Model sheet/concept of my Whirled avatar. Originally intended to be a introduction NPC for a game I was working on, I eventually just adopted the character as my own avatar.
In retrospect, there is clear influences of Kingdom Hearts in the design of the cloak. I blame the zipper.
I also adore this avatar, it's the icon of the Kawaii pretty much! And to know that it was based of off Kingdom Hearts Organisation Cloak, makes it even more loved by myself <3
Many often in Photoshop you can cut out those body parts individually after you draw them pieces by pieces then save them as bitmap and import those bitmap parts to Flash so it will look just like the one that's made on the display above to the left side then put the parts together in a different layer frames then animate them up, darken the other side (which you see the darker sleeves and parts on the left side) using a color effect with a style of brightness, set it to -10 or -25. I used to work around with vector parts and bitmap parts...you asked me to elaborate/explain clearly so yeah.