aw, thanks! Though I wouldn't quite call it cosplay, I guess it almost kinda is in a sense. hahaI'll be more specific then! I'm genuinely impressed with how many creative projects you're working on with a variety of media (digital painting, 3D modeling, fashion and cosplay!! so much) and always look forward to seeing what you're up to. The WIPs, sketches, and process time lapses are also fascinating to watch as it all comes together. I'm really glad you joined the forum, and so glad to see these games getting so much love even years later.
And Im really glad you say so. Coming into the fandom so late- some 23 years late- I just felt like I wanted to do a ton of different things with it and maybe it would help breathe new life into it, being an old internet fandom and all. It always makes me sad seeing old fandoms from the 90s die out slowly where no one is doing much of anything within the online space and you don't hear anyone talking about it all that often anymore. Its what happened when I watched/read Rurouni Kenshin some 13 years late to the conversation. Felt like I was coming into a ghost town, having to view defunct fan sites through the wayback machine, seeing a fandom that was long grown up and scattered.
Though I was surprised to end up learning the Gears/Saga fandom is still really active on online spaces like twitter and even here- an entire forum dedicated to it- though its understandable given Monolith Soft is still going strong, pulling new fans into the extended xenoverse over the years. Fans like myself who was drawn in by the art style and overworld concept of XB1. Though I never expected XB1 would so quickly become a game I spend less time thinking about and doing fan works for, overshadowed by its pre-predecessor.
What I really didn't expect was that it'd drive me to do so much art, though. Nothing's ever given me this much drive in my art before; for years it was almost completely stagnated. Im just happy there's still an active fandom to come into and share my stuff with.