#barely holding myself back from going on a rant about character design in uchi games

[ryusaidate]

sorry if this is a stupid question/request but is your saito au design just the Coat™ but open?? im v dumb and can't tell if more has been added, it's such a sleek design choice. effective in the message. but if there's anything you wanna show off from it specifically i'd love to see like a reference sheet for it? does this question make sense im not an artist sorry D: DESIGN GOOD, are there additions to it that we haven't seen ?

AH NO HI YES i was actually thinking about making a post like this thank you for giving me an excuse! i drew outfit sketches of Saito and Date a while ago but if i look at my own art that's any older than 2 months i explode into shrapnel so i've been meaning to redo them

...may have spent slightly longer drawing this than i originally meant to!

if you don't get reason 3 on the coat, check out this post it is a dear friend to me. but the basics is that inverted triangles in silhouettes read powerful but unstable and imposing so they're used in designs for villains a lot (this is why a lot of people's reaction to seeing Pewter for the first time is "Oh this guy is definitely evil" it's because the lab coat is like. comedically villain-shaped. (if i drew Pewter more than once a year i'd give him a new coat post anni))

i like the collar. when i'm drawing Saito in other bodies i like to add one random incongruous detail like b-set's hair color (this was the entire reasoning behind the loose tie on my Ryuki!Saito design) and i know for Date the eyes probably count for that but that's lame so my one detail for Saito in Date's body on reso route is the open collar. it's a fun shape.

what was i talking about. oh right. ummm. yeah! hope this helps anon :)