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Love's Young Dream, an otome visual novel, is out now!!! 💗🪶🧺🦊

(I was the character artist working with a team of several other talented people!!!)

Summary:

The Ashbrook family has always been born beneath an unfortunate star. They aren’t destined to lose their lives at sea, nor lose their fortunes to disaster, however. They are only doomed to lose their first loves to unrequited feelings. No Ashbrook to date has had the luck to prove that curse baseless superstition.

Yet that doesn’t stop you, the youngest Ashbrook, from trying to defy that fate. Clearly other Ashbrooks of the past just haven’t tried hard enough.

Having fallen in love for the first time, you’ve set yourself to the task of throwing aside a tradition of heartbreak and earning the affection of one Prof. Heron Renaude. With the help of your dearest attendant, and with the backdrop of the romantic Reedford Manor, your brother’s countryside home, surely you’ll prove yourself more powerful than fate.

...Won’t you?

Features:

A customizable protagonist; choose their name and gender

Three love interests; one f/m or m/m route, one f/f or m/m route, and a final exclusively m/m route

A historical romance with supernatural elements set in Edwardian era England, with multiple endings

~ 101k words

i can't put into words how adorable these two are. It's so adorably written, i can't.

so much love towards the creators of this game, it's so good

Game under the cut!

Kaz's season 2 look

Love's Young Dream, an otome visual novel, is out now!!! 💗🪶🧺🦊

(I was the character artist working with a team of several other talented people!!!)

Summary:

The Ashbrook family has always been born beneath an unfortunate star. They aren’t destined to lose their lives at sea, nor lose their fortunes to disaster, however. They are only doomed to lose their first loves to unrequited feelings. No Ashbrook to date has had the luck to prove that curse baseless superstition.

Yet that doesn’t stop you, the youngest Ashbrook, from trying to defy that fate. Clearly other Ashbrooks of the past just haven’t tried hard enough.

Having fallen in love for the first time, you’ve set yourself to the task of throwing aside a tradition of heartbreak and earning the affection of one Prof. Heron Renaude. With the help of your dearest attendant, and with the backdrop of the romantic Reedford Manor, your brother’s countryside home, surely you’ll prove yourself more powerful than fate.

...Won’t you?

Features:

A customizable protagonist; choose their name and gender

Three love interests; one f/m or m/m route, one f/f or m/m route, and a final exclusively m/m route

A historical romance with supernatural elements set in Edwardian era England, with multiple endings

~ 101k words

With the witch hat anime out now I wanted to push my old charm designs a bit!! And after seeing they got stolen on aliexpress (lol) I hope you guys would be interested in the originals so...

SO YOU CAN PURCHASE THEM HERE!!

Hello all, I'm officially opening boba head and chibi commissions! For chibis, you can also request it to be made into a sticker or standee~

You can find the form HERE. Reblogs are always appreciated 💕

I'll leave this open until the end of January and will contact selected requests in the first week of February <3

Saverio and Kaz were graciously h̶e̶l̶d̶ ̶h̶o̶s̶t̶a̶g̶e̶ offered a one night stay at Ravenloft where they eventually split up to explore the place (for reasons). It's starting off great on Sav's side (read: horrific)

Also this picture made perfect with a companion piece made by my lovely gf

quiet snow

If you've been following me for awhile, you may remember some of these characters of mine (as well as notice some new additions)! I needed to make some original merch--namely stickers--for an upcoming convention and had a hankering to revisit this crew so, after all these years, they're back (though they've been very much alive in my head, promise)~

In order, we've got

Jordan the Gravedigger - Roderick the Necromancer

Rovena the Rusalka - Cécile the Poltergeist

Ariadna the Widow - ShunYi the Jiangshi

Eleanor the Shade - Marea the Will o' Wisp

Margot the Glass Imp - Lenny the Trickster

Svetlana the Pestis - Benedikte and Yngve the Bogbodies

THE NICHE SALE HAS BEGUN! Every touhou charm design I've made thus far, as well as the Rozen Maiden box charms, are now available for pre-order ON OUR STORE!

I will be keeping this sale open until the end of January (Jan 31st) and am aiming to get orders out by late March-early April. Information on the newest volume of touhou girls (Vol. 4) can be found in the item description.

Because of how niche the subjects are, I greatly appreciate any reblogs of this post or simply spreading the word to their respected fandom communities 💕

"technically, you're doing as you're told"

Hey there!

No apologies needed, you'd be the first to ask me this (that I remember in the last couple of years, at least)

I think my biggest suggestion to anyone who wants to design outfits for characters--fantasy or not--is to first do some studying on how clothing is structured, as well as historical and/or regional fashion. Whether that's taking a class or just going through various medias that cover the topic, such knowledge helps you get an overall roundness on the basics of how clothes work, how they can be applied to the human figure, and just why certain fashions became in vogue via the times, emotions, economies, psychology and culture they reflected. All which can then serve as inspiration and guidance on how to go about clothing your made up person/society/etc, because after all: not only do we dress ourselves to reflect our own individuality, but people have been doing that for generations before us. Whether it's the fabric used or the shape of the silhouette, clothes tell a story! And a lot of it is interesting!!!

Also, the more you understand clothing, the more believable and strong your designs will present themselves.

(You'll also suffer the curse of recognizing how inaccurate a lot of historical TV shows and movies are with their depictions of costuming, then have to stifle this down so as not be obnoxious to those around you! Yay!!)

When it comes to designing fantasy things though, the best part of drawing from reality and historic fashion is you can have references without the feeling of having to be entirely beholden to accuracy (while still--I should hope--being respectful enough to avoid borrowing more personal aspects of cultures who may not appreciate parts of their identity being used without knowledge/context applied). I often like to mix and match different time period/regional aesthetics and mesh them into something that becomes seemingly familiar yet unique enough to call my own, and it seems to pay off in the long run.

Aside from that, I like to keep in mind the practicality of an outfit--why is it being worn and what is its purpose?--while also making sure it defines the most important aspects of my character, as well as has a nice shape/sillhouette. After that, aesthetics, personal enjoyment, easter eggs, and overall fun make up the rest of the designing process. Be sure to indulge once in awhile, if not always if that's your vibe!

On that note: I personally like to depict western clothing between the 15th-early 20th century, with the Georgian and Edwardian era being my favorite. Though, thanks to my VtM game, I've definitely grown a deeper appreciation and affection for the 20s more 'recently' and with Curse of Strahd, I've been having a ton of fun getting more familiarized with Slavic and Eastern European clothing. I have a lot of CoS NPCs that need designing (and I'd like to do a fashion zine for Barovia someday, so I've been doing a lot of research as of late...)!

If I'd have to give credit to any media that's inspired my own designs, I'd have to say Odin Sphere (or any fantasy based Vanillaware game, really) is always there in the back of my mind when I'm tackling a fantasy look. I'm absolutely blanking on anything else, but i'm sure there's plenty of inspiration that subconsciously sits in my brain just Ratatouille-ing my hand when I decide to design things AHAHAH~ I'm sure once this is posted, it'll all come rushing to me...