#itshelptime

[crystalvfae]

How do you design outfits for your characters?

I generally start off looking at fashion/armor/whatever pictures for ideas, and then I’ll sit down and sketch.  I usually make a body base template and sketch REALLY roughly on top of that, not worrying about if it looks right.  Just to get a general idea of shape placement, almost like a thumbnail.  

^ as you can see, it’s drawn like garbage

If there’s something I like the feel of, I’ll take it into a more refined sketch and paint it up.  Most important thing is to get some ideas out quickly, same as thumb-nailing an illustration, really.

EDIT: Here’s an example of what something like this looks like painted up.  Here I’ve got both layers of her outfit drawn up.