My plot can only come visually to life once I've nailed these outfit designs - or at least, created a good base that can evolve with the work and plot.
I absolutely love this one. I made more iterations of this than any of my others so far, really working it to get an outfit that sang to me. It's mad, really, because I'm just sat in this infinite hypothetical fabric store with every sewing technique known to man. And every piece of jewellery imaginable, literally. And I have to narrow down an outfit that works using the metersticks of plausibility, plot, shapes that tell you something about the character, colour.
Ludwig's colour has always been yellow. His shape language is heavy on circles - he has a round face, a round, soft torso, lots of curves. I pushed this in my designs through the circular tabard he has, circular shoulder pads, and circles in the peacock feather logos. Ludwig has close ties to fashion through every universe. He adores wearing fancy things, and this makes his design that much more important, because he would have put a lot of thought into his daily outfit (unlike Mitzi, who's outfit was designed specifically as something she had to cobble together from bedclothes and stolen shoes, as per the plot). All this to say that the peacock motif works because he takes pride in his appearance, and it's a bit of a decadent, golden icon to work with. I worked up a peacock outfit in the Jester AU - hmm, can I find it?
Circa last August. This was something of a turning point when I realised I was drawing just to design fancy outfits, and clocked my love for outfit design.
In that universe, he's literally a tailor - possibly the most gifted in the Kingdom. This is what he makes himself - although he's so utterly shy and humble, he does get embarrassed drawing attention to himself. A man of contradictions.
I digress. I digress on purpose, so that someone is forced to read this, but I now reward you with all the outfit iterations I did to get to the point of the final design. Done after a nice time scrolling around pinning things on Pinterest and getting inspiration. One of the pleasures of sitting and reading these images is that you really see the idea development richly.
I also put together my tallest and shortest character - not quite proportionally right, but heightwise, correct, so have that for a treat.
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