The Three MuskArteers.

Categories: artwork, photos, events

Tags: college, Eurogamer Expo, EGX, Cosplay, Muskateer, MuskArteer

Date: 04 October 2014 18:13:17

Without wanting to sound ridiculously immodest I think I'm fairly OK at my day job (which is as a  College Graphics and Creative Media teacher). I'm not your average teacher and I don't teach in an average way. Which is good, just don't tell the Government because it's not about being good any more it's about standards and compliance. You're not good unless you're outstanding and you're not outstanding unless you toe the party line. I don't. But all the students stay and they all pass with grades they weren't expecting and, along the way, we tend to do huge trade shows and events as we go. And now I'm ridiculously lucky to be joined by a Photography and Fine Art teacher who are equally good and equally mad. It made EGX an absolute joy and when we all decided to be Muskarteers on the final day, well that's a perfectly rational decision for us, really. It's going to be a fab year in the School of Art. Unless they make us comply too often in which case it was be an above average, semi-soulless, standardised sort of year. We even took over the Cosplay stage for the final hour of the day, dressed as Muskarteers and with anyone with a sword joining us. It was as excellent as that sounds. As was drawing on tablets dressed in Cosplay :) As was EGX as a whole in fact... ...but, true to form, I was finishing off the Cosplay on the train up to day four of the show. While I lauded the two newish teachers at the College - and it is excellent to be part of an A-Team - I'm always supported by my excellent wife who made the tabard and boots and so on. She left a space on the front for me to draw the crest which I did on the train. ...and which she, being the long suffering and excellent wife that she is, filmed for me... http://youtu.be/yLJkRIg8BR8 First Cosplay. Definitely (hopefully) not the last.