never had we ever expected for it to turn into something this<br />
Q. Since you create content across several platforms from<br />
tiktok, Instagram, YouTube to twitch & others – which 3<br />
platforms would you recommend for cosplayers and why?<br />
So it really depends on what kind of content you create. If<br />
you are a crafter and want to show others how to craft, I<br />
would recommend Twitch and Youtube. I myself am mostly<br />
active on Instagram and Tiktok at the moment. The reason<br />
being that TikTok for me is a platform that allows me to be<br />
a storyteller, like im doing with BNHAUnited. It also easily<br />
connects people and I love that. Instagram is more like a<br />
portfolio of what I’ve done and made.<br />
Q. Switching gears, lets talk CAMEC. How was your overall<br />
experience from talking and interacting with cosplayers<br />
to finally watching the premiere together with the<br />
community?<br />
It was amazing! I loved the energy of all the people involved,<br />
not just the cosplayers, but also the people behind the scenes.<br />
We are all going through difficult times and CAMEC had<br />
this fun and positive energy that we all needed. It was also<br />
amazing to see how creative people got when they weren’t<br />
able to get the things they would normally use for cosplay<br />
because of COVID. So all in all it was so much fun!<br />
Q. Lastly, what does <strong>2021</strong> look like for Saku? Any upcoming<br />
projects we should know about?<br />
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<strong>Cosplay</strong> <strong>Arabia</strong> • january <strong>2021</strong><br />
Honestly <strong>2021</strong> will be even crazier than last year. Projects<br />
will keep popping up and I won’t stop spreading as much<br />
happiness as I can!<br />
To be honest though I don’t know what exactly will happen<br />
since I’m just going to live this year to the best I can enjoying<br />
all the little things!<br />
As for projects, we will continue BNHA United as well as<br />
DemonsPact! Lots of crazy things happening for both those<br />
projects! Next to that VXN will come to exist! This is still a<br />
little bit of a secret so I’d say, stay tuned to my socials! And<br />
probably my crazy brain will come up with many other crazy<br />
projects but I’ll keep you informed about those as they come<br />
haha!<br />
©brakeco_<br />
Either way I just hope that regardless of how this year will<br />
go, I will still be<br />
able to spread<br />
QUICK CONNECT<br />
positivity and<br />
motivate others instagram.com/sakuraflorr<br />
just how they<br />
tiktok.com/@sakuraflor<br />
motivate me!
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