been working on this for a while now. Since there are a variety of people groups and nations in the story, I am doing my best to work on making each nation have shapes (roughly) specific to them. not last
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Tag: outfit
mens suits are a proven cure for insomnia
i understand that this blog is becoming a fashion one more with each passing day but what are you gonna do I suppose. mens suits suck. they are the same thing over and over again with nearly no variety. in
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(quiet clothes?) LOUD CLOTHES???
how classy should we go? how loud? how casual? again, design trends are pretty independent of when or where you live. some fashion trends could easily have happened centuries before or after they did in real life. even if i
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Otigo Trappings
as always, playing with things to see what i like and what i don’t. in real life people wouldn’t dress like they do in the fire nation (“we all have to wear red!”), but it definitely helps the reader. you
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the voice of the character
Back when i was laying the groundwork for the comic I worried about having to follow a small cast of characters for years on end and was worried that I might get burnt out on them before long. one of
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At a glance
I find silhouettes and shapes just as important as detail. Silhouettes can be tough for me to integrate into the background and still make it look good. always learning. I find a lot of these have interesting shapes which can
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Clothes makes the man
I really do like drawing and designing clothes. which is kind of odd since I don’t care at all how I dress in real life. playing with shapes, playing with ideas, the norm. trying to make believable designs that I
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It’s always a time for pizzazz
i always thought it was odd that in fantasy or scifi it is a lot more common to see “ancient clothes + modern setting” than “modern clothes + ancient setting”. i get that they wouldn’t necessarily have modern materials, but
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Relative practicality
when you are not bound by the practical considerations of manual labor and movement, things get weird pretty fast. I find that in history the choices of the wealthy or powerful pretty much revolve around “what is impossible for the
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Earnets
sometimes it’s the little things. so say you got these big ol antelope ears that probably help you hear pretty good but also would get in the way with a lot of day to day activities. you don’t want any
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