i love essek's lounge wear in that shadowgast art so much. i wanted to ask what the inspiration behind it was or did you completely make it up yourself?

thank you!! in a general sense all the clothes i draw are inspired by existing outfits; i’m not as inventive as i’d like to be and i don’t have much background in sewing and creating sewing patterns, so i consume copious amounts of fashion photography to just get a sense of what kinda stuff is possible when it comes to clothes. and then i just mish and mash various elements in my brain in a way that i think is cool 😂 sometimes i do get inspiration from a particular outfit, but Essek’s loungewear in that picture isn’t inspired by anything specific! except for the tails of his overshirt, which are veeeeeeeeeery loosely based on the shape of the scissor-tailed flycatcher’s tail, in the ‘two pairs of large tassels with some space between them’ sense 🤭