Hellooo

Thank you sm!! I drew her a LOT on ms paint when I was a kid lolol, but I’ve been meaning to again for a long time since her design is like so swoopy and fun to like work on if that makes sense haha. Keep an eye out doe cause I’ve got something in my post queue soon 🫣

Omg y’all flatter me too much :’D🙏

(IM SO SORRY FOR TAKING SO LONG TO REPLY TO THIS :’’’’D my inbox always slips my mind omfg it’s so bad)

Thank you so much, and I’m so glad you asked!! The research portion was strenuous lol I even whipped out my copy of the “what people wore when” book to try and find the right silhouette. From his official design already I got some cues/insight on what I wanted to go for; I reeeeaaally wanted to get a good essence of historical accuracy down for this one (Bernadette Banner influence) Even though the film doesn’t really indicate EXACTLY when it takes place (cause let’s be real there’s such a variety of characters with different period clothing you can’t just pinpoint definitively), I just opted for the one that appealed to me most.

From his hat I primarily took inspo from mid 16th-17th century tercios and Spanish baroque clothing to establish the sorta vibe of the overall fit—the sleeves really excited me and were fun to draw lolol. Spanish musketeers were a big point of interest too! I remember finding this awesome photo of this model of one from 1604, and then also a few illustrations of captain Alatriste, and paintings by Andrey Shishkin (duelist, kavler, musketeer and pirate to be exact!) I had pulled up as well to guide me along.

Something I was initially worried about at first through going the route of the more elaborate “overcoat” situation overtop the poet shirt was whether it was too ‘‘‘refined’’’ for his character/personality as opposed to just having the white shirt, which also obviously works super well, but in reality it’s not so much of a status thing as opposed to more of a style statement this time haha. And mans for sure has an eye for appearance. One of my friends said if people ripped on him for it he’d just argue that it was cool (which I thought definitely checked out behaviour-wise), also he could literally just take it off and be left with the sole blouse variation if need be 😩 That’s basically the gist of it!