🌸 Cheri's v.3.0 Portraits Are Here! 🌸
After approximately 2 months of work, I've finished the first revamped portrait batch for Cheri. This includes their basic seasonal portraits, romanceable character-exclusive portraits (beach and bathhouse), and additional outfits alongside their alt versions. The extra outfits for this batch are:
Their iaido training gear, with tied/untied sleeves;
Loungewear, with warm and cold weather variants that is based off of the nemaki I've drawn Cheri in in certain art (1, 2);
An alt version of their summer outfit (with kimono off);
Shooting Star Festival date outfit, and;
The travelling outfit that they wore in the winter before the story starts (which is part of their Lore Portraits™️; more lore to come!).
This has been a massive labor of love, because not only did I do a ton of extra work for the additional outfits and emotes on top of that, I also fully rendered every single outfit layer for fashion study reasons. Here you can see how every layer of their outfit affects Cheri's silhouette, even if slightly!
The underlayers also work as bases for some of their subsequent outfits, so there's no such thing as wasted effort on my end.
Some Extra Thoughts
Aside from the portraits, I've also talked quite a bit about my process for making these designs and some character discussion in my prior posts, if you're interested in reading about them:
Spring | Summer | Fall | Winter | Dichotomy Between Cheri's Iaido and Date Outfits
I've come a long way since I did my first ever portraits, so seeing the obvious improvements in both my imitation of the FoM style and my own rendering techniques has been very satisfying. Now I can finally move on to the second set of seasonal outfits and the new extra portraits for wedding and other outfits I've drawn Cheri in 🌸
As a bonus, some slightly more scandalous versions of the loungewear/bathhouse portraits (which are actually not very scandalous considering the new bachelorette, but it is for Cheri's standards) under the cut!