This past week, Solar Echoes artist
John Fell has started work on a few new characters that will be in
the visual novel. One of them is a female human that you, the human
male protagonist, will interact with throughout the game. I won't
spoil much of her art, but I've included a screenshot with a hint of
what she looks like. One decision I had to make (and am still toying
with) concerns her hair color! Originally, she was blonde, but the
color scheme of her uniform had enough yellow in it that I decided to
change her hair color. I'm probably going to have her as either a
brunette or a little bit of a red-head. What's your favorite? Another
part of the process with John last week was going back and forth with
ideas about her uniform and how it should look. I looked at a lot of
photos of military uniforms for women, and designed a few ideas in
Photoshop, which I sent to family and friends for feedback. Some of
my friends didn't like the idea of a skirt—they felt women should
wear pantsuits in the future, but I couldn't agree. Just because a
lot of recent scifi like Mass Effect or Star Trek trends have
featured pantsuits, I don't want to assume that today's trends will
necessarily be popular in the future. So, John and I went with a
skirt and leggings as part of her uniform: still feminine but showing
a lot less skin. I sent John a number of different ideas I sketched
and colored, and he was able to bring the best parts together with
his own great ideas. We tweaked it a little more after that, and I'm
now happy with the uniform we finally decided on.
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