#slaps on a watermark cuz this was a requested piece

[raitrolling]

now that Cloud finished Jamie's 12th Perigee Ball art, I will show off my concept art as well :]

i actually designed his well before I did Velour's outfit, and decided later on that I wanted them to match because. I couldn't think of unique ideas for Vel lMAO

some notes under the cut:

The cape is for photo opportunities only, and is removable via hidden snap buttons, meaning that if anyone tried to grab it, it would just pop right off

While Velour would normally design outfits with heels in mind, he deliberately went for something that would be flat shoe friendly to account for Jamie's crutches + balance

The glasses were designed to resemble a mask because it's a bit difficult to wear one when you need glasses to. yknow. see, with chains decorated with teardrop-shaped rubies to resemble drops of blood for the vampire theme. I also went with this design because I don't like designing masks LMAO (hence why Velour is wearing facepaint / glamour as well)

The waistcoat is shaped like bat wings, as is the giant collar on the cape

I gave Cloud ten different palette ideas for the outfit, including a couple that went with a brighter / more clowny palette (like purple/gold and orange/yellow), but we decided on the teal-blue as it made sense that Jamie would want to show off his moirail's colours. The gradient inside the jacket and the cape also fades to a true teal for Jikiro, and the cape collar has dark blue for Jamie himself

Also, the coat has an asymmetric design that is balanced out by the cape! Originally I was going to make the pants and coat sleeves asymmetrical as well, but that didn't really work out how I wanted it to so I scrapped it

I also attempted to design two-tone wingtip jester shoes. That also did not work out either, as you may expect when you read the phrase 'two-tone wingtip jester shoes'